Cinedeck Ingest

For over a decade, Cinedeck has been at the forefront of multicam video production, offering adaptable solutions for both cloud and on-premise setups. We take pride in our capacity to transcend traditional limits, developing imaginative workflows and forging customized, effective solutions to meet your requirements.

Our proficiency is rooted in providing encoding for edit-ready formats, facilitating a smooth transition from camera to post-production, and streamlining file deliveries with our patented insert-edit technology. Our devoted team is constantly working to create tools that enable you to refine your workflows and boost your productivity.

Supported Workflows

Cinedeck caters to an array of workflows, encompassing live events, studio multicam, archival projects, and beyond. Explore the workflows below to discover how we infuse innovation, dependability, and redundancy into each unique application.

Studio & Live Event Multicam

House of Worship

Government & Research

Broadcast

Archive

User Interface

The Cinedeck Client application is a distinct software component from the Cinedeck Server, designed for control, monitoring, and review purposes. By configuring each client session with one or multiple IP addresses, you can enjoy instant monitoring on PC, Mac, and Chrome browsers. The Chrome browser deployment of the Cinedeck Client offers secure one-way browsing.

Enhance previews for your stakeholders by incorporating character overlays or timecode burns, keeping them informed about your most crucial recordings. Customize user access by defining permissions; for example, an operator may be granted record permission, while a producer could have view-only access.

Live Logging

Boost Your Post-Production Efficiency with Cinedeck

Live logging with Cinedeck servers supercharges production workflows. It facilitates real-time metadata tagging, streamlining post-production tasks. Instant access to crucial moments boosts efficiency. Annotations provide key context. Live logging with Cinedeck delivers high-quality content faster, redefining competitiveness in the media industry.

XML for live logging supported for Adobe Premiere, Avid Media Composer, Davinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro and MAMs.

Play Listing

Simplify, adapt, and excel with Cinedeck

Experience complete control with Cinedeck’s playlisting application. Choose any channel for dedicated playout, tailored to your broadcasting needs, giving you a custom viewing experience. Select and reorder clips with ease from any network device, bringing flexibility and versatility to your programming. Adapt to every scenario with the ability to play out mixed framerates and codecs, ensuring smooth transitions and continuity. For utmost precision, select specific in and out points from each clip, giving you surgical control over your content.

Live Replay

end to end logging, review and playback workflow

Simple to Use UI: Set points, send clips for immediate review, or craft highlight reels compatible with Premiere and Resolve.
On-the-Go Replays: Immediate playback either on-site or in the cloud.
Real-Time Control: Features like scrubbing and full transport control even as the clip grows.
Versatility: Compatible with PC, Mac, and browsers; operates both in the cloud and on-premises.
Efficiency with CD2: A software-only solution running on standard hardware.

CaptureGrid

redefining efficiency in multichannel encoding

Discover seamless control with our Broadcast Control App. Specially designed for high-scale, complex multichannel productions, this tool provides comprehensive control and monitoring for up to 100 channels within a single user interface. Select and record groups of channels effortlessly, offering unparalleled flexibility in your broadcast management. Its superior technology ensures perfect frame-sync across all channels. Scale your production capabilities and maintain impeccable synchronization with this dynamic, user-friendly tool.

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Cinedeck ZX2U Series Hardware: Pro and Max

Elevate Your Production Workflow

Cinedeck introduces the ZX2U Pro and ZX2U Max, engineered for media professionals who seek unparalleled encoding power and flexibility. These 2U form factor powerhouses are designed to accelerate and streamline your video production and post-production workflows, leveraging a hardware platform recognized for its dependability and performance in the industry.

ZX2u pro

The ZX2U Pro is equipped with a standard CPU, tailored for consistent performance and reliability. It’s the perfect fit for industry professionals who need a robust solution for everyday media tasks.

ZX2u MAX

For those who demand more, the ZX2U Max steps up with an upgraded CPU, offering enhanced encoding capabilities. Handle more complex tasks and larger projects with ease, thanks to its increased processing power.

Versatile Input Options for Every Need:

3G Model: Supports 3G inputs for standard broadcast quality.
12G Model: Offers flexibility with both 3G and 12G inputs, accommodating higher resolution and frame rates.
IP-2110 Card: Embraces the future with IP-2110 inputs, perfect for modern IP-based workflows.

All models are NDI and SRT ready, ensuring compatibility with a wide array of networks and protocols.

12G

IP-2110

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CD2 Software

Cinedeck is making affordability its latest feature

Experience the Power of Affordability

Synchronized Recording, Flexible Integration, and Exceptional Support – All at an Unbeatable Price

EASY ON YOUR POCKET

Our pricing is affordable, and our integration is flexible. No long-term commitments needed.

EFFORTLESS RECORDING

Manage multiple camera feeds synchronously with ease and accuracy, making system failures a thing of the past.

WE’VE GOT YOUR BACK

Our support team is quick and efficient. Need help? We’re here for you.

SMOOTH OPERATIONS FOR POST

We support a huge range of broadcast formats like XDCAMHD 50 with OPAtom audio tracks for a frictionless editing process and top-notch deliverables.

FILE MANAGEMENT SIMPLIFIED

With our advanced file naming, tagging and organizing recordings become a breeze. Less hassle in post-production!

READY FOR GROWTH
Our software scales with you. From UHD 4K multicam productions to large-scale live events, we’ve got you covered.

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Hardware Partners

Our trusted hardware partners are simplifying the process to get started with CD2. They provide vetted hardware platforms that fulfill our rigorous standards for ingest and playback.

Record Edit-Ready Formats Direct to Cloud

Capture your ISO streams directly in the codec needed for editing and file delivery, or opt to record in a high-resolution, superior quality format for subsequent transcoding to meet streaming deliverable requirements.

Cinedeck Ingest offers features designed to handle encoding, scheduled ingest, and playback as you expand from a single stream to multiple ISOs.

Available on the AWS Marketplace with daily pricing, Cinedeck Cloud Ingest enables you to swiftly deploy on-demand ISO cloud ingest within minutes, powered by AWS.

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RESTful API

The Cinedeck 2.0 user interface is constructed upon our cutting-edge RESTful API, ensuring that all Cinedeck features and previews are equipped with a RESTful API connection.

Manage your ingest seamlessly through your MAM, or contemplate future-proofing your workflow by implementing Cinedeck 2.0 ingest in the cloud. The Cinedeck Ingest 2.0 API is accessible to all Cinedeck customers.

Features

API

Cinedeck Ingest systems support a fully customizable RESTful API that creates new interoperability for production and post-production workflows.

Audio Mapping

Selectively toggle on & off and map the destination channels of incoming audio i.e., a system could be setup to record incoming channels 1 & 2 and 7 & 8 to channels 1, 2, 3 & 4

Audio Delay

Audio delay in milliseconds which can be added (per channel) to SDI, AES and Analog audio sources. Each channel can be delayed up to 999 milliseconds.

Avid MediaCentral Support

Cinedecks are capable of Avid Media Central Check-in and Edit While Capture. Depending on your system, you can have up to 8 channels for capture directly to your Media Central environment. Or, simply check-in media that was created on Cinedeck whether you are doing edit while capture, or not. While Interplay Multi-Res is also supported, Cinedeck recorders can encode H.264 files in a Interplay-friendly MXF OpAtom wrapper.

Burn-in (Video)

Cinedecks provide a broad selection of text metadata elements that can be burned into the video image of a file while its recording. Data selection can include any combination of user selectable timecode, system time and date, GPS coordinates*, file name, frame numbers and user defined text. The position, size and color of each element is adjustable. * GPS coordinates require the use of a Garmin model 18x GPS USB receiver

Character Overlay

Cinedeck provide control of character out as an overlay on the user interface and the SDI video output and or as a burn-in to the encoded video with fully adjustable position, size and color.

Channel overlays can be independently setup with different content, character styles, sizes, positions and colors.
User-selectable content can be included in the different super overlays such as audio meters, timecode, file name, transport status and user defined text.
Secondary outputs are optional on ZX

Closed Captions Support

Cinedecks support recording and playback of CC Closed Caption data with any codec wrapped as MOV or one of the MXF Op1a profiles.

Edit While Record / Capture

Edit while capture / record is available for “QuickStart” MOV and Op1A wrappers. In Adobe Premiere, XDCamHD Op1A can be recorded to a destination which is accessible by the edit system and content can be imported, refreshed and edited while recording is still underway. Final Cut Pro growing files support depended on a discontinued plug-in. Cinedeck currently supports Edit While Capture with our Avid Interplay Support.

EDL - Auto Record

Each Cinedeck channel supports auto-record through the use of a simple ASCII text EDL to control the starting and stopping of recording events based on an incoming timecode. Version 4.3 enhanced EDL record with deck control providing tape transport control during auto-record from a VTR. Included in the Cinedeck interface is an EDL editor for creating and modifying EDLs for each channel. Additionally, Cinedecks running the latest 4.3 version or later support importing CMX 3600 EDLs.

Gang Record and Playback

Cinedecks allow the user to easily gang together two or more internal channels from the user interface for simultaneously triggering record and/or playback. To reduce the strain on spinning disc file systems, Cinedeck also support a user defined staggered gang, allowing channels to be triggered sequentially with a specified time delay instead of simultaneously.

Insert Edit (SDI)

Simple, replacement of video and or audio in an existing file, similar to a traditional tape-to-tape insert edit, can be done with ProRes, DNxHD, AVC-Intra, JPEG 2000 and XDCAM HD content wrapped as MXF OpAtom, Op1a or MOV files. Inserts can be performed directly from non-linear editors such as Avid Media Composer and Final Cut Pro, using the same procedures as if editing to tape. Directly on the Cinedeck, users can insert a live source into a file or perform frame accurate inserts of one file into another. All of these processes will often be more efficient than recreating the entire original destination file. Additionally, pre-striped or blacked files (Cinedeck VMM – Virtual Mastering Media), can be created in advance and used as an insert edit destination for recording or editing in a non-linear fashion. These black files can be recorded into while providing full random play access on another Cinedeck channel or they can be played with a third-party viewers such as QuickTime or VLC Media Player. All Cinedeck files, including pre-striped black files, can support up to 32 channels of audio.

IP Capabilities

Cinedeck ZX85 supports SMPTE2022 and 2110 IP. There are 3 SFPs and 2x 3G SDI as opposed to 8x SDI. Enduser must advise at time of purchase that they would like the IP Card vs the Standard SDI card.

Eg: ProRes HD up to 60p: 3in / out over SFP + 1 in/out over SDI
Eg: XAVC-I 4K up to 60p with XAVC/AVC Expander: 1in / 1 HD down res output

IRIG Timecode Support

Cinedeck recorders can accept an external IRIG-B timecode input and display the data on screen and optionally burn the data into the recorded video while recording the data with the incoming source.

Master - Proxy Recording

ZX can record all (2K-HD-SD) inputs with the users’ choice of available master and proxy codec (for example ProRes HQ and ProRes proxy or uncompressed with H.264 proxy) while RX can record two sources with a user selected master and H.264 proxy codec.

NDI & SRT

All Cinedeck systems support NDI and SRT for record and playback.

Playout while Record / Capture

Playout While Record is achieved by leveraging a preallocated file space or blacked-file. A file with the users selection of format, codec, duration, etc., is created and then recording is done by inserting the needed video and audio into the file. Playback of the file is completely flexible in that any portion can be accessed at any time.

Redundant Record

Each Cinedeck input can be written as master and proxy file(s) and the decks can write redundant files per input/encoder to multiple destinations, providing the media and connection support the selected bit rate and I/O needs.

For example, a 4 channel system can write a ProRes master and proxy file for each input giving you four primary masters and four primary proxies.

Activating redundant record can provide up to four additional or secondary masters and four secondary proxies for a total of
sixteen files. Redundant recording can be set on a per-encoder basis.

Remote and Control

Cinedecks provide many options for remote control; All decks allow independent RS422 control of each channel.

Each channel be the master or slave in a RS422 relationship, allowing control in either direction.
With Cinedeck as master over a tape machine, the user is presented with a full array of controls and status indicators from the slave deck. Recordings can be made on either machine, i.e. using the Cinedeck as the source or as the recorder.
As slave, a Cinedeck can be controlled from a partner machine or via a separate control panel.
Cinedecks utilize the Grass Valley AMP protocol for control over IP by external devices such as asset management systems
and switchers.
VDCP is supported on decks running version 4.5 and newer.
Up to 12 channels of RX and or MX can be simultaneously managed using the IP (AMP protocol) based Cinedeck MCC,
multi-machine control interface.

Rollover Record

All Cinedecks support ‘roll-over’ recording where two media (identical or dissimilar) can be designated and combined as ‘primary’ and ‘secondary’ record destinations, significantly increasing record time.

Scheduling

If the Cinedeck API is not being used, the Cinedeck Multi-channel Control App can be used for simple scheduling.

Additional scheduling for unattended activation on a channel by channel basis can be performed using the EDL function.

Segment Record

Segment Record, also known as user-defined ‘chunking’, allows long recordings to be split into clip segments of shorter duration.
During recording, each time the user specified duration is reached or the manual ‘break’ button is pressed, the current file is closed and the next segment file begins. Previous segments can be fully-accessed for playing and copying, etc.

Additionally, breaking large recordings into smaller pieces allows content to be easily transferred to storage with file size limits such as DVDs or FAT32 drives. Each segment is automatically sequentially numbered.

Storage Options

All Cinedecks write video and audio recordings as files to low cost and commonly available non-proprietary 2.5” SSD SATA drives.

Cinedeck SSD drives are mounted in removable, hot-swappable, dual drive cartridges or ‘sleds’. (RX and newer)
Additional sleds as well as portable and installable receiving chassis are available to enable easy ‘sneaker-net’ workflows.
Currently, Cinedeck only recommend and support Samsung Pro and EVO series SSD drives. All sizes are
supported.
For recording and playback, all Cinedecks can also utilize network storage including NAS (network attached storage) and SAN (storage area network) systems requiring client software. Additionally, the Cinedeck operating system can be setup to support iSCSI file systems.
Cinedecks are Windows 10 Embedded based so fully support SMB shares and client software is often available for SAN installations.
o Cinedeck ZX and RX have an available PCIe slot for 8Gb, 10Gb or 16Gb network cards as well as direct attached storage.

Timecode Support

Cinedeck provide internally generated timecode, can accept embedded SDI timecode or external ‘LTC’ and display the data on screen and optionally burn the data into the video of selected files while recording the data with the incoming source. IRIG-B timecode is also supported.

IRIG support is optional on RX & ZX, Per channel pair timecode input is standard on ZX, Master timecode input is optional on ZX.

XML Data

Each recording session can be accompanied by clip specific *.xml files. The completed *.xml files contain clip specific metadata which can be imported into asset managements systems and the like. The destination folder can also be selected for the xml files.

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Frequently Asked Questions

MEDIA OPTIONS

Accessories are available for purchase through Cinedeck directly or your local authorized Cinedeck reseller. Other items are standard off-the-shelf items available from resellers worldwide.

Approved SSDs

Cinedeck only recommends and supports Samsung SSD Drives for internal recording media, specifically:

Samsung Pro series (highest performance, longest warranty)
Samsung EVO (best Price/capacity)

SAN and NAS

While the list continues to grow, the above list are some NAS and SAN solution manufacturers whose products are known to be used with Cinedeck products.

Drive Compatibility

Cinedeck can write to any drive that can be mounted on Windows but the connection to the drive must be fast enough to support the write speed of the files being recorded

REMOTE AND CONTROL OPTIONS

Cinedeck provide multiple pathways for remote access and control including RS-422 and USB, allowing the use of an array of off-the-shelf control panels. Additionally, ZX can be optionally equipped with a surface mounted jog shuttle. Ethernet based control is available via the AMP and VDCP protocols.

Cinedeck Client App

Cinedeck can be controlled by any system on the same network using the client application. Go to: Cinedeck Client Software

AMP API

Cinedecks support AMP, Grass Valley’s control API over Ethernet.

AMP provides hooks for full setup and operational access and is the path for custom asset management system integration or other deeper system incorporation. AMP is also the API used by the Cinedeck multi-channel control application for controlling multiple channels across several Cinedecks.

VNC Remote Access

Many facilities control their Cinedecks utilizing one of the many VNC applications. Cinedeck’s development and support teams access decks every day using TeamViewer and many customers employ TeamViewer as well as open source control packages such as Tight VNC and Real VNC.

USB Control

All Cinedecks support standard USB control devices. A USB keyboard and mouse are recommended for basic setup and operation in many environments and control panels such as those from JL Cooper, Contour Design and P.I. Engineering can optionally be used.

Third party USB controllers include:

X-Keys Jog-Shuttle XK-12 controller by PI Engineering (www.xkeys.com)
Shuttle Xpress and ShuttlePro V2 by Contour Designs (www.contour-designs.com)
Logitech R800 remote (www.logitech.com)

KVM

Directly related to USB are KVM systems and indeed, Cinedecks are connected to KVMs in many facilities. Generally, HDMI is the most appropriate for the display connection but some current decks also have Display Port and or DVI while VGA is available on some older models. The KVM system must provide DDM (Dynamic Device Mapping) which maintains the connection to all connected devices, regardless of the active device.

RS422 (Option)

At the most basic level, each Cinedeck channel has a bi-directional RS-422 port, accessible to devices such as those from DNF that typically run a BVW or SRW deck. Each Cinedeck channel can fully replace a traditional RS-422 controlled VTR, also for tasks such as Digital Cut from an Avid. In addition, Cinedeck channels can be controlled via VDCP over RS-422.

Third party RS-422 controllers include: