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Blackmagic Design Launches Blackmagic Video Recorder
(Wireless News Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)
Blackmagic Design has 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.
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 said that its 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.
Blackmagic Video Recorder will be available in mid July, the company
noted in a release.
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