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System requirements

Hardware Requirements

Minimum Recommended Hardware Specifications

CPU

Intel® Core™ i7/i9/Xeon 6 Core 3.5GHz / AMD Ryzen 3800X/5600 Series.

Power Supply

800 Watt Redundant Power Supply

System Drives

1TB NVMe Main OS Drive, 2TB SSD Secondary storage Drive

Mainboard

Socket 2066, Socket 2011, AMD X570 (PCI-E 4.0)

Memory

32GB

GPU

NVIDIA® RTX 2080

Video Board

AJA® Kona 4, AJA® Kona 5, AJA® Corvid 44, AJA® Corvid 44 12G, AJA® Corvid 88, AJA® Io 4k plus 

 

Blackmagic Design® DeckLink Pro 8K, DeckLink Duo 2, Decklink Quad 2, DeckLink SDI 4K ...

UHD/4K Minimum Recommended Hardware Specifications

CPU

Intel® Core™ i7/i9/Xeon 6 Core 4 GHz and up / AMD Ryzen 3900X/5800 Series.

Power Supply

800 Watt Redundant Power Supply

System Drives

1TB  NVMe Main OS Drive, 2TB SSD Secondary storage Drive

Mainboard

Socket 2066, Socket 2011, AMD X570 (PCI-E 4.0)

Memory

32GB

GPU

NVIDIA® RTX 3090

Video Board

AJA® Kona 5, AJA® Corvid 44 12G, AJA® Io 4k Plus 

 

Blackmagic Design® DeckLink Pro 8K, DeckLink SDI 4K ...

AMD GPUs are NOT supported.

Video cards

 

Video card

Firmware Version

Video

Audio*

AJA

Kona 4

2021/04/14 (4K)

HD

embedded over SDI

AJA

Kona 5

2021/12/23 (4K)

HD

embedded over SDI
AES/EBU***

2021/12/26 (8K)**

multiformat HD & UHD

embedded over SDI

AJA

Corvid 44

2021/09/16 (4K)

HD

embedded over SDI

AJA

Corvid 44 12G

2021/12/19 (8K)

multiformat HD & UHD

embedded over SDI

AJA

Corvid 88

2021/11/30 (4K)

HD

embedded over SDI

AJA

Io 4k Plus

2021/06/23 (Io4KPlus)

multiformat HD & UHD

embedded over SDI

BMD†

DeckLink 8K Pro

Driver 12.4

HD & UHD

embedded over SDI

BMD†

DeckLink Quad 2

Driver 12.4

HD

embedded over SDI

BMD†

DeckLink Duo 2

Driver 12.4

HD

embedded over SDI

BMD†

DeckLink SDI 4K

Driver 12.4

HD & UHD

embedded over SDI

* Digital audio output generated in the Pixotope engine

** It is recommended to run the Kona 5 with 8K firmware by default to support all video standards without needing to change the firmware.
*** AES/EBU is only supported by Kona 5 with 4K firmware installed. No other firmware or video card supports this audio format.
† XR functionality is currently only certified to work with AJA Video Cards. There is an on-going process of testing other video cards and we expect additional certifications in the near future.

Other BlackMagic Design devices not listed with SDI support may also work.

Operating System   

Windows® 10 Pro, 64-bit with the latest updates

AJA Driver

For all formats using Kona 4, Kona 5, AJA® Corvid 44, Corvid 44 12G, Corvid 88, Io 4k Plus  16.2 (retail) 

Nvidia Driver

442.50 or latest from Nvidia.com

See Nvidia driver installation

BMD DeckLink Driver

Driver 12.4

Software Requirements

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