Codex Portable digital cinematography recorder

Introducing The Portable - our latest, fully-mobile digital cinematography recorder. No larger than a toaster, the Codex Portable’s elegant design is packed with ground-breaking features and the industry’s most advanced technology, creating brand new opportunities for single and multi-camera production.

Light, easily-transportable and battery-powered, the Codex Portable contains all the key features of its larger siblings, including dual-channel 4:4:4 and 4K recording, ruggedised removable RAID DiskPacks, an integrated touchscreen controller, 8 channels of digital audio and a Virtual File System.

This new system has been designed to meet industry demand for a compact and rugged field recorder. It complements the original, award-winning Codex HD, 2K, 4K media recorder/server, which has already redefined tapeless digital cinematography and is now being used on major studio productions in the US and Europe.

Using visually-lossless compression, the Codex Portable brings cinema-quality disk-recording to every production where uncompressed recording is not an absolute demand, but total portability is.

Features:

• Lightweight, ruggedised, battery-powered unit
• Digital Film Camera recording (4K, 2xHD, HD) onto removable DiskPacks
• High-bitrate Jpeg2000 image compression (from 4:1 to 16:1 ratios)
• Shot-logging and metadata management
• Dual camera capable, for A & B camera shoots, or for stereoscopic 3D production
• Real-time de-Bayering (demosaicing) and downsampling to HD of Raw 4K material
• Multichannel sync-audio recording
• Real-time LUTs and HD/SD outputs for confidence monitoring on-set
• Unique Virtual File System for network access of all material, automatically converted to common file-formats invisibly and on-demand