February 26, 2009
At its NAB booth, Ikegami will show its GFSeries tapeless HD production system. Ikegami invented tapeless camcorders; the company showed the industry’s first (the EditCam) at NAB 1995. It was immediately a hit with military and other mission-critical users. Editcam evolved through three generations of products up to the present day.
This year, Ikegami has teamed with Toshiba (a maker of Flash memory) to introduce the GFSeries, which advances tapeless HD production as never before. The GFSeries includes the GFCam (HDS-V10 tapeless camcorder), the GFStation (the GFS-V10 “studio deck” Flash memory recorder) and the GFPak media used by both.
The GFSeries is well suited for a wide range of production applications, including ENG, Web/new media, documentaries, corporate, sports and features.
It’s also priced competitively: the GFCam’s suggested list is $25,000. The GFStation is designed to look and function like a studio VTR, but it also acts as a multifunction server, which is handy for the increasing number of IT-enabled production facilities.
Both the GFCam and GFStation use a GFPak Flash media cartridge, which is small and compact and but not so tiny you’re likely to lose it. GFPak has USB and Serial ATA connectors on it, so you can plug it directly into an edit system (like a “jump” or “thumb” drive) and start cutting. It also has an LCD showing how much capacity is left on it. A 32GB GFPak gives you 60 minutes of MPEG HD (Long GOP, 50Mb/s).
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