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  • Interesting product in development ..

    Posted by Andy Mees on August 12, 2006 at 2:15 pm

    Very interesting expresscard34 adaptor called “Express Lane” which is currently in development …


    Vydeo’s patent-pending Express Lane design is an ExpressCard 34mm form factor module that supports import and export of SD, SD-SDI, HD and HD-SDI video data streams from cameras and decks to a laptop computer’s PCI Express Card slot.

    Supports Import and Export of SD, SD-SDI, HD and HD-SDI video data streams
    Reclocking and resynchronizing of audio to the video stream
    Embedded digital stereo audio support at 48/96 kHz
    Support of DVITC and RP-188 timecode in the video data stream
    Uncompressed video support
    PAL and NTSC support
    Mac OS X and Windows XP, Vista support
    Final Cut Pro and Avid XPress support
    Host side driver manages file system and file formats
    One or two standard BNC connectors
    Designed for Express Card 34mm slot
    Meets PCIe Express Card Specification Revision 1.1
    Patent-pending design

    theres something to watch for mobile edit solutions

    https://www.vydeo.com/products/EC34.html

    Andy Mees replied 19 years, 9 months ago 3 Members · 5 Replies
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  • Dan Riley

    August 12, 2006 at 5:11 pm

    It mentions it supports timecode in the SDI video stream.
    I’m wondering, what camera or deck outputs this info?

    So, this card will do for a laptop, what an AJA PCI card does for a Mac Pro for instance,
    at least from the standpoint of getting SDI video, audio, control and timecode
    in and out of the laptop?

    Dan

  • Andy Mees

    August 13, 2006 at 5:01 am

    embedded tc in SDI is not common but products such as Miranda’s DENSITE will do it … i noted there doesn’t seem to be any element of deck control in the mockup shown, just an hd/sd sdi input and output … but i guess there are plenty of usb/serial to RS422 adaptors that would handle that.

    not sure that any of the curent crop of laptops could handle an uncompressed hd/sd video stream, and as the card is using the expresscard slot then thers no option for adding eSATA suport.

    be great to see someone like BMD (or AJA) pick up on this, and offer an expresscard34 version of their Multibridge hardware.

  • Tony

    August 13, 2006 at 4:22 pm

    Andy,

    Embedded tc in the SDI steam is indeed quite common.

    It is one of the major advantages of using HDSDI or SD SDI because of the ability to embedded multiple channels of audio, timecode and meta data information along with the video.

    Camcorders which can output this information includes Sony F900H with CA-901 adapter (which has been updated to RP-166 spec), or with Evertz and miranda HDSDI camera adapters.

    Sony F900R no adapter needed as camera has external HDSDI outputs with camera body.

    Panasonic Varicam and SDX-900.

    Capturing embedded timecode is a major benefit for live capture from a camera or from a vtr. Using one cable for audio, video and metadata is a major plus for any production.

    Tony Salgado

  • Tony

    August 13, 2006 at 4:24 pm

    Correction I meant to write RP-188 which is the SMPTE spec for embedded timecode not RP-166.

    Tony Salgado

  • Andy Mees

    August 13, 2006 at 11:50 pm

    thanks Tony,

    wasn’t at all aware it was so common, correction much apreciated

    cheers
    Andy

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