Recording HD-SDI in a reasonable manner

[patrickcincy]

Virtual VTR isn't the best recording product from Gallery. Picture Ready is what you are looking for. Out set up includes a few Xserves with a Kona3 card connected to an Xsan. The software we use to record is Final Cut Pro. This seems to work really well, as it fits into our workflow seamlessly. Regarding codecs, we bounce between DVCProHD and ProRes422 HQ depending on our needs. The pro res is a larger bitrate which is great for post, but when we don't have a ton of post, we use DVCProHD.

[LaDon Findley]

Check out Datavideo's New HDR-50 Rack Mount SD/HD-SDI Recorder..........it has a direct HD-SDI input and output with analog audio inputs..........media drive is removable to take to an NLE or can be accessed via USB, etc.

[bladeaudio]

Blackmagic Design just announced at NAB, linux support and Media Server software. So with a $300 card and their free software you could record HD-SDI in to a PC running linux (or Windows/Mac too). Of course it would need the be an appropriately beefy computer to handle the data through put and storage, etc.

[tomtv]

this is a very solid product. had the chance to demo one for a few days and we are getting at least one and i am shooting for 2. you can go there and see it instead of me typing more.

http://convergent-design.com/CD_Products_FlashXDR.htm

5000.00 direct for mfg.

they have a smaller unit that will be less that easily fits on small camcorders. less expensive sd cards work fine.

[billmi]

Originally Posted by karlp

I need a reasonable way (<12000$ /channel) to record some HD cams.

Have you looked at 3-Play from NewTek? It's primary market is ISO recording for instant replays, as it can do playback and slow-mo while it's still recording, but it will record 3 HD or SD (SDI, components, Y/C or composite) channels simultaneously, and MSRP is $22K, or $7,300 per channel.

NewTek's info page is here: http://www.newtek.com/3play/

[rlahoda]

Out at NAB I talked to the Telestream people about Pipeline HD and they said that if you have a new Mac Pro, add an additional gigabit ethernet card to it and have a high-speed hard drive solution (i.e. a SAN or large RAID storage) you can actually get up to 4 channels of HD recorded simultaneously through a single computer! I can give more details of how that works if you want, but I'm really impressed with the Pipeline system.