Bluefish444 Professional Video IO plugin published to Unreal Engine Marketplace
04 September, 2023
Lowest Latency 4K SDI & SMPTE IP I/O for Unreal Engine
North Melbourne, Australia, September 04th, 2023 – Bluefish444, manufacturer of the professional video industry’s highest-quality uncompressed video interface cards and signal converters has published the Bluefish444 Professional Video IO plugin to the Unreal Engine Marketplace.
With the support from an Epic MegaGrant from Epic Games to develop new, innovative and high performance workflows with the Bluefish444 Unreal Engine Plugin, the integration has now been published to the Unreal Engine Marketplace for users to download free of charge.
“Bluefish444 are extremely excited to bring the Bluefish444 Professional Video IO plugin for Unreal Engine to the public via the Unreal Engine Marketplace” says Tom Lithgow, Bluefish444 Product Manager. “We are committed to continued plugin development in order to support future features and versions of the Unreal Engine and to continually further enhance the plugin ensuring the industry’s lowest latency and highest quality video IO”
The Bluefish444 Professional Video IO plugin has been published for Unreal Engine version 5.0, 5.1, and 5.2 and is compatible with Epoch, Kronos K8 and Kronos Optikos3G hardware via the Bluefish444 6.5.2 64-bit Microsoft Windows Driver, available for download from bluefish444.com.
Bluefish444 Professional Video IO plugin provides access to industry standard Video and Audio Interfaces directly from within the Unreal Editor and from running exported projects. The full range of Bluefish444 professional video cards is compatible, providing a means to input video and audio from external sources to be processed within Unreal Engine in real time. Multiple input sources can be brought in simultaneously allowing for rich and dynamic content for Virtual Production, AR, VR, Broadcast and Film and Television. Rendered scenes from both the Unreal Editor and from running exported projects can be output through video and audio interfaces as multichannel HD/2K/4K UHD across professional industry standard interfaces.
Features:
- Integrated into the Unreal Editor UI
- Video Input to the Unreal Engine
- Video Output from the Unreal Editor
- Video Output from packaged projects
About Bluefish444:
Bluefish444, known as the Professionals’ Choice for over 20 years, is the manufacturer of the professional video industry’s highest quality video I/O interface cards, centralised ingest appliances, live production, archival & streaming software and signal converters. Bluefish products are deployed globally throughout the broadcast, post-production, live event and entertainment, proAV, corporate, military, government, medical and education markets.
KRONOS and Epoch video cards support interfaces for 4K/UHD SDI, ASI, HDMI and Video Over IP I/O and are widely integrated by 3rd-party developers and OEMs via the cross-platform Windows, Linux and macOS SDK. Bluefish supply the IngeSTore Server centralised ingest appliance and IngeSTore and IngeSTream software for live production, archival and streaming workflows.
Bluefish have integrations with the biggest brands in professional video including Adobe, Avid, Nuke, Unity, Unreal Engine, CasparCG, Vizrt, Brainstorm, ClassX, NewTek, Disguise, 7thSense Design and many more, with Bluefish video cards providing the major component of turnkey solutions for production, 2D/3D graphics, display & presentation, multimedia, QC & compliance and live event workflows.
Established in 1998, Bluefish444 is a division and brand name of Bluefish Technologies Pty Ltd, and based in North Melbourne, Australia, and its products are distributed via a global OEM, dealer and systems integrator network. Visit bluefish444.com for more information.
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