Drastic Titan Series Digital Disk Recorders - the Dragon

The Dragon digital disk recorder provides 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.

Control Features
Operate under control for integration into an automated broadcast or production environment.

Control an external VTR for frame accurate pull-ins and laybacks. Save and export a matching EDL.

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

Audio and Video

Video standards - NTSC/525, PAL/625, Single link (HD) 720p, 1080i/p/psf.

Direct video file format support - MOV, AVI, WMV, YUV.

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.

Real World Connectivity
The rugged 3RU rackmount chassis ships with dual Gigabit Ethernet, mouse, keyboard, AC cable.

A rackmount breakout box is also included which is shallow in depth, and so may occupy unused rack space in the rear of the rack, to provide stable, labeled connections where you need them. The breakout box features connections for SDI, HD-SDI Digital and Analog I/O, Component, Composite, S-VHS, Y/C connectivity.

A cable is provided between each breakout box and its associated video card. The cable may be used directly where rack space is at a premium. The cable provides SD/HD-SDI connectivity, however the breakout box is required if you need a reference input.

Internal Storage
The Dragon ships standard with 2TB internal SATA drives for media storage.

This provides over 2 hours of media storage at 1080p 29.97.

Included Application Software
QuickClip Pro - capture/playback software, including serial control in and out, VTR emulation.

DrasticPreview - a skinnable media player with broad format support, metadata display.

Optional Application Software

MediaReactor - full transcoding suite with wide format support, also includes watch folders, automated proxy encoding.

SyncControl software - synchronize the capture or playback start of multiple Drastic DDRs or QuickClip/MediaNXS workstations.

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