Codex Digital (www.codexdigital.com ), specialist in high-resolution recording and workflows, will demonstrate how its award-winning Portable and brand new Transfer Station systems can easily combine to deliver today’s most advanced tapeless workflow for digital cinema and broadcast, at Band Pro’s “One World On HD” open house event, taking place on December 11th 2008, www.bandpro.com/openhouse

The Codex Portable, now shipping, enables tapeless workflow, recording anything from SD video to 4K data. Designed for ‘run and gun’ production around a set or on location, it can capture up to five continuous hours of 4:4:4 cinema footage, or eight hours of HD plus audio and metadata. The Portable employs Codex’s unique Virtual File System (VFS), which allows captured material to be offloaded ‘on-demand’ in a wide range of resolutions and common file formats ‘ such as DPX, MXF, DNxHD, QuickTime, AVI, JPEG, BMP, BWF (WAV) ‘ directly into post production without any intermediate duplication, copying and conversion. Material can also be transferred via the Portable’s robust DiskPack to a Codex Transfer Station.

The Codex Transfer Station, making its world debut, is the companion to the Portable, and is the first in a line of high-speed transfer and back-up products from Codex. It is compact, transportable and can make everything from simple back-up copies to full production deliverables, on-set or on location. It can make archive tapes, copy DiskPacks, and, using the Codex VFS, convert material ready for post production up to five times faster than realtime.

“We make flexible workflows that let you work how you want to work, whether it’s for digital cinema or TV,” said Paul Bamborough, a co-founder of Codex Digital. “Our Portable offers a no-nonsense approach to digital cinematography, as well as a streamlined camera-to-post workflow. Our Transfer Station eliminates the need for digitising and completes the flow of deliverables for anyone using the Portable. Both systems will go wherever you need them to go and, because of our Virtual File System, make whatever deliverables you require day-by-day. With Codex you get the most flexible, efficient workflows available.”

The Codex Portable is packed with today’s most advanced technology. It is the first lightweight disk recorder to record from SD to 4K, at cinema quality, to provide immediate full-frame playback and review, and to seamlessly deliver material to any post-production workflow in a range of file formats. It can record from Sony, ARRI, Panavision, Panasonic, Thomson, Silicon Imaging and Dalsa cameras amongst others.

As a rugged, self-contained unit, no larger than a toaster, the Portable can be carried on an operator’s shoulder, or secured to dollies and cranes. It gived camera crews the freedom to move around a set, or a location, with enormous recording capacity.

The Portable also creates new opportunities for multi-camera production. Using visually-lossless compression, it has the unique ability to record from two 4:4:4 cameras simultaneously ‘ either independently for A&B camera shoots, or locked together for 3D stereo projects. It is also the first to record from four 4:2:2 cameras simultaneously. Six synchronised Portables can act as a 24-track video, 48-track audio-recorder ‘ enough to record an entire concert, sporting event, or TV drama.

The Transfer Station handles two DiskPacks from the Portable, or the direct data-offload from the Portable. It can also contain one or two LTO4 backup drives. The Transfer Station can copy footage to a diskpack, copy diskpacks, make archive tapes, and quickly convert material to a wide range of file formats for post production ‘ including DPX, MXF, DNxHD, QuickTime, AVI, JPEG, BMP and BWF (WAV) with resizing, colourspace conversion and LUTs.

As with all Codex products, the Transfer Station delivers results much faster than real time, and feeds any post-production workflow ‘ including native-mode files that editing-systems can use with no importing at all. It also delivers full-frame playback and review to video monitors or tape-machines, makes complete tape-playouts from shot-lists, and will even conform simple EDLs for direct viewing or projection.

“One World On HD” takes place on Dec 11th 2008 at Band Pro Film & Digital Inc, 3403 West Pacific Avenue, Burbank, CA.