Sony will supply a new video archiving system to RaceTech, the official provider of technical services to the British Horseracing Board.
The sale includes Sony’s XDCAM HD PDW-F75 recorders (pictured), an XDCAM cart machine, Sony HDXchange and a PetaSite archive. It will allow RaceTech to digitally record and archive the more than 1400 professional horse races in the UK every year.
Using XDCAM HD PDW-F75 recorders, images are stored on optical discs in RaceTech’s six OB trucks. The recorders allow detailed metadata about the races to be stored onto the discs alongside the video, including the names of every jockey and horse involved in the race.
When the optical discs are received at RaceTech HQ, they are ingested into a networked editing and archive system. Files are transferred onto a Sony HDXchange core, which is based around Sony HDXchange and a PetaSite archiving technology.
The system has editing capabilities that enable the team to produce one-off compilation DVDs of individual horses for clients.
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