AVerMedia DarkCrystal HD Capture Card (PCIe) - Record 1080p h.264 video

AVerMedia Announced the Ultimate 1080p Full HD Capture Card

Originally Posted by http://www.avermedia.com/Press/NewsDetail.aspx?Id=372

Taipei, 18th April 2011

AVerMedia Technologies, Inc., announced the DarkCrystal HD Capture SDK II, a 1080p full HD video capture solution for professionals in diverse industries such as internet TV broadcasters, online education institutes, or instrument and medical manufacturers. The HDMI and comprehensive analog inputs allow you to capture both HD and SD content from versatile devices. The enclosed DVI to HDMI adapter also equips the DarkCrystal HD Capture SDK II with PC monitoring capability. Plus, the exclusive Software Development Kit (SDK) leverages the convenience of acquiring HD content for further usages and the flexibility of developing customized applications.


The AVerMedia DarkCrystal HD Capture SDK II is packed with premium hardware specifications to fulfill your needs in professional HD video capture and post-processing. It includes connections for HDMI 1.3, component, composite and s-video capture at 8 bit video quality with 4:2:2 color space. Even better, with the enclosed DVI to HDMI adapter, the DarkCrystal HD Capture SDK II can even monitor or record on-screen activities of another PC without overextending CPU and VPU resources. Its PCI-Express interface also ensures the uncompressed 1080p HD video can be transferred fast without any loss. You will find the AVerMedia DarkCrystal HD Capture SDK II seems to be born for the software you love. DirectShow compatibility makes this HD capture card work with wide range of popular video editing and streaming software. Also, filmmakers or video editing professionals can even utilize Adobe Premier Pro CS4/CS5 with the exclusive plug-in that comes with the DarkCrystal HD Capture SDK II.


With the help of AVerMedia SDK, software developers can implement their creativities beyond imagination. For instance, the medical and manufacturing industry both require a high degree of precision and optical definition that 1080p high definition resolution provides. In business and education, users will greatly benefit from its ability to downgrade video size to maintain a stable, high quality connection vital to video conferencing or remote-teaching. And, professionals working with online entertainment can benefit from the image overlay and picture-in-picture functions. VC, VB, Delphi, and C# programming languages are all supported. AVer MediaCenter 3D, the latest video capture software from AVerMedia, comes with the DarkCrystal HD Capture SDK II to provide you the basic preview and capture features in an intuitive user interface. It lets you monitor multiple video sources from more than one AVerMedia capture cards, and even real-time preserve 1080p HD video in H.264 format.