Archive translation. Specifications, services and availability reflect the original publication date. Verify current compatibility before production use.
Medéa announced that DVC had qualified its VideoRAID RTR and RTRX disk arrays for the ClipRecorder HD capture and playback workstation. DVC General Manager Harald Naether cited sustained performance, low cost per gigabyte and RAID data protection.
The desktop RTR and rackmount RTRX arrays used Ultra160 SCSI and targeted animation, compositing, effects, game development and nonlinear editing.
ClipRecorder HD
The rackmount workstation recorded and played several hours of uncompressed 8- or 10-bit HD. It used the full-duplex Optibase VideoPump 811 PCI board, native NTFS files and QuickTime-compatible I/O. QuickClip software added EDL import, playlists, RS-422 control, Louth and Odetics protocols, VTR emulation, four AES/EBU channels and eight embedded audio channels.
RAID operation
Medéa said the arrays maintained real-time bandwidth after a drive failure without data loss or reduced transfer rate. Features included capacities up to 960 GB, multistream uncompressed playback, removable drives, power supplies and controllers, and compatibility with Mac, SGI, Sun and Windows workstations.
Five-drive RTR systems were offered from 160 to 480 GB starting at US$3,899. Five- and ten-drive RTRX systems ranged from 160 to 960 GB and started at US$4,499. Optibase’s video operations later became part of VITEC. The configuration is part of Digital Production’s storage archive.
