New Product Alert: Atomos Samurai

Atomos Samurai Field Recorder

10bit Uncompressed to Apple ProRes Field Recorder, Monitor and Playback Device

The revolutionaly Ninja is a portable touchscreen Professional 10bit HD Recorder, Monitor and Playback device that captures pristine video and audio direct from any camera with a clean HD/SD-SDI output. It encodes in real-time to the visually-lossless Apple ProRes format, onto low-cost, removable 2 1/2 inch hard disks. You can then review your footage in realtime onto the pristine 5″ display or out onto any HD-SDI capable device, including directors monitors & broadcast equipment. With up to 10 hours of battery from the 2 included Lithium Ian Camera Batteries, you truly have a deck and monitor in the palm of your hand, a super high quality deck and monitor.

It has a super high-resolution 5″ HD/SD SDI monitor with an ideal workflow: from the sensor to the timeline in unparalleled Apple ProRes quality. All the innovative features of the Ninja plus timecode and genlock and the ability to work with multiple synchronized units. The Samurai is the portable touchscreen HD/SD-SDI recorder/monitor the world has been waiting for.

The Samurai builds on the already impressive HDMI based Ninja to bring a host of new production weapons aimed at camera professionals with HD/SD-SDI cameras:

• 5″ TFT/LCD 800×480 super high resolution screen
• HD/SD-SDI Connecitvity
• 24 PSF support with 24/60i 3:2 Pulldown removal on capture
• SDI Play Out or Loop-Though: connect to an external broadcast monitor or director’s monitor and record and playback on set

SDI Arsenal:

• Captive connector
• Long cable lengths
• Time Code and Gen Lock support
• 3D support with 2 Samurais Genlocked
• Multi Camera Support
• More Professional Cameras with better lenses and sensors

Transforms your video production by:

• Eliminating the need for capture cards and wasted time logging and capturing by avoiding the lossy, time consuming capture-to-edit process.
• Bypassing the image-degrading compression needed to squeeze HD onto in-camera flash storage.
• Providing limitless and cheap storage through the use of removable 2 ½ inch hard disks.
• Including all accessories in one rugged case – Batteries, Chargers, Disk Caddies and a PC/Mac docking station.
• Recording to a high quality editing codec at the camera in the field: simple.
• Recycling older cameras with obsolete tape and compression technology and updating them with a modern, high-quality file-based workflow

Better quality from your new or old camera. Infinite cheap storage. No worries about battery life. Ideal for any camera with an HD or SD video output. Samurai transforms the way you work with video.

Your order will include:

• 1 x Samurai Unit - Recorder, Screen for monitoring and playback, Touch Screen for easy control
• 2 x HDD/SSD Master Disk Caddy  - you buy or rent the disks and insert them. This is by far the most affordable way to record video onto media
• 2 x 2600mAh Batteries (x2) - for continuous battery operation
• 1 x Charger - to charge your batteries
• 1 x Docking Station (and cables) - to connect to Mac or PC via Firewire 800 and USB2/3 for downloading or editing immediately from the Samurai Disks
• 1 xNinja Carry Case - Tough, light and portable carry case to protect the gear

PLEASE NOTE: YOU WILL NEED YOUR OWN HD/SD-SDI CABLE.