High-Quality HD Video Conversion
Our ADVC HD family supports virtually any high-definition (HD), video-conversion need. As standalone units or connected to a computer, all ADVC HD products feature broad compatibility with video equipment, sturdy construction, and a standalone-operation capability.

Our Grass Valley ADVC-HDM1 unit provides high-quality, bi-directional conversion between HD-SDI and HDV signals, complete with embedded audio. It's perfect for recording from HD-SDI sources to our Turbo intelligent digital disk recorder (iDDR)-or for use as a standalone converter without a computer.

Compatible with Windows and Macintosh operating system-based nonlinear editors that support HDV or HD-SDI, the ADVC-HDM1 unit lets you easily and instantly convert HD-SDI output to HDV and ingest HDV material into HD-SDI systems for archiving. It can also encode HD MPEG-2 transport streams up to a full 1920x1080 resolution using one of eight different bit-rate settings that best suits your workflow.

The ADVC-HDM1 unit also lets you input external timecode information when encoding in HDV; control HD-SDI decks via HDV and vice versa with AV/C-RS-422 device control conversion; and use simple, two-button control for its encoding/ decoding and timecode mode via the front panel.

Simple front-panel configuration and status display

Compatible with Windows and Macintosh platforms

No need to install drivers or any software applications

50 Hz and 60 Hz compatible

Ideal for studio production environments

Robust and reliable-over 250,000 ADVC converters sold worldwide

Digital Video:

4-pin FireWire (IEEE 1394)

6-pin FireWire (IEEE 1394)

Supported MPEG-2 transport stream encoding formats:

HDV (auto select)

HD1: 720/30p, 720/25p (video bit rate: 18.3Mb/s; audio stream: stereo MPEG Audio Layer 2, 384 kb/s)

HD2 1080/59.94i, 1080/50i (video bit rate: 25 Mb/s; audio stream: stereo MPEG Audio Layer 2, 384 kb/s)

Additional formats (dip switch select)

Video bit rate: 11-, 14-, 16-, 18-, 20-, 25-, 30-, 40 Mb/s

Audio stream: MPEG Audio Layer 2, 384kb/s

Supported MPEG-2 transport stream decoding formats:

HDV (auto select)

HD1: 720/30p, 720/25p

HD2: 1080/59.94i, 1080/50i

Additional formats (dip-switch select)

Profile/Level: MP @ HL, MP @ H14

Resolution/frame rate: 1080/59.94i, 1080/50i, 720/59.94p, 720/50p

HD-SDI in (BNC)

HD-SDI active-through (BNC)

2x HD-SDI out (BNC)

Digital Audio Input:

HDV 2-channel

HD-SDI 2-channel embedded audio (SMPTE 299M Ch1, Ch2 only)

Digital Audio Output:

HDV 2-channel

HD-SDI 2-channel embedded (SMPTE 299M stereo, 16 bit, 48 kHz, locked)

Time Code:

LTC in (BNC)

LTC out (BNC)

DVITC in (decoded from HD-SDI input)

DVITC out (encoded in HD-SDI output)

Reference:

Input (BNC)

Loop-through (BNC)

Device Control:

AV/C over 1394

RS-422A (control)

RS-422A (device)

RS-232C (external control)

Display:

Front-panel status

Mode select

Power: Includes AC adapter (12 VDC, 3A)

Environmental Characteristics:

Operating temperature: 10 to 35°C

Storage temperature: -20 to 60°C

Maximum humidity: 80% (no condensation)

Dimensions:

Width: 215 mm (8.46 in.)

Height: 44 mm (1.73 in.)

Depth: 241 mm (9.49 in.)

Minimum System Requirements:

Windows PC

Windows 2000 (Service Pack 3 or higher)

Windows XP Home, Windows XP Professional (Service Pack 1 or higher)

Windows Vista Home Basic, Windows Vista Home Premium, Windows Vista Business, Windows Vista Ultimate (Service Pack 1 or higher)

Windows 7 Home Premium, Windows 7 Professional, Windows 7 Ultimate

DirectX 8.0 or higher

Mac:

Mac OS X (10.2.7/10.2.8/10.3/10.4.x/10.5/10.6)