Codex Digital Unveils Transfer Station Codex Digital has introduced the Codex Transfer Station which combines with the Codex Portable to deliver what the company calls “today’s most advanced tapeless workflow for digital cinema.” The Codex Portable now shipping enables tapeless workflow recording anything from SD video to 4K data. Designed for ‘run and gun’ production around a set or on location it can capture up to five continuous hours of 4:4:4 cinema footage or eight hours of HD plus audio and metadata. The Portable employs Codex’s Virtual File System which allows captured material to be offloaded ‘on-demand’ in a wide range of resolutions and common file formats – such as DPX MXF DNxHD QuickTime AVI JPEG BMP BWF (WAV) – directly into post production without any intermediate duplication copying and conversion. Material can also be transferred via the Portable’s DiskPack to a Codex Transfer Station. The Codex Transfer Station making its world debut is the companion to the Portable and is the first in a line of high-speed transfer and back-up products from Codex. It is compact transportable and can make everything from simple back-up copies to full production deliverables on-set or on location. It can make archive tapes copy DiskPacks and using the Codex VFS convert material ready for post production up to five times faster than realtime. “We make flexible workflows that let you work how you want to work whether it’s for digital cinema or TV ” says Paul Bamborough a co-founder of Codex Digital. “Our Portable offers a no-nonsense approach to digital cinematography as well as a streamlined camera-to-post workflow. Our Transfer Station eliminates the need for digitising and completes the flow of deliverables for anyone using the Portable. Both systems will go wherever you need them to go and because of our Virtual File System make whatever deliverables you require day-by-day. With Codex you get the most flexible efficient workflows available.” According to Bamborough the Codex Portable is the first lightweight disk recorder to record from SD to 4K at cinema quality to provide immediate full-frame playback and review and to seamlessly deliver material to any post-production workflow in a range of file formats. It can record from Sony Arri Panavision Panasonic Thomson Silicon Imaging and Dalsa cameras amongst others. As a rugged self-contained unit no larger than a toaster the Portable can be carried on an operator’s shoulder or secured to dollies and cranes. It gives camera crews the freedom to move around a set or a location with enormous recording capacity. The Portable also creates new opportunities for multi-camera production. Using visually lossless compression it has the ability to record from two 4:4:4 cameras simultaneously – either independently for A&B camera shoots or locked together for 3D stereo projects. It is also the first to record from four 4:2:2 cameras simultaneously. Six synchronised Portables can act as a 24-track video 48-track audio-recorder – enough to record an entire concert sporting event or TV drama. The Transfer Station handles two DiskPacks from the Portable or the direct data-offload from the Portable. It can also contain one or two LTO4 backup drives. The Transfer Station can copy footage to a disk pack copy disk packs make archive tapes and quickly convert material to a wide range of file formats for post production – including DPX MXF DNxHD QuickTime AVI JPEG BMP and BWF (WAV) with resizing colorspace conversion and LUTs. Codex Digital www.codexdigital.com
