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News: Blackmagic Design Announces Blackmagic Video Recorder
(Las Vegas NAB–April 15, 2008) Blackmagic Design Inc. today announced the new Blackmagic Video Recorder, a compact USB video capture product that captures files direct to H.264 files for iPod™, iPhone™, Apple TV™, YouTube™, IPTV, Web or full resolution archiving.
Blackmagic Video Recorder is on display at NAB 2008 at the Blackmagic Design booth SL10920.
The H.264 file format used with Video Recorder will allow direct capture to files compatible with mobile devices such as iPods, so users don’t need to do time consuming rendering. Long tapes can be captured, and then dropped into iTunes for syncing with iPod, iPhone, or Apple TV devices.
There are two models of Blackmagic Video Recorder, an analog one for consumers, and an SDI one for professionals.
Blackmagic Video Recorder has high quality analog component, NTSC, PAL and S-Video input, and allows capture from any analog source, such as VHS, Video-8, DVD, Set top boxes etc. Blackmagic Video Recorder SDI features standard definition SDI input and RS-422 deck control for connection to any broadcast deck.
“Because videotapes such as VHS degrade over time, there are millions of hours of home movies sitting on old videotape that need to be converted to computer files or transferred to mobile devices such as iPods, so you can show family and friends!” said Grant Petty, CEO, Blackmagic Design. ”But there are also millions of hours of professionally videotaped programs that need to be moved to computers so they can be sold to customers online, or used in IPTV applications. I feel this is an incredibly important product for moving all that television content into the future. The future is mobile and in your hand!”
Included with the USB hardware is the Video Recorder software which lets customers capture video with easy to use controls. When this software is used with the Video Recorder SDI model, users can enter in and out points for the deck they are capturing from. The Video Recorder software also allows users to set video scaling to reduce the resolution for mobile devices. To make great captured movie files, the Video Recorder software allows interactive cropping of the video edges, so analog blanking, VHS switching marks, and VITC timecode artifacts can be cropped out.
Video Recorder Key Features
- Capture direct to H.264 files for mobile devices such as iPod, iPhone, Apple TV. No video conversion rendering required because these devices play back native H.264 video.
- Two low cost models, one analog, and one SDI.
- Includes easy to use Video Recorder software for capturing video.
- Compact size, USB powered “thumb drive” size.
Availability and Price
Blackmagic Video Recorder will be available in mid July for US$119 or €79 from all Blackmagic Design authorized resellers worldwide. Blackmagic Video Recorder SDI will retail at US$299 or €199.About Blackmagic Design Inc.
Blackmagic Design Inc. manufactures the world’s highest quality video editing products, converters and routers for the post-production and television broadcast industries. The Multibridge, DeckLink and Intensity family of products have revolutionized the post production industry and made HDTV and film editing more affordable. Founded by the world’s leading editors and engineers from the post production industry, this knowledge is constantly fed back into our products. Blackmagic Design has operations in the USA, United Kingdom, Japan, Singapore, and Australia.###
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5 Replies
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So is this product Mac only? I checked the specs and it seems that way, why?
Glennser -
Looking at the jobs page they probably still have to develop the windows driver / applications.
-Yves
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Hi Glen,
This will be Mac only at first before Windows next. This is simply a matter of resource allocation before the NAB show.
regards
Kristian Lam
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I’m very interested in this product.
This Blackmagic it seems that will enable us to capture on-the-fly to iPod/iPhone – so it will be possible, for example, to provide the recorded video at the end of a conference/presentation to the attenders, or just put a link on a website for download – much quicker than the common method where we have to capture and/or export after the event finished.
My only doubt is knowing if it’s possible to ‘top & tail’ a *.mp4 file without re-rendering, imagining that in an live event scenario I would need to cut bits at beginning and at the end of the captured file.
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Presumably the SDI version only works for standard def SDI ?
Will there be an HD SDI version ?
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