purplelinkWith more and more of a need to record tapeless in the field a wide assortment of hard drive manufacturers have stepped up to answer the call. But of course the big problem with tapeless workflows is managing it all. Some have created their own rigs to for ingest and management/editing in the field such as this one using a Wafian HR1 recorder with a laptop. But having the cables running back and forth and a laptop on set is a recipe for disaster.

Enter Purplelink. After making a quiet debut at last year’s Cinec tradeshow in Munich, Germany, Pentamagik is bringing its completely tapeless digital video field solution for uncompressed HD, Purplelink, stateside in time for NAB. Purpleink acts as both media storage (five 400GB hard drives), with two HD-SDI inputs and four audio inputs, and editing suite all housed in a hard case and includes metadata fields for comments and a suite of color correction tools. And as a Windows-base you can load your software on it to check the plates against composites and CG work.

Check out the specs or go to the Purplelink Web site.

This gives me another color to check out this NAB.