Hard Disk & Portable Recorders
A great way for professional productions to archive, backup and transfer video.
Hard Disk and Portable Recorders offer an external way to record and playback video. Just connect these devices to your camcorder, video mixer or video source and press record. Video can then be played back using a separate screen or easily transferred to other devices.
Certain recorders can connect to camcorders and be used as a secondary recording format that records simultaneously.
Recorders are available in hard disk drive and HDV/DV formats. Both offer a variety of input and output connections such as DV, component, S-Video and composite.
Devices can record without any loss of image or audio quality, even at 1080p HD.
Hard Disk Drives can record many hours of continuous video, without requiring a tape. Video can then be transferred straight on to a computer and edited almost instantaneously.
DV Portable recorders/plays are known as HDV VTR. They support HDV1080i, DVCAM and DV recording and playback. Certain models can come with a built-in LCD screen for monitoring.