Sony PDW-R1 Benutzerhandbuch

9

1-1 Features

Chapter

The PDW-R1 is a convenient, compact, and lightweight 
optical disc recorder. It allows you to record to optical 
discs, play back optical discs, and record audio and video 
data files transferred over the  S400 (i.LINK 

1)

) connector 

and 

 (network) connector. It is ideal for field 

applications and for desktop viewing by journalists, 
producers, and other production staff.

1) i.LINK is a trademark of Sony Corporation.

The features of the PDW-R1 include the following.

The PDW-R1 offers the capability to record and play back 
both MPEG IMX

 1)

 and DVCAM

 1)

 streams. Users have 

the flexibility to select from these formats according to 
their picture-quality needs, or to match their editing-
format requirements.

1) MPEG IMX and DVCAM are trademarks of Sony Corporation.

Proxy AV data is a low-resolution, MPEG-4 based version 
of a full-resolution MPEG IMX/DVCAM stream (a video 
bandwidth of 1.5 Mbps and an audio bandwidth of 64 kbps 
per channel). Whenever a recording is made, the unit 
automatically generates proxy AV data from the full-
resolution data and records it on the Professional Disc. 
Proxy AV data is much smaller in size than the full-
resolution IMX or DVCAM data. It can be transferred 
quickly over computer networks, easily edited in the field 
with laptop computers, and readily used in a wide variety 
of applications, such as content management on small-
scale servers.

Simply press the THUMBNAIL button and the PDW-R1 
instantly displays thumbnails on the video panel or a 
connected monitor. You can easily cue up the desired 
scene by guiding the cursor to the corresponding 
thumbnail and confirming your selection with the SET 
button.

You can create and play back clip lists of selected clips 
from the disc, arranged in any order.
One disc can store up to 99 clip lists.
Clip lists make it simple to perform offline editing in the 
field for later use with full-scale nonlinear editing systems 
(XPRI

 1)

, etc.).

1) XPRI is a trademark of Sony Corporation.

The PDW-R1 has jog and shuttle dials as a conventional 
VTR to search picture in a clip. The jog dial is for frame-
by-frame search at –1 to +1 times normal speed and the 
shuttle dial is for high-speed search at ±20 times normal 
speed.

In the PDW-R1, clips are recorded as video and audio data 
files 

1)

. This file-based recording system also allows 

material to be viewed directly on a computer linked to the 
unit via an i.LINK (file access mode, called FAM below) 
connection—in the same way that a computer reads data 
files on an external drive. The interfaces include the 

S400 (i.LINK) connector, supporting AV/C (Audio/

Video Control) and i.LINK (FAM) protocols, and 

 

(network) connector. The 

 (network) connector 

supports MXF (Material eXchange Format) file transfer 
capability to exchange contents with other equipment 
supporting MXF.