Blackmagic Design HyperDeck Studio Video Recorder Product Lineup: Walkthrough

Blackmagic Design offers quite a few different HyperDeck product models for video recording and playback. Let's walk through all of their available offerings and talk about what you get with each one.

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00:00 Introduction
00:37 HyperDeck Shuttle HD
08:18 HyperDeck Studio HD Mini
13:39 HyperDeck Studio Mini (2017)
16:39 HyperDeck Studio HD Plus
23:21 HyperDeck Studio Pro 2
28:01 HyperDeck Studio HD Pro/4K Pro
33:32 Product Similarities
36:46 Wrap-Up

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[elchristianpodcast]

Thank you Doug you are the most helpful media genius in the industry! Thanks for sharing your knowledge ❤

[wrightmf]

At work we use Hyperdeck Studio12G to monitor test articles in a large facility. We continuously record, only playback to review if something were to go wrong with the test article. The SSDs are nice because readily available.

We record in in Prores Proxy so each SSD holds up to 35 hours of 720p60. We don't need the super high res. I guess broadcast people need density like one hour 1 TB clips.

I had issues of several units where the front panel buttons fail to respond. BMD repaired the units but recommend we don't stack multiple Studio12G units together (overheat issues?). Anyway I re-arranged our racks with space between units.

We had issues on one project that wanted us to save clips (few minutes each) that we used DaVinci Resolve to make mp4 clips. We noticed a few times the SSD became unreadable also not able to playback. I did some searching around, it appears if doing high frequent record/stop/playback a typical SSD card will fail. This is where it is necessary to get data center quality SSD cards that cost five times more than a regular SSD card. However, I haven't been able to replicate the problem in my lab. Management reluctant to spend $10K+ on SSD cards which I can't say will avoid this problem (which we haven't experienced lately).

It seems BMD is the only manufacturer that has a recorder in this form factor and uses SSD cards, it is perfect for our setup (and far cry from what we used before that was continously recording on VHS). We have several Studio12G, I will see if we can purchase more from stores that still carry this unit so our stock is same units for commonality. We don't need 4K.

[jorgecolinae]

I feels in a Masterclass of hyperdeck!!!! thanks for you help!!!!

[galaxophone]

We have 2 HyperDeck Pro 4Ks and I can't figure out how to get them to run in 60fps. They each have a 4K 60fps PTZ camera going into them, out to a 4K Constellation that is set to 60gps. I did find a 2160p60 option in the menu, but the display still shows 30fps. Official listings online say it caps at 30fps, which feels ridiculous at that price these days. I'm surprised you didn't mention the Studio 4K, which lists 60fps support quite clearly. Maybe I'm just missing something.

[vjries]

Hey Doug, your videos are the best. I was wondering if you were familiar with the Hyperdecks and their effect on the Tally and CCU. I have two BMPCC 4Ks passing through two Hyperdeck Studio HD Plus' then into my ATEM Mini Extreme ISO. Once the cameras are connected to the hyperdecks and then hyperdecks to ANY channel on my ATEM, my control and tally signal from channel 1 both get sent to whatever channel my Hyperdecks are on. Very frustrating on set, and seems like there should be a simple way to tell the Hyperdecks which channel they should correspond to. The issue happens whether plugged into the SDI of the Hyperdeck with converters, or directly into HDMI. BMD Support has left me hanging.

[comptegoogle]

Hello Doug, Is there possible to make a macro (with the atem software control) to make a slowmotion replay of a defined duration (the last 10 seconds, for example) with a Hyperdeck shuttle HD? some things work, but I run into several problems: selecting the last clip recorded, setting playback to slow speed and finally rewinding the last 10 seconds of the last clip. thank you

[LikeThisReview]

When I change the file format (through tcp command from Terminal), the hyperdeck studio HD plus changes the video format as well. If the disk is empty it takes the input video format (selected INPUT) and when there are clips of the new file format on the active disk it takes the video format of the first video it finds, based on sorted on video format. (Not on the order of the disk list, not in order of create timestamp). At least this is what I think what is being done. Can you confirm??

[ronescholz-nielsen]

Hi Doug,
Love your detailed walkthrough! Just ordered a Hyperdeck HD Mini (the new smallest model) and tried to figure out what SD card media to purchase for it..
I’ve seen the very short list of “supported” card brands/models on BMD’s website, but i assume it’s possible to use other brands like Lexar, Sandisk etc., as long as they are UHS-II and fast read/write speeds. What cards do you use for recording on your HyperDecks? (ps. I can’t even source those BMD mentioned sd card brands here in Denmark 😅)

[a.leehardin]

Hi Doug, I noticed you didn't mention anything about the ability to playback mp4 files from a computer or other source that is NOT formatted to hyperdeck strict settings. Grant had mentioned during this series launch that the 4K Pro model had the ability to accommodate this and that the feature would be added to some of the other models at some time. Any word about this on your end? Thanks.

[HowardMiller-lv]

We have the blackmagic atem studio pro 4k, and want to get away from having to use another laptop (running OBS) to project animated images and instant replay. I think for what we're doing(streaming in 1080p30 fps) we wouldn't need the hyperdeck 4k? I think we'd be good with the hyperdeck studio hd+?

[VELVET]

but i dont have to record onto the SSD on the HyperDeck Studio 4K Pro, i can record direct into my computer or do i need a DECKLINK 4k PCIE capture card to do that?

[Bamsambam]

TWO YEARS HAVE GONE BY since this video was released, did you find more uses for the Hyperdeck shuttle hd controller? Any other features or tricks you learned on it? I'm considering getting one but as you say it seems a bit limiting so I was wondering if you have grown to use it more? Thank you!

[elchristianpodcast]

Very helpful! I currently have the plus version I’m a bit disappointed the monitor out is only 1080p I wonder if the pro version monitors a 4K signal ?

[mlluke]

How do you connect a 4pin yc video cable to the hyperdeck studio pro

[RussHollinshead]

Hi Doug - I was wondering if you could help me. I've reached out on the forum and to BM but can't get the exact answers I need. I’m looking into the Hyperdeck HD Plus and I’m trying to figure out the behaviours of the unit before buying.

When you press the play button once (I’ve figure that you can press for loop clip and loop all clips), what does the unit do when it reaches the end of the clip? Does it hold the last frame, go black, or go onto the next clip? From what I'm understanding, I think that when it gets to the end of the clip, it moves onto the next clip automatically?

For some further info, I am looking to do a key/fill animation across a number of clips. I want the behaviour to be play first animation and then hold on the last frame of the first clip. Then I want to be able to play the next clip which will show the next bit of the animation when triggered - and so on. This also brings me to the next question - if you can do this, can the Hyderdeck do it such that it doesn’t drop a frame (eg I don’t want the animation to flash as the unit transitions between clips)

Some further thoughts - I could potentially trigger this from an Atem Mini ISO Extreme (I understand that does hold last frame) - or use companion (or a mixture of both) - but don’t see any configurable items for holding frame in the companion plugin.

I’m aware that you can do a command line play and hold - but I don’t want to be driving this from the command line - but do realise that I can change the behaviour of the unit by calling -

play option: stop mode: {lastframe/nextframe/black}

- what I dont know, is if this is only when using remote control, or whether it impacts the buttons on the front also (I'm guessing it doesnt). And even if i put the stop mode as lastframe, I think that I can trigger everything OK as I need - but I still don't know if it will be seamless as I switch between clips.

The BM docs really are pretty poor on this front - and as somebody that has the devices, I wonder if you could provide any input to these behaviours? There's certainly nothing on Youtube that I've found that calls all this sort of stuff out?! Really appreciate any help that you could offer up on this front. Thanks.

[corpsoundaudio]

On the HyperDeck Studio 4k Pro, is there a setting to trigger timecode output when the REC button is pushed? I'm hoping to trigger a Zoom F8 with start/stop.

[finno]

I have the plus version excellent unit. I use it for converting video cassette

[bahnastronaut]

Hey Dough, great explanation!
I would love if you could address a few extra points in a follow-up video on how to build a recording rack for ISOs:
1) How to master/slave separate units with Timecode, Genlock & RS422.
2) How to trigger the ISO recording through the ATEM Software Control. (Is all the cabeling still required if the AUX-Outs are used?)
3) How to offload the files with FTP to a NAS System.

[easterlingderek]

I have a curious question does the hyperdeck studio pro 4k upscale HD to 4k like the Web Presenter 4k does?

[DanielColonONETV]

Hi Doug, when I press rec on hyperdeck, timecode is set to a random # and it difficult the editing process with notes. how do I reset timecode to zero for recording?