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Live Broadcast Production Switcher

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If there's one thing every video director wants, it's live production power - prefereably lots of it. That's why broadcast professionals are raving about the unmatched capabilities of the GlobeCaster Live Production Switcher.

 
     

GlobeCaster Switcher's comprehensive real-time hardware design includes everything you'd expect from a traditional switcher, including multi-format I/O, built-in true colour correction, flexible chroma, luma and linear keying, RS-422 VTR control, eight GPI triggers and separate video preview. But GlobeCaster Switcher goes beyond these standards with unparalleled real-time 3D visual effects, organic wipes, dramatic virtual set capabilities and flawless 32-bit animating graphics.

Broadcast news, TV show and live event producers everywhere are using GlobeCaster Switcher to communicate their messages more powerfully and affordably than they ever thought possible. Experience GlobeCaster for yourself and discover how GlobeCaster Switcher can elevate your production capabilities.

KEY FEATURES

  • Eight input multi-format digital component production switcher.
  • Advanced chroma-keyer with key colour spill supression
  • Multi-channel 3D DVE and warp geometry effects
  • Real-time virtual sets with 3D video reflections and refractions
  • Programmable organic wipes and 32-bit animating graphics
 

SPECIFICATIONS

   
 

Video I/O

  • 720x486 (NTSC) or 720x576 (PAL) ITU-R 601 processing
  • Digital component (SDI), analog component (RGB/YUV) analog composite and S-video (Y/C) I/O
  • Auto-synchronising inputs (within +/- 8 lines)
  • Composite inputs available with full-frame synchronisers
  • up to 8 simultaneous multi-format input modules
  • Composite loop-through / output on each input module
  • Up to 4 simultaneous multi-format program or key output modules
  • Independent preview output
  • Valid video input / outpu / genlock indicators
  • Internal vectorscope / waveform monitor
  • Variable strobe and freeze
  • Programmable matte generator
  • Downstream fade-to-black
 
     
   
 

Real-Time Video Keying

  • Flexible Chroma and luma keying
  • Auto-set keyer settings function
  • Key colour spill suppression
  • Single button key invert
  • Archivable keyer settings
 
     
     
 

Real-Time Digital Video Effects

  • Standard dissolves and wipes with soft edges and borders
  • Organic animating alpha channel wipes
  • Traditional 2D and 3D plane-in-space DVE
  • Push, pull, squeeze, spin, page peel, picture-in-picture and mosaic effects
  • 3D Warp Geometry video effects
  • Single or dual-channel 3D DVE
  • 3D Video Tracing (reflections and refractions)
  • Sub-pixel position and edge anti-aliasing
  • Uncompressed graphic animations
  • Fully custom effects creation system
  • Real-time colour effects
  • Multi-camera, multi-layer virtual sets
 
   
     
 

Character Generator

  • Real-time roll, crawl, flash, twist, flip horizontal, flip vertical, zoom, pop and fade text effects
  • Sub-nanosecond anti-aliasing
  • Auto-correct spell checker
  • User defined styles
  • Free form positioning, layer and size
  • 32-bit image compositing
  • Sophisticated type treatments
  • Over 100 Bitstream fonts included
  • Direct support for Truetype fonts
  • Import TXT, RTF and Microsoft Word (DOC) text files
 
     
     
 

Paint & Compositing

  • Object oriented, vector-based paint system
  • Shape-based and freehand drawing tools
  • Rotoscoping
  • Linear and spline-based keyframe animation
  • Particle system animation including velocity, gravity, friction and collisions
  • Smooth air brushes
  • Adjustable soft-edge shadows
  • Stencil and matte creation
  • Unlimited cutomisable brushes
  • Lighten, darken, colourise, blur, randomise, erase, clone, gradient, magnify, stretch, image, luma colour, alpha-map and colour correct inks
  • Unlimited chroma and luma keys
  • 3D perspective corner layering
 
     
     
 

Audio Mixer

  • Eight input, uncompressed 16-bit, 48kHz digital mixer
  • Three band parametric EQ on each channel
  • Adjustable gain, level, EQ, pan, mute and solo on each input
  • External effect send / receive bus
  • Separate stereo monitor output
  • Stereo pair level and pan locking
  • On-screen metering and clip indicators
     
     
 

Integrated Still / Clip Store

  • Uncompressed digital component still store
  • Less than 1/2 second still store recall
  • Full frame motion removal
  • Import / export 16 still formats supported including JPG, BMP, PSD and TGA
  • Optional dual-channel clip store holds up to 2 hours of broadcast quality video and audio
     
     
 

Media Management

  • Find, sift and sort functions
  • List, detail, clip and variable size thumbnail bin views
  • Unlimited number of bins
  • Bin heirarchy (nestable folders)
  • Share content across Windows networks
 
     
     
 

Interoperability

  • Four programmable GPI triggers
  • Eight tally light interfaces
  • Four dedicated RS-422 serial ports with device control
  • Pre-defined linear clips automatically cues on VTRs
  • Sync roll VTRs for record and playback
  • Export live session into GlobeCater editor for later editing