Blackmagic Design has announced at the 2017 the addition of realtime H.264 encoding to the Blackmagic Duplicator 4K at the 2017 NAB Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. With this latest addition, users can choose to record H.264 for compatibility with existing HD televisions and computers, or choose H.265 for delivering Ultra HD to compatible devices.
The Duplicator 4K is built to deliver multiple copies of content to customers the moment an event is finished. The new encoding additions allows H.264 to work with the devices customers have today, while H.265 is the new standard for delivering Ultra HD.
The multi rate 12G-SDI connections let users record in all SD, HD and Ultra HD formats, up to 2160p60. H.264 and H.265 encoding produces high quality video in small files that can fit on commonly available SD cards. Multiple duplicators can chain together to make hundreds of recordings simultaneously.
The front panel controls are designed to make duplicating content as easy as possible and feature 6 large illuminated buttons for record, stop, lock, append, menu and remote. The lock button prevents accidental interruption of recording during an event, and the append record button seamlessly combines recordings from different parts of an event into a single file.
Blackmagic Duplicator 4K is currently available for $1995 with the 1.1 software update free for download from the Blackmagic website.
