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Solitaire

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INTRODUCING SOLITAIRE

Solitaire is the ultimate Casablanca system for professional video editing - ideal for demanding users in the fields of editing, effects and audio.

The new hardware architecture, coupled with the real time operating system VxWorks, results in a huge leap in editing speed.

Casablanca Solitaire is available in two versions, differing in memory and hard-drive capacity.

FEATURES

  • Modern hardware architecture with particularly powerful fast 3Ghz processor, 512 MB or 1 GB RAM.
  • High capacity 160 GB or 300 GB hard-drive.
  • HD-backup system for creating backups with “one button“ solution. The backup drive has a capacity of 160 GB or 300 GB.
  • Latest Pioneer DVD burner with 8 x burning speed.
  • Additional space for optional, separately available, mobile DV hard-drive from CityDISK or a second removable hard-drive*.
  • Immediate status display of functions.
  • High quality case design with glass front and intelligent opening mechanisms.
  • Extremely low operating-noise level with WhisperEdit.
  • Front inputs, including microphone
  • 3 Firewire ports (one internal port for optional CitiDISK drive).
  • Casablanca SMART EDIT 3 incl. 3D-Shapes Professional.
  • SMART RENDERING: Automatic background rendering of effects. All effects are rendered in the background while you are working on a project.
  • DVD-Arabesk 2 with DVD Dicon technology.
  • Ready for the HDTV future: Casablanca Solitaire is equipped with most modern hardware architecture and is ready for HDTV editing. The developed codecs are already now capable of high resolution video streams.

INCLUDED WITH SOLITAIRE

Casablanca Solitaire includes :

Hardware

  • Casablanca Solitaire main unit
  • DVD-Arabesk 2
  • Trackball
  • Hard-Disk 160 GB or 300 GB (removable)
  • Backup Hard-Disk 160 GB or 300 GB (internal)
  • Manual
  • Installation SmartMedia
  • Registration-Card
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Software

  • main program SMART EDIT (including SMART RENDERING) for editing, audio editing, effects and titling
  • different effects for transitions, image processing and titling
  • different fonts for titling
  • Bluebox Effect
  • 3D-Shapes Professional Effect Pack
  • Bonus Effects
  • HD-Backup software

A large selection of effects are already included with each Casablanca.

Various options, depending on the effect used, allow for sheer unlimited effect settings.

 

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

     
 

System

  • Processor: Intel - 3 GHz
  • Working memory: 512 MB or 1024 MB RAM
  • Software: installed and on SmartMedia-cards
  • Graphics: integrated graphics, display on TV, VGA output for optional two-monitor suite system
  • DVD-drive: DVD-Arabesk internal
  • SmartMedia: 4-128 MByte capacity, 3,3V
 
     
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Recording System

  • Principle: dual-stream playback, real time effects, Direct DV
  • Storage: 160 GB or 300 GB IDE hard-disk (removable frames)
  • Backup drive: 160 GB or 300 GB IDE hard-disk (internal)
  • Max. capacity: currently up to 300 per hard-disk (with SMART EDIT 3)
  • Recording time: about 10 hours using a 160 GByte hard-disk
 
     
     
 

Video

  • TV standard: PAL-B/G 50 Hz or NTSC-M 60 Hz
  • Chipset: C-Cube Codec
  • Inputs: Front: CVBS, Y/C, i-Link DV, Rear: CVBS, Y/C, i-Link DV
  • Outputs: Front: i-Link, Rear: SCART (CVBS, RGB) (typ. 75 Ohm), CVBS, Y/C, i-Link DV
 
     
     
 

Audio

  • Inputs: Front: microphone, Stereo RCA, i-Link, Rear: Stereo-RCA, i-Link
  • Outputs: Front: i-Link, Rear: SCART, Stereo-RCA, i-Link
     
     
 

Additional Connections

  • VGA (Monitor)
  • 4 x USB
  • Ethernet
  • Trackball (USB)
  • Keyboard (USB)
     
     
 

Mechanics

  • Measurements WHD: approx. 315 x 245 x 335 mm
  • Weight: approx. 14 kg