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What’s New In Routing And Vision Mixing Cont.
conﬁguration. The AV-HS410 has a seven inch 800 × 480 pixel colour liquid-crystal display to show control menus as well as input and output video, waveform and multiview. Support is planned for switching of signals from 3D cameras. Roland’s V-800HD multiformat live video switcher, introduced at IBC2012, is designed to operate in standard and high-deﬁnition. It has eight multiformat channels with independent scalers as well as a variety of output formats plus a built-in multiviewer. Scalers on all inputs can individually stretch, crop and zoom any video source to the optimal resolution. Supporting 1080p video signals at up to 3 gigabits per second, the V-800HD employs 4:4:4/10-bit internal signal processing. It includes a newly developed key-compositor which allows the operator to adjust phase range, chroma level and other parameters based on hue/saturation/ value colour space. The switch is designed for live performance and events, corporate productions and web streaming. 46 Ross Video has expanded the options for its Carbonite mid-size production switchers with the addition ViewControl and DashBoard’s LiveAssist. ViewControl combines a live multiviewer with a custom DashBoard overlay, providing a low-latency visual control surface. DashBoard LiveAssist offers additional soft control and set-up interfaces. The Carbonite series of production switchers includes two choices on panel size combined with a 16 or 24 input chassis. Carbonite includes four channels of DVE, four keyers per mix/effects bus and four channels of Media-Store in a two rack-unit chassis. Snell announced at IBC that its Sirius 800 family of routing switchers had been enhanced with the addition of frame synchronisation to the input and output cards. The resulting router architecture enables independent processing of audio and video signals with no restrictions on signal formats, timing between signal types, or number of audio channels. Building on the Sirius 800 series’ audio de-embedding, embedding, and audio processing capabilities, this allows all inputs to be retimed before switching and enables operators to guarantee SMPTE-compliant switching. It also supports synchronisation of incoming lines to a local studio reference. All baselevel Sirius 800 AHP cards can be ﬁrmware-upgraded to add frame synchronisers. A line sync mode minimises delay and ensures clean switching. Adjustable video and individual audio channel delays allow compensation for contribution channel and audio encoding/ decoding delays. Sony’s recently-announced MVS6530 vision mixer is designed for use in medium-size productions. Features include three mix/effects buses, four keyers per mix/effect (each with chromakey), eight keyers, two internal channels of digital mix/ effects, resizer, colour correction and a multiviewer output. The control panel incorporates organic lightemitting-diode mnemonic displays. The mixing panel is linked to a four rackunit processor.

Ross Video’s ViewControl screen

Utah Scientiﬁc’s new 100/UDS router is claimed to combine the flexibility of a multi-rate digital routing switcher with the economy of a simple distribution ampliﬁer. It is based on input/output modules with 16 ports interconnected by a crosspoint matrix that allows any input signal to feed any number of output ports. The router is SD/HD compatible, including three gigabits

per second formats. Conﬁguration and control are performed using a standard web browser. Overall the message is that increasing affordability, and packing in more to the equipment, remains the watchword of SD and HD ahead of the industry’s push towards even higher resolution transmission standards. ■

Utah Scientiﬁc’s 100/UDS combines digital routing and DA functionality

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