The new switchers Slate HD provide the easiest and most economical way to create LIVE HD attractive video. Your file-based architecture Monetizes the live production workflow by fully integrate your built-in switcher , CG, clip libraries, frozen shots and monitoring, and connect them no trauma with the contents from editing bays. The First Slate HD switcher has been used for the Sundance Film Festival.
Each of these three Slate HD models includes: one switcher with up to six keyers and DVEs, multi-view monitoring, an Inscriber CG of Harris, and a storage for clips. The hybrid ports of switchers support 1080i, 720p, SD, DVI and VGA, plus of composite analog outputs, Y/C and component. You can add HD and SD analog inputs and 1080p output. Both the contents in 16:9 and 4:3 format can be mixed at the same time that preserves the aspect ratio of each element.
- Slate 100 HD provides a economical production studio, integrated for video live HD, with prices starting at $14,400 in the U.S. United, including a new configurable keyboard.
- Slate 1000 HD adds a panel from control to switcher for professional handling.
- Slate 3000 HD adds a router manufactured by Broadcast Pix for Harris, which provides up to 18 live inputs and more redundancy.
- Two switchers can share the same large central router , using the addition of a Slate 1000 to another Slate 3000 in order to lower costs and improve joint use simplifying wiring.
- New software: alpha wipes with audio, support for four LCD monitors multiple views, MPEG2 clip playback, and control of Nexio video servers, by Harris.
Unlike the rooms of Conventional live HD control, in which many boxes are wired between them and a team of operators is required, New Slate HD Systems Allow a Single Operator to create live HD television productions, at a fraction of the cost. They economize the workflow by enter and extract the most popular formats and relationships from appearance, and add graphics files, animations, and clips that are created within the switcher itself, or are Imported. For example, from the editing trays the clips QuickTime can be sent over a gigabit network to one of the switcher's Terabyte hard drives, only a few minutes before its release on the air, and then add the indications when it goes into the air. For maximum configuration of the one-man orchestra system, the same can control audio mixers, robotic cameras and video servers. Slate switchers expand when the needs of the team require it.
The dispatches of the switchers Slate 1000 HD have already started. The first was sold by Snader and Associates to Hewlett-Packard for use at Sundance Film Festival, where the production of the interviews and comments on 1080i for broadcast on television and the Internet, as well as for local uses during the festival. All existing installations using Slate SD may evolve to Slate HD.
Slate HD ads highlight a greater degree of cooperation between Broadcast Pix and Harris. To date, Broadcast Pix switchers sold incorporated a Harris CG Inscriber. Now, every Slate model 3000 also includes a Harris Panacea router , with a complete integration software developed by Broadcast Pix. The software allows the trauma-free enlargement of the switcher inputs and outputs, deployment of the inputs on the built-in multi-view monitor, and the fault-free switching. In fact, the workstation Slate is very reliable since the switching is done in the Slate cards built into it, so that if the computer must stop, all cameras can still be controlled by a redundant control system between the panel and router, up to both workstation returns to its normal operating state.
