Spin Digital's 8K VVC solution comes to life with AJA cards

Spin Digital has built its Spin Enc Live video decoding and decoding solution, now with 8K VVC support, with PCIe cards from AJA.

The live production solution Spin Enc Live was initially released as an encoder 8K 60 fps for live production compatible with HEVC (H.265). Facing IBC 2023, Spin Digital will update the system, as well as its SDK, to add compatibility with the codec VVC (H.266). This update will allow users to choose whether to continue using HEVC, or jump to VVC to efficiently manage footage 8K HDR a 60 fps.

To allow signal input via SDI, Spin Enc Live integrates with the cards AJA Corvid 44 12G y Kona 5 PCIe. Corvid 44 12G serves as main capture device for live production, while customers using desktop systems take advantage of KONA 5. Both cards provide crucial functionality in a compact form factor and with a 12G quad-SDI connection, allowing the encoding solution to capture uncompressed signals for seamless video and audio processing.

Similarly, the AJA Corvid 44 12G and Kona 5 offer flexibility to Spin Digital customers interested in less traditional high-resolution formats, such as panoramic images, which involve stitching four 4K cameras to generate a 16K x 2K image. Customers can enter 2x2, 4x4 or 1x4 configurations, and can also capture 16 channels of audio within one SDI link and another 16 channels within another for high-end 3D audio formats such as the 22.2 format used in Japan.

Mauricio Alvarez Mesa, CEO of Spin Digital, notes that the company has “carefully selected” the components of the solution, “including the AJA Corvid 44 12G and KONA 5 cards, which are ideal for live 8K applications and help us capture 8K video at 60 fps with 10-bit HDR and the associated audio with very low delay and high reliability.” "With Corvid and KONA cards for input to our encoder for processing, we can easily capture frames without worrying about hidden or unexpected processes. The cards have also demonstrated excellent input of HDR signals, whether PQ or HLG. We can efficiently and reliably capture the metadata from the cards and transmit them seamlessly through our encoder," highlights the company's head.