Fostex Explore Models for Professional Audio Recording

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DVD-RAM

Format of choice.

Format of the future.

DVD-RAM is robust, resilient, removable and has a longevity

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that a hard disc simply cannot offer. Quite simply it is the

best professional mastering recording format available, as

the rapid take up in the film industry shows.

However, the DVD-RAM technology needed a serious research

 

and development process before it could handle the rigours and demands of multiple track, timecode-locked audio.

And that’s exactly what Fostex undertook when developing the DV40, the world’s first 4- track Timecode DVD-RAM master recorder.

In Action...

Fostex Timecode DVD-RAM recorders are currently being used in major film, TV and post production applications in the USA, Europe and beyond. Fostex actively encourages user feedback and continually develops the products incorporating new features and enhancing usability...

Movie Production

Chris Munro - Sound Mixer

One of the world’s leading Production Sound Mixers and a BAFTA and Oscar™ award winner, Chris used Fostex Timecode DVD- RAM technology for audio acquisition on the latest James Bond hit ‘Die

Another Day’. Chris has pioneered the ‘magless dailies’ process, (see bottom left), which saved the production a small fortune.

Always in demand, Chris is recognised as setting quality standards in the film industry.

REFINING THE TECHNOLOGY - CONTINUOUS DEVELOPMENT

 

 

 

TV Production

 

 

The DV40 was, and is, a revelation. Here is a rackmount unit which can record up to 4

 

 

 

tracks of digital audio to removable DVD-RAM UDF discs in either BWF or SDII formats

 

 

 

 

Joe Kenworthy - NYPD Blue

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and with full timecode facilities. A machine which elegantly addresses the challenges

 

Sound mixer Joe uses Fostex

presented by today’s ‘random access’ requirements.

 

 

 

Timecode DVD-RAM machines for

 

 

 

audio acquisition on the ever-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The reaction from sound mixers, post production facilities, broadcast professionals and

 

popular NYPD Blue TV series. “The

recording houses was outstanding: they could see that the DV40 could save them time,

 

big thing for me is that I get a digital

 

file from the beginning, and all our

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

could enhance their workflow, could improve their productivity.

 

digital editing machines can

But that was only the start - from the moment of launch, Fostex made it clear that the

 

take those files and begin to

 

work, with less transfer time.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DV40 would benefit from continual development with users encouraged to request

 

We are using a first-generation

features and suggest improvements resulting in software updates being made available

 

signal all the way through the

 

chain, which keeps quality high,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

via the www.fostexdvd.net web site.

 

 

 

 

and it’s quicker, with no

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

conversions involved.”

PORTABLE TIMECODE DVD-RAM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

With the DVD-RAM technology ‘proved’ in a standalone machine, it was time for a

 

Post Production

portable solution. A PD-2 / PD-4 user survey and wide-ranging feedback from DV40

 

users yielded a wish list of features which included: Six audio tracks, highly accurate

 

Jay Hartigan - Shooters Post

 

Jay has been a production sound

timecode, a minimum 10 second pre-record buffer, flexible power requirements and

 

 

mixer for the past 25 years and is

management, slate microphone, auxiliary send / return, power for mic receivers, a high

 

one of three owners of Shooters Post

 

& Transfer, a Philadelphia based

quality mixer and a user interface in keeping with their existing DAT recorders.

 

 

production facility.

 

 

Fostex listened to what the sound mixers wanted and involved them in the development

 

“Every day we transfer 1/4"

 

production sound to our DV-40

process every step of the way.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

for film transfer. It turns what

The result is the PD-6 Location Recorder.

 

 

 

was once a slow, tedious sync

 

 

 

session into a fast easy job.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Once the field sound is on DVD-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

RAM we no longer have to wait

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

for the audio to sync. It’s always

 

 

hours, minutes, seconds

right there.”

 

PROFESSIONAL

 

 

 

 

 

& frames ahead of the rest.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

: new 8cm dvd-ram

 

DV-40: 200x audio scrub

 

PD-6: NP-1 type battery

DV-40: ethernet networking

 

PD-6: balanced aux i/o

DV-40: up to 192kHz

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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