Roland gets in the game

Described as an affordable solution for bringing professional relay capabilities to any live production environment, Roland has debuted the P-20HD Video Instant Replayer. The device enables a single operator to cue up replays of action, either on a streaming feed or live event screens in the venue, making it ideal for school sports, coaches, trainers and e-sports. Recording directly to high-capacity SD cards, action can be replayed in forward, reverse or slow motion, stepped through frame by frame or frozen for detailed analysis. The production is continuously recorded in the background during replays, with no gaps in the action.

With the ability to function on its own, or the upstream or downstream of any Roland video switcher, the P-20HD features a front panel comprising an array of dedicated hardware controls for a hands-on operation. Transport buttons include play, pause, forward, rewind, mark in and mark out. A jog/shuttle wheel with optical encoding provides precise control to scrub clips for replay and editing, while the T-bar directly adjusts playback speed. A Speed Range function offers fine control to aid with focusing in on tight action and contested plays.

In recording view, the P-20HD’s on-board colour LCD display screen shows the current video input, plus critical SD card information like recording duration, remaining storage space and available time. In playback view, users can display cropped previews of all video clips for live replay or later compilation. After the action is over, the media playlist builder aggregates clips into curated pro videos, letting users celebrate the best moments of a game on social media or distribute practice and training sessions to coaches and players for evaluation. The P-20HD natively records in the universal H.264 format. Users can connect two video sources via HDMI and switch/composite between them for replay capture.