OT: Edirol video + audio recorder

farss wrote on 5/20/2008, 9:43 PM
I thought some of us here might find the recently announced Edirol F-1 of some interest.
What's caught my eye apart from it recording DV/HDV it'll record an extra two channels from XLRs as a separate file. As both vision and audio are clocked by the same clock it will all be in perfect sync. Looking at the build quality it'll probably not be cheap but neither is gear that'll lock vision and audio.

And the killer feature. It doesn't use FAT32, no more stitching files together.

Bob.

Comments

John_Cline wrote on 5/20/2008, 9:56 PM
SWEET! Nice find!
UlfLaursen wrote on 5/20/2008, 11:10 PM
Sure thing!

Anybody heard of a price level yet?

Thanks.

/Ulf
UlfLaursen wrote on 5/21/2008, 3:37 AM
Some place I saw a comment from one who asked at NAB, and there was a aprox. price mentioned of $ 2,995

/Ulf
farss wrote on 5/21/2008, 5:16 AM
If that's correct then it's a bargain.
The HD unit that comes with the EX1/3 is the same price. Fixed 60GB disk, FAT32, no extra audio channels. On the other hand the Edirol is limited to 25MB/sec HDV, no XDCAM HQ.

Bob.
UlfLaursen wrote on 5/21/2008, 5:22 AM
Just talked to the product guy at Roland in Denmark - he was also at NAB - we had a long chat reg. this F-1

He said that they would get some end july in Denmark at a retailrpice in Denmark aprox. $3,500 + VAT and that would probably be $2,995 in US as said elsewhere. It will be with 120 GB disk, and the disk should have a direct USB connection.

I must have one for sure :-)

/Ulf

farss wrote on 5/21/2008, 6:46 AM
Just a quick heads up. It looks like the unit is made to use the Sony V-Lock batteries. If you don't already have any two of them plus a charger would add another $1,000 to the cost. We've had good results so far with the Comer batteries made in China. A fraction of the price of the Sony ones with more capacity and more features like a built in D-Tap.

Bob.
Mikey QACTV7 wrote on 5/21/2008, 10:39 AM
Looks good. Being able to have XLR inputs and headphones to monitor your audio. I am using a Nnovia capture device and the added headphone feature with the f-1 could have me switch to it. But I may wait till everything is flash media instead of HDD before I change.