The Tape Coder II™ is designed to quickly acquire, index, and categorize existing media to the best distribution quality digital formats possible at this time. This product was custom designed for a major broadcast operator. They insisted on having us design this since other products on the market were way too expensive or cumbersome to use. You will be the judge of that.Real Time, Very High Quality, MPEG-2 or H.264 Encoding Workstation for Tape Based Asset Repurposing. Consists of 3 RU Encoding Workstation Running Windows® with Direct LTC Control of Both Sony Tape Decks and 10 Bit 4:2:2 Real Time Encoder. Designed to Automate and Facilitate the Conversion of Tape Libraries to High Quality Airable Digital Formats Such as
H.264 4:2:2 Transport Streams. Supports Internal RAID or External NAS. Professional High End Work Flow Oriented GUI’s Enhance productivity.
Features – Capture/Ingest/Playback:
Two channel ASI Capture hardware to generate up to two profiles at once (HD & SD, MPEG-2 & MPEG-4, or any other configuration)
Simultaneous playback of the captured file(s) for positive and accurate confidence monitoring
Generate a capture list and saves it in the Project INI file for further Project recall and to be imported by the Editor
Single button redo of a capture event in a project that needs to be modified
Crash Record mode to capture live events from SDI/ASI
Store captured files directly to an embedded 2.0 TB RAID0 drive or to user’s NAS
Direct Encoder to Decoder loopback mode “E-E” for quick setup verification
Features – Transport Stream Editor & Re-multiplexer:
Edit MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 files in compressed domain
Import Capture Project INI file and make edits in place, without physically moving or copying the source assets
Displays full program information of open files
Smart Editor only permits to Mark-in on an I-Frame and Mark-out on a P-Frame
Edit list is saved as an Edit Project – INI includes all files parameters for further editing, trimming and forensic use
Mixed Project mode is used to concatenate multiple files of the same properties and create ready-for-air deliverables
Prevents user from mixing files of incompatible audio or video formats
Transition Preview feature to view & hear the merge point of two clips
User configurable TS multiplexer parameters such as mux rate, audio and video PIDS and PMT, ATSC, CableLabs compliance
Regenerate GOP Time Codes in input and output files
Generate an XML containing the output program audio, video and transport information
Displays Closed Captions
Optional Capture and Edit in 4:2:2 chroma for mezzanine file creation
Supports LTO (Linear Tape-open) formats
Applications:
Encode and ingest tape based assets @Mezzanine level for long term archiving
Simultaneous Dual HD/SD encoding/TS Editing for VOD application
Encode and capture live broadcasts in MPEG-2 or H.264/MPEG-4
