Tapeless environment

For tapeless environment:
Editcam is the camcorder for tapeless environment.
This means that Editcam make it possible to reduce not only ‘tape media’, but also ‘total media’ consumption.  For organizing tons of media files, which environment do you prefer:
- Tons of optical discs without media management.
- Organized storage system with media management.

In other words, which do you prefer, a bunch of CDs or an iPod^TM for your music player?

Ikegami can offer most cost effective tapeless environment with Editcam products.  Following chart shows the TCO advantage of Editcam.

• Media - Editcam records clips on FieldPak 2, reusable, inexpensive media pack available both HDD and flash memory version.
• Media adaptors - SAT-110 is a single slot FieldPak adaptor with USB(and/or FireWire) I/F.  It costs one sixth of the other recording media.
• Maintenance fee - Because of no moving parts such as drums and pick up heads, in recording device, no maintenance fee for recording device.

It is a key to success in tapeless environment to manage media efficiently.  By utilizing Editcam’s metadata feature, user can organize storage-full of media, especially with Avid editing systems.

Actually, Editcam is the only Avid-native camcorder with its metadata since 1994.  But current models of Editcam support MXF(Material eXchange Format) as well as OMF.  Editcam can work with major non-linear environment with MXF format such as Apple Final Cut Pro.

Editcam3 supports a range of codec, DV 25/50, IMX 30/40/50, JFIF 3:1/10:1/20:1 with both MXF and OMF file format. 
And offers hard-drive media and flash-memory media.
Customer can choose codec, file format and media suitable for their tapeless environment.