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[From the Show Floor]
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Convergent Design Flash HD Recorder
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~ April 16, 2008
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Convergent Design’s Flash XDR is a portable Compact Flash-based HD recorder expected to ship soon. Flash XDR records to Compact Flash cards; the unit offers four CF slots. Four 32GB cards will provide 284 minutes of recording time at 50Mbps. ASI I/O for microwave uplink and IP connectivity is optional.
The portable HD recorder/player and ASI I/O box is designed to mount on the back of a camcorder. Flash XDR accepts an incoming HD-SDI video signal with optional audio and timecode, compresses the video/audio to MPEG-2 (using a Sony codec) at 18, 19.7, 25 or 35Mbps 4:2:0, or 50, 100 or 160Mbps 4:2:2, and stores to Compact Flash (or outputs over FireWire or ASI). Flash XDR also supports playback of the video/audio. The compressed data is stored in the MXF format and can be readily transferred to an NLE system.
Cameras compatible with Flash XDR include Canon’s XL H1 and XH G1, Iconix’s HD-RH1, JVC’s GY-HD250, Panasonic’s GP-US932, Sony’s HDW-F900, XDCAM HD and XDCAM EX and Toshiba’s IK-HD1. Flash XDR may also be used with HDV/AVC-HD camcorders with Convergent Design’s nanoConnect and any HD-SDI source with compatible rates. Flash XDR offers a 40MB prerecord buffer for MPEG-2 data, which allows approximately two seconds of prebuffer at 160Mbps rate or 12 seconds at 25Mbps.
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