Alongside now being able to export timeline information (OTIO files) and accept audio from any compatible USB webcam, the RødeCaster Video 1.4 firmware update for RødeCaster Video, RødeCaster Video S and RødeCaster Video Core. Adds a new 4K Capture Mode that transforms the consoles into dedicated multi-camera capture and distribution systems, in either 4K30 or 1080p60.
The same update extends RødeCaster Sync (unified audio-and-video workflow) to the entire current-generation family of video and audio RødeCasters, as well as support for timeline export for Adobe Premiere Pro, and other features.
4K Capture Mode is an additional operating mode that reimagines the RødeCaster Video as a dedicated UHD capture and distribution hub. In this mode, each console can take in multiple UHD30 camera feeds over HDMI (four on the RødeCaster Video, three on the Video S and Video Core) and send every feed out as its own NDI stream, ready to be pulled into any NDI-enabled production, streaming or recording system on the network, including popular applications like OBS and eCamm Live.
At the same time, each source can be recorded as an isolated 4K track straight to an external SSD in H.264 or H.265, handing editors clean, independent files for the grade. To achieve these massively increased resolutions, many of the switching, multi-camera scene arrangement, keying and media options have been reduced or simplified in this mode, although they remain fully functional in the default FHD Switching Mode.
A parallel Full HD Capture Mode is also available, for creators who’d rather hold a full 60fps across multiple 1080p feeds. Both are purpose-built throughput modes: they focus the console’s octa-core engine entirely on capturing and distributing pristine multi-camera video, with the full Røde audio mixer running alongside and every NDI output available as its own custom mix. When keying, graphics, transitions, scenes and direct streaming are called for, the console’s standard FHD Switching mode is available as always.
RødeCaster Sync connects any RødeCaster Video console to a RødeCaster Pro II or Duo with a single USB-C cable, merging them into one comprehensive audio-and-video studio. First introduced on the RødeCaster Video Core, v1.4 extends Sync functionality to the RødeCaster Video and Video S, so every current-generation console can now tap into the same integration.
Once connected, the Pro II or Duo’s hands-on interface can be used as an additional control surface for both machines. Its faders, mute and listen buttons, Smart pads and touchscreen control video and audio alike, and a new Video Smart Pad type puts switching, scenes, media, overlays and auto-switching under your fingertips. The two devices share a single nine-channel mixer drawn from any input on either unit, and every input and output across both is available to the combined production – more I/O than any RødeCaster has offered before. Recording, channel processing and custom output routing are all shared, and everything records to the RødeCaster Video’s drive, keeping audio and video together in one place.
‘When we launched the RødeCaster Video, we set out to make professional production radically more accessible – and we’re not done,’ says Røde CEO, James Hocking. ‘With 1.4, a single free update turns these consoles into a full 4K capture and distribution system and brings RødeCaster Sync to the entire family. This is just another example of our commitment to continue improving our RødeCaster family, long after launch.’
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