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HDX900 CF recorder
This looks like a pretty cool upgrade for us HDX900 users! Records HD-SDI to cheap Compact Flash cards. Way better than those over-priced P2 cards. And it’s small!!!
https://www.convergent-design.com/CD_Products_nanoFlash.htm
Ernie Santella
Santella Productions Inc.
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We just used its big brother, HDX unit, for a week of aerials. We ran a Sony 1500 HD camera into the HDX and a Pannasonic 1400 deck at the same time.
The HDX recorder performed great.Ray Palmer, Engineer
Salt River Project
Phoenix, AZ
602-236-8224 office
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I know some HDX900 and Varicam owners who are using the nanoFlash. A DIT told me yesterday that it was a bit buggy. It’s a good way to extend the life of tape based cameras or improve the recording codec for an EX1 or EX3.
However, it’s still 8-bit, and at the minimum bit rate needed for I-Frame, it is not more efficient than P2 cards in Native frame rates using AVC-Intra 100 at 1080/24PN, 10-bit, full sample 4:2:2–both are 40 minutes per card. nanoFlash is MPEG-2 based vs. AVC-Intra which is h.264/MPEG-4 based and I’ve read the latter is twice as efficient at the same bit rate, meaning less compression.
A 32Gb CF card costs about $200 vs. $600 for a 32Gb P2 E card. If shooting over 100Mbps with the nanoFlash, you have to use a special 16Gb card.
Panasonic P2 cameras can hold five cards, or 200 minutes of 1080/24p with 32Gb cards, 400 minutes with 64Gb cards. Having internal solid state recording is more convenient, very reliable and five 32Gb P2 E cards is about the same cost as the nanoFlash, assuming one owns a P2 camera already.
Jeff Regan
Shooting Star Video
http://www.ssv.com
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