Grass Valley T2 Classic iDDR - Manual (Page 12)

12 T2 Users Manual –SP3/SP4– October 17, 2011
Chapter 2 T2 XDCAM Option
What is XDCAM?
XDCAM is a professional broadcast disc video system developed by Sony
Corporation. This system uses a professional disc as its recordable medium and this
single medium provides operations from collecting materials to editing, exporting,
and archiving.
XDCAM records video files in the MXF file format. Compression formats include the
following four types: MPEG HD422, MPEG HD, MPEG IMX, and DVCAM. T2
XDCAM Option supports these four formats.
Recording video in the file format allows for high speed access that is impossible for
tape media. Each file is saved as a single clip with operations to start and stop a
recording. Each file is also linked to thumbnail data. T2 allows you to access a
professional disc from the Browse tab to list the saved clips as thumbnails and
manipulate them in the same way as clips in a bin.
XDCAM content records additional information such as date, time, or comments and
proxy AV data as metadata in addition to high resolution video and audio data. T2 can
play and edit high resolution data without using any proxy data.
What is XDCAM EX?
XDCAM EX is a professional broadcast video system developed by Sony
Corporation. This system uses SxS memory cards that are compatible with
ExpressCard as its recordable media. XDCAM EX records video files in the MPEG
file format. MPEG HD is incorporated as the compression format. T2 allows you to
access an SxS memory card from the Browse tab to list the saved clips as thumbnails
and manipulate them in the same way as clips in a bin.
Validated driver versions
This product has been validated on the drivers of the following versions:
Supported formats
XDCAM
○:
Supported
× :
Not supported
Product name Version
XDCAM HD Drive (for playback) PDW-U1 XDCAM Drive Software (for Windows PC ) Ver. 3.0
SxS Memory Card Reader SxS Device Driver Ver.1.1.0.0
XDCAM Browser Ver. 1.3
Codec
Frame
size
Frame rate Bitrate R1 * /P1/P2
Import
(XDCAM)
Import
(XDCAM=>
Grass Valley
HQ AVI)
DV25 720 x 480 59.94i 25 Mbps 1 in 2 out
○ ○
720 x 576 50i 25 Mbps
1 in 2 out
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