Blackmagic Design - HyperDeck Shuttle II

on Wednesday, 04 April 2012. Posted in March 2012

Replacement for your Betacam Deck?

Adobe CS6

Ok, went out on a limb here and purchased this for an upcoming project. I was aprehensive to say the least because how could this little box replace an HD record deck? And for the price? Whatever...

But, it does all this and more. For a little more than what I was renting an HDCAM deck for I now own this little device, complete with a 120GB OCZ SSD drive. The upside to this 'deck' is that I can record in Avid DNxHD (I own an Avid Media Composer 6 yet primarily use Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 these days). The fact that I can record to this albeit compressed format means on my 120GB SSD (which is only 111GB once formatted) I can capture just over an hours worth of high quality video: DNxHD 220mbit/s 10 bit. Uncompressed quicktime my drive is only capable of approx 12 minutes of pristine HD video.

BlackMagic Design HyperDeck Shuttle

The video input to this beast is SDI or HDMI depending upon your requirements. To simplify my life I also added an Analog to SDI audio embedder to the mix so that I could record from an analog sound board. In my tests I had an SDI signal from my HD camera and ran the video through the Audio SDI embedder and then to the SDI input on the HyperDeck Shuttle. And then I played music from my computer via my Soundcraft EPM 8 (connected from the record output rca jacks to the channel 1 & 2 input of the embedder). And voila it worked like a charm.

Now I had to access the footage from my Avid by connecting my SSD drive and copying the footage to my raid in the Avid MediaFiles folder. The footage looked great, sounded great and played back very smoothly.

So all in all I'm happy with this setup, just need to figure out how to access the footage via Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5.

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  • Tomy

    Tomy

    07 June 2012 at 18:01 |
    FCP-X is not ready for professional prime time.FCP 7 is no logenr supported, so is basically end of life.Premiere Pro is very good, I will probably use this for some projects, but Premiere is not currently considered a pro NLE in quite the same way as FCP or Avid. There are some things that PP just does not do well, some of the FX look very nasty.Avid looks set to take a major step forward with version 6. 64 bit, open support for 3rd party I/O etc.Avid is an edit software company, that's what they do, it's what they specialise in. They appear to be becoming more focussed on the core software rather than trying to bundle in their own hardware. I don't need to worry about them suddenly pulling the plug or radically changing the software. There are still plenty of Avid editors out there.Maybe, in a year or so's time FCP-X will mature into a proper pro tool. Then I may take another look, but I'm not convinced. Apple make money by selling hardware, software is a sideline so I'm not convinced it will get the attention it really needs.Avid 6 will support Red I believe so no problems there.
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