XDCAM is the best selling, most affordable and most widely supported tapeless acquisition system for broadcast and professional applications. SD/HD switchable XDCAM products are available at Videoscope for rental and purchase. Sony introduced New XDCAM HD Product at NAB 2009.
The XDCAM HD series includes the PDW-700, PDW-F800, (2/3 inch CCD camcorders) and the PDW-HD1600 recording deck. HD recording can go up to 50Mb/s with MPEG-2 4:2:2 P@HL compression. See the Sony XDCAM HD422 brochure. (This PDF requires Acrobat Reader 7.0) XDCAM HD was developed by Sony to bring an innovative workflow to professional high def production with a cost effective solution. The video is crisper and clearer than HDV. To achieve this and still keep the data rate low enough to make storage affordable, it uses MPEG2 long GOP encoding. The resolution is 1080i. It can be recorded at 18 megabits per second, 25 mbps (the same as HDV) and 35 mbps (acceptable for some broadcast applications). At the same time it records "proxy files," a low resolution version of the A/V data, at 2 megabits per second. These files can be transferred via IP for editing while the camera is still in the field.
For more information and Rental Rates, contact Camera Specialist, Joe Freitas
at 416.449.3030 in Toronto and the GTA
or toll free at 877.387.2673.
XDCAM EX records to an 8 GB or 16 GB ExpressCard™
XDCAM HD records to Sony PFD-23 Professional Disk media.
Both are available from Videoscope.
For the details, see XDCAM EX Recording Media or XDCAM HD Recording Media.
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