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Canopus / Grass Valley FIRECODER Blu Accelerated Blu-ray Encoding and More

  • PCI-Express x1 Interface
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Model
Brand Canopus / Grass Valley
Model FIRECODER Blu
Details
Type Professional Video Devices
Others 500 MB or more space required for software installation
Drive with serial ATA 3 Gb/s, 7200 rpm drive or faster for capturing
CD-ROM drive is required for software installation
Specifications Power Requirements: +12V: 1.75A, +3.3V: 0.15A

Physical Dimensions: 111.15 x 167.65 mm (4.375 x 6.600 in.) (HxW)

Regulatory Compliance: CE, FCC CLASS B, C-Tick
Tuner
Interface PCI-Express x1
Video Format Input Formats (FIRECODER WRITER):
Canopus DV
Canopus HQ
H.264 (AVCHD compatible)
MPEG-2 transport stream (TS)
MPEG-2 program stream (PS) (HDV Compatible)

Output Formats (FIRECODER WRITER):
BD-R/BD-RE writing: H.264, MPEG-4 AVC
DVD writing: MPEG-2
File output: H.264 (MPEG-2 TS), MPEG-2 PS, MPEG-2 TS (HDV)
System
Processor PC/AT compatible machine with an Intel Pentium 4 2.8 GHz or higher
Graphics Card A graphics card with 1024x768 dpi resolution 32 bit or higher color (must support DirectX 9.0c)
Memory 1 GB RAM (2 GB or more recommended)
Available Slot One free PCI Express x1 (Rev. 1.1) bus slot
Operating Systems Supported Windows XP Home Edition or Windows XP Professional (SP2 or later, 32-bit)
Windows Vista (SP1 or later, 32-bit or 64-bit), including the following operating systems:
Windows Vista Home Basic
Windows Vista Home Premium
Windows Vista Business
Windows Vista Ultimate
Features
Features Transcodes AVCHD to MPEG-2 (transport stream and program stream) and MPEG-2 to H.264 (transport stream)

2 times faster than real-time encoding of HD Blu-ray compatible video

4-5 times faster than real-time encoding of SD Blu-ray compatible video

Direct writing to Blu-ray disc

Supports 1080i and 720p as well as native 24p Blu-ray

Up- and down-conversion of SD and HD sources

Included FIRECODER WRITER software provides basic Blu-ray and DVD authoring tools including creation of titles and chapters from Canopus DV, Canopus HQ (avi), HDV (m2t) and MPEG-2 PS (mpg, m2p) source files

Encodes or transcodes files created by Grass Valley EDIUS nonlinear editing software (not included)
Package Contents
Package Contents FIRECODER Blu (HMX-C1) PCI Express x1 bus card
FIRECODER WRITER v1.11 installation CD-ROM
User Manual
Additional Information
Date First Available October 28, 2010

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