REV PRO Drives & Removable Media

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archival rating of the media is specified at more than 30 Key Features From editing to archiving, ENG to EFP, ™ years, and the drive can perform over one million record/ REV PRO removable disk-based media erase cycles without failure. › Low-cost IT-based drives and removable offers unprecedented price/performance REV PRO media also provide enhanced security disk-based media, for video recording, playback, and features. You can set user passwords to control for each designed for video storage. Based on the Iomega® REV™ every disk you own; if you’re an administrator, you can professionals set up a master password to unlock content if someone › Combines the nonlinear removable storage systems, REV forgets a password. And a shred utility lets you erase advantages of a PRO drives and disks are specifically data securely. hard-disk drive with REV PRO Drives the portability and engineered for the demands of video cost-effectiveness of professionals just like you. REV PRO drives offer unprecedented flexibility and videotape additional functions to your workflow. They offer high performance under rigorous field conditions as well as in › Real-time recording That’s because REV PRO products provide the portability studios and edit suites. They are an excellent choice for and playback to/from and cost-effectiveness of videotape—combined standalone storage and backup of video. And they’re a the media; sustained with the speed, flexibility, and ease of use of true great, low-cost way to distribute content. data rate of 110 Mb/s nonlinear media such as hard disks. REV PRO media minimum offers uses standard laptop hard drive components but are The drives are available in internal and external throughput to support engineered for much greater reliability by placing only configurations. The internal drives, with either ATAPI or the highest quality HD the magnetic media and motor within the removable SATA interfaces, are ideal for network and workstation cartridge. All the sensitive drive heads and electronics › Multi-segment caching installations. External portable drives are available in remain in the drive itself. The result? A unique design supports simultaneous either USB 2.0 or FireWire (IEEE 1394) interfaces, and that’s incredibly durable and cost effective. write and read up to are compatible with PC and Macintosh platforms. The portable external drives can easily connect via USB or 50 Mb/s Enhanced Performance IEEE 1394 ports to Infinity Digital Media Camcorders › Storage capacity of REV PRO media offers many advantages. Its enhanced and Infinity Digital Media Recorders or to any compliant 35 GB per disk offers record/playback capability with a minimum data rate of personal computer. greater than 2 hours 110 Mb/s packs enough throughput for high-definition of DV-HDV based video video (up to 100 Mb/s) along with the overhead support But the cost effectiveness of REV PRO drives doesn’t record time for audio, timecode, and metadata tracks (10 Mb/s). stop there. Simply attach an external REV PRO drive to a › Robust drives and This bandwidth is also sufficient for dual streams up laptop PC and you have an instant, low-cost HD preview disks offer enhanced to 55 Mb/s each. In addition, REV PRO media offers station. No other system available today can do this. temperature and altitude simultaneous record/playback capabilities and speedy REV PRO media and drives are also compatible with ranges rendering for nonlinear editing system, letting you finish standard consumer-based REV products. This means your projects faster. › Enhanced security offers when you’re on location or need media in a pinch, you password protection of Day in and day out, REV PRO products can stand up to can use standard REV products available from many data the harsh environmental realities of ENG and EFP use. retail stores worldwide. However, to benefit from REV PRO’s enhanced performance, password protection, and › Compatible with The media can withstand extreme temperatures as well durability features, REV PRO media and drives are the consumer-based disks as altitudes up to 4,500 meters (14,700 feet). The drive best choice for video professionals. and drives is robust and extremely durable. In fact, the long-term REV PRO Drives & Removable Media

Product Data Sheet REV PRO

More Than Just a Recording Media Shoot. Record. Edit. Archive. About Grass Valley If you watch TV or go to the movies, REV PRO disks are ideal for video recording and REV PRO allows you to easily acquire you’ve seen Grass Valley products at playback—but they can do so much more. For nonlinear work. That’s because we offer the most material with a digital camcorder, comprehensive, multiformat solutions editing projects you can mount REV PRO disks as hard for acquisition, production, storage, and drives; there’s no need to transfer or ingest the data. record material using VTR-like decks playback—and a strong foundation for You can save footage and edited pieces on the same centralized, proactive status and activity disk, letting you archive projects together to make future or PC-based drives, directly use monitoring. With Emmy® award-win- ning products and world-class techni- editing or repurposing more efficient. Because REV PRO material in editing or post-production cal and service expertise, we’re the disks are hard drives, files can be copied to them more environments, and archive material for experts in professional video and film quickly than videotape—up to 200 Mb/s in file-transfer technologies—especially as broadcast, mode. REV PRO disks are also ideal for archiving other up to 30 years. television, and film production go files associated with a project—e-mail, scripts, still digital. And we’ve got the Emmy award- winning technologies and the top-flight shots, graphics, research documents, and more. It can customers to prove it. also be used for backing up computer files, hard drives, Specifications or even other REV disks. Headquarters Environmental 17 rue du Petit Albi-BP 8244 A Perfect Fit For Infinity Series Temperature Range: -10°C to 60°C (14°F to 140°F)* 95801 Cergy Pontoise Cedex FRANCE REV PRO media and drives are part of the new Grass Altitude: 4,5000m (14,700 ft.) ™ ™ Valley Infinity Series of IT-immersed products. Durability Sales and Technical The Infinity Series creates a truly open workflow Support Numbers solution—one that avoids proprietary approaches and Disk can survive repeated 1.2m (4 ft.) drops North America uses available technology in new ways. Its underlying Archival rating: more than 30 years Sales/Support +1 800 547 8949 philosophy is based on a very simple principle: leverage +1 530 478 4148 technology from the IT industry to create new ways Connectivity of doing things without sacrificing quality. REV PRO Internal drive option: ATAPI, SATA Latin America Sales +1 786 845 5601 products are part of this new philosophy to bring readily External drive option: USB 2.0, IEEE 1394 FireWire Support +1 530 478 4148 available, nonlinear recording media to the video and broadcast industries. Pacific * Temperature range may differ when media is used with the Grass Valley Infinity Digital Media Camcorder and Infinity Sales +852 2531 3000 Digital Media Recorder. Support +852 2531 3056

Rest of the World Sales +33 (0) 1 34 20 70 00 Support +800 80 80 20 20 Record Time Comparison Of Common SD/HD Data Rates on REV PRO Media (West/North Europe only) +33 (0) 1 48 25 20 20 Compression Format Video Data Rate Recording Time Max File Transfer Speed (East Europe, Middle East, Africa) DV (SD) 25 Mb/s >120 Minutes Up to 8X To find an account representative, dealer, or distributor near you, visit MPEG-2 (SD) 25 Mb/s >120 Minutes Up to 8X www.thomsongrassvalley.com/sales MPEG-2 (SD/HD) 50 Mb/s >60 Minutes Up to 4X ©Copyright 2006 Grass Valley, Inc. All rights JPEG 2000 (SD) 25 Mb/s >120 Minutes Up to 8X reserved. Printed in U.S.A. Infinity and Grass Valley are trademarks of Grass Valley, Inc. All other tradenames referenced are service JPEG 2000 (SD/HD) 50 Mb/s >60 Minutes Up to 4X marks, trademarks, or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Specifications are JPEG 2000 (HD) 75 Mb/s >45 Minutes Up to 2.5X subject to change without notice.

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