Sony HXR-NX5U manual Memory Recording for Professionals, Relay Record with Dual Memory Slots

Memory Recording for Professionals

Efficiency and Operability on Readily

Available Memory Cards

The HXR-NX5U is also the first Sony professional camcorder designed to record directly onto consumer memory cards. These cards are affordable and easy to find. This general versatility is especially handy when a user suddenly needs extra memory – something that happens quite often when shooting a documentary or news report on the move. Also, memory cards are very compact and easy to handle. Many devices can accept these memory cards allowing easy playback. Files can be copied

from a memory card to any available computer, instantly backing up valuable data. Another benefit is that memory cards can be easily and cost-effectively reused.

Available Memory Cards Type

	SD/SDHC
Memory Stick	Memory	* For detailed information please refer to the
PRO DuoTM media	Card
		specification sheet on the back of this brochure.

Relay Record with Dual Memory Slots

Another new feature is continuous recording between two memory card slots. The new HXR-NX5U camcorder automatically cycles between the dual memory slots. When using two, 32-GB memory cards, six hours of continuous HD footage can be recorded. If a longer continuous recording time is required, the user simply waits until the first card is full and recording has relayed to the second card, before ejecting the first card and inserting a new blank memory card. This procedure can be repeated as required, extending continuous recording for a sufficiently long time.

Three Major Advantages of Memory Recording

1. Easy Viewing of Recorded Footage

The major benefit of this memory recording system is its instant search capability for recorded clips using thumbnail images. This speeds up logging and editing work, which is ideal in fast-paced environments. Having the ability to access clips randomly will make production staff much happier and far more efficient.

2. Fast Ingestion to a Computer

Users can simply pop out a memory card and plug it into most computer’s memory card reader slot (or use a USB2.0-type memory card reader) to upload files. This is likely to take less time than the actual length of recorded footage, so more time can be spent shooting. Users are secure in the knowledge that editing deadlines will be met, thanks to this efficient new approach to digital video production.

*The uploading time will depend on the computer's specification.

3. Easy Playback

Affordable consumer memory media are already used in many consumer electronic devices, and more are to come. Recorded footage can be instantly played back using these devices.

Recording Time on a single memory media

HD MOVIE						SD MOVIE
		AVCHD	AVCHD	AVCHD	AVCHD			SD 9Mbps
		24Mbps	17Mbps	9Mbps	5Mbps			(avg) HQ
		(max) FX mode	(avg) FH mode	(avg) HQ mode	(avg) LP mode			mode
	1GB	4 min	6 min	10 min	15 min		1GB	10 min
	2GB	10 min	10 min	20 min	35 min	Dolby	2GB	25 min
Linear	4GB	20 min	25 min	45 min	70 min		4GB	55 min
						Digital
PCM	8GB	40 min	55 min	95 min	150 min	2ch	8GB	115 min
2ch
	16GB	85 min	110 min	190 min	300 min		16GB	235 min
	32GB	170 min	225 min	385 min	605 min		32GB	475 min
		(2h 50m)	(3h 45m)	(6h 25m)	(10h 5m)			(7h 55m)
	1GB	5 min	6 min	10 min	20 min
	2GB	10 min	10 min	25 min	40 min
Dolby	4GB	20 min	25 min	50 min	90 min
Digital	8GB	45 min	55 min	105 min	185 min
2ch
	16GB	90 min	115 min	215 min	375 min
	32GB	180 min	235 min	435 min	750 min
		(3h 0m)	(3h 55m)	(7h 15m)	(12h 30m)

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