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Review on πŸ”₯ Enhanced Blackmagic Design DeckLink Duo 2: High-performance 4-channel SDI Playback and Capture Card BMD-BDLKDUO2 by Gary Ferguson

Revainrating 1 out of 5

Awesome 4-port HD-SDI capture solution

We've updated our Curling Club webcast system by adding multiple HD-SDI cameras connected to this capture card, powered by vMix productions /streaming software transmission is used. My only complaint is that the jack to channel mapping is weird and poorly explained, but you can just plug in a camera and see what's going on to find out. Otherwise it was easy to set up and use to capture with vMix. Make sure your motherboard has a free x4 PCI slot. Make sure you use high quality RG6 coax cable for HD-SDI as cheap non-SDI power cables + siamese/zip coax cables will not work with HD-SDI. When the machine was first restarted, all the old and new channels were swapped. So we had to remove and re-add the inputs from vMix. But we had no more problems from the first reboot.

Pros
  • Stupid πŸ”₯
Cons
  • Annoying