Sasani Studios bridge the gap between Studio Camera Acquisition and Post, Recording Directly to Hard Drive using the Apple ProRes 422 Codec.
Sasani isn't new to the tapeless environment - we designed and have been running complete tapeless turnkey solutions for various productions for the last 3 years. The most popular and media intensive production being BIG BROTHER AFRICA, a 24/7, three month reality show recording directly to shared media drive systems.
We have recently integrated a tapeless HD/SD solution into our flexible studio recording infrastructure. Our various sized film and television broadcast studios supported by our numerous digital studio camera chains and digital control rooms can now record directly to separate PORTABLE HARD DRIVES and allow us to offer a tapeless solution to all external production companies for studio recordings.
The new tapeless solution allows us to record directly to portable tapeless video devices that record files in the Apple ProRes 422 codec. This allows for a new way of connecting production and clients post, saving time in post editing and maintaining best possible quality by recording pristine 10-bit ProRes 422 media that is then immediately available to edit within Final Cut Studio, AVID Editing systems as well as other professional editing systems.
"Since its introduction two years ago, Apple ProRes 422 has become the codec of choice for professional editors", Sasani's portable HARD DRIVE recorders are the latest product to provide support for ProRes 422 natively in hardware, and for the first time delivers immediate access to the 10-bit, full raster ProRes 422 codec directly from source. Recording directly onto these Hard Drive recorders allows filmmakers, broadcasters and video professionals to skip the process of re-rendering to an editing codec by giving immediate access to full raster edit-ready ProRes 422 files. Sasani can now record hours of media to a removable storage module with built in FireWire 800 or to 34mm ExpressCard Flash. The Hard Drive recorder allows for real-time monitoring, providing instant playback of recorded files at the push of a button.
Advantages of recording to this system at Sasani Studios:
- Record natively to Apple ProRes 422 for full Raster 10bit 4:2:2 HD and SD.
- Bridge Proprietary compression schemes by recording to Apple ProRes 422.
- Recording switched feed as well as to single or multiple ISO feeds simultaneously with locked timecode.
- Record Eight channels or audio on each record device allowing to record microphones, instruments or various audio feeds onto individual channels to giving audio engineer complete control over the audio in final mix.
- Saving tape cost, digitizing time and having superior picture and audio quality.
- EASIER, FASTER and COST EFFECTIVE solutions for your productions.
The process for recording onto the Sasani tapeless system requires the client to supply their own portable hard drive, at the end of the shoot day Sasani will copy the recorded files onto the clients supplied portable drive and at the same time copy the files to a Sasani network as a temporary backup (safety) until the client has confirmed that the footage is in their edit system and that everything is in order. At which stage Sasani can either offer the client the option to save the files to a proper digital archive system for long time storage or get approval from client to delete the files from our system.
Sasani have already successfully recorded several productions on the tapeless system, one being a 13 part drama called "Jozi Maboneng" (an Engage Entertainment & Rous House production) and also a 13 part "Comedy Show" (an Imani Media production). We have received very positive feedback from the production companies, their editors and their audio engineers.
