Mon 16th Jun, 2008
Flexible ClipStoreMXc HD/SD Disk Recorder purchased by Token Creek Mobile Television for use in HD broadcast truck
MENLO PARK, California — June 16, 2008 — Abekas announced the purchase of the ClipStoreMXc HD/SD digital disk recorder by Token Creek Mobile Television. “We serve a broad range of clients—from corporate, to entertainment, to sports—and they all have slightly different disk recording needs.” said Brendan Clark, Director of Engineering at Token Creek. “We therefore needed an HD disk recorder to fill a variety of applications, and we needed it to be cost effective in order to fit within our budget.” Mr. Clark continued. ClipStoreMXc is a perfect choice for HD digital disk recording applications in the mobile television truck market. Featuring real-time recording and playback of HD-SDI digital video, key and 8-track audio, and housed inside a short and compact 3RU chassis (measuring only 16” deep), ClipStoreMXc accommodates digital cinema-quality HD images thanks to efficient J2K wavelet-based compression. When standard-definition recording is required, ClipStoreMXc doesn’t compress the video, key or audio at all. “We really liked the ability to directly ingest QuickTime MOV files; a file-based ingest workflow seems to be a good step for transporting video, instead of using videotape.” Mr. Clark commented. “And we have operators in our service area who are already familiar with the ClipStoreMXc’s interface.” attesting to the ever-growing deployment of the ClipStoreMXc in mobile television truck fleets around the United States. The QuickTime MOV file import feature in ClipStoreMXc is steadily gaining popularity, since it provides a viable and superior alternative to videotape for transporting high quality HD video, key and audio elements. In the studio, end-user clients simply copy all their video, key and audio segments as individual MOV files onto a hi-speed USB or Firewire portable disk drive. In the remote broadcast truck, ClipStoreMXc ingests these MOV files, creating high-quality HD clips on its internal real-time media disk set. These end-user clients can also easily remove the real-time media disk set from the ClipStoreMXc, and transport the disk set to the next venue in cases where the video, key & audio media are used repetitively in a series of broadcasts or live events. ClipStoreMXc is deployed in dozens of professional HD mobile television trucks around the world, with the primary purpose of replaying animated graphics transitions, show openings and sponsor promotions during live television broadcasts, live corporate and entertainment events. Combining state-of-the-art video/audio processing hardware with the latest disk drive technology, ClipStoreMXc has an extremely competitive price point and comes standard with over two hours recording capacity for HD and/or SD digital video, key, audio and timecode — all housed within a compact 3RU chassis; a four-hour capacity model is also available. Ultra-high quality JPEG-2000 wavelet compression technology at ~200Mb/s is used to record the 10-bit HD video; while 10-bit SD video is recorded without any compression at all. The media disk set is easily removed from the machine, allowing simple and fast media exchange between multiple ClipStoreMXc recorders. The rich feature set includes: dual RS422 serial control ports with Sony and PBUS protocols (providing precise control from third-party controllers, including those from Lance Design® and DNF Controls®); eight tracks of uncompressed digital audio with 24-bit resolution/48kHz sampling; LTC & VANC timecode record and playback; versatile interfacing within a network of graphics rendering computers via dual gigabit Ethernet ports; the unique NetPanel™ browser-based user interface; and a graphics file Import/Export utility featuring Windows® Media 9 encoding as one of the export choices, and QuickTime MOV files as one of the file import choices. As a standard feature, ClipStoreMXc can record or playback video, key, audio and timecode (VKAT) within a single operation under a unified identity. VKAT storage capability dramatically streamlines many production and post applications and greatly simplifies media management. This feature, along with the aforementioned feature set, provides a powerful HD and SD recording platform for use in live, on-air broadcasting environments. Abekas, Incorporated (www.abekas.com) is a privately-held company headquartered in Menlo Park, California. Abekas designs, manufactures, sells, and supports a complete line of digital video/audio delay devices, disk recorders, digital special effects and editing tools for use in the worldwide professional television marketplace — encompassing the production, post production, broadcasting and computer video markets. # # #
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