Flash Card Recorders
Flash card recorders use a removable storage device to record sound,
called a flash card. The interesting thing about these recorders is that
they have no moving parts. Consequently, the machines are shock resistant,
rugged, and can be made very small.
Flash Card Recorder (Nagra)
Nagra
makes a pocket size model that accepts a mic head, making the whole
package about the size of a standard microphone! Despite this
portability, recordings must still be made with professional quality mics and
mixing equipment for optimal sound quality.
Pocket Size Recorder (Nagra)
Flash cards are about the size of a credit card and can record up to 3
hours of stereo sound. The cards can be reused 100,000 times. Transferring to
a nonlinear editing system is very simple. The data is downloaded using a
high-speed connection or the card itself is moved from the recorder to a
computer. It doesn’t get any easier than that!
DVD Hard Drive Recorders
After wavering for a few years, it looks like the new
standard in audio recording is the DVD hard drive recorder. As the
name implies, it is much like a computer, housing a hard drive and DVD
burner. Sound is recorder simultaneously by both devices.
The editor usually
gets the DVD for direct input to the editing system. The hard drive can be
used to burn additional DVDs and to download the audio file for archiving.
DVD Hard Drive Recorder (Aaton)
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