MovieRecorder

If you have the machine powerful enough for 8K, and the storage size to match, MovieRecorder will work. Our solution runs on Pro, Ultra, Max, & Minis. As new Macs are released, computer upgrades are as simple as walking your MovieRecorder dongle license to your new machine. If you need more than what a single Mac can do, leverage multiple remote ingest computers from a single workstation.

In a QuickTime or MXF wrapper, MovieRecorder can record to Apple ProRes, H.264, HEVC, Avid DNxHD, AVC-Intra, AVC-Intra, DV/DVCPRO, DNxHD or IMX XDCAM. With Metadata. With Closed Captioning. Simultaneously. You can point the recording destinations to separate storage locations, and even have the file organize it’s own folder structure.

With turn-around times that will make your head spin, edit-while ingest gives editors the content as it’s captured. MovieRecorder allows your production and post-production to work concurrently, and even finish the job at the same time. Supported in Apple’s Final Cut Pro, Adobe’s Premiere Pro, Avid’s Media Composer, and Blackmagic Design’s DaVinci Resolve.

Record your audio mixer output with your video signal without the need for an SDI embedder. External audio sources enables audio capture, mapping, and flexible offset. If your audio capture hardware, or network audio like Dante or MADI is available to the macOS, then it is compatible with SDI sources in MovieRecorder.

Crop, deinterlace, rotate, and resize your video before it is encoded. Rotate the signal 90° or crop portions of the image to make your video social media ready. Burn in timecode, an image, or even overlay text on your recording. Separate destinations means you can use one signal to make two recordings; one with effect and overlays, and another as a clean feed.

As simple as picking a day and time, then a recording name and a destination. For more advanced controls, you can specify exact dates and durations, and even choose multiple destinations. Plus trigger Ross or Blackmagic Designs routers to switch the input at start, automatically send Slack or Teams messages with the finished recording name, and many other possibilities with Applescripts. Also, the schedule exists as a webpage hosted by MovieRecorder. This allows non-tech savvy users to add scheduled recordings without giving them direct server control, perfect for Newsroom environments.

Experience ultra-smooth recording with MovieRecorder's High Frame Rate (HFR) feature (Version 4.6 or later). Whether it's 120 fps, 240 fps, or even 1000 fps, the only limit is your workflow. When using High Frame Rate Cameras, they output to multiple SDI cables. Connect these to your Blackmagic-Design multiple input device and simply select multiple sources and choose "Create HFR source" to unlock the power of stunning slow-motion recording.

Using HEVC, recordings can compress up to 40% of the size of an H.264 file without losing quality. The CPU performance required to make HEVC isn’t available in most hardware solutions. However, MovieRecorder leverages the hardware accelerators in the Mac to record multiple HEVC files in real time simultaneously with ProRes and other professional codecs. Encoding on the Apple silicon computers has greatly improved HEVC performance up to 8 HD channels on an M1 Mac.

MovieRecorder supports multiple timecode sources for your best convenience.

• Mac Clock: That's the simplest timecode source, available with all Macs. ;-)
• Audio LTC: Use an audio input on your Mac and we'll decode the TC
• Embedded TC: Use SDI embedded TC. Only one SDI source needs TC, then you can share it with the other signals
• Video device timecode input: Available if the video device have a TC input connector
• Timecode Systems products allow to retrieve timecode using WiFi, Network or Bluetooth. Read more about Timecode Systems...

NDI® is an open, low-latency, video-over-IP protocol developed by NewTek™. It uses a simple gigabit ethernet cable to transmit video and audio over a local area network between multiple video systems. Now, thanks to NDI®, you can transfer HD and 4K video over a simple Ethernet cable. There is no need for additional routers or even SDI cables anymore, further demonstrating the ease-of-use and reliability of our products. NDI® opens the world to a different way of doing video production and to an ecosystem of devices supporting the protocol.

Configure the layout and the amount of windows that meets your need. MovieRecorder comes with preconfigured layouts, but are also customizable. The overlays have individual toggle controls, leaving you with the information you need in a glance. Switch the position of sources, or enable/disable/solo a destination on all viewers at once. Crash record with a simple button press, or use gang control to name and record all the sources at once.

Production studios are dynamic, and so is MovieRecorder. Name your cameras, assign the storage path, configure the required codec to meet your client’s needs. The “save and restore” feature allows you to restore configurations in seconds. The feature can also be used if you want to keep a backup of a configuration before running tests on a new show, with new setups.