The DeckLink Quad 2 is an 8-lane PCIe card with eight bidirectional, 12-bit SD/HD/3G-SDI Micro-BNC connectors, each independently configurable as a capture or playback channel for any combination of eight channels up to 1080p60. It supports compressed formats such as ProRes and DNxHD alongside uncompressed 10-bit 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 video, making it equally suited to live broadcast and post-production work. The card carries 16 channels of embedded audio, a reference input, and up/down/cross conversion. It runs on Mac, Windows and Linux and is supported by a wide range of software; for applications that don't capture video on their own, Blackmagic's Media Express software is included for capturing, organising and managing media.