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P R O D U C T S ColoRig enhances Blackmagic's UltraScope F OLSOM, CA — Silverado's (www.silverado. cc) new ColoRig is a companion product to Blackmagic's UltraScope. ColoRig is a 2RU system, which, when combined with the UltraScope, provides waveform, vectorscope, RGB parade, audio levels and histogram monitoring in a sim- plified system. Since Ultra- Scope is de- signed to run on a Windows system with at least two PCIe slots — one of which needs to be a x16 PCIe slot for the graphics card — some studios might not have suitably-equipped spare PCs available for the job, particularly Mac-based studios. ColoRig ($2,495) integrates into both PC and Mac workflows. iPhone app calculates storage needs G RASS VALLEY, CA — AJA (www.aja.com) is offering a free Apple iPhone app that calculates storage requirements. The DataCalc data rate calculator is a fast and simple tool that can be used in the field during acquisition or in the edit bay. It allows users to calculate their storage consumption and data capturing require- ments. It supports a wide array of video compression formats, in- cluding Apple ProRes, DVCProHD, HDV, XDCAM, DV, RGB and YUV uncompressed, as well as NTSC, PAL, 1080i, 1080p, 720p, 2K and 4K video standards. Settings can be entered via an intuitive user interface. Durations can be entered in units of days, hours, seconds or even timecode frame count. And the summary page allows users to review results and deliver the data via email. F AIR LAWN, NJ — Maxell (www.maxell-usa.com) is selling a new, direct-to-disk, video capture adapter that converts the output of a digital video camera to a nonlinear editing format and stores it on an iVDR drive. The iVDR VC102 Powered by CitiDisk allows any camera that uses the DV, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50, DVCPRO100, DVCPRO HD or HDV formats to record simultane- ously to an iVDR drive. The VC102 features an easy-to-use menu system on a backlit display. Maxell's iVDR drive has a current capacity of 250GB — enough space to record 19 hours of digital video, 110 hours of DVD-quality video, or 20 hours of MPEG high de- finition footage. The unit operates off a rechargeable, internal Lithium-Ion battery, and can record non-stop, for approximately 90 min- utes. DC power is also available as an option. Pricing is $1,500 and the unit is available now. A 250GB Max- ell iVDR EX rugged drive is also currently available for $289. Camera adapter allows iVDR recording