MagicSoft Recorder
- MagicSoft Recorder is an ingest application designed for the broadcast and post production markets.It works under Windows 7 / 8 and 10 (only for 64 bit OS).
MagicSoft Recorder is an ingest application designed for the broadcast and post production markets.It works under Windows 7 / 8 and 10 (only for 64 bit OS).
It is particularly useful for multicam ingest and conformance recording because it supports up to 8 video inputs and each input supports 2 simultaneous recordings
The supported video modes are :
4K UHD 23.98 / 24 / 25 / 29.97 / 30 / 50 / 59.94 / 60
HD1080p 23.98 / 24 / 25 / 29.97 /30 / 50 /59.94 /60
HD1080i 50 / 59.94
HD720p 50 / 59.94
SD PAL / NTSC
The program supports AJA, DeckLink and Intensity cards and devices.
The input can be set either analog or digital depending on the capabilities of the card.
MagicSoft Recorder has modules for :
- "TimeCode and NLE support" that adds support for timecode, inserting marks and saving projects for Final Cut Pro/Edius/Premiere/Vegas
- "Web Browser Remote" that adds support for monitoring and managing the channels by using a web browser from Windows/MacOSX/iOS/Android
The list of the supported video codecs and containers:
- H264 AVC Intra 50 .mxf
- H264 AVC Intra 100 .mxf
- H264 8 bit .mp4 / .mov / .avi / .mkv and transport stream
- H264 10 bit .mp4 / .mov / .avi / .mkv and transport stream
- HEVC 8 bit .mp4 / .mov / .avi / .mkv and transport stream
- HEVC 10 bit .mp4 / .mov / .avi / .mkv and transport stream
- H264 8 bit using nVidia .mp4 / .mov / .avi / .mkv and transport stream
- HEVC 8 bit using nVidia .mp4 / .mov / .avi /.mkv and transport stream
- XdCAM .mov and mxf
- ProRes .mov
- DNxHD 8 bit .mov and .mxf
- DNxHD 10 bit .mov and .mxf
- DNxHR .mov and .mxf
- Mpeg2 program stream and transport stream
- DV .avi /.mov /.mxf and rawDV
- DVCPRO .avi and .mov
- Uncompressed YUV 8 bit .avi and.mov
- Uncompressed YUV 10bit .avi and.mov
The software can generate proxy resolutions for all video modes.
Up-converted 1080i files can be generated when the input is set to SD (either 4/3 or 16 /9).
Down-converted files can be produced as follow :
- 1080i modes can produce down-converted PAL or NTSC
- 1080p (50 and 59.94) modes can produce down-converted 720p
- 4K UHD modes can produce down-converted 1080p
- 4K UHD (50 and 59.94) modes can also produce down-converted 720p
MagicSoft Recorder has several features that adds value to the software :
- integrated scheduler
- support for managing BlackMagic Design Videohub switcher over network.
- storage management for each assigned folder for recording
By default, Magicsoft Recorder is able to resume automatically a recording operation in cases like :
- lost input signal
- computer restart
- video mode changed ( if the channel is set on "Auto-detect" mode )
The software contains a watch-dog application that esures the functionality of the MagicSoft Recorder and sends the status and alerts by SMTP email.
MagicSoft Recorder works for all video modes by capturing the input video as YUV 4:2:2 10 bit and it can process up to 16 audio channels (32 bit 48KHz) depending on capabilities of the used frame-buffer. The files can be stored locally or over the network shared locations.
Supported inputs (depending of the capability of the used cards) :
- SDI with audio embeded
- SDI with audio AES
- YUV with analog audio
- Composite with analog audio
- HDMI