Canon FS-CF and FS-CF Pro Portable Compact Flash DTE recorders

Canon has just announced the Focus Enhancements FS-CF and FS-CF Pro portable Compact Flash DTE recorders – offering HD video recording to Compact Flash cards for Canon’s line of HDV camcorders and Mini-DV camcorders.The new Focus Enhancements FS-CF units lend support to 1080 24F, 25F and 30F, 50i and 60i frame rates in QuickTime as well as M2T file formats. In addition, 1080i 60 and 50 are endured in the MXF OP Atom format.

“With the continued trend toward a fully digital file-based workflow, we are proud to offer our customers a new solution to adapt previously released Canon HDV camcorders into a file-based solution to allow them to take full advantage of all the benefits that flash media offers,” explained

The new recorders come equipped with additional features such as video playback on the unit’s color LCD, MPEG-4 proxy file generation, wireless metadata logging, and much more. Perfect for professional cinematographers and videographers, the new devices enable users to upgrade their existing canon HDV equipment to a seamless file-based workflow.

Both the FS-CF and FS-CF Pro units boast of a single card slot for recording to industry standard Type 1 CF solid-state media. Once video footage has been recorded to user-supplied CF cards, the FS-CF units are easily connected to both Windows and Mac systems via USB 2.0 from the FS-CF unit itself or the CF card can be easily read through standard memory card readers for a seamless workflow with popular NLE systems.

The new Canon FS-CF and FS-CF Pro are anticipated to hit the shelves in late April with a price tag of $995 (approx Rs. 44,057) and $1,295 (approx Rs. 57,326) respectively.

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