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BlueFish444 Iridium|SD is the native successor of the Digital Voodoo DeepBlue LT and the predecessor of BlueFish444 SD Lite Pro Express, providing Fill, Key, GenLock and Composite Fill connectors. The Iridium|SD is fully compatible with older DeepBlue-LT installations.

The card was mostly used with Viz Trio NV which basically was a system with the ability to run a Viz Trio client with local preview and video output on a single machine; hence, there was no video input or video playback support as with the Matrox X.mio Series. The local preview was able to render a different scene than the one being output on video. The card was typically seen on HP xw4600.

IMPORTANT! Supports for the Iridium|SD card ended with Viz Engine 3.5. For supported versions, see the most recent BlueFish444 cards.

This section contains information on the following topics:

Connectors
Driver Installation

Connectors

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The BNC connectors from left to right are:

SDI Out A (Fill) - SDI 4:2:2/4:4:4/Video
SDI Out B (Key) - SDI 4:2:2/4:4:4/Video
Ref In - Analog GenLock input
Composite Out - Composite fill output

Driver Installation

The driver installation works the same way as for DeepBlue-LT cards. Use driver versions available on Vizrt’s FTP server to make sure of correct functionality and ring buffer support.

Iridium|SD is fully compatible with existing DeepBlue-LT installations and can be used with any recent Viz version supporting the older DeepBlue-LT device.

Caution: Only Bluefish444 v3.1 is guaranteed to support an adequate ringbuffer size. Any other driver will cut down or completely disable ringbuffer support.

Viz Artist/Engine Version	Driver
3.6.3	Bluefish444 v5.10.2.18
3.6.1	Bluefish444 v5.10.2.4
3.5.1	Bluefish444 v5.10.1.11
3.5	Bluefish444 v5.9.0.78
3.2.7	Bluefish444 v5.9.0.25
3.2.2	Bluefish444 v5.7.6
3.1.0-3532	Bluefish444 v3.1

Note: Viz Engine 3.2.7 and 3.3.0 require the Bluefish444 v5.9.0.25 driver for all Digital Voodoo / Bluefish cards.