Blackmagic Design H.264 Pro Recorder, Distributes H.264 Video Files to Websites, YouTube, iPhone, iPad- Captures from All Popular Video Formats

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Price: $470.25    

Product Feature

• Maximum Flexibility: The perfect low cost way to capture from professional broadcast decks directly to SD and HD H.264 files!
• Highest Quality Video Capture: H.264 Pro Recorder allows you to select between SDI, HDMI and analog component video inputs with selection between inputs. You can select to take audio from the SDI, HDMI or stereo balanced analog audio input jacks.
• Preserve Archive Footage: Old videotapes are delicate and have a limited life. With old videotapes deteriorating and decks that can play them getting rare, encoding video is the only way to preserve valuable footage.
• Media Express Software Included: Blackmagic Media Express is included free with H.264 Pro Recorder. Media Express lets you batch capture your H.264 files with an attractive user interface that's a pleasure to use, even after hours of encoding work!
• Clear Display: Media Express features digital style VU meters for audio monitoring. To capture, all you need to do is select capture now and your instantly capturing direct to H.264 encoded files

Product Description

Blackmagic Design H.264 Pro Recorder is for the industry professional who needs professional encoding from SDI, HDMI, analog component/composite and balanced audio! H.264 Pro Recorder includes Blackmagic Design's powerful Media Express for frame accurate deck control with EDL import! Media Express lets you encode on Mac, Windows and Linux! H.264 Pro Recorder comes with simple and easy to use Media Express software. The interface is versatile in its design with all the configurations you need to make great captures. It can even send them direct to your iTunes!

Blackmagic Design H.264 Pro Recorder, Distributes H.264 Video Files to Websites, YouTube, iPhone, iPad- Captures from All Popular Video Formats Review

If attempting to use this on a Mac, PLEASE be sure to read the system requirements. As of this writing you need to be running OS 10.6.8, which none of the computers at my work are running yet. So that was the first speedbump in testing out this product. We ended up installing on a Windows 7 system which seemed to go fairly smoothly after a few "Updating Software" downloads....even though we had JUST downloaded the newest software from the BlackmagicDesign website. A couple computer restarts and we were ready to go.

Note * Don't believe the documentation that came with the unit when it says where to go to download the software (there is no CD included in the box, you MUST download the software from the website) I typed in the URL and came up with the 404 page not found error. Nice. Finally ended up navigating all through the support website to find what I needed.

The next thing I noticed warranted a "Seriously...?" comment, the fact that it did not come with a USB cable. Seriously...$500 for a piece of equipment and it doesn't come with a $4 USB cable?? We dug around our facility and found what we needed. (Mini USB)

Once we plugged everything in we were able to connect our Sony EX-1 to the HD-SDI in and could start testing. There is a 3 second delay while the unit encodes the video to H.264, so what you see in the camera viewfinder shows up on the computer screen about 3 seconds later. That is to be expected, but would have been nice to know before we bought it. The software is a no frills capture/playback tool. It looks like it has machine control (RS-422) for capture/layback to a tape deck but is not necessary for our project so it is untested by me. As stated in the name, it captures only H.264 so...that's it. Don't plan on using this to capture high quality uncompressed video for editing.

You have several recording options in the "supplied" software including presets for YouTube. I was disappointed to not see a preset for Blu-ray, but for what we need to do right now it's not a big deal. For future projects it would be nice to be able to capture to a Blu-ray compliment stream in real time.

The quality is very good in our tests. Capturing at 1080p 10Mbps was more than enough for our purposes, the bitrate maxes out at 20Mbps in the customization area for capturing. We were able to capture without dropping frames even to an external USB hard drive.

We still need to test in on a Mac but overall I think this is a good unit if you need to capture H.264 files in good quality....fast.

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