Yuan SC710N1 M2 12G-SDI M.2 SDI Capture Card with 12G-SDI Input at 4K60

A 4K SDI camera feeding a compact recorder still needs a capture path, and small computers rarely have a spare PCIe slot. The SC710N1 M2 12G-SDI is Yuan’s M.2 SDI capture card for single-link 12G-SDI, capturing 4096 x 2160 at 60/50 fps through an M.2 socket with a 12G-SDI loop-through output. It suits compact 4K recording and monitoring where the host is small.

12G-SDI carries 4096 x 2160 and 3840 x 2160 at 60/50 fps, 6G-SDI the same sizes at 30/25/24 fps and 3G-SDI 1920 x 1080p at 60/50 fps, with HD-SDI and SD-SDI formats also accepted. The loop-through output passes the incoming 12G-SDI signal on to a monitor or another recorder. Formats are RGB24 and RGB32 at 4:4:4 8-bit, YUY2 at 4:2:2 8-bit, YV12 and NV12 at 4:2:0 8-bit, and P010 at 4:2:0 10-bit. Audio arrives as one embedded stereo stream, and VANC data is captured alongside, which keeps timecode and other ancillary data available to the software.

The card is an M.2 Type M module of 22 x 80 mm running on a PCIe x4 link, and on-board processing covers cropping and scaling, automatic signal detection and deinterlacing. There is no built-in hardware encoder, so compression runs on the host or a GPU. Yuan’s Windows and Linux SDK supports multiple instances and multiple cards, and DirectShow and V4L2 support opens it to vMix, OBS, Zoom and Teams as well as custom software. The SC710N1 M2 12G-SDI QL adds dual and quad-link input on a 30 mm wide card, and the SC710N1 12G-SDI is the PCIe card with quad-link input.

Yuan lists support for Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and 10, Linux 4.8 or higher in 32-bit and 64-bit builds, Linux ARM and NVIDIA Jetson TX2, Nano, AGX Xavier and Xavier NX, which includes Jetson modules for Arm-based edge units. The card carries a heatsink and fan in Yuan’s product image, so airflow in the enclosure needs checking.