Sony PMW-EX30 XDCAM EX Recording Deck
The PMW-EX30 deck is a highly versatile and affordable compact recording deck, and can be used for many different applications. It allows simple viewing of recorded materials with a monitor, dubbing to other format/media such as HDV™, XDCAM HD and HDCAM™, and feeding to nonlinear editing systems. In addition, the PMW-EX30 deck can be used as an affordable full HD recorder for event recordings – it can record HD signal outputs from a switcher. The PMW-EX30 deck is equipped with a wide array of interfaces including HD-SDI input and output, HDMI output, HD analog component, composite outputs and more. Equipped with two SxS PRO memory card slots, the PMW-EX30 deck can record up to 140 minutes of HD footage using two 16-GB SxS PRO memory cards (in SP mode). The recording time can be further extended up to approximately 260 minutes when an optional PHU-60K professional hard disk unit is attached to the PMW-EX30 deck.
XDCAM EX Application Software
The XDCAM EX products come with two application software packages that provide powerful yet easy and intuitive management of recorded content. Included are two versions of Clip Browser (Macintosh and PC versions) as well as the XDCAM Transfer application software for Apple Final Cut Pro nonlinear editing systems.
Clip Browser GUI (Windows)
Clip Browser GUI (Macintosh)
Features include:
- Browsing of video clips recorded by the XDCAM EX products
- Copy XDCAM EX's clip files from the SxS PRO memory card to hard disk drive
- Combine segmented clips recorded across two SxS PRO memory cards
- File format conversion from MP4 to other file formats:
MXF format for export to XDCAM HD discs or MXF-based nonlinear editing systems* (option)
DV format for export to DV-based nonlinear editing systems
AAF format for export to Avid nonlinear editing systems
H.264/AVC format for field viewing on Sony PSP™, Apple iPod/iPhone as well as WMV format* (option)
- Create sub clips with Mark IN/OUT operation
- Registration of metadata such as “title”,“creator” and “comments” for a clip
- Registration of “Shot Mark” metadata for instant cue-up to desired scenes
- Capture and create a still image file (BMP) for a desired scene
*Requires an optional plug-in software supplied from MainConcept AG.
PDZK-P1* Ver. 2.7 XDCAM Transfer for Apple Final Cut Pro Nonlinear Editing System
(future release)
The PDZK-P1 XDCAM Transfer is plug-in software for Apple Final Cut Pro nonlinear editing systems that provides support for MP4 files recorded by XDCAM EX systems. With this software installed on a Macintosh computer, the XDCAM EX products or SxS PRO memory card can be mounted on Mac Finder directly, and users can seamlessly import and edit recorded material.
*The latest version of this software can be downloaded from Sony websites. Talk to your Vistek salesperson for more information.
Key Features
- Highly compact design - can be placed either horizontally or vertically
- MPEG HD recording and playback at 35 and 25 Mb/s
- Equipped with two SxS PRO memory card slots
- Built-in 3.5-inch* LCD monitor
- Comprehensive range of HD interfaces - HD-SDI input/ output, i.LINK (HDV) input/output and component output
- Down-converted SD outputs for migration to SD environments - SD-SDI, i.LINK (DVCAM), component, S-Video and composite
- HDMI output for digital connection to a range of consumer displays
- Adjustable audio input volume (CH1 and CH2)
- Viewable area measured diagonally
What's Included:
- PMW-EX30 XDCAM EX Recording Deck
- AC Adaptor (x 1)
- IR Remote Commander unit (x 1)
- USB cable (x 1)
- Stand (x 2)
- operation manual (x 1)
- XDCAM EX Clip Browsing software (x 1)
- SxS device driver software (x 1)
