The revolutionary Samurai is a portable touchscreen Professional 10bit HD Recorder, Monitor, & Playback device that captures pristine video and audio direct from any camera with HD/SD-SDI. It encodes in real-time to the visually-lossless Apple ProRes format, onto low-cost, removable 2 ½ inch hard disks. You can then review your footage in realtime onto the pristine 5″ display or out onto any HD-SDI capable device, including directors monitors & broadcast equipment. With up to 10 hours battery from the 2 included Lithium Ian Camera batteries, you truly have a deck & monitor in the palm of your hand, a super high quality deck & monitor.

It has a super high-resolution 5″ HD/SD SDI monitor with an ideal workflow: from sensor to timeline in unparalleled Apple ProRes quality. All the innovative features of the Ninja plus timecode and genlock and the ability to work with multiple synchronised units. The Samurai is the portable touchscreen HD/SD-SDI recorder/monitor the world has been waiting for.

The Samurai builds on the already impressive HDMI based Ninja to bring a host of new production weapons aimed at camera professionals with HD/SD-SDI cameras:

  • 5″ TFT/LCD 800×480 super high resolution screen
  • HD/SD-SDI Connecitvity
  • 24 PSF support with 24/60i 3:2 Pulldown removal on capture
  • SDI Play Out or Loop-Though: connect to an external broadcast monitor or director’s monitor and record and playback on set

Visit the Atomos website for more information or contact  your Trams Sales Representative, who will be happy to help, on 020 7820 7111.