HARDATA SMART

CHANNEL-IN-A-BOX

2/4 Channels, Playout + CG, Ingest, Instant Play, Clipping, Time-Delay

Features Overview

NDI

Video over IP with current IP infrastructure. Connect to NDI inputs and make NDI outputs available to all your networked equipment.

Multi-Channel

A range of options to match your configuration needs and budget.

Playlist

The Playlist can be operated manually or automatically, with Live Event insertions and commands for Graphics, Picture in Picture, GPI and more. The Playlist order can be changed on-the-fly.

Instant Play

Ideal for live productions. It provides 10 pages of 20 buttons each, that can be assigned to any clip for instant replay.

SD/HD Ingest

Ingest in SD and Full HD in Mpeg2 and H.264.

Time-Delay

The TIME-DELAY can be set for each channel and has three modes, Censorship, Time-shift and Broadcast-delay.

Up/Down Conversion

Real time, on-the-fly conversion of content between SD and HD. You can combine content from both formats on the same timeline.

Multi-Format

Manages both SD and HD content, adapting them to the output format to ensure safe, accurate and high quality playout.

Live Feeds

Ingest a live feed, add animated logos, graphics and text, or insert and replace advertising for error-free playout.

Character Generator

CG allows insertion of graphics and animation – including time and temperature, external file text and metadata. A wide range of standard graphic file formats is supported.

Multi-language Support for On Screen Text

Including Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese and more.

Picture in Picture

It allows to playback a full screen video clip with transparency over the current video feed.

Continuous Recording

This feature records continuously. You can cut and continue recording without losing a single frame.

Play while recording

The clip is available for playing a few seconds after you start recording and does not need to wait until if finishes recording for playback.

Clipping

Subclips are sections of a video file. Each subclip hast its own metadata, code and entry and exit marks. It is possible to use subclips in order to sort and edit per cut large video files.

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Advanced Cataloging

Marks insertion with comments and tags, which are indexed to streamline and facilitate materials search.

SCTE-35/104 Advertising Replacement

On the Head end, the playlist allows you to create local blocks. When they are played, SCTE-35/104 commands are inserted into the SDI output for advertising replacement. On the remote, the SCTE35 auto mode turn on, which plays what it receives on the SDI input until it detects SCTE-35/104 commands to replace advertising. Depending on the playback mode and the duration of the local block, a filler material is inserted to complete the playback until the command to reconnect with the head end is received.

SMART FLOW Dashboard

A monitoring tool for the SMART FLOW Ecosystem. Control the health of your equipments, the clips synchronism between the emission server and the Smart Flow, the transference and transcode of materials between the servers of the ecosystem, all from a centralized tool.

Web Access

Integrated into every HARDATA server for remote content management and reporting. Compatibility-tested on PC and Mac platforms, web access allows server imports and exports, video content preview, and broadcast report generation.

High Reliability Fault Tolerance

Each storage array incorporates fault-tolerant hot-swap disks with RAID 6 technology and a built-in dual hot-swap power supply.

Unpack, Connect, On-Air

Everything you need to be up and running in a flash. Easy to install, operate and maintain, it is operated through a simple, intuitive and user-friendly interface. You can be on-air in a matter of minutes.

Clipping

Ideal for advertising replacing environments on deferred broadcasts, to segment movies, series and news.

It covers the entire workflow, from the continuous recording, the material production by creating subclips with different entry and exit points, cataloguing with marks, comments and tags and immediate Broadcast. You can do all this while recording the original material.

High Availability Operation

With the use of a second playout server you can set up a MASTER/SLAVE conguration. With the SLAVE synchronized with the MASTER, all materials are copied and follow the playout list to generate a second video signal identical to the main one.

SPECIFICATIONS

Compare SMART Models 7520ES, 7540 & 7540ES^*

FEATURES	7520ES	7540	7540ES
Full HD 1080i 50/59.94/60 Hz	✓	✓	✓
HD 720P 50/59.94/60 Hz	✓	✓	✓
SD PAL/NSTC	✓	✓	✓
NDI Support	✓	✓	✓
FULL HD Recording	✓	✓	✓
SD Recording	✓	✓	✓
Video transcoding on the fly SD ↔ HD	✓	✓	✓
Live Signal Insertion	✓	✓	✓
Character Generator	✓	✓	✓
Picture In Picture	✓	✓	✓
Time Delay	✓	✓	✓
Continuous Recording	✓	✓	✓
Play while Recording	✓	✓	✓
Subclips Support (Clipping)	✓	✓	✓
Advanced Cataloging	✓	✓	✓
Multilanguage support for on screen text	✓	✓	✓
Graphics Animation	✓	✓	✓
Web Access and SDK (SOAP) interface	✓	✓	✓
MASTER/SLAVE Ready Mode	✓	✓	✓
Out of the box, plug in, switch on and run	✓	✓	✓

CONTROLS	7520ES	7540	7540ES
Watch Folder	✓	✓	✓
VDCP Remote Control	✓	✓	✓
AMP Remote Control	✓	✓	✓
GPI	External	External	External
SCTE-35/104 Command Insertion	✓	✓	✓
SCTE-35/104 Command Detection	✓	✓	✓
Automatic Mode for Advertising Replacement SCTE-35/104	✓	✓	✓
MOS Integration	✓	✓	✓
HARDATA SMART FLOW	✓	✓	✓
OFFICE Remote Control	✓	✓	✓
Emails Alarms	✓	✓	✓

PLATFORM	7520ES	7540	7540ES
Rackmount Dell Server	1 U	1 U	1 U
Hot Swap Redundant Power Supply	✓	✓	✓
Hot Swap Disks Array	✓	✓	✓
HDDs	8 x 1.2 TB	8 x 1.2 TB	8 x 2.4 TB
Storage Array	Raid 6	Raid 6	Raid 6
Storage	7.2 TB	7.2 TB	14.4 TB
SD Storage (H.264 @ 3 Mbps)	4400 hrs	4400 hrs	8800 hrs
HD Storage (H.264 @ 6 Mbps)	2200 hrs	2200 hrs	4400 hrs
Networking	2 x 10 GbE + 2 x 1 GbE	2 x 10 GbE + 2 x 1 GbE	2 x 10 GbE + 2 x 1 GbE

VIDEO	7520ES	7540	7540ES
SDI Inputs / Outputs	2 In / 2 Out	4 In / 4 Out	4 In / 4 Out
NDI Inputs / Outputs	2 In / 2 Out	4 In / 4 Out	4 In / 4 Out
Digital Video Input	SD-SDI, HD-SDI	SD-SDI, HD-SDI	SD-SDI, HD-SDI
Digital Video Output	SD-SDI, HD-SDI	SD-SDI, HD-SDI	SD-SDI, HD-SDI
Sync Input	✓	✓	✓

AUDIO	7520ES	7540	7540ES
Audio Channels	16	16	16
Digital Audio Input	SDI Embedded	SDI Embedded	SDI Embedded
Digital Audio Output	SDI Embedded	SDI Embedded	SDI Embedded

TIME-DELAY	7520ES	7540	7540ES
Censorship mode	1 - 30 sec	1 - 30 sec	1 - 30 sec
Time-Shift mode	1 - 12 hrs	1 - 12 hrs	1 - 12 hrs
Broadcast-Delay mode	0 - 12 hrs	0 - 12 hrs	0 - 12 hrs

(*) ES = Extended Storage.
Specifications with respect to our products may change without notice.

SUPPORTED FILE FORMATS
MXF	MOV / QuickTime
LXF	AVI
GXF	DV
MPEG-TS	XDCAM
MPEG-PS	MP4

VIDEO CODECS
DV	MPEG-4
DVCPRO	H.264 / AVC
DVCPRO HD	MPEG-2
M-JPEG	ProRes
MPEG-1	DNxHD

AUDIO CODECS
PCM	MP2
MP3	M-JPEG
MPEG-1	MPEG-2
AAC	AC-3