Blackmagic PCI Express Cable Kit

The Blackmagic PCI Express Cable Kit is a high speed Generation 3 PCI Express plug-in card and cable that connects a computer directly to products such as UltraStudio 4K Extreme 3. It is the route to take when a job needs more bandwidth than Thunderbolt provides.

The card goes into a spare PCIe slot in a workstation and the cable carries the link out to the chassis, so the capture and playback device runs at full PCIe speed rather than through a converted bus. It is the difference between comfortable and marginal on high frame rate 4K and multi-stream work. Blackmagic part number BMD-BDLKULSR4KEXTSPK.