Blackmagic Design HyperDeck Extreme 4K HDR Recorder

HyperDeck Extreme features the trusted reliability of HyperDeck combined with new innovations such as space saving H.265 files, optional internal cache, 3D LUTs and HDR support! With the ability to record up to native 8K in H.265, you get reduced storage costs and amazing image quality. The large touch screen ensures a perfect view of your recording as well as control over all deck settings. You can then add HyperDeck Extreme Control to transform it into a traditional broadcast deck! This means HyperDeck Extreme is the perfect solution for the next generation of broadcast, live production and digital signage!

HyperDeck Extreme 4K HDR is a powerful Ultra HD touchscreen HyperDeck that records and plays H.265 and ProRes files in all SD, HD and Ultra HD standards up to 2160p60. Includes scopes, upgradable cache plus SDI, HDMI and analog video.

Modern Design with Traditional Controls

HyperDeck Extreme has an innovative touch screen user interface with deck controls as well as a large screen to view your recording. Then add a HyperDeck Extreme Control for traditional broadcast deck controls and a large shuttle knob that feels incredibly luxurious to use! You can even rack mount the HyperDeck and the controller! HyperDeck Extreme also includes 2 media slots, 12G‑SDI, analog connections for archiving, USB‑C external disk recording, plus a front panel speaker and headphone jack! There's also an optional cache that eliminates dropped frames if your media becomes full or is too slow. Both AC and DC power connections are also included for studio or on location use.

Modern Design with Traditional Controls

HyperDeck Extreme has an innovative touch screen user interface with deck controls as well as a large screen to view your recording. Then add a HyperDeck Extreme Control for traditional broadcast deck controls and a large shuttle knob that feels incredibly luxurious to use! You can even rack mount the HyperDeck and the controller! HyperDeck Extreme also includes 2 media slots, 12G‑SDI, analog connections for archiving, USB‑C external disk recording, plus a front panel speaker and headphone jack! There's also an optional cache that eliminates dropped frames if your media becomes full or is too slow. Both AC and DC power connections are also included for studio or on location use.

Convert Legacy Programming for Streaming

As streaming services have become common, preserving cultural diversity through maintaining localized content is increasingly important. The solution is to get each country’s legacy programs onto streaming services at an affordable cost. HyperDeck Extreme Control lets you connect to legacy broadcast decks, set an in and an out point, then edit. Just add HyperDeck Extreme and HyperDeck Extreme Control to each legacy deck to keep them all archiving constantly with just one operator. It’s even possible to edit across formats by using Teranex Express to convert tapes from SD to HD in one step. You can control a wide range of decks, including Digital Betacam, 1 inch C format, and Betacam SP.

Screen for Easy Touch Control

The innovative touch LCD user interface provides incredible control. On screen, there are dedicated buttons for play, stop and record, plus a mini timeline for scrolling through your recordings. You can even image swipe to jog! The LCD includes a heads up display of timecode, video standard, media status as well as audio meters. Scopes can be enabled via the touch screen as well as focus and exposure assist. There's also an extensive range of settings all controlled from the large LCD. Plus you can load and save 3D LUTs! You also get direct buttons for transport control, enabling the 3D LUT and remote enable. Then you can always add traditional deck controls with HyperDeck Extreme Control.

Dual CFast Media for Non Stop Recording

CFast media support allows you to record to commonly available flash memory cards. The H.265 files are small enough to allow long recordings on standard CFast cards. Plus there are 2 CFast card slots so you can swap out any full cards even during recording, allowing infinite length recording. CFast cards are perfect for broadcast because they are small, high speed and affordable. You can even use a Blackmagic MultiDock 10G to add SSD compatibility!

Record Direct to External USB‑C Media Disks

If recording to other media types is required, then the USB‑C Expansion port lets you plug in an external flash disk for recording. USB‑C flash disks have massive capacity as they don't suffer from any size constraint. Plus, it’s possible to record to the same disk you are using or editing, so you don't need to waste time copying files before starting post production. Flash disks are so fast, they can record high data rate formats that are too big for CFast cards, such as real time ProRes in 4K or 8K. Adding a Blackmagic MultiDock 10G also makes it easy to use SSDs for compatibility with other HyperDeck models. You even get on screen menus for managing external disks using the touch screen!

Built In Scopes Ensure Compliance to Broadcast Standards

HyperDeck Extreme features full internal waveform monitoring so you can ensure compliance to broadcast standards when used on high end work. The waveform display provides a traditional luminance (brightness) levels view of your input or playback signal. The vectorscope display allows you to see the intensity of color at 100% SDI reference levels. You also get RGB and YUV parade displays which are ideal for color correction and checking for illegal levels. Histogram shows the distribution of white to black detail in your images and highlights or shadows clipping. The built in scopes can be overlaid on live video, or as a small picture in picture view at the top right of the scope.

The Fastest Networking with Modern 10G Ethernet

With 10G Ethernet, HyperDeck Extreme is perfect for digital signage because remote uploads are extremely fast. What's amazing is the ethernet uploads on HyperDeck Extreme are much faster than CFast card transfer speeds! Both models use an easy text based protocol plus you can use Telnet to test control commands. Simply log into HyperDeck and then type "play" or "record" and it will execute the command. It's that simple! To upload media files remotely, you can use FTP, or even use simple FTP client software. When the ethernet protocol and FTP is used with large USB-C disk arrays, HyperDeck Extreme becomes a great broadcast server for ingest, media management and play out.

Traditional RS-422 Broadcast Deck Control

The most popular control connection used on broadcast decks since the early 1980s is the RS‑422 protocol. Originally developed by Sony, RS‑422 is used on almost all broadcast gear. HyperDeck Extreme features wide protocol support so you can connect it direct to broadcast systems. It also supports extra commands for the Advanced Media Protocol for managing disk recorders. When designing RS‑422 control solutions, you'll know you’re connected to a HyperDeck Extreme when you see the ID 0xF0E0 in 30/60p, 0xF1E0 in 25/50p or 0xF2E0 in 24p. The full set of support remote commands are included in the instruction manual and you can download this from the support page of our web site.

Compatible with Controllers, Switchers, Converters and More!

There's a wide range of Blackmagic Design products you can use with HyperDeck Extreme, including the HyperDeck Extreme Control for adding traditional broadcast deck controls. Plus it uses the industry standard RS‑422 deck control protocol so it works with any broadcast deck! Add the Blackmagic MultiDock 10G to use regular SSDs for compatibility with media from other HyperDeck models. HyperDeck Extreme is also a perfect mastering recorder with the ATEM Constellation 8K, or for clip playback and ISO recording. For monitoring, the Teranex SDI to HDMI 8K allows broadcast monitoring on a television and it also has monitor calibration, 3D LUTs and on screen scopes.

Connections

• SDI Video Inputs: 1
• SDI Video Outputs: 3  (12G-SDI A and B plus 3G-SDI Monitor Out)
• SDI Rates: 270Mb, 1.5G, 3G, 6G, 12G.
• HDMI 2.0 Video Inputs: 1
• HDMI 2.0 Video Outputs: 1
• Analog Video Inputs:
  • 1 x Component YUV on 3 BNCs,
  • 1 x Composite NTSC/PAL on 1 BNC.
• Analog Video Outputs: None
• Analog Audio Inputs: 4 Channels of professional balanced analog audio via XLR connectors and 2 channels of consumer unbalanced via RCA connectors.
• Built in Speaker: Mono
• Screen: 7 inch 1920 x 1200. 2000 nit DCI-P3 100% HDR LCD
• Timecode Connections: 1 x XLR in and 1 x XLR out.
• Reference Input: Tri-Sync or Black Burst.
• SDI Audio Inputs: 16 channels embedded audio.
• SDI Audio Outputs: 16 channels embedded audio.
• HDMI Audio Inputs: 8 channels embedded audio.
• HDMI Audio Outputs: 8 channels embedded audio.
• Remote Control: 1 x RS-422 In, 1 x RS-422 Out.
• Recorder Configuration: Via user interface or Blackmagic HyperDeck Ethernet Protocol.
• Ethernet: 10Gb/s
• External Recording: 1 x USB-C 3.1 Gen 2 (up to 10Gb/s) for external disk recording.
• Computer Interface: 1 x USB-C for software updates.

Standards

• SD Video Standards
  • 525i59.94 NTSC, 625i50 PAL
• HD Video Standards
  • 720p50, 720p59.94, 720p60
  • 1080i50, 1080i59.94, 1080i60
  • 1080p23.98, 1080p24, 1080p25, 1080p29.97, 1080p30, 1080p50, 1080p59.94, 1080p60
  • 1080PsF23.98, 1080PsF24, 1080PsF25, 1080PsF29.97, 1080PsF30
• 2K DCI Video Standards
  • 1080p23.98 DCI, 1080p24 DCI, 1080p25 DCI
  • 1080PsF23.98 DCI, 1080PsF24 DCI, 1080PsF25 DCI
• Ultra HD Video Standards
  • 2160p23.98, 2160p24, 2160p25, 2160p29.97, 2160p30, 2160p50, 2160p59.94, 2160p60
• 4K DCI Video Standards
  • 2160p23.98 DCI, 2160p24 DCI, 2160p25 DCI
• SDI Compliance
  • SMPTE 259M, SMPTE 292M, SMPTE 296M, SMPTE 424M, SMPTE 425M Level A and B, SMPTE 2081-1, SMPTE 2081-10, SMPTE 2082-1, SMPTE 2082-10 and SMPTE 2084.
• SDI Metadata Support
  • HD RP188 and closed captioning CEA-708. HDR Metadata supported on SDI.
• Audio Sampling
  • Television standard 24-bit, 48 kHz sample rate.
• Video Sampling
  • 4:2:2 YUV
• Color Precision
  • 10-bit
• Color Space
  • REC 601, REC 709, REC 2020. 33 point 3D LUTS can be applied via the LUTS menu tab.
• Multi Rate Support
  • Auto detection of SD, HD, 6G‑SDI, and 12G-SDI.
• Copy Protection
  • HDMI input is unable to capture from copy protected HDMI sources. Always confirm copyright ownership before capture or distribution of content.

Media

• Cache Recording: Slot for optional M.2 PCIe NVMe card for cache recording up to 16Gb/s. 60mm 80mm and 110mm supported.
• Media: 2 x CFast 2.0 card slots and 1 x USB-C 3.1 Gen 2 expansion port for external recording of SD, HD, and Ultra HD.
• Media Type: CFast card and external USB-C flash drives.
• Media Format: Can format media to ExFAT (Windows/Mac) or HFS+ (Mac) file systems.

Supported Codecs

• ProRes HQ QuickTime, ProRes 422 QuickTime, ProRes LT QuickTime for all formats up to 2160p60. Playback only of ProRes 4444 QuickTime up to 2160p60 with auto routing of fill and key over SDI A and B outputs. H.265 High, H.265 Medium, H.265 Low for all progressive formats up to 2160p60.

Scopes

• Waveform, RGB Parade, Vector and Histogram scopes in broadcast quality 10-bit.
• Viewing Modes: Picture in picture, picture overlay with opacity control. Waveform and RGB parade with standard and HDR graticules and Vector with zoom.

Control

• Built in Control Panel: Integrated capacitive touchscreen LCD with onscreen controls for settings and navigating menus.
• External Control: RS-422 deck control, SDI start/stop, timecode run. Includes Blackmagic HyperDeck Ethernet Protocol.