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Meet the new hub for your video production studio. With one simple plug-and-play FireWire connection, the V3HD turns your Mac or PC desktop or laptop computer into a powerful HD/SD video production workstation equipped with all the video and audio I/O you need.

Connect all your gear, from SD camcorders and CRT monitors to today's latest professional HD cameras, video decks, LCD reference monitors and plasmas — all at the same time, with no cable swapping. Choose your input source, then log and capture HD and SD clips directly into Final Cut or Premiere, converted on the fly and ready for fast, CPU-efficient editing in pristine native DVCPro HD quality, without the costly overhead required for uncompressed HD. Monitor simultaneously in HD and SD with real-time SD-to-HD up-convert, HD-to-SD down-convert and real-time pull-down insertion or removal. As you edit, watch your creation take shape in a variety of display formats simultaneously, from the pixel-for-pixel accuracy of a large plasma screen, to the color-corrected balance of an LCD reference monitor, to the real-world look of a consumer display. Use 32 channels of audio to capture, monitor, mix and master multichannel surround sound for your productions at sample rates up to 192kHz. Use time code, machine control, video reference and word clock to keep everything frame-accurate. From start to finish, the V3HD streamlines your video production workflow, with unified control over all your video gear from your computer desktop.

Feature Highlights

• HD/SD FireWire video interface for Mac and Windows 
• Plug-and-play connectivity via FireWire — provides HD and SD capture and playback for any current-generation FireWire equipped computer, including Mac & PC laptops
• Supports Apple Final Cut Pro and Adobe Premiere Pro 
• Capture and play back 720 and 1080 HD over FireWire via industry standard DVCPro HD capture format for direct, native import into — and playback from — Final Cut and Premiere
• Across-the-board compatibility and pristine quality — DVCPro HD capture format provides 100 Mb/sec quality and CPU-efficient, frame-based (non-GOP) native editing 
• Capture and play back uncompressed 10-bit SD from all formats
• HDMI output — connect HD plasma, LCD, DLP or flatscreen for flexible and affordable HD monitoring, including pixel for pixel display at 1080 with a supporting monitor
• Broadcast quality hardware-based real time SD-to-HD up-convert
• Broadcast quality hardware-based real time HD-to-SD down-convert
• Real-time 2:3 or 2:3:3:2 pull-down insertion and removal
• Comprehensive zoom modes for up/down conversion — anamorphic, pillar box, letterbox, 14:9 pillarbox, 14:9 letterbox and full screen
• Simultaneous HD/SD operation — connect multiple HD and SD sources and destinations simultaneously. Switch HD/SD sources on the fly while converting to multiple HD/SD destinations.
• Two rack space form factor with dedicated connectors — connect all of your gear to dedicated connectors. No cable swapping or gangly, inconvenient breakout cables.
• Stand-alone operation — converts selected input source to supported output formats with SD-to-HD up-convert, HD-to-SD down-convert and pull-down insertion/removal

Video I/O

• 1 x HD-SDI in and out (4:2:2 10-bit) on independent BNC connectors
• 1 x SD-SDI in and out (4:2:2 10-bit) on independent BNC connectors
• 1 x extra HD-SDI output connector
• 1 x extra SD-SDI output connector
• 1 x HDMI output (4:2:2 10-bit, YCbCr or RGB)
• Support for DVI output with HDMI-to-DVI adapter (sold separately)
• 1 x HD component in and out (10-bit, YPbPr or RGB) on independent BNCs
• 1 x SD component in and out (10-bit, YPbPr or RGB) on independent B