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Save money and time with AmberFin’s iCR Virtual VTR
Machine rooms are expensive to run.
Videotape recorders (VTRs) are subject to wear and tear, leading to significant maintenance bills. Many of them are in danger of becoming obsolete. And the tapes they use are expensive to store and liable to degrade.
With all this, you could be forgiven for wondering if there wasn’t a better alternative to your VTR. There is. It is AmberFin’s iCR Virtual VTR and you could be using it to transform your workflows right now.
iCR Virtual VTR can:
- Replace VTRs in almost all workflows and is not subject to wear and tear, saving you money.
- Reduce your reliance on tape stock, cutting your inventory and physical storage costs.
- Do the work of two VTRs by handling both standard definition (SD) and high definition (HD) files.
- Switch between 525, 625, 720/1080 HD and 23, 24, 25, 29, 50 and 60 frames per second in a single mouse click, saving you time in having to reboot your HD VTRs to change the rates between different video standards.
Forget about the two-hour time limit on videotapes
Have you ever been frustrated by not being able to fit more than two hours of material on a tape? With iCR Virtual VTR you can practically store as much as you want on a file.
It comes with dozens of hours of continuous local storage space and can have a lot more when bridged to network-attached storage (NAS) or a storage area network (SAN). This means you can now be as flexible as you like in the way you store and deliver content.
Save satellite feeds direct to disk storage
If you are currently recording satellite feeds to tape and then having to re-encode them to disk storage later, then you will be glad to know there is a much more efficient way of dealing with this content.
With iCR Virtual VTR you not only get SD and HD serial digital interface (SDI) ingest but also pre-compressed asynchronous serial interface (ASI) MPEG-2 ingest, allowing you to easily record live satellite and contribution feeds direct to disk.
Convert seamlessly between files and SDI video
If you are often having to output files to videotapes or convert tapes to files then you will know how much of a pain it can be to move back and forth between the physical world and the file domain.
iCR Virtual VTR bridges your video and IT infrastructures and allows you to improve your workflows with seamless conversion and SDI video. The result is a much more efficient and cost-effective operation.
Benefits at a glance
| Benefit | iCR Virtual VTR |
|---|---|
| Remove the need for tapes and VTRs |  |
| Reduce maintenance costs | |
| Reduce inventory and physical storage costs | |
| Handle SD and HD in one go | |
| Switch instantly between video formats | |
| Extend video beyond two hours | |
| Easily record live satellite feeds | |
| Switch easily between tapes and files | |