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Unmatched HD Video Quality
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Wafian HR-1
Direct-to-Disk Recorder
Record up to 36 hours of
10-bit CineForm Intermediate files at 1080p24 through HD-SDI
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For his new feature film The Violent Kind
(IMDB)
Geoff Pepos from Rhythm Films
and Rogue Arts has chosen Wafian's
HR-1 and CineForm's Prospect HD for his
production and post workflow. After
finishing the majority of his production
shoot with the HR-1, Geoff sent this
unsolicited email to CineForm and Wafian:
"Finally
had the time to load some of our footage
gathered from your magic box [Wafian HR-1]
into After Effects t'night...and applied
some of my After Effects magic to it and I
must say...WOW! The footage is
so clean that I'm going to have to add grain
to forgive the actors' facial
imperfections."
"Let the ignorant assume that a compressed
(CineForm) format is somehow
inferior...while they wait for all of that
uncompressed data to funnel in and out of
their systems, we'll be making more movies
here."
Amen....
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Send us an email
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press release
Special support for
JVC's HD100U
Film Workflow tutorial
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Wafian HR-1
Brochure |
CineForm and Wafian Corporation recently
announced a marketing and technology partnership
centered around the new Wafian HR-1
direct-to-disk recorder. Targeting on-set
and on-location production acquisition, the HR-1
can record up to 18 hours of 10-bit CineForm
Intermediate files through the HR-1's HD-SDI
interface.
Read the
press release....
The HR-1 is ideal
for recording maximum quality on live shoots by
bypassing camera tape compression which
invariably lowers spatial and chroma resolution
plus lowers arithmetic precision. The HR-1
records directly into full-raster (1920x1080 or
1280x720) CineForm Intermediate files with 10
bits of precision and 4:2:2 chroma resolution.
After recording,
post-production workflow efficiency is
extraordinary. The HR-1 completely
eliminates the time-consuming and expensive
"ingest" process required with tape-based
capture. Files may be easily moved from the HR-1
over the network to archive servers,
editing/compositing workstations, or to Firewire
drives for portability. Because CineForm
Intermediate files are optimized for
post-production performance, material is
immediately available for real-time editing
using CineForm's Prospect HD with Adobe Premiere
Pro plus effects/compositing work with Adobe
After Effects.
If you just can't
give up your trusted Final Cut Pro or Avid
system (and don't care about real-time editing
performance anyway) you'll be pleased to know
that CineForm Intermediate files can be
converted using various PC industry tools into
SD or uncompressed HD files compatible with both
FCP and Avid. In this manner the CineForm
Intermediate files can be your online digital
master for either an uncompressed HD workflow or
an offline proxy workflow. |
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Wafian HR-1 Features and Specifications
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Wafian HR-1 Brochure
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Connectors: |
HD-SDI: 1
Input, 2 Output BNC |
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Video Formats:
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HD-SDI:
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1920x1080 24p/25p/30i
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720x525 29.97i/59.94i
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720x486 29.97i/59.94i
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720x625 25i
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720x576 25i
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1280x720 60p
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4:2:2--8 or 10 bit color
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Embedded, generated, time-of-day timecode |
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Component Analog:
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720x525 29.97i/59.94i
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720x486 29.97i/59.94i
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720x625 25i
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720x576 25i
· 1280x720
60p
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4:2:2--8
or 10 bit color
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Timecode RP188, generated, time-of-day |
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Formats: |
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2 / 6 / 8-channel @48 kHz
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HDSDI Embedded, AES/EBU or Analog |
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Recording Formats: |
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CineForm Digital Intermediate™
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AVI & MOV
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YUV 4:2:2 (8 or 10 bit)
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VBR 12-25 MB/s |
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Storage Configurations & Capacity: |
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18 Hours - 4x500 GB RAID-10
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36 Hours - 4x500 GB RAID-0 |
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Interfaces: |
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IEEE 1394A
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USB 2
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Gigabit Ethernet
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RS 422 |
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Dimensions |
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425 mm (W) x 170 mm (H) x 425 mm (D) |
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Storage |
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Removable Rack Mount Ears |
| Power |
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110V
/ 240V AC; 500W |
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Special Support
for JVC's GY-HD100U and Canon's XL H1
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JVC's GY-HD100u offers a component HD output that
provides a true 50p/60p mode that bypasses
MPEG compression. This feature offers
a tremendous quality benefit to Indie filmmakers
that is not available when capturing the HDV
signal on tape. The Wafian HR-1 can record
the 720p60 signal, offering independent
filmmakers very professional slow motion.
Without rendering, CineForm's Prospect
HD can interpret this footage as 24p, providing
2.5X slow motion effects.
In addition to 60p,
this same
output provides 50p, 48p, 30p, 25p, and 24p - a
truly progressive camcorder offering variable
frame rate capture in a small, very high-quality
package. In non-60p camera modes, the
HD100U adds pulldown on the component HD output
port to create a resultant 60p
signal, which the HR-1 can
reverse upon capture, leaving a perfect
progressive (without pulldown) source in
CineForm Intermediate that has bypassed MPEG
compression.
NOTE: In its
initial release, the HR-1 supports reverse
pulldown on 24p material from the HD100U
component output. Other pulldown removal
modes will be added later.
Canon's XL H1
provides HD-SDI output in both 60i and 24F modes
which the HR-1 can record. In 24F mode,
the XL H1 adds pulldown into the stream when
sending the signal over the HD-SDI port, which
the HR-1 removes. The resulting captured
files are 10-bit 24p CineForm Intermediate. |
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Read our
Technology section for
more about CineForm Intermediate, CineForm RAW,
and our Visual Quality Analyses.
Visit our
Learn More section
for additional resources. |
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