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| With one simple plug-and-play FireWire connection, the V4HD turns your Mac or PC desktop or laptop computer into a powerful HD/SD video production workstation equipped with all the video and audio I/O you need. |
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| Product Name: |
Motu V4HD Pro-Video Interface |
| Product Code: |
MO4025 |
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Motu |
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| RRP |
AUD $2,499.00 |
| You Save |
AUD $200.00 |
| Our Price |
AUD $2,299.00 |
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Motu V4HD Firewire Pro-Video
Interface
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Features
- HD/SD FireWire video interface for Mac and Windows - provides HD and SD capture
and playback for any current-generation FireWire equipped computer
- Plug-and-play connectivity via FireWire 400 or 800 - connects to
either a desktop tower or a portable laptop
- Supports Apple Final Cut Pro and Adobe Premiere Pro
- Captures and plays all standard HD and SD formats up to and including 1080p30 (720p, 1080i, 1080p and 1080PsF)
- Full-raster Apple ProRes workflow - supports full-raster capture
and playback (1920x1080 and 1280x720) in Apple's ProRes 422 HD codec
in both standard and HQ modes. Work with ProRes clips pixel for pixel
in full 10-bit 4:2:2 resolution.
- Hardware-accelerated DVCPro capture/playback - provides hardware-accelerated
capture and playback of industry standard DVCProHD/P2, DVCPro50 and
DVCPro25 video streams to/from Final Cut Pro and Premiere Pro
- Pristine HD quality and efficient editing - ProRes and DVCProHD formats provide
10-bit 4:2:2 broadcast quality color and CPU-efficient, intra-frame
native editing
- Captures and plays uncompressed SD - 8-bit or 10-bit NTSC or PAL
- HDMI monitoring - connect a large-format HD plasma, reference LCD, consumer
DLP or other flatscreen for flexible and affordable pixel for pixel
HD monitoring
- Broadcast quality hardware-based real time SD-to-HD up-convert - capture
SD while working in HD; monitor HD when working in SD
- Broadcast quality hardware-based real time HD-to-SD down-convert - capture
HD while working in SD; monitor SD when working in HD
- Hardware-accelerated 2:3 or 2:3:3:2 pull-down insertion and removal - go
between film and NTSC rates in real time, with no rendering required
- Comprehensive up/down conversion formatting - anamorphic, pillar box, letterbox,
14:9 pillarbox, 14:9 letterbox and full screen
- Simultaneous HD/SD operation - connect multiple HD and SD sources
and destinations simultaneously. Switch HD/SD sources on the fly while
converting to multiple HD/SD destinations. All outputs are hot , regardless
of source format.
- Two rack space form factor with dedicated connectors - no cable swapping
or gangly, inconvenient breakout cables
- Stand-alone operation - converts and distributes selected input source to
all supported output formats with SD-to-HD up-convert, HD-to-SD down-convert
and pull-down insertion/removal
- Field upgradable firmware via USB
- International auto-switching internal power supply
- Rack-mount or desktop operation - attach the included brackets for
rack-mount installation or remove them for convenient, portable desktop
operation.
Workflow
Regardless of whether you work with ProRes, DVCProHD, P2, XDCAM or maybe
even just SD, the V4HD can enhance your workflow with unprecedented breadth
and depth of features. In fact, the V4HD gives you the flexibility to handle
a variety of workflow situations that circumstances - or your clients -
may dictate.
Final Cut Pro
New support for Apple ProRes 422
The V4HD builds on the award-winning V3HD by adding support for full-raster 1920 x 1080 HD capture and playback using Apple's ProRes 422 codec in both standard and HQ modes. Ingest any uncompressed SDI or component HD source and then capture and edit in ProRes while monitoring your ProRes timeline in HD and SD simultaneously via the V4HD's hardware-accelerated up- and down-conversion.
The V4HD is the ideal all-in-one video capture solution for your Apple ProRes workflow.
Hardware-accelerated DVCProHD
The V4HD also offers hardware-accelerated DVCProHD capture and playback from Final Cut.
Other workflows
In full-raster mode, the V4HD also allows you to capture and play HD material using any full-raster video format supported by Final Cut Pro with an 8-bit or 10-bit 4:2:2 color space and a compression ratio similar to ProRes (approximately 6:1 or greater).
Designed for Final Cut Pro
Using the V4HD with Final Cut Pro couldn't be easier. The V4HD software installer provides Easy Setup presets, Sequence presets, Capture presets and Device Control presets to get you going quickly. In minutes, you'll be ready to log and capture, edit and monitor your project material.
Device control
The V4HD takes full advantage of Final Cut Pro's device control features via Sony 9-pin device control for batch capture, print to video and edit to tape operations.
Audio I/O
The V4HD provides up to 24 simultaneous channels of audio capture and playback with Final Cut Pro in any of four support audio formats: analog, AES/EBU, optical and embedded.
Adobe Premiere Pro CS4
A unique I/O solution for Premiere Pro
The V4HD represents a truly unique I/O solution for Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 on Windows. No other capture device offers such extensive video I/O connectivity, coupled with convenient plug-and-play FireWire operation and hardware-accelerated DVCPro capture and playback.
Hardware-accelerated DVCProHD
The V4HD is the first and only video capture/playback solution for Premiere Pro CS4 that provides hardware-accelerated DVCProHD (P2) capture from any HD video input, including HD component or HD-SDI sources.
The V4HD dovetails with the new P2 workflow features recently introduced in Premiere Pro CS4, allowing you to immediately play back P2 clips (either imported or ingested) on a variety of SD and HD formats simultaneously, with no transcoding necessary.
Conversely, the V4HD allows you to capture any video source, either SD or
HD, while simultaneously employing-hardware-accelerated encoding and up/down
conversion, in the following supported formats: uncompressed SD (standard
AVI clips), DV, DVCPRo50 and DVCproHD.
Take Premiere Pro on the road
The V4HD is the first and only all-in-one capture/playback solution for Premiere that provides both SD and HD capture over FireWire, for the first time allowing you to build a comprehensive, yet compact and portable desktop workstation based on PC laptops or notebook computers equipped with FireWire, without the need for separate PCI expansion products.
Advanced features
Advanced features include an "Export to Tape" feature that allows you to lay back clips, or an entire project, to a tape deck using the V4HD's extensive machine control features. The V4HD also supports Premiere Pro's Batch Capture features.
Windows support
The V4HD already supports both Windows XP and Windows Vista 32. Support for operation in a Vista 64 environment is on the way, allowing you to run multiple Vista 64 native video applications while still accessing the V4HD hardware from Premiere Pro.
Laptop Operation
Are you thinking about doing field capture with a laptop - or editing on
the go with a laptop-based system? Thanks to FireWire, the V4HD opens the
door to a world of possibilities for laptop systems.
All current and late-generation Apple MacBook and MacBook Pro computers are equipped with both FireWire 400 and 800. Most PC laptops are equipped with built-in 4-pin FireWire 400. In both cases, the V4HD gives you plug-and-play broadcast-quality capture and monitoring. With the enormous performance gains seen in laptop technology, these compact computers are now powerful enough to easily capture and play back both HD and uncompressed SD video. You can essentially build a complete capture/edit system that fits in a backpack.
There's another major benefit for using FireWire connectivity to a laptop. Using FireWire for Video I/O frees up the PC card slot on your laptop for professional-grade video storage solutions. Expresscard-based storage solutions offer enough storage space and access speed to support the most demanding HD and uncompressed SD workflows.
Alternately, depending on your workflow, you can daisy-chain a FireWire 800 hard drive on the same bus as the V4HD connected to the computer via FireWire 800. This option offers compact, portable yet large-scale storage.
Stand-alone Operation
Conversion and distribution
When you unplug FireWire, the V4HD turns into a complete stand-alone video conversion and distribution device. Use the convenient front panel LCD to choose one of the video inputs on its rear panel as the current video source. This signal is then distributed to all video outputs, both HD and SD, thanks to the V4HD's hardware-accelerated SD-to-HD up-conversion and HD-to-SD down-conversion. If the incoming signal is a film rate (23.976), the V4HD applies pull-down insertion to convert to NTSC.
Front panel control
The V4HD front panel LCD is easy to navigate, so you can get to the settings you need quickly and easily.
There are four main menus: Setup, Video, Audio and CueMix. Press the MENU button repeatedly to cycle through them. Then just use the PAGE buttons to access each setting in the chosen menu. Simple! You can even program the on-board audio mixer from the LCD.
Click here to interactively view the V4HD's basic LCD menu structure. Press the MENU button to view the four menus; press the PAGE buttons to browse the settings in each menu.
Stand-alone audio mixing
As a state-of-the-art video interface, the V4HD offers an unprecedented level of audio features, including a complete on-board 32x32 digital mixer. You can program the mix settings from the on-screen CueMix software and then disconnect the computer and operate the V4HD as a stand-alone mixer. All mix settings are maintained. Need to tweak a mix setting? No problem. You can quickly access the setting in the CueMix LCD menu.
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Motu V4HD FireWire
Video Interface
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Cross-platform operation (Mac OS X, Windows 7/Vista/XP)
Supports Final Cut Pro 6.0.5 or later on Mac OS X
Supports Adobe Premiere Pro 4.0.1 or later on Windows 7, Vista, or XP
Supports Core Audio, Wave, and ASIO drivers
Chassis dimensions, excluding rack ears and front and back panel knobs and connectors: 19 × 7 × 3.5 inches (48.26 × 17.78 × 8.89 cm). Knobs and connectors extend up to 0.5 inch (1.27 cm) from front and back panels, adding 1 inch (2.54 cm) to depth. With rack ears attached, fits standard 19 inch (48.26 cm) rack at 2U high.
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