BlackMagic HyperDeck Shuttle - potential Scarlet HD Field Recorder?

[Scott C]

Just a point of clarification: While this was true with the original shuttle, the Shuttle II gives you the option to go to DNxHD 175 in either an mxf or mov wrapper. This lightens the storage load considerably and changes your math quite a bit. It also looks very good and enables you to get 23.976 1080p downsampled from the full 5k sensor area. So there's that.

With the HyperDeck, you have to record uncompressed 10 bit 4:2:2, which is 8 times the data rate of ProRes HQ.

So, you are going to need 8 times the storage capacity - instead of 2 256 GB SSD drives on the Sound Devices Pix 240, you'll probably use 16 SSD drives for the same storage capacity (in run time) on the BMD Hyperdeck.

OK ... so should I do the math?

$345 for a HyperDeck Shuttle, and 16 x $400 for 256GB SSD drives, or $6800

Or, $3000 (My own guesstimate of the price for the Pix 240) and 2 x $400 = $3800

So ... lets not make the mistake of thinking that the HyperDeck is a low cost solution.

It will become more economical as SSD drive capacities go up and prices come down.

 

[Troy Bakewell]

Does anyone know, can the Hyperdck Shuttle sync via timecode to the RD3 files?

I have an upcoming job that I need proxies for an offline and obviously this is the least expensive option. Anyone have any thoughts on the best option between Hyper Deck, Ki pro mini, Atomos or Pix240?

Thanks

 

[Damien Molineaux]

Single link HDSDI at 1.65Gb/sec will only do 1080i not 1080p.

Errr... what? I believe that is not correct. Regular HD-SDI is 1.5 Gb/s, and Epics and Scarlets (among others) send 1080p via regular HD-SDI.

The new Hyperdeck Shuttle,w hich is capable of recording DNxHD is listed as accepting the following HD formats :

Cheers,
Damien