Mac Conversion Utility Now Available for Roland VR-5

Roland Systems Group has released a Mac image converter utility for the popular VR-5 AV mixer. This newly released software allows users to convert still images, video, and audio into and from the format used by the VR-5's internal SD card-based player and recorder.

The Roland VR-5 is a fully integrated audio mixer, video switcher with built-in recorder/player for live production and web streaming.

Current formats supported in the VR-5 conversion software include .avi, .mpg, .wvm, .mp4, .dv, .mov with resolutions up to 1920 x 1200 pixels. Still image conversion support includes .bmp, .jpg, .png with file sizes up to 6,400 x 4,800 pixels. Audio formats supported for conversion include .wav, .aiff, .mp3 with sampling rates of 44.1kHz, and 48kHz.

The VR-5 Image Converter for Mac is available for download at: http://www.rolandsystemsgroup.com/vr5 under the download tab.

A VR-5 Image Converter for Windows update is schedule to released at the end of May, which includes the export function to convert recorded files to a number of different formats for playback on a variety of devices.