Rode’s Rodecaster Video S is a smaller, cheaper manufacturing console for creators

Rode is as we speak launching the Rodecaster Video S, a smaller and cheaper model of its current all-in-one manufacturing console. The Rodecaster Video is focused at professionals and environments often producing multi-camera content material. The S, in the meantime, is aimed toward bed room streamers, video podcasters and different indie creators with extra modest manufacturing wants. Consequently, the main focus right here is on trimming down pointless options to get the worth to a extra affordable $500.

It’s straightforward to identify the variations by sight alone, for the reason that {hardware} is smaller than its greater sibling. It’s bought fewer enter and scene buttons, and is clad in plastic, rater than steel, because it most likely gained’t should be moved round quite a bit. The variety of HDMI inputs/outputs drops from 4/2 on the unique to three/1 right here, and there’s just one multi-function USB-C port. Equally, there’s solely two headphone outputs right here, and also you’ll solely get 24GB inner storage reasonably than the microSD-card slot discovered on the unique.

The Rodecaster Video S is offered to pre-order as we speak, with items anticipated to ship throughout December, relying in your territory.