| | | | Adorama Hosts NAB Spin-off, Puts Top Manufacturers’ Hot New Products on Display in New York City
Must-attend post-NAB event Thursday May 9th gives East Coast video pros a first-hand look at the latest gear from Sony, Canon, Blackmagic, RED and more
Adorama, the leading supplier of professional video, photographic and consumer electronics products, is bringing the NAB buzz to the Big Apple this May. The retailer, just back from a hugely successful NAB appearance a few weeks ago, will be hosting a post-NAB* spin-off event on Thursday, May 9th from 1-8pm at its new event space at 55 West 17th Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, in New York City. Following close on the heels of NAB 2013 and sticking to a format similar to that of tradeshows, the event will feature a handpicked selection of manufacturers.
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| | | | Band Pro Announces Leica Set Delivery at One World Open House 2012
Band Pro Film & Digital has announced that a full Leica Summilux-C lens set will be presented to a leading rental house at their annual One World Open House event next week in Burbank, CA. This marks the first set delivery to the U.S. Mid-West region. Underscoring the increased delivery of Leica sets worldwide over the last year, Leica’s streamlined manufacturing process is credited with responding to the growing demand for these premiere lenses. Managing Director, Gerhard Baier, will be on hand at the December 13th event to make the presentation, and will be exhibiting Leica’s latest Summilux-C offerings: the 16mm, 29mm, 65mm, and 135mm focal lengths.
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| | | | Canon C500 4K Cinema Raw Option for Convergent Design’s Gemini 4:4:4
Convergent Design adds versatility to the Gemini 4:4:4 video recorder with the Canon 4K Cinema Raw Option. Features include support of up to 30 fps 4K raw with one Gemini 4:4:4; and 60 fps 4K raw and 120 fps HD using dual Gemini 4:4:4’s. This firmware option will be available coinciding with the delivery of the C500 for $2495 USD.
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| | | | GEMINI 4:4:4 to Support Canon C500 Raw
4K Cinema Raw Up To 60fps, HD Up To 120fps
As anticipation for delivery of the Canon C500 mounts, Convergent Design is happy to announce support of Canon 4K Cinema Raw on the popular Gemini 4:4:4 external recorder.
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| | | | Convergent Design's Gemini 4:4:4 Receives Full ARRIRAW Certification
 The highly-anticipated certification of ARRIRAW for the Convergent Design Gemini 4:4:4 external recorder was achieved Wednesday evening, May 2, 2012. "We are very excited to have achieved the ARRIRAW Certification. We are honored; It truly is a mark of excellence in design and engineering," says Mike Schell, President.
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| | | | Convergent Design Unveils New Innovative 4K RAW Recorder
Convergent Design announced the newest member of their recorder series: Gemini RAW. This fifth generation design supports 4K RAW recording with live-preview and playback to a 4K monitor. Gemini RAW includes many industry leading, one-of-a-kind features, such as four camera recording / quad-split playback (in HD), AVID DNxHD™ CODEC (RGB and YCC), uncompressed RGB 444, stereo 3D, simultaneous recording of RAW/Dailies, and 120fps support (in 2K/HD).
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| | | | Convergent Design unveils Gemini 4:4:4
A Revolutionary Uncompressed Video Recorder
Convergent Design today unveiled Gemini 4:4:4, a revolutionary uncompressed video recorder/player. Gemini enables videographers and cinematographers to capture at the ultimate video quality, in a small, low-power, lightweight package, at a very affordable price.
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| | | | Eric Anderson Joins yU+co. As A Creative Director
 Two-Time Emmy Award-Winning Creative Joins Acclaimed Visual Design and Production Company
With offices in Hollywood, Hong Kong and Shanghai, acclaimed industry leader yU+co. has added two-time Emmy award-winning Creative Director Eric Anderson to their Hollywood roster.
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| | | | Convergent Design unveils nano3D
Building on the highly successful nanoFlash, Convergent Design unveiled today, nano3D, the world’s smallest professional 3D-HD portable recorder/player.
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| | | | nanoFlash Enhanced with 280Mbps CODEC, 64GB Cards
Convergent Design will release this week new firmware adding a 280 Mbps I-Frame-Only CODEC for their popular nanoFlash HD/SD recorder/player. Additionally, the company qualified three new 64GB Compact Flash cards, doubling the record/playback time.
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| | | | nanoFlash Enhanced with Time-Lapse
Convergent Design released today time-lapse recording capability for their popular nanoFlash recorder/player. The new firmware, available as a free download, adds the capability to capture time lapse-video in any increment from one frame per second to one frame per day.
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| | | | nanoFlash gets DVD/Blu-ray Encoding Upgrade
Convergent Design announced today a major firmware upgrade to their popular hand-held recorder, nanoFlash. The new firmware (vr 1.0.64) adds DVD/Blu-Ray encoding file formats (MPG and M2V) as well as 24p pulldown removal and standard-def Quicktime support.
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| | | | Convergent Design ships nanoFlash
Convergent Design announced today volume shipments of the highly anticipated nanoFlash portable HD/SD recorder/player. nanoFlash records HD/SD video and audio using the high-quality Sony XDCAM 422 CODEC onto affordable CompactFlash® cards.
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| | | | New price, More Features for nanoFlash
Convergent Design announced today a $2,995 MSRP price for the highly anticipated nanoFlash, which will ship in June, now with analog audio I/O. nanoFlash is the world’s smallest, lowest-power professional HD/SD recorder/player creating visually lossless Quicktime or MXF files stored on affordable Compact Flash media.
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| | | | Flash XDR ships with MXF and QT Support
Convergent Design announced today MXF file support for their award winning Flash XDR portable recorder/player. MXF support enables users to import video/audio files into most PC based editing programs, including Avid, Vegas, and Edius .
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| | | | Convergent Design Unveils nanoFlash
Highly Versatile HD Recorder/Player
Convergent Design announced today the nanoFlash, the second product in their line of portable HD Recorder / Player products. nanoFlash records video, audio and time-code from an HD-SDI stream onto CompactFlash© (CF) cards, employing the high-quality Sony 4:2:2 MPEG2 CODEC for compression.
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| | | | Sony XDCAM HD System Benefitting From Third-Party Editing And Server Solutions
Industry Support Increases for HD 4:2:2 50 Mbps Optical Workflow
Support for Sony’s newest generation of XDCAM® HD422 technology is increasing across the broadcast and professional video production industries, as leading manufacturers of NLE and server systems develop solutions for maximizing a 50 Mbps 4:2:2 optical disc-based high-definition workflow.
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| | | | Flash XDR™ HD Portable Recorder / Player debuts at NAB
Convergent Design will demonstrate Flash XDR, their new portable HD Recorder / Player, at NAB (April 14-17), booth SL7828. Flash XDR will be recording and playing back an HD-SDI stream, compressed to 50Mbps MPEG 4:2:2, and stored onto a 32GByte Compact Flash card.
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| | | | Flash XDR enables HD ENG at WJLA
Convergent Design’s Flash XDR will soon enable HD ENG at TV stations WJLA (Washington DC). This ABC affiliate has placed a 20-unit pre-order of Flash XDR with ASI I/O, as part of their roll-out of HD ENG. Flash XDR will enable cost-effective HD-SDI to ASI encoding (on the camera) as well as ASI to HD-SDI decoding for monitoring (inside the OB truck).
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| | | | News: Portable HD Recorder boosts data-rate to 160Mbps
Convergent Design confirmed today that Flash XDR™, their new portable CompactFlash® based HD Recorder, will support the MPEG2 422P@HL profile: 4:2:2, full-raster (1920x1080 / 1280x720) I-Frame only at 160Mbps. This enhanced capability comes in addition to the previously announced support for HDV, XDCAM® HD (35 Mbps) and 50 Mbps 4:2:2 long-GOP MPEG2 data-rates.
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| | | | News: Analog vs. Digital
Employing a Convergent Design nanoConnect (HDMI to HD-SDI converter), Magna Mana Production in cooperation with JVC-Germany has created a very compelling video comparing analog versus digital video quality.
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| | | | News: HDMI converters maximize HDV/AVCHD/DV Quality
Convergent Design announced today their third HDMI to HD-SDI converter, HD-Connect MX. HD-Connect MX performs HDMI to HD/SD-SDI (with embedded audio and time-code) and includes reference-input, as well as AES and LTC outputs for a suggested MSRP of US$995.
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| | | | News: Convergent Design announces HD-Connect SI
HD-Connect SI, which was derived from the well-received HD-Connect LE, is now scheduled to ship on Oct 10th
Convergent Design™, makers of the popular HD-Connect™ series of post production systems, concluded a successful IBC 2006 with the introduction of two new converter boxes: HD-Connect SI and HD-Connect MI. The HD-Connect SI is an affordable HDV ? HD/SD-SDI converter while the HD-Connect MI is the first standalone HDMI ? HD/SD-SDI converter. Both boxes were enthusiastically received by both dealers and customers at the show.
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| | | | News: Convergent Design Announces New HDV, HDMI Converters
Convergent Design announces today two affordable products aimed at HDV, DV and AVCHD conversion to HD/SD-SDI. The first product, HD-Connect SI (derived from the successful HD-Connect LE) converts 1394 (HDV) stream and RS-422 deck-control inputs to HD/SD-SDI stream and 1394 deck-control outputs. The second converter, HD-Connect MI, retains the deck-control conversion and represents an entirely new class of stream conversion: HDMI to HD/SD-SDI.
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| | | | |  Articles and Tutorials: Convergent Design HD-Connect MI Converts Firewire to HDMI..RS-422RSystems installer Bob Zelin torture tests every device that comes into his orbit. If he says it works in the real world, it does. If he says that it doesn't, it doesn't. He tests the Firewire to HDMI conversion feature at two Orlando facilities, as well as the Firewire to RS-422 conversion. Does the HD-Connect MI make the cut?Read Article Subscribemore articles » Blogs: NAB 2013: New From Convergent Design
Adorama is in Las Vegas this week at NAB! Join Rich as he chats with Amber Cowles of Convergent Design about the new Odyssey, a full-featured 7.7" OLED monitor. It also offers high-quality disk recording. NAB 2013: New From Convergent Design Republished by Richard Harrington...Read Blog Subscribemore blogs »Related Tags | | | | |
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