S.Two OB-1 in E-E, playback, and record modes.

I’ve mentioned the OB-1 before, but this was the first chance I had to really play with it. It’s typical of S.two’s attention to detail that the state of the OB-1—E-E passthrough, playback, or recording—is immediately apparent from the color of the backlighting used on the OB-1’s LCD display.

Stereo nanoFlash setup, and nanoFlash underwater housing.

Convergent Design‘s very successful nanoFlash recorder (records long-GOP and I-frame MPEG-2 on CF cards) has been tweaked for stereo applications with special firmware. Two such recorders stacked form the nano3D.

Underwater housing manufacturer Amphibico clearly gets enough requests for nanoFlashes to have built a housing for them, though the resulting bulk makes the “nano” aspect a bit suspect, grin.

HDAVS triple-slot recorder/player: one P2 card and two E2 packs.

I talked about Chinese newcomer HDAVS in my camera report. They showed off this rackmount/tabletop recorder/player along with more portable devices. It handles two E2 DataCam packs (hard drives or SSDs), and has one additional bay for a P2 card. HDAVS doesn’t make P2 cameras, but they’ve built these decks to work with P2 media because enough of their clients use P2 to make interoperability valuable.

Cinedeck portable recorder / monitor.

Cinedeck portable recorder / monitor.

Cinedeck (caution: slow and annoying Flash site) showed working prototypes of their on-board monitor / recorder, which captures video using single- or dual-link HD-SDI and records it as 4:2:2 or 4:4:4 Cineform files.

I made a short video of the Cinedeck user interface. The device’s design and operation are really quite nicely thought out.

(FWIW, 1 Beyond announced a very similar portable recorder, but it was “about two weeks away” from being ready to show, so it wasn’t at NAB.)

P+S Technik 16Digital SR Mag for Arri 16SR film camera.

P+S Technik 16Digital SR Mag for Arri 16SR film camera.

The Arri 16SR is a very popular 16mm and Super16mm film camera. P+S Technik showed off this digital magazine; it records 1920×1080 or 2K Cineform files to hard drives or SSDs, while keeping the Arri’s optical finder and operational controls. releasing in Q3 2010; price TBD.

Panasonic AJ-PCD2 USB 2.0 P2 card reader.

Panasonic now offers this $350 USB 2.0 P2 card reader. Two USB cables are required to supply sufficient power.

Panasonic AG-MSU10 P2 Media Storage Unit.

The $2500 MSU will ship in October; it allows data transfer between P2 cards and interchangeable solid-state drive cartridges.

P2 Card / disk transfer interface on the AG-MSU10.

The device handles transfers as well as offering onscreen thumbnails and playback capability. It also has USB 2.0 and eSATA connections to transfer data to or from Macs and PCs.

Codex Digital Onboard recorder.

Codex Onboard under glass.

Codex Digital extended thier line of too-elegant-for-words recorders with the new Onboard recorder. It captures uncompressed or wavelet-compressed 720p, 1080p and ArriRAW data to solid-state magazines. Think of the Onboard as Codex’s take on the S.two OB-1 or Panavision SSR.

16 CFR Part 255 Disclosure

I attended NAB 2010 on a press pass, which saved me the registration fee or the bother of using one of the many free registration codes offered by vendors. I paid for my own transport, meals, and hotel.

No material connection exists between myself and the National Association of Broadcasters or the various exhibitors I report on (except as noted in my articles, when and if necessary); aside from the press pass, NAB has not influenced me with any compensation to encourage favorable coverage.