Overview - Fast Forward Video sideKick HD User Manual

Ease your production workflow with a versatile recording solution that the whole production team
can agree on. sideKick HD is a camera-mountable High Definition digital video recorder that gives
you the freedom and flexibility to:
• Capture high quality video from your HD-SDI or HDMI capable camera.
- up to 220 Mbit/s (codec dependent)
- 4:2:2 sampling
- 10-bit quantization
• Record directly to high quality NLE formats, eliminating timely capturing, rendering and extra
transcoding which may degrade image quality.
• Be sure you've got the shot with the 4.3" on-board confidence monitor, which provides simple
playback options including clip selection, scrub and jog.
• sideKick HD comes with a 128GB Solid State Drive (SSD) but you can easily increase record
times with larger capacity non-proprietary 2.5" solid state drives.
• Mount the sideKick HD anywhere with the standard 1/4" 20 mount and ample power options
including varible voltage battery input from 7-16 volts DC or from AC line voltage using the
included power adapter.
• Recording can commence by pressing the big red Record button, or sideKick HD can be set
to sense incoming time code from the camera and automatically start/stop recording when the
time code starts and stops. Frame Rate and Video Resolution can also be set automatically with
sideKick HD's sensing capabilities.
• sideKick HD allows for a variety of preferred recording codecs. Authors of popular codecs re-
quire license fees per distributed copy, so with FFV's Codec Download Program you only
purchase the codecs you need for your own indivdual workflow.
- Apple ProRes 422 (this codec ships with the product)
- Apple ProRes 422 (HQ) (available now via purchase from ffv.com)
More codec options will become available via purchase from FFV, including:
- Avid DNx HD (available in the future via purchase from ffv.com)
- AVC Intra (available in the future via purchase from ffv.com)
sideKick HD Manual, Fast Forward Video, Inc

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