Sony reveals roadmap for HDCAM SR

Coinciding with The Power of Images event that Sony has organized in London, it has released some details of the roadmap that its highest-level format, the HDCAM SR, will follow. The format is further democratized, improving efficiency in its workflow and making the SRW-9000 camcorder the best example of a very high-level format within the reach of many.

Bovis Livier, general director of content creation at Sony Professional, revealed today in London, within the event The Power of Images, some of the lines that the HDCAM SR range will follow in the coming months. In the new roadmap of this format, which further advances its democratization and accessibility to new lines of producers, the HDCAM SR offers unprecedented advances in the areas of acquisition, storage, archiving and workflow efficiency.
The most notable thing is that HDCAM stops being a range of products and becomes a format, with the new SRW-9000 as the flagship of the range.

SRW-9000

Within this HDCAM SR line, its most representative camcorder will now be the new SRW-9000, a black-leg camera at an affordable price together with a continuous update plan in the future since, being a modular one, in 2010 Sony He has promised an upgrade, being able to change the sensor for a 35mm type. A delight for any filmmaker who 'flirts' with digital.

The SRW-9000 HDCAM SR, heir to the HDW-F900/F900R, offers great operational mobility even under adverse recording conditions thanks to its compact body and excellent imaging performance with the HDCAM SR recording format. In the standard configuration, the SRW-9000 can record in 4:2:2 Y/Cb/Cr format at 10 bits at the highest quality, in 1080/23.98P, 24P, 25P and 29.97P, as well as in 1080 /50i and 59.94i.

Additionally, the SRW-9000 can record 4:2:2 720/50P and 59.94P signals, which can be used for DTV broadcast and programming applications. For users requiring greater creative performance, a variety of optional cards can be added to benefit from 4:4:4 RGB image capture with 1080 bandwidth, SR Motion image capture and recording at variable frame, S-Log gamma and additional signal inputs and outputs.
The new SRW-9000, which in some ways is reminiscent of a more portable F-23, will be launched at a price that will be around 7% below the F900R.

Greater efficiency and compatibility

The HDCAM SR now opens up to an efficient and open file-based workflow supported by MXF and SR Lite. Also new is the workflow with EDL data and color correction using CDL files and the delivery of SR memory as the new media of the future.

In his speech at the London event, Bovis Livier also emphasized the strong strategy that Sony is developing in terms of tape archiving and a reorganization in terms of media prices.

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