Sony HDCAM HDW-F500, Brochure & Specs

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Slow Motion Replay and Special Effects
Using the Dynamic Tracking™ feature the HDW-F500 is capable of noiseless,
continuously variable picture replay in the range of –1 to +2 times normal
playback speed. Ideal for slow motion, reverse action and reverse zoom shots.
High Speed Picture Search
Time is money and so the HDW-F500 provides high speed picture search with
recognizable color pictures up to +/- 60 time normal playback speed (24P
mode).
Versatile I/O capability
The HDW-F500 can be interfaced to its external environment at a number of
levels.
Confidence Playback
Separate playback heads immediately following the recording heads allowing
off-tape video and audio monitoring during recording. Therefore the quality of
a recording can be immediately verified without stopping the production.
Pre-read Edit
The HDW-F500 is equipped with an advanced playback head to enable
pre-read editing. This function allows users to edit with a single HDW-F500
and offers a cost-effective editing solution.
Editing and Playback Functionality HEAD POSITION
Digital Jog Sound
Complete reproduction of all four channels of digital audio is possible within a
speed range of –1 to +1 normal playback speed to allow the exact location of
dialogue or music beats to be found.
VITC (Vertical Interval Time-Code) Read/Write
The HDW-F500 can read and write time code at any speed. The VITC
facilitates Play, Still, and Slow-motion all with precise time-code information.
Video Remote Controller
An optional video remote controller replicates the important video image
controls of the front panel onto a remote panel.
Advanced control panel
The HDW-F500 control panel will be familiar to many current operators being
similar to the advanced control panel of the Digital Betacam VTRs. It
incorporates direct access keys for rapid configuration and the facility to store
machine set-ups and configurations on removable PCMCIA:SRAM memory
cards.
HD-SDI input and outputs for digital, uncompressed, 10 bit component I/O
conforming to SMPTE-292M with a bit rate of 1.5 Gb/s. These signals carry HD
video, four channels of digital audio and auxiliary data.
HD-SDTI input and outputs for digital HDCAM signals containing the compressed
HD video and four channels of audio within the familiar 270 Mb/s standard SDI
wrapper. This allows the HDCAM signals to be, for example, routed though
existing SDI infrastructures or stored on conventional SDI based disc recorders.
Using HD-SDTI I/O perfect copies, or clones of material, with zero quality loss,
can be made.
Analog composite outputs are available when the optional HKDV-501A down
converter board is fitted.
Digital Audio I/O - two stereo pairs of AES / EBU digital audio I/O are available.
Analog Audio I/O - all four audio channels and the cue track are available on
analog audio I/O. Two additional analog monitor audio outputs are included.
Reference – the HDW-F500 can be synchronized to either 525, 625, 1125/59.94
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