VCube is a video hard disk based video player/recorder system designed specifically for use in audio post production. VCube can operate as a standalone unit, or as part of a multi-system network fully integrated with Pyramix through standard Ethernet. Like Pyramix it offers sync to PAL, NTSC, 24fps Film and all the HDTV frame rates. VCube can also be connected through 9-pin machine control to any third-party DAW system.
There are two main configurations, a Player only and a Player/Recorder. Both are only available as a turnkey package housed within a custom built 19 inch 4U chassis.
The VCube player only is intended to be part of a multiple VCube network together with one or more VCube player/recorders connected. In this way the player/recorder can then act as an off-line and centralized video digitizer transferring media to the players through the built-in 1Gb standard Ethernet link.
The VCube player is configured with a standard system drive and a separate 120GB media drive. The player/recorder additionally features a special OEM version of the Canopus ADCVX1000 video capture/playback PCI card, as well as the VCube recorder software. Both include Merging's bespoke Mykerinos card to ensure machine control synchronization and time code reader/generator functionality. A DVD-R for archiving is also included. The VCube software has the ability to do basic Cut, Move, Fade, Flips, Text Clip editing within the video timeline with Locater points as well as the compiling multiple clips as a single sequence. It sis not intended to be a video editing system, but there are times when the ability to move a scene, change a scene, or delete a scene allows the post-production process to continue where normally you would be waiting for the video edit suite to make the changes. By default the VCube's editing features are locked with a password protection to ensure the picture only changes when you decide it is necessary.
Multi-layer Avid Video OMF Compositions
VCube is capable of directly importing and streaming multi-layer Avid Video OMF Compositions either via a drive, or from being connected directly to an Avid Unity Network. Many trails and actual work-in-progress on major features films has already taken place, so this is now a proven functionality of VCube.
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