Sony J-30-SDI
	Digital Betacam Player with Firewire i-Link output. Plays back Betacam, Betacam SP and Betacam SX, DigiBeta and MPEG-2 IMX formats. It features a jog shuttle dial to enable easy searching, and handles both S and L-size cassettes.

The J-30/SDI has proved to be phenomenally popular for desktop playback by broadcast producers and journalists for material viewing, logging, and digitizing into nonlinear editing systems.

The addition of IEEE-1394 FIREWIRE connectivity enables professional users to more easily operate in a DV environment. All standard definition, half-inch Betacam format tapes, dating back some twenty years, can now easily be converted to a 25 Mbps DV signal and transferred to a compatible DV device via a single digital interface cable.

Playback formats supported by the J-30 models include Betacam, Betacam SP, Betacam SX, Digital Betacam and MPEG IMX. During cassette loading, each format is automatically identified for playback, so no menu settings or switching is necessary. And despite their compact size, the J Series Compact Players can play large-size as well as small-size cassettes. The players can also be easily switched between 525/60 and 625/50 playback modes, enabling operation in international environments.

As with previous models, J-Series players can scan tapes with Shot Marks and automatically detect their position. After scanning, a list of all marks can be displayed on a video monitor, allowing easy cueing to any mark.

Two selectable channels of analogue audio output are available either through the XLR connectors or phono connectors located on the rear panel of the players. A headphone jack is also provided on the front panel. The audio channels to be output to the analogue outputs and headphone jack can be selected from channels 1/2, 3/4,, 5/6, 7/8 and cue track.

The J-30/SDI provides editors with a choice of either analogue component output or SDI output depending on application requirements. The J-30 offers analogue component outputs (BNC x 3) as standard, while the J-30/SDI offers two SDI outputs (BNC x 2) &endash; including one with character superimpose capability. The J-30/SDI also provides one time code output and has the ability to read Unique Material Identifier (UMID), a type of metadata approved as a SMPTE standard (SMPTE-330M) on MPEG IMX and Digital Betacam tapes, and output this data through the SDI interface. The UMID consists of a globally unique number and a material number, used for the identification of recorded material.

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