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Interesting product in development ..
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
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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
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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.
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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
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Correction I meant to write RP-188 which is the SMPTE spec for embedded timecode not RP-166.
Tony Salgado
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thanks Tony,
wasn’t at all aware it was so common, correction much apreciated
cheers
Andy
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