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Stand Alone Capture
Hi there. If there is a better forum for this to be posted in, let me know. I didn’t see one for general video production questions.
I deal with a lot of transcoding and restoration of old media from clients. Lots of VHS/BetaCam/U-matic/whatever. All sorts of formats. So my editing machines spend a significant amount of time just doing captures. Lots and lots of time.
Does anyone know of stand-alone hardware that will capture to a high quality format? I know of the PVR type solutions that will give me something that is either h.264 or low bitrate MPEG2. I want a box I can plug an analog source into and have it save the same kind of capture I would get going through Premiere or FCP. I don’t care if the final output of ProRes or AVCHD or whatever other format just as long as it is something high quality that I can then edit.
Anyone know of anything?
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AJA KiPro. It has all sorts of inputs and records to ProRes. It was designed to be used with cameras, but I have used one as a deck on multiple occasions.
There are other devices that are similar, but their connection types are limited. Typically HDMI and SDI. With older decks, you need Component, Composite and S-video…the KiPro has those.
Shane
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Thank you very much for the reply. That is exactly the type of thing I have been looking for. The price is a little higher than I was looking for. Seems to be about $4000 each. Probably more than I can justify. Might look into setting up a rack of mac minis or something with FCX and a BlackMagic shuttle each. Cost about a third as much to do it that way, although a little more effort and maintenance.
Thanks again for the response.
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Yeah, as I said, there are other cheaper recorders like this, but they lack all the connectors this has. The KiPro Mini only has HDMI and SDI. Convertent Design too…Atmos…
Minis and a Shuttle might do you right.
Shane
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Depending on the wide variety of formats, you could also get a few mini converters (analog to SDI, etc.) and a Hyper Deck Shuttle – each setup will cost about $600 before taxes and shipping.
The Hyperdeck Studio Pro (which has all the inputs you’ll need) is about $2K but not portable like the Ki Pros.
In either of the above cases you could capture to 6G SSDs and use the same drives during editorial/restoration.
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