Atomos is excited to announce the second of its industry-transforming external Apple ProRes video recorders, the HD-SDI-equipped Samurai.

Samurai packs masses of power into a rugged, portable device that records, monitors, and instantly plays back ready-to-edit, visually-lossless Apple Pro Res files: all for only $1,500 USD.

Samurai, as well as Atomos’ original Ninja, will be demonstrated at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Convention from April 11-14, 2011, at the Atomos Booth (SL9105).

Samurai builds on all the strengths of Atomos’ groundbreaking HDMI Ninja, namely:

● Records, monitors and has instant on-board playback of ready-to-edit, visually-lossless Apple ProRes files - all in one portable, self-contained unit

● Bypasses the image-degrading compression needed to squeeze HD onto in-camera flash storage

● Eliminates capture cards and the time-wasting capture process by recording to a highc quality editing codec direct from the camera

● Uses limitless and cheap removable 2 ½ inch hard disks for the lowest cost storage in an external recorder

● Records to SSDs (Solid State Drives)

● Very low power consumption

● Banishes worries about battery life with “Dual Looping”, hot-swappable battery operation

● Recycles older cameras with obsolete tape and compression technology, and updates them with a modern, high-quality file-based workflow

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