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DDR

The Synchromesh DDR is our top product. It's a good choice to replace HD VTRs, HD DDRs, and software based playback. The DDR is a turn-key system, based on a powerful computer, GPUs, RAID array and SDI card, but to your clients and technicians, is a simple touchscreen based player, that can be mastered in less than a hour of exploring.

The DDR is packaged in a rugged 4RU enclosure, with a bright, sharp LCD touchscreen on the front, and simple, well-labelled backplane with a wide range of outputs, that are always sending signals, however you configure the unit. It's inherently a multi-resolution system, scaling every size of video to each output's selected resolution and frame-rate on the fly, giving superb quality with SD, HD and special resolutions all at the same time.

Every clip you play back will output a user defined timecode (SMPTE or EBU LTC) from standard connectors as it runs. Use the timecode from the media you imported, or start each clip at one hour: it's your call.

Once connected with gigabit Ethernet, DDRs will automatically network together, and as you import files, will share them automatically (can be modified to preserve disk space) by blasting the data over the Ethernet connection. Each DDR also has another network connection, that you can use to control one or all DDRs, or to link to a remote system, for instance in an edit suite.

Boot time is far under a minute, the drive RAID protects both your video and the system, and a comprehensive system utilities suite is included if you feel the need to get your hands dirty.

Available options will include SDI, 3D and 4K output.

Please check through the other features to see what the whole range can do.

Synchromesh Options

Features	DDR---------	Turbine-----	Octane------	Meshshift---
List Price:	$19,500 USD	$6,500 USD	$2,500 USD	Free
Touchscreen:	✓	X	optional	optional
LCD Display:	optional	✓	optional	optional
DVI outputs:	2 DVI-I	1 DVI-D 1 VGA	1 GUI 1 DVI	GUI only
SDI input, outputs:	additional price	X	optional	N/A
Audio outputs:	8	2	2	N/A
Timecode output:	✓	✓	✓	N/A
Import from FTP or external disk:	✓	X	✓	✓
Recording:	optional	X	✓	X
Media sharing / distribution:	✓	✓	✓	✓
Can control other Synchromesh products:	✓	✓	✓	✓
Control from other Synchromesh products:	✓	✓	X	N/A
Control from 3^rd party products:	✓	✓	X	X
Storage capacity:	3TB	500GB	Customer Supplied	Customer Supplied
Uncompressed video playback:	✓	X	Hardware Dependant	N/A
Multi-Track Playlists:	✓	✓	✓	✓
Clip Transitions:	✓	✓	✓	✓
In-point / out-point edit (per clip):	✓	✓	✓	✓
Looping (per clip):	✓	✓	✓	✓
Color correction (per clip):	✓	✓	✓	✓
Audio level correction (per clip):	✓	✓	✓	✓
Output Warping:	additional price	X	X	N/A
3D playback:	additional price	X	X	N/A

Turbine

*** Information subject to change ***

Turbine is the mid-level Synchromesh offering. It does support automatic networking (MeshNet) and remote control, but not the full power or ease of use of the DDR.

We are still defining the pricing and format of the Turbine product. Please contact us for more information.

Spark

Spark is our playback only solution. It's the only stand-alone version, putting it at a price that will let you replace DVDs, kludgy programs off the web, and of course, using awkward Windows based 'DDRs'. Spark is available for Mac and Linux, and a Windows version isn't out of the question, as we use standard cross-platform technologies, including Quicktime and OpenGL.

Spark will run on the second screen of a laptop or desktop, or on the single screen of a computer, such as a Mac Mini. If you move to the Pro version, it will use supported video output systems, such as AJA, Matrox or other firewire based interfaces. The pro version also imports and re-encodes video for you as needed.

The power of Spark will be defined by:

Your CPU speed, type and number of cores - Synchromesh uses multiple processors as available
The amount of RAM you have. The more, the better - we aggressively cache frames if we can
Your GPU type and amount of RAM. All processing takes place on the GPU, plus the faster it is, the quicker frames can be pushed onto it
Your disk configuration. With a single laptop disk, you'll have to use some reasonable compression. Synchromesh won't playback quite as high quality as your laptop might just playing a movie, say. We need extra power to play an extra file to transition to, and to get the best possible quality processing and frame rate conversions. With a fast enough RAID array though, you can use uncompressed 2k video if you want