EMS-MC-20220

Product Manual

The Evertz® Media Clients are highly optimized digital Audio/Video I/O platforms that perform real-time, multi-channel HD or SD ingest and playout for broadcast and post-production facilities. Individual Media Clients can be provided with optional local RAID6 storage to allow a simple, standalone HD/SD ingest/playout platform as an inexpensive broadcast or post-production solution. The ability to exploit either networked or local storage allows the Evertz® Media Client to be used in multiple operational models that feature realtime ingest and playback from central storage, local storage or both. Broadcast and post-production workflows are no longer operationally constrained by the architecture of the server system or an individual box.

The Evertz® Ingest Client is a broadcast-quality, frame-accurate, digital baseband ingest station that performs real-time SW-based encoding/decoding, and multiplexing/de-multiplexing of HD/SD-SDI content in either MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 formats. Currently supported HD codecs include XDCAM HD 4:2:2 and AVC-Intra HD 4:2:2. In addition to the HD/SD-SDI ingest channel, each ingest channel supports a HD/SD-SDI Confidence Playback output of the ingested content (with a minimal delay), as well a separate HD/SD-SDI Jog/Shuttle/Play output. The Jog/Shuttle/Play output can be used to review the content as its being ingested. This allows media to be qualified and prepared for on-air use during ingest. Alternately, this output can be used as a general purpose Play output for any local or network stored content.

While ingesting and playing back the high-resolution content, a low-resolution MPEG-4 Proxy is also generated. This eliminates the need for off-line, post ingest proxy generation thereby significantly accelerating, simplifying and reducing the cost of low-resolution, off-line workflows.

Real-time Record and Jog/Shuttle/Play I/Os are controlled via popular protocols over an IP network or individual RS-422 ports. For Ingest Clients provided with local RAID6 storage, file transfers are accomplished using FTP or NFS.

Features

• Real-time, frame-accurate, broadcast-quality Audio/Video codecs
• Low-latency Confidence Playback while recording
• Low-latency Jog/Shuttle/Play while recording
• Low-res MPEG-4 Proxy creation while recording
• Optional real-time Record/Playback to/from local RAID6 storage
• IP-based non real-time File Transfers to/from local RAID6 storage
• IP-based or RS-422 control of Record inputs and Jog/Shuttle/Play outputs
• IPMI ready out-of-band management and KVM capability

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Specifications

• 1 x Serial Digital Interface (SDI), as per SMPTE ST 292-1 for HD and SMPTE-259M for SD

• 2 x Serial Digital Interface (SDI), as per SMPTE ST 292-1 for HD and SMPTE-259M for SD

• 4:2:2 Y/C 8-bit sampling

• 1920 x 1080i (29.97Hz)
• 1920 x 1080i (25Hz)
• 1280 x 720p (59.94Hz)
• 1280 x 720p (50Hz)
• 720 x 487i (29.97Hz)
• 720 x 576i (25Hz)

• HD/SD-SDI embedded per SMPTE-272M
• Support for up to eight (8) AES pairs per video I/O 48kHz sampling
• Support for 16-bit, 20-bit and 24-bit samples
• Support carriage of AES audio ancillary and user data

• XDCAM HD422 Codec
  • Eight (8) PCM mono channels, 24-bit samples
• IMX SD422 Codec
  • Four (4) PCM mono channels, 24-bit samples
  • Eight (8) PCM mono channels, 16-bit samples

• VITC pass-thru for each ingest channel

• Lock to SD video black

• Uncompressed VANC data per video channel:
  • Pass-thru of all VBI lines
• Encoded VANC data per video channel:
  • Pass thru of Closed Caption (CC) per CEA-708 and CEA 608
  • Pass thru of VITC per SMPTE-12M
  • Pass thru of AFD per SMPTE-2016-1-2007

• Protocols
  • V DCP
• Interfaces
  • RS-422, IP

• Protocols
  • FTP, NFS
• Interfaces
  • IP

• Based on multi-core Linux Server architecture
• Includes four (4) 1GB E ports
• Includes one (1) RS-422 port per Record input and Jog / Shuttle / Play output
• Includes one (1) IPMI port
• Includes dual-redundant, hot-swappable power supplies

• 28" L x 17" W x 3.5" H (72cm L x 44cm W x 9cm H)
• Gross Weight: 55lbs (25kg) w/local RAID6 storage
• 2U Rackmount

• Operating Temperature 10°to 30°C (50°to 85°F)
• Non-operating Temperature -40°to 70°C (-40°to 158°F)
• Operating Relative Humidity 8% to 90% (non-condensing)
• Non-operating Relative Humidity 5% to 95% (noncondensing)
• RoHS Compliant

• 100 – 240V AC
• 50/60Hz (auto-sensing)
• 375 watts (Max with no local storage)
• BTU/h 1,280 (Max with no local storage)
• 425 watts (Max with RAID6 local storage)
• BTU/h 1,450 (Max with RAID6 local storage)

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