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Cinegy Air Express System Recommendations For more information visit www.cinegy.com or email sales@cinegy.com Operating Systems Support Cinegy Air (optionally with Cinegy Type) runs on the following operating systems: Windows 7 64bit SP1, Windows 2008 Server SP2, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, Windows Server 2012.

Operating system recommendation: For server machines - Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. For workstation or PC class machines - Windows 7 Professional 64bit SP1.

(for HD operations it is recommended to use 64bit OS with at least 6GB of RAM ).

Supported Video Hardware SDI Cinegy Air playout: DVS SDStation I & II, DVS Centaurus I, II (LT), Atomix LT SD & HD, Blackmagic Design DeckLink SD & HD products, AJA Kona family.

Playout Video Board Driver Recommendations Board Type Video Board Firmware Driver

DVS Centaurus I * irisup_2.1.50b_36 SDK 2.7p48

Centaurus II* lucyup_3.2.76.3_19_15 SDK 4.2.0.4

Centaurus II LT (also SD)* lucyltup_4.2.68.13_18_14 SDK 4.2.0.4

Atomix LT atomixltup_5.4.0.6_5.2.4 SDK 4.2.0.4

SDStation OEM II * eddyup_35.61_46 SDK 2.7p48

SDStation OEM * sdboardup80a SDK 2.7p48

AJA AJA Kona LHe Plus, LHi, Io Express From AJA driver pack 10.3.2 10.3.2

Blackmagic Design Blackmagic Design DeckLink From driver pack 9.6.8 9.6.8

* Centaurus I, Centaurus II and the SDStation series are no longer being produced by DVS, Cinegy still supports these boards at this stage.

Note: The VANC features are only available using the AJA boards (see the list of AJA video boards supported by Cinegy).

Hardware Recommendations for SD Playout Quad core processor with 2GHz or better (Core2Quad, Xeon 34xx, single Xeon 55xx, single Xeon 56xx). 4GB of RAM. Dual Gigabit Ethernet adapter.

Recommended hardware: HP Proliant DL380G6 or G7 with single Xeon 56xx processor 6GB RAM, mirrored system disk (e.g. SATA), local playout cache storage 4x SAS HD as striped mirror set (RAID 0/1) or 2x mirrored SSDs.

Additionally for Cinegy Type option: PCIe x16 riser card option for DL380 G6/G7 and NVIDIA Quadro 2000 (other cards may work but are not certified).

SD Playout Performance The following table gives an indication of what processing power is recommended to guarantee smooth playout of the respective video stream and/or sequences with titles with effects. Test machines were equipped with at least 2GB RAM and used Windows XP Pro SP3.

Playout Format Core 2 Duo E8400 Xeon X3430 Dual Xeon E5620 Xeon E5-2670

DV only yes yes yes yes

DV with CG and FX yes yes yes yes

Medium-SD yes yes yes yes

Medium-SD with CG and FX yes yes yes yes

High-SD yes yes yes yes

High-SD with CG and FX no yes yes yes

SDI Playout Standard Definition High Definition

Full duplex mode (live pass through with logo insertion using only one board)

DVS SDStation I & II DVS Centaurus I & II (LT) AJA Kona LHe Plus

DVS Centaurus I & II (LT)

AJA Kona family

Half duplex mode (live pass through with logo insertion using two different boards: one as an input and the second as an output)

Blackmagic Design DeckLink, AJA Io Express

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Hardware Recommendations for HD Playout Dual quad core or six-core processor with 2GHz or better (Xeon 56xx). 6GB of RAM. Dual Gigabit Ethernet.

Recommended hardware: HP Proliant DL380G6 or G7 with dual Xeon 56xx processor 6GB RAM, mirrored system disk (e.g. SATA), local playout video storage 4x SAS HDD as striped mirror set (RAID 0/1) or 2x mirrored SSDs.

Additionally for Cinegy Type option: PCIe x16 riser card option for DL380 G6/G7 and NVIDIA Quadro 2000 (other cards may work but are not certified).

HD Playout Performance

The following table gives an indication of what processing power is recommended to guarantee smooth playout of the respective video stream and/or sequences with titles with effects. Test machines were equipped with at least 4GB RAM and used Windows XP Pro SP3.

Playout Format Xeon X3430 Dual Xeon E5620 Dual Xeon X5660 Xeon E5-2670

HDV only yes yes yes yes

HDV with CG and FX yes yes yes yes

Medium-1080i yes yes yes yes

Medium-1080i with CG and FX yes yes yes yes

High-1080i yes yes yes yes

High-1080i with CG and FX no yes yes yes

Simulcast HD/SD Playout Performance

The following table gives an indication of what processing power is recommended to guarantee smooth playout of the respective video stream and/or sequences with titles with effects. Test machines were equipped with at least 4GB RAM and used Windows XP Pro SP3.

Playout Format Xeon X3430 Dual Xeon E5620 Dual Xeon X5660 Xeon E5-2670

HDV only yes yes yes yes

HDV with CG and FX yes yes yes yes

Medium-1080i yes yes yes yes

Medium-1080i with CG and FX yes yes yes yes

High-1080i yes yes yes yes

High-1080i with CG and FX no yes yes yes

Note: MPEG-2 RTP encoding can take significant CPU loading. H.264 RTP encoding requires even more CPU resources.

Hardware Recommendations for Multi-Instance Playout When several Cinegy Air Engine instances are running on the same machine, the recommended hardware configuration for the smooth playback should be revised based on the hardware recommendations for a single SD/HD channel that listed above. The exact machine configuration depends on each Cinegy Air Engine instance configuration (input/output devices) and the media sources (video/audio codecs, effects, etc). It should be verified in each case individually.

File Format Support Cinegy Air (optionally with Cinegy Type option) supports the use of the following file and video formats: Apple QuickTime (supporting all locally installed codecs including alpha channel support), Apple ProRes / ProRes422, AVI (supporting all locally installed codecs including alpha channel support), AVID DNxHD (in AVID compatible MXF), DV, DV25, DVCAM, DVCPro (DV50), DVCProHD (DV100), HDV, IMX, XDCAM SD, XDCAM HD, XDCAM HD422, XDCAM EX, MPEG-2 (I-frame and long GOP up to 1080i 4:2:2), H.264 (MP4)*, MXF with MPEG-2 Long GOP, MXF AS-03, Panasonic P2 (DV, DV50, DV100, AVC-Intra) and Windows Media.

Image Formats Support JPEG, TIFF (with alpha), PNG (with alpha), TGA (with alpha), BMP (with alpha), GIF, image sequences / flipbooks and many more.

Audio Formats Supported PCM/WAV, MP3, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, AAC, all AVI audio codecs (with locally installed codecs).

Network Cinegy Air IP streaming output devices support two network interfaces for streaming - primary and backup. For mission critical operations it is recommended to use up to 2 network adapters (primary and backup) for each Cinegy Air RTP/UDP output device, two dedicated separate networks as well.

* MP4 H.264 files are handled by internal decoder, although in case of any issues it falls back to QuickTime.