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‘Ingex’ tapeless recorder
Our ‘Ingex’ recorder is based on commodity IT hardware and can be equipped with up to four SDI capture cards in one PC case. It uses two processors, each with dual cores, which provide sufficient processing power to record and encode four SD or two HD inputs in real time. The local disc storage for recordings has a capacity of 2TBytes, configured as a RAID array. LTO-3 data tape is also available for backup.

Encoding is carried out in real-time to the required post-production format which may be Avid ‘2:1’, DVCPro50, DVCPro25 or similar. During encoding, the files are wrapped as MXF and then copied to the downstream MediaHarmony video server. A lower quality version of each file is also created for browsing.