Roland VC-1-HS Professional A/V HDMI to SDI Converter

The Roland VC-1-HS fills a specific and consistently in-demand gap in production infrastructure: converting HDMI sources into the 3G/HD/SD SDI signals that professional broadcast and routing gear requires. Roland's stated design priority is lossless image conversion, meaning the pixel data reaching the SDI output faithfully represents the HDMI source without compression artifacts or re-encoding penalties. For multicam productions or broadcast chains where downstream color correction is planned, this signal fidelity matters — a converter that introduces even subtle image degradation becomes a liability in grading or on-air quality review. The VC-1-HS is positioned for live production, post production infrastructure, and installed systems, spanning deployment contexts from broadcast trucks to fixed AV installations.

The unit supports 3G SDI at both Level A and Level B, along with HD-SDI and SD-SDI, giving it broad compatibility across professional video equipment spanning legacy and current-generation formats. HDCP support addresses a practical compliance requirement when routing copy-protected HDMI signals — without it, certain sources refuse to pass a usable image. Selectable embedded and de-embedded audio channel routing gives engineers control over which audio channels travel through the SDI output, often eliminating the need for a separate audio breakout. The VC-1 RCS application for PC and Mac extends configuration beyond the hardware itself, enabling remote parameter adjustment that is valuable in installed or fly-pack contexts where physical access to the converter is inconvenient.