Editcam is a professional digital camera system manufactered by Ikegami and first introduced in 1995, available both as professional camcorders and modular dock recorders. Its most distinguishing feature is the recording medium: The FieldPak, which is a cartridge that contains a hard disk with up to 60 GB of storage, or its compatible companion, the RAMPak, a flash memory module with up to 10 GB. Both, unlike tape based formats, allow random access to the video data, and both standalone VCR replacement players and computer adaptor racks are available for the Paks. This made the Editcam a pioneer in the field of non-linear acquisition, but the earliest incarnations of the Editcam were plagued with high power consumption and weight, and sold only about 50 units^[1]. These problems were adressed with the Editcam II in 1999. The latest generation of the Editcam system, Editcam3, can record in the formats Avid JFIF, DV and optionally MPEG IMX and DVCPRO50. HDTV variants are now also available, which record in the Avid DNxHD format. Ikegami () is a japanese manufacturer of professional and broadcast television equipment, most notably professional video cameras, both for ENG and studio use. ... 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 8mm Camcorder mini-DV Camcorder A camcorder is a portable electronic device (generally a digital camera) for recording images and audio onto a storage device. ... Typical hard drives of the mid-1990s. ... A USB Flash Memory Card Flash memory is a form of EEPROM that allows multiple memory locations to be erased or written in one programming operation. ... The video cassette recorder (or VCR, less popularly video tape recorder) is a type of video tape recorder that uses removable cassettes containing magnetic tape to record audio and video from a television broadcast so it can be played back later. ... The tower of a personal computer (specifically a Power Mac G5). ... 1999 is a common year starting on Friday of the Common Era, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Avid Technology, Inc, a publicly traded company since 1993, is registered on the NASDAQ under the symbol AVID. The company is involved with digital nonlinear media creation, management and distribution services. ... A MiniDV tape Digital Video (DV) is a video format launched in 1996, and, in its smaller tape form factor MiniDV, has since become one of the standards for consumer and semiprofessional video production. ... Betacam and VHS size comparison Betacam SP L, Betacam SP S, VHS Betacam is a family of half-inch professional videotape formats developed by Sony from 1982 onwards. ... A MiniDV tape Digital Video (DV) is a video format launched in 1996, and, in its smaller tape form factor MiniDV, has since become one of the standards for consumer and semiprofessional video production. ... High-definition television (HDTV) means broadcast of television signals with a higher resolution than traditional formats (NTSC, SECAM, PAL) allow. ...

Still, the system is prohibitively expensive, making it relatively uncommon. Additionally, non-linear video recording is now offered by both Sony (XDCAM) and Panasonic (DVCPRO P2), as well as IEEE 1394 add-on hard disk systems to regular DV cameras, like the FireStore or similar products, making the Editcam's unique selling point not so unique. Sony Corporation (Japanese katakana: ソニー) (TYO: 6758), (NYSE: SNE) is a global consumer electronics corporation based in Tokyo, Japan. ... XDCAM is a professional digital camera system introduced by Sony in 2003. ... Panasonic is principal sponsor of the Toyota F1 team Panasonic is a brand used by Matsushita, a Japanese company, to market its products throughout the world. ... DVCPRO P2 is a professional digital video format introduced by Panasonic in 2004, and especially tailored to ENG applications. ... A 6-Pin Firewire 400 connector FireWire (also known as i. ... A MiniDV tape Digital Video (DV) is a video format launched in 1996, and, in its smaller tape form factor MiniDV, has since become one of the standards for consumer and semiprofessional video production. ... An add-on firewire hard-drive unit that can be plugged into any DV-Camcorder with a firewire output terminal. ... The Unique Selling Proposition was proposed as a theory to explain a pattern among successful advertising campaigns of the early 1940s. ...

External link

• Ikegami's Editcam homepage