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If you want all the Cloudstore benefits without a four-figure budget and can provide their own USB-C storage, there is the Blackmagic Cloudstore Pod, which can use virtually any USB-C high-speed storage. It also can boast of a 10Gb Ethernet port along with the two USB-C and HDMI ports. The Mini is available now for $395. HyperDecks: Big and Small At first blush, it looks like a very compact jog/shuttle control, but with the new HyperDeck Shuttle, there’s a lot more than meets the eye. Like all its HyperDeck siblings, the Shuttle is a compact playback and record device that is a great companion for ATEM switchers of just about any size. The large, weighted jog control speeds or tiptoes you through a video file. (We’re waiting to try one out to see how it would work as a slo-mo device for schoolboy sports.) The scroll mode not only moves faster, but is used to scroll through multiple video files. It has some nice software design features like the ability to automatically stop at the end of the clip being played. Instead of cluttering up (and adding the cost of) a built-in display for menus, those appear on an HDMI monitor output. Plus, the menu controls are safely recessed above the main controls and away from fat fingers. Reminiscent of a late-night infomercial, there’s a true, but-wait-there’s-more feature. The HyperDeck Shuttle can also serve as a full-featured teleprompter, and one of the better-designed ones that we’ve seen, doing things like preserving some styles from the original RTF file like bold, italic, color, paragraph formatting, while overriding the font size and margins to something prompter-friendly. The shuttle knob and tape playback controls perform just about the same functions in the prompter mode as they do with video playback. Though it doesn’t appear that you can record and prompt at the same time, this is still a wonderfully cool addition. Taking the lead at the high end of Blackmagic Design’s storage family is the new HyperDeck Extreme, with models for both 4K and 8K HDR video. It takes advantage of speedy CFast memory with slots for two of the cards for non-stop recording. There is an optional media cache that can do away with dropped frames. The display is also a touch-screen controller that can display the built-in waveform, vector, parade, and histogram scopes. It has 10Gb Ethernet and software that makes the drive available FTP and Telnet. The HyperDeck Extreme 4K is available now for $2,995 with the 8K version coming soon. Cloud Pod – A pocket-size video server