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Dual Dock
The Dual Dock offers two slots for loading XR Capture Drives, Codex
Capture Drives or Transfer Drives. The dock needs to be connected to
a Mac Pro workstation using Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) for the data
channel and USB 2.0 for control. The Dual Dock ships with a full
version of the Codex Platform software, offering full VFS options. The
dock's second drive slot can be used to clone the contents from one
capture drive to another, or to a higher capacity transfer drive.
The Codex Dual Dock is available from ARRI or Codex.
Codex Vault
The Codex Vault is a modular, location-based media
management system, which works as a standalone unit
with an easy to use touchscreen interface. The base
unit offers a media port for the larger Codex Onboard M
Datapack, four slots for Capture Drives, and additional
ports for two SxS cards, a 1.8" and a 2.5" SSD drive.
The Vault can clone the contents from a Datapack or
Capture Drive to one or more Codex Transfer Drives, or
the optional internal storage. The base module also
offers SAS, ESATA and USB 3.0 connectors that can
be used to connect shuttle drives for offloading the
recorded footage. With the optional dual LTO-5 module,
it is also possible to incrementally archive the camera
footage directly on location.
The Vault is available from Codex.
About the Vault
The Vault is designed to simplify and standardize workflows. Before a Vault is sent off to a production, the
configuration of the media management tasks is done by an expert user (admin). This could be a workflow
supervisor, who knows which files will be required, or a rental technician, who has been briefed accordingly.
The 'Generate task', for example, controls which file formats will be created, the image dimensions, text
overlays (burn-ins), output color space, file name convention, and the directory structure that all files will be
offloaded to.
The operators of the Vault are guided through their tasks as they follow the pre-configured, standardized
workflow with a simple user interface. All complexity that results from the versatility of file-based workflows
has been taken off their minds by the expert user's configuration. Once a Vault is prepped, it can be
operated by a user who only needs to be thorough about his/her work, but does not need to decide about all
of the above. Unless the user is handed administrative access, it is not possible to deviate from the pre-
defined workflow. This makes the entire process very safe.
• Unload a Capture Drive from the camera and replace it with an empty drive.
• Take the camera footage to the Vault and run all media management tasks.
• Start over.
• Create a daily report sheet and archive of the original camera footage.
This is probably as close as we can get back to the original job of the 2
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AC or clapper loader.
Access to UDF Volumes (Compressed Recording)
XR Capture Drives or SxS PRO cards containing ProRes or DNxHD footage are formatted using the UDF file
system. They can be accessed without going through the Codex Platform software and VFS, using e.g. the
Single Dock (for XR Capture Drives) or standard ExpressCard/34 card readers (for SxS PRO cards) like the
Sonnet Qio E3 eSATA reader, the Sonnet Echo Pro ExpressCard/34 Thunderbolt Adapter, or a built-in
ExpressCard/34 reader, which can be found in several PC Notebooks and some of the older 15 and 17 inch
Macbook Pro Models.
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