Reel-Stream Mods the HVX200 at FreshDV

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Reel-Stream Mods the HVX200

Published by Kendal Miller March 26th, 2007 in Cameras, News, Production, Software

Today Reel Stream, famous for their Andromeda modification for the DVX100, announced that they would infact be offering a modified HVX200 called Hydra. While the lattitude is not announced the two features that JUMPED out at me where the 2K frame size as well as the 86DB S/N Ratio. I am interested to see how they can get that clean of a 2K signal from the HVX200. Also impressive was the 14BIT color space. Should be interesting, check out more information at their website.

The following is a list of preliminary specifications for the Hydra Uncompressed Digital Acquisition System on the Panasonic AG-HVX200. A more elaborate supported mode matrix will be available by NAB.

The Hydra system was designed to be camera platform independent, so the characteristics of the output are defined by the hardware capabilities of the host camera. The preliminary specs listed here are for an HVX200 as a host system.

RECORD MODES:
Full RGB(4:4:4) only

COLOR BIT DEPTH MODES:
14-bit RGB Linear
12-bit RGB via Record LUT
10-bit RGB via Record LUT
8-bit RGB via Record LUT

DIGITAL DYNAMIC RANGE:
Up to 86dB
(Photographic latitude test results to be posted soon)

NATIVE FRAME SIZE:
2100 x 1090

SUPPORTED FRAME RATES:
2fps to 60fps (All native framerates in the HVX200)

INCLUDED SOFTWARE:
SculptorHD 2.0, xLUT (Universal Binary for Mac OS X)

VIDEO INGEST INTERFACE:
Gigabit Ethernet (over CAT 5e or 6 cable) to any Intel Mac computer running SculptorHD 2.0.