nNovia Inc., based in San Jose, California, has opened a new European Office and website for sales of their acclaimed field-based digital video recorders and DV switching solutions.

nNovia designs, manufactures and markets robust, cost-effective direct-to-disk recorders and DV switching devices, under both OEM and nNovia brands, targeted at ENG, CCTV, Audio Visual Presentation, and professional videographers.

nNovia's principle product line is the Quick Capture range of direct-to-disk recorders. QuickCapture greatly reduces time and cost by recording “Edit-Ready” clips directly to a hard disk drive from any DV camera during field shooting.

The QuickCapture A2D has a built in A-D converter, ideal for analogue studios looking to squeeze more life from their existing analogue cameras, and is the professional video industry's first portable, analogue/digital HDD-based video recorder. QuickCapture A2D also has integrated media conversion capability that allows the user to record analogue video content directly to disk without further capturing or rendering. It can also play back captured video content directly to an analogue monitor.

nNovia's patent-pending DV switching technology is at the heart of FireSwitch, the industry's first “glitch-free”, asynchronous, IEEE-1394 Digital Video (DV) switch. Up to four independent, non-synchronized, DV sources can be connected as 1394 input devices. A sister product, SmartHub, is a switchable 6-port hub with built-in intelligence to manage interconnected 1394 devices.

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