Drastic Titan Series Digital Disk Recorders - the Griffin

The Griffin digital disk recorder offers either 2+ hours internal drives or Fibre Channel connectivity to external storage for ingest to uncompressed SD/HD, in a wide range of formats for playback and review. The Griffin is designed as a direct HDCAM© / D5© replacement, supporting real-time SD/HD 10 bit 4:2:2 capture and playback. The Griffin is perfect for editing, ingest, transcode and output, and comes fully optimized with network, HTTP, 422 serial, Odetics and VDCP VTR emulation for editors and colorists and VTR control for batch tape transfers.

Operation modes - Clip server, VTR clip source, EDL conform, batch ingest and output, telecine image (still and sequence)

Direct format support

• MOV, AVI, WMV, MXF, YUV
• GEN, JS, DVS
• DPX, TGA, TIFF, Cineon, HDR
• Raw RGB(A) / YCrCb stream
• RGBA stills
• 4:2:2, 4:4:4, 4:2:0, V210
• Specific MPEG-2s

Video standards

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

Control to suit the application

• RS-422, RP-188, LTC Support
• 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
  

SAN friendly, too

• Bright
• SGI
• CXFS
• MetaSAN
• StorNext
• XServe

Related Software Extras

• MediaReactor
  Transcoding between a wide range of formats
  Watch folder conversions
  
• Preview Pro
  Unparalleled previewing capabilities
  Cuts only editing
  
• AutoProxy
  Automated proxy file creation based on existing uncompressed file
  
• Onboard diagnostic tools
  SpeedLimit, test your drives
  DrasticControl, test control of an external deck

Griffin Spec Sheet (pdf)