Atomos' Samurai

摘要

Sometimes the most complex problems require simple solutions. That was the practical thinking of John Ross, chief engineer at Los Angeles-based production company Associated Television International (ATI), when he needed to record multiple simultaneous camera feeds of the new "Marie" show (hosted by Marie Osmond), a live-to-tape production, in the most cost-effective way. Ross came up with an innovative and highly compact fly pack setup that is easy to move around the set. It features two Atomos Samurai solid-state SDI/HD recorders for each of the six Sony HDC-1500 studio cameras, and two additional recorders capture the program feed. The Samurai is a portable 10-bit HD recorder, monitor, playback and playout device. It captures video direct from the camera via HD/SD-SDI and encodes in real-time to either Apple ProRes or Avid DNxHD (requires AtomOS 4.0 software) onto low-cost, removable 21/2-inch hard disks or solid-state drives.