TRACS2 HD.pdf

T2R30/90/150_HD Single channel compliance recorder with HD SDI input A Synapse® product

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Introduction TRACS² is the ultimate in automated, non-stop, digital recording, logging an archiving. More and more broadcasters worldwide are now legally obliged to provide recordings of their transmissions pretty much on-demand. It’s important. Being able to quickly prove that a transmission actually happened can help to resolve a dispute, or maintain advertiser confidence. Our 3rd generation compliance recording system makes compliance easier, more efficient and cost-effective than ever. We have re-engineered TRACS from the ground up. New software, improved hardware and an extended range of features bring unprecedented levels of efficiency and reliability to the whole process of transmission recording, storage and retrieval.

The newest option for our single channel recorders is an HD SDI input. Previously, when it was needed to record HD feeds, broadcasters had to down-convert their HD transmissions to SD before plugging them into a TRACS² recorder. This is now a thing of the past. With the HD option enabled the TRACS recorder can handle an HD SDI input by it self without using any external devices.

Since TRACS must encode the inputs as capacity-efficient as possible, we downscale the HD input to SD before encoding it to maintain compliant picture quality at low bitrates.

Setup schematic

Inputs and Outputs

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Hardware Features A TRACS² single channel recorder with the HD option enabled offers the following features:

SDI or Analog video input over BNC connectors SDI input can handle the following input formats: SD525, SD625 720p60, 720p50 1080i60, 1080i50 Burnt in LTC or NTP time code on the video input Hardware playback of recorded content over SD-SDI and analog outputs over BNC connectors (HD content is played back converted to SD) Customer setting for large (full D1) or small (CIF) video resolution Capture video feeds in MPEG2, MPEG4 or H.264 (H.264 is only available when set to small resolution) Capture video feeds at various bitrates between 512Kb/s and 10Mb/s (H.264 is limited to 3Mb/s) Record audio feeds in MPEG1-Layer2, MPEG1-Layer3 or AAC Record audio at various bitrates between 32Kb/s and 320Kb/s Record Teletext or Closed Captioning (in the VBI) when input is SD-SDI or Analog Linux OS running on the recorders for improved stability and security Custom developed dedicated 24/7 hardware Front display and control Redundant power supplies 3x RAID5 configured SATA disk drives Optional external storage to third party FTP servers Gigabit Ethernet connection LTC and (external) NTP time synchronization Front to back cooling design Record up to 16 channel of audio 4x analog audio inputs, 2x AES/EBU inputs and support for 16 channels of embedded audio

Software Features The TRACS² client application offers the following features

Free of charge client application, downloadable via out website, which can be installed on as many computers on your network as you like Remote access over the entire company network to all content via the client application Very user friendly and intuitive graphical user interface Various aspect ratio settings for in-GUI display of recorded content User defined monitoring page User management with extensive user rights settings Live streaming input monitoring Easy status monitoring and history log Fast forward/backward, shuttle, slow motion and skip in time clip browsing Thumbnail representation of the timeline during playback Editing in- and outpoints of a clip before hardware playback or download Batch downloading E-mail notification of system alerts Playback Teletext or Closed Captioning in the GUI

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Software screenshots

User defined monitoring page

Search & playback

Channel settings

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Ordering information Recorder hardware: T2R30_HD: TRACS² Recorder with capacity for a maximum of 30 days (512Kb/s video, 2 channels of audio @ 32Kb/s, no VBI recording) with HD input T2R90_HD: TRACS² Recorder with capacity for a maximum of 90 days (512Kb/s video, 2 channels of audio @ 32Kb/s, no VBI recording) with HD input T2R150_HD: TRACS² Recorder with capacity for a maximum of 150 days (512Kb/s video, 2 channels of audio @ 32Kb/s, no VBI recording) with HD input

Capacity calculation The available capacity in days for each recorder is highly dependant on the recording settings (video bitrate, audio bitrate, VBI recording on/off and amount of audio channels). The following table gives a few examples of possible settings and the remaining capacity in days. All audio in this table is calculated as a bitrate of 32Kb/s, higher audio bitrates will decrease the capacity depending on the amount of audio channels you record. For an exact calculation of capacity in days for your desired setup, please contact Axon.

T2R150_HD Video Bitrate 512Kb/s 550Kb/s 600Kb/s 700Kb/s 800Kb/s 1Mb/s 1,5Mb/s 2Mb/s 3Mb/s 4Mb/s 5Mb/s 6Mb/s 8Mb/s 10Mb/s

VBI off 2ch aud 151 142 132 116 103 84 58 44 30 22 18 15 11 9

VBI off 16ch aud 111 106 100 90 82 70 51 40 28 21 17 14 11 9

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VBI on 2ch aud 75 73 70 65 61 54 42 34 25 19 16 13 10 8

T2R90_HD VBI on 16ch aud 63 62 60 56 53 48 38 31 23 19 15 13 10 8

VBI off 2ch aud 90 85 79 69 62 50 35 26 18 13 11 9 6 5

VBI off 16ch aud 66 63 60 54 49 42 30 24 16 13 10 8 6 5

VBI on 2ch aud 45 43 42 39 36 32 25 20 15 11 9 8 6 5

T2R30_HD VBI on 16ch aud 38 37 36 34 32 28 22 19 14 11 9 8 6 5

VBI off 2ch aud 30 28 26 23 20 16 11 8 6 4 3 3 2 1

VBI off 16ch aud 22 21 20 18 16 14 10 8 5 4 3 2 2 1

VBI on 2ch aud 15 14 14 13 12 10 8 6 5 3 3 2 2 1

VBI on 16ch aud 12 12 12 11 10 9 7 6 4 3 3 2 2 1

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