Blackmagic Design announces HyperDeck Extreme 4K HDR, a new broadcast deck with advanced H.265 4K recording featuring a touch screen user interface with built in scopes and HDR screen. HyperDeck Extreme 4K HDR will be available in April 2022 from Blackmagic Design resellers worldwide for US $2,995.
“HyperDeck Extreme features the trusted reliability of HyperDeck combined with new innovations such as space saving H.265 files, optional internal cache, 3D LUTs and HDR support,” the announcement states. “With the ability to record up to 4K in H.265, customers get reduced storage costs and amazing image quality. The large touch screen ensures a perfect view of their recording as well as control over all deck settings. Customers can then add HyperDeck Extreme Control to transform it into a traditional broadcast deck. This means HyperDeck Extreme is the perfect solution for the next generation of broadcast, live production and digital signage.”
HyperDeck Extreme has a touch screen user interface with deck controls as well as a large screen to view recordings. HyperDeck Extreme includes 2 media slots, 12G-SDI, analog connections for archiving, USB-C external disk recording, plus a front panel speaker and headphone jack. There's also an optional cache that eliminates dropped frames if media becomes full or is too slow. Both AC and DC power connections are also included for studio or on location use.
HyperDeck Extreme is also designed for live production as a master recorder, clip player and for recording ISO cameras. The analog inputs allow customers to record from old video tapes, so legacy programming can be used on the latest streaming services or for use in editing. Digital signage is also possible with HyperDeck Extreme as it has 10G Ethernet for media uploads, plus it features a remote-control protocol. Customers can also use it as a field recorder as it includes HDMI, SDI and analog inputs with built in scopes and 3D LUTs. The scopes also help customers QA masters to ensure compliance with broadcast standards before streaming and broadcast.
The touch LCD user interface provides dedicated buttons for play, stop and record, plus a mini timeline for scrolling through recordings. The LCD includes a heads-up display of timecode, video standard, media status as well as audio meters. Scopes can be enabled via the touch screen as well as focus and exposure assist. There's also a wide range of settings all controlled from the large LCD. Customers can also load and save 3D LUTs.
CFast media support allows customers to record to commonly available flash memory cards. The H.265 files are small enough to allow long recordings on standard CFast cards. There are also 2 CFast card slots so customers can swap out full cards during recording, allowing infinite length recording.
Sometimes media can fill before customers change to a blank card, or if the card is too slow, then they can get dropped frames in their recording. To eliminate this problem, users can install a PCIe flash disk into HyperDeck Extreme to use as a record cache. This is designed to eliminate problems with CFast media or external disks, as the cache will automatically take over and record any content the media could not capture. Even if a card fills, recording will continue to the cache until it’s swapped.
The latest HDR workflows include support for the latest HDR standards and an extra-bright screen with a wide color gamut. The built-in scopes change to HDR scopes when working in HDR formats. The bright LCD has a wider color gamut to handle both Rec. 2020 and Rec. 709 colorspaces. The built in HyperDeck Extreme HDR LCD color gamut is designed to handle 100% of the DCI-P3 format.
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HyperDeck Extreme features full internal waveform monitoring so customers can ensure compliance to broadcast standards when used on high end work. The waveform display provides a traditional luminance (brightness) levels view of their input or playback signal. The vectorscope display allows customers to see the intensity of color at 100% SDI reference levels. Customers also get RGB and YUV parade displays which are designed for color correction and checking for illegal levels. Histogram shows the distribution of white to black detail in their images and highlights or shadows clipping.
H.265 files are extremely small and range from 60:1 to 285:1 compression ratios, which means much lower file sizes. Plus H.265 is now supported on all major operating systems. HyperDeck Extreme supports Apple ProRes 422 HQ, ProRes 422, ProRes 422 LT for recording and playback plus ProRes 4444 for playback to fill and key out. This means files will be compatible with software such as DaVinci Resolve, Media Composer, Premiere Pro or Final Cut Pro X.
With 10G Ethernet, HyperDeck Extreme is designed for digital signage with fast remote uploads. It uses a text-based protocol plus customers can use Telnet to test control commands. To upload media files remotely, customers can use FTP, or use simple FTP client software. When the ethernet protocol and FTP is used with large USB-C disk arrays, HyperDeck Extreme becomes a broadcast server for ingest, media management and play out.
"The new HyperDeck Extreme 4K HDR will offer customers a modern design with traditional broadcast controls that allow them to record native 4K in H.265," said Grant Petty, Blackmagic Design CEO. "There are so many features that this advanced record and playback deck is the perfect solution for the next generation of broadcast, live production and digital signage!"
Blackmagic lists HyperDeck Extreme 4K HDR features as:
Record and playback in full resolution 4K.
Touch screen user interface with deck controls.
Supports live production, digital signage and archive use.
Large LCD screen for with touch user interface.
Dual CFast media cards for non stop recording.
Optional media cache eliminates dropped frames.
Advanced HDR support with bright wide gamut LCD.
Built in scopes include waveform, vector, parade and histogram.
10G Ethernet for extremely fast remote media upload.
Availability and Price
HyperDeck Extreme 4K HDR will be available in April 2022 for US$2,995, excluding duties, from Blackmagic Design resellers worldwide.
