Drastic Titan Series Digital Disk Recorders - the Dragon

The Dragon digital disk recorder gives 2+ hours of ingest to compressed SD/HD, in basic formats for playback and review. Designed as a tape deck replacement for desktop editing, the Dragon offers integration with Final Cut Pro©, Premiere© and Avid© editing systems, including direct 4:2:2 playout from DV and MPEG-2 formats. The Dragon is perfect for editing, ingest and output, and comes fully optimized with network, HTTP, 422 serial, Odetics and VDCP control.

Operation modes - Clip server, VTR clip source, EDL conform, batch ingest and output

Direct format support

• MOV, AVI, WMV, MXF, YUV

Video standards

• NTSC/525
• PAL/625
• Single link (HD) 720p, 1080i/p/psf

Control to suit the application

• RS-422, RP-188, LTC Support (SD)
• RS-422, VITC, D-VITC, RP-188, RP-215, LTC Support (HD)
• Full Network control from Java or HTTP
• External VTR/DDR Control
• Full Sony RS-422 Emulation with extensions
• Odetics Server Protocol Compatible
• VDCP Server Protocol Compatible

Maintain the highest quality audio

• 8 channel embedded audio (SD/HD)
• 2 analog or 2 AES/EBU channels of audio
• 16, 20 or 24 bit audio with Aiff and Wav support
• Analog audio monitoring

Breakout box I/O

• SDI, HD-SDI Digital and Analog I/O
• Component
• Composite
• S-VHS, Y/C

Advanced Graphical User Interface including

• Onscreen VGA, dual DVI display
• Clip Management (add, delete, trim, record, remove, reference)
• Clip based PlayLists including sub-clips, looping mode
• Clip Mode clip capture and playback
• Film Space editing mode featuring “destructive” virtual reels
• Time Code Space Virtual Tape Management offers “non-destructive” mode
• Custom Clip bins, Time Code Spaces, Film Spaces
• Full featured control surface i.e. play, record, pause, FF, RW etc.
• Single or Batch digitization under control (recorders only)
• Audio, system and metadata status displays

Related Software Extras

• DrasticPreview - Basic previewing capabilities
• AutoProxy - Automated proxy file creation based on existing uncompressed file
• Onboard diagnostic tools
• SpeedLimit, test your drives
• DrasticControl, test control of an external deck

Dragon Spec Sheet (pdf)