Broadcast: HD Video Ingest

So if you find yourself in a production broadcast environment and you need to ingest some content off digibeta using your £20,000 Sony VTR but instead of also occupying an Avid Editing suite or forking out £20,000+ for an Amber iCR have a look at Miura from BlueLucy Media.

Their swish application makes use of the Decklink HD Extreme PCIe Capture Card to ingest (record for you non broadcast types) HD video to a variety of formats (MPEG-2/4, MXF OP1a, IMX50). The great thing about this app is that it can also create a low res proxy version on ingest (WMV, Flash, H.264, etc...).

Software and bundled Decklink HD capture card costs £4700. They recommend a medium to high spec quad core Xeon HP workstation for capturing HD content which they estimate as costing another £2000-3000 (but I believe at today's prices would be about £1000.