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  Codex Portable

Key Diagram

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Technical Specifications


Dimensions
Codex dimensions

Power: 2 x 10 - 18V DC XLR battery inputs
Weight: 9lbs / 4kg
Operating temperature: 5 – 40° centigrade
Display: 6.5” VGA daylight readable with touchscreen
Top panel connectors: 2 x USB-2.0, 3.5mm stereo headphone jack, 3.5mm microphone jack
Top panel controls: record, play, stop, forward, back, input monitor, volume control, screen brightness

Video & Audio I/O

4 x BNC HD-SDI input (2 x dual-link 4:4:4 or 4 x single link 4:2:2 inputs)
2 x BNC HD-SDI output (1 x dual-link 4:4:4 or 2 x single link 4:2:2 outputs)
1 x BNC SDI downconverted output
25-way D-sub AES/EBU digital audio I/O (8 channels in/out, TDIF-1 standard)
1 x 3.5mm stereo headphone monitor output
1 x 3.5mm microphone input
1 x LTC timecode input/output
GPI record trigger input/output
RS422 machine control input/output

Optical I/O (Optional)

1 x 10Gbps Ethernet optical port, for fibre-optical connection to 4K cameras

Network

1 x 10Gbps Infiniband port, 1 x 1Gbps Ethernet port
1 x 10Gbps Ethernet optical port (option)

Supported video formats

Format: 1920x1080i/sF/p
Colourspace: 10-/8-bit YCbYCr 4:2:2 or 10-/8-bit RGB 4:4:4
Frame Rate: 23.98, 24, 25, 29.97, 30 fps

Format: 1280x720p
Colourspace: 10-/8-bit YCbYCr 4:2:2 or 10-/8-bit RGB 4:4:4
Frame Rate: 59.94, 60 fps

Format: 4096x2048p
Colourspace: 14-bit Bayer 2:1:1
Frame Rate: 23.98 – 30 fps (4K option only)

Dual-stream simultaneous capture from A & B HD cameras
Real-time internal demosaicing of Bayer pattern material and downsampling of 4K material to HD/SD for monitoring purposes

Supported audio formats

16/24-bit at 48/96kHz, AES or HD-SDI embedded audio as standard
Unique ‘Mutter Track’ feature allows audio notes to be made during recording via the microphone input for hands-free shot- logging

Supported timecode formats

LTC in/out
VITC (ANC) in/out

Storage

Removable 400 / 800GB DiskPack with RAID-3 protection against drive failure
Solid state 128 - 512GB FlashDrive option
JPEG2000 image compression at variable ratios from 4:1 - 16:1

Example capacity: 1 x 800GB DiskPack holds approx 200 mins of 1920x1080sF 10-bit RGB 4:4:4 24fps material at 4:1 compression

Wireless Monitoring

Remote monitoring of recording / playback (with sync audio) via secure wireless MP4 link

Interface

Touchscreen-based graphical user interface
Image thumbnail or database-style view of all data on system
Full-screen sync playback of all shots on system, with Critical Zoom focus-check feature
Shot-logging and management facilities - add camera/lens/shot/continuity metadata to all takes
Interface can be run locally, or can be run remotely on a laptop computer or PDA via secure wireless connection

Virtual File System

Network access via NFS or Samba
Supported file-types include DPX sequences, H.264, JPG and WAV
Optional image resizing, colourspace conversion and LUTs
Many further file-types, including native MXF, in conjunction with the Codex Transfer Station, for direct-inject into post


Note: Technical specifications correct as of June 2007. All specifications subject to change without notice.


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