Lightweight and Affordable Gemini 4:4:4 ARRIRAW Recorder Available at Radiant Images

Radiant Images a leading LA rental house and digital cinema innovator

LOS ANGELES (June 15, 2012) - The new Gemini 4:4:4 ARRIRAW recorder is considered the industry’s smallest, lightest weight and highest quality uncompressed video recorder. But the best part? The Gemini system allows filmmakers to create the ultimate in HD and now ARRIRAW at a fraction and size of other ARRIRAW recorders.

A full ARRIRAW recorder can cost upwards of $2,500 a day. Radiant Image’s Gemini 4:4:4 ARRIRAW package, including four data magazines and an SSD transfer station, rents for $695 a day ($2,085 a week).

That means ARRIRAW, the preferred choice for high-end cinematic applications, is now an affordable option for budgets and projects of any size.

“This new ARRIRAW version of the Gemini recorder is an incredibly powerful device, and it fits in the palm of your hand,” said Michael Mansouri, co-founder of Radiant Images, a leading LA-based rental house and digital cinema innovator. “It’s lightweight and easy to use and shoots uncompressed, the highest quality possible. Capturing with ARRIRAW is now an affordable and accessible option.”

The Gemini 4:4:4 ARRIRAW provides both maximum quality and maximum flexibility. It’s simple, small, stable and fast, functioning as a high-quality monitor, a recorder and a playback device – and weighing a mere 1.5 lbs.

The Gemini 4:4:4 combines a small, 5” LCD touch screen monitor (smaller than the TVLogic 5.6” monitor!) with an uncompressed HD recorder. The recorder supports HD-SDI, Dual Link and 3G-SDI Inputs and records to one or two 1.8” solid state hard drives.

Manufactured by Convergent Designs, the Gemini 4:4:4 ARRIRAW’s uncompressed recording can easily be incorporated into virtually any workflow using a favored codec.

Specific features include:

• Recording Format: Uncompressed RGB Recording into DPX and ARRIRAW
• Max Bit Depth/Sampling: 10-Bit 4:4:4
• Max Resolution: 1080
• Recording Media/Time: Dual SSD Drives (2x512GB Max) 98 min Max
• Max Record Speed: 250MB/s
• Max FPS @ Full Resolution: 1080p 23.98,25 (planned)
• 1080p 24,29.97,30,50,59.94,60

Here are additional specs.

The Gemini 4:4:4 ARRIRAW is another important tool available to clients of Radiant Images (www.radiantimages.com), which has built a reputation among DPs and camera operators as a go-to shop for the latest innovations and problem solving. Mansouri and his team are known to stretch the boundaries of digital cinema with creative solutions – specializing in designing and building custom 2D and 3D rigs as well as modifying cameras and gear to fit a need.

For more information, visit online at www.radiantimages.com or call 323-737-1314. Find Radiant Images on Facebook and Twitter.

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