Model Details

Avid Nitris delivers media processing power unlike any other hardware in the industry. Designed to facilitate creative editing, conforming and finishing of all types of projects at multiple compressed and uncompressed standard-definition and high-definition formats, Avid Nitris delivers hardware-guaranteed real-time performance for up to 8 streams of SD media and 2 streams of 10-bit HD media for effects such as real-time dissolves, SMPTE wipes, DVEs, Symphony-style color correction, HD Universal Mastering, keys and downstream graphics. Furthermore, Avid Nitris supports the broadest range of high-quality formats and professional I/O connections of any single nonlinear system.

Editing Systems Built on Avid Nitris

Avid DS Nitris - Comprehensive editing and conforming of projects at multiple compressed and uncompressed HDTV and SD formats
Avid DS Nitris Editor - Streamlined editing of HD and SD formats

Specifications:

Avid Nitris Specifications

Standard Definition Performance Specifications

Serial Component Digital Video Interface: 10 bit, SMPTE 259M compatible

• Input Cable Equalization: 200 meters of Belden 8281 cable
• Input Return Loss: > 15 dB, 5 - 270 MHz
• Output Signal Level: 800 mV +/- 10%
• Output Waveform: All waveform parameters conform to SMPTE 259M
• Output Return Loss: > 15 dB, 5 - 270 MHz
• Output Timing Jitter: < 0.2 UI (740ps) over 1H, conforming to SMPTE 259M

Composite Analog I/O: 10-bit Decode and Encode

• Frequency Response: < 1 dB deviation, 10 kHz - 5 MHz
• S/N Tilt Null: > 55 dB
• K Factor: < 1 %
• Group Delay Deviation: < 12 ns., 10 kHz - 5.75 MHz
• Differential Gain: < 1 %
• Differential Phase: < 2 degrees
• Output Sub-carrier phase adjustment: < 0.5 degree resolution
• Return loss: > 40 dB, 25 Hz - 5.75 MHz

Component Analog I/O: 10-bit quantization

• Luma Frequency Response: < 1 dB deviation, 10 kHz - 5 MHz
• S/N Tilt Null: > 55 dB
• K Factor: < 1 %
• Group Delay Deviation: < 12 ns., 10 kHz - 5.75 MHz
• Inter component timing error: < 5 ns
• Inter component crosstalk: < 40 dB, 25 Hz - 5.75 MHz
• Return loss: > 40 dB, 25 Hz - 5.75 MHz

S-Video I/O: 10-bit quantization

• Frequency Response: < 2 dB deviation, 10 kHz - 5.75 MHz
• S/N Tilt Null: > 55 dB

Reference Sync: Black Burst, SMPTE 170M, ITU-R BT.470-6

• Sync Input Return Loss: > 40 dB, 25 Hz to 10 MHz
• Output Timing Range: > +/- ½ H with < 1 ns. resolution
  

LTC - Longitudinal Time Code: SMPTE 12M compatible

Embedded Audio: SMPTE 272M level A compatible, 8 channel, 20-bit, 48 kHz. sample rate

High Definition Performance Specifications

HD-SDI Serial Digital Interface

• Input Return Loss: > 15 dB, 5 MHz to 1.485 GHz
• Input Cable Length Equalization: 100 meters using Belden 1694 cable
• Output Return Loss: > 15 dB, 5 MHz. to 1.485 GHz.
• Output Level: 800 mV. ± 10%
• Output Waveform: All waveform parameters conforming to SMPTE 292M
• Output Timing Jitter w/ Trilevel Reference: < 0.2 UI over upper frequency band conforming with SMPTE 292M
• Output Timing Jitter w/ Black Burst Reference: < 0.2 UI over upper frequency band conforming with SMPTE 292M
• Output Timing Jitter w/ Internal Timebase: < 0.2 UI over upper frequency band conforming with SMPTE 292M

Component Analog Output

• Frequency Response: < 1 dB deviation, 500 kHz - 30 MHz
• Signal to Noise: > 54 dB, over 30 MHz bandwidth
• K Factor: < 1.5%
• Group Delay Deviation: < 6 ns deviation, 500 kHz - 30 MHz
• Component gain error: < 1%
• Inter component timing error: < 1 ns
• Inter component crosstalk: < 40 dB, 500 kHz - 30 MHz
• Return loss: > 34 dB, 25 Hz - 30 MHz
  

Reference Sync

• Trilevel Sync Input Return Loss: > 40 dB, 25 Hz to 10 MHz
• Output Timing Range: > +/- ½ H with 13 ns step increment

Embedded Audio: 8 channels, 24-bit, 48 kHz sample rate

Audio Performance Specifications

Analog Input (+4 dBu balanced)

• Sample Rate: Programmable from 32 to 100 kHz
• Resolution: 24-bit
• Dynamic Range: 110 dB (A weighted); 104 dB (unweighted)
• THD + N: < 0.0025, (-92 dB) @ 20 - 20 kHz
• Frequency Response: 20 - 20 kHz, +/- 0.1 dB @ +4 dBu
• Input Impedance:> 2 k ohms
• Common Mode Rejection CMRR: > 80 dB, 20 - 20 kHz
• Inter channel crosstalk: < -90 dB at 1 kHz
  

Microphone Input

• Input Gain: +30 to +60 dB in 1 dB steps
• Mic E.I.N. (unweighted): -110 dB @ 60 dB gain; 150 ohm source
• THD + N: 0.001% @ +10 dBu
• CMRR: > 80 dB @ 60 Hz, >70 dB 20-20 kHz
  
• Frequency Response: 20 - 20 kHz, +/- 0.5 dB @ +10 dBu
  
• Input Impedance: 1.5 k ohms

Analog Output (+4 dBu balanced)

• Sample Rate: Programmable from 32 to 100 kHz
• Dynamic Range: 110 dB (A weighted); 104 dB (unweighted)
• THD + N: < 0.0016, (-96 dB) @ 20 - 20 kHz
• Frequency Response: 20 - 20 kHz, +/- 0.1 dB @ +4 dBu
• Output Impedance: 50 ohms
• Inter channel crosstalk: < -90 dB at 1 kHz

AES/EBU I/O: Balanced, conforming to AES-3 specification

• Intrinsic Output Jitter: < 0.025 UI