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Codex Onboard/Portable Transfer Station

The workflow hub for productions using the Codex Onboard or Portable. It provides fast back-up for the material, deals with archival, and produces the entire range of deliverables.

Headline Features

  • The Onboard/Portable Transfer Station handles two datapacks from the onboard or portable, or direct data-offload from the onboard or portable. It can also contain a 9tb internal datapack and one or two lto4 backup drives. The Onboard/Portable Transfer Station can copy the material to the internal datapack, copy between datapacks, make archive tapes, and quickly convert material to a wide-range of file-formats for post production. Recorded material can be loaded into the Onboard/Portable Transfer Station and file generation or archival can begin immediately while the Onboard/Portable continues shooting.
  • The Onboard/Portable Transfer Station holds material on datapacks, and uses the virtual file system system to deliver shots in multiple Industry-standard formats, seamlessly to archive tape, disk or a network. It feeds any post production workflow, including native-mode files that editing systems can use with no importing at all.
  • It also delivers full-frame playback and review to video monitors or tape machines, makes complete tape playouts from shot-lists, and will even conform simple edls for direct viewing or projection

Specifications

Video I/O

  • 2 x BNC HD-SDI outputs for for playout of wavelet compressed material recorded on a codex portable

    • Network

  • 2 x 1GB/100MB/10MB Ethernet Ports
  • 1 x 10GB Infiniband Port (Option)
  • 1 x 10GB Ethernet Port (option)

    • Supported video formats

    Formats

  • 1920 x 1080I/SF/P
  • 1920 x 1080P (Sony and Arri)
  • 1280 x 720P
  • Arri M-Scope
  • Panasonic and Arri variframe modes

    • Colourspace

  • 10-/8-bit YCBCR 4:2:2 or 10-/8-Bit rgb 4:4:4
  • 10-/8-bit YCBCR 4:2:2 dual-link
  • 10-/8-bit YCBCR 4:2:2 OR 10-/8-Bit rgb 4:4:4
  • 12-bit YCBCR 4:2:2 dual link

    • Frame rate

  • 23.98, 24, 25, 29.97, 30 fps
  • 47.95, 48, 50, 59.94, 60 fps
  • 50, 59.94, 60 fps
  • 23.98, 24, 25, 29.97, 30 fps

    • Transfer and storage

  • Diskbays for transfer of original material directly from portable datapacks (2 bays standard, additional bays optional)
  • 2 x removable portable datapacks (not included) with raid-3 protection against drive failure.
  • 1 x internal datapack with 9tb capacity (option) for fast offloading of material from portable datapacks.
  • Example 430gb datapack capacity: 1 x datapack holds 94mins of material at 1920x1080p@25fps 10-bit rgb 4:4:4 using 4:1 wavelet compression ratio.
  • Original material on datapacks can be instantly accessed in any file format, via a network, using the virtual file system
  • 2 x 4gb fibre channel ports (option))
  • 2 x U320 scsi ports (option)
  • 1 x LT04 drive (second drive option) for archival of material

    • Virtual file system

  • Original material on datapacks can be Instantly accessed in any file format, via a Network, using the virtual file system Network access via NFS or SAMBA
  • Flexible file/directory permissions
  • Fully customisable directory and file Naming based on shot meta-data
  • Examples of supported file types: AVID MXF (INC. DNXHD AND 3D DNXHD), DPX, QUICKTIME, AVI, BMP, JPG, WAV.
  • Data conversions processed on-the-fly by powerful twin quad-core processor system.
  • Selectable image resizing, colourspace Conversion, compression and luts.

    • Environment

  • Power: 115/230v ac
  • Weight: 25kg (unloaded) 35kg (with 2 Datapacks)
  • Operating temperatures: 5-40° centigrade Optical drive: dvd recorder with support For dvd-ram, dvd-r/w, dvd+r/w, cd-rom, cd-r, Cd-rw
  • Front panel controls: power, dvd eject, 1 x lto tape drive eject, 2 x datapack locking Levers.
  • Graphical user interface for operation Including shot-browsing and meta-data Editing (must be run on client computer)

    • Digital comparison table