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Video Toaster [4] - Product Features

 

 

Live Switching:

  • 8 Component inputs
  • 8 Y/C inputs
  • Up to 24 Composite inputs
  • Unlimited DV inputs
  • Real-time FireWire input or output
  • Automated Audio Mixer
  • 4 Component outputs
  • 4 Y/C outputs
  • Preview / alpha output
  • 4 Composite outputs
  • 3 RS-422 machine control ports
  • Real-time chroma key
  • Cue mode in Digital Disk Recorder
  • 500+ digital transitions
  • Dual GPI In / Out
  • 8 Internal Tally light controls
  • Background generator
  • Internal Genlock
Audio Mixer:
  • Mix 8 stereo live and 8 4-channel online audio sources
  • 4-track audio: 4 discrete channels of audio in and out
  • Talk-over, reduces mix levels for mic inputs to talk over
  • 4 adjustable XLR balanced mic / line inputs with Phantom power
  • 6 stereo unbalanced audio ins from live sources
  • 8 stereo inputs from computer sources
  • DV and SDI audio inputs
  • Floating point audio with distortion-free audio levels
  • EQ, balance, mute and mono for all 16 audio inputs
  • Aux Mix: stereo aux send and aux returns for external sweetening
  • Automated mixing: transition between audio presets
  • Calibrated audio meters
  • Audio-follows-video option
  • Manage your output mix with Input Pass Thru
  • PA Mix Out: for live PA or control room feed
  • Balance on all inputs and outputs
Digital Disk Recorder (VT-DDR™):
  • Multi-format, multi-standard on-screen tape deck
  • Compressed or uncompressed playback
  • Play back a single clip or list of clips
  • Cue clips to roll when triggered by Switcher
  • Real-time transitions between clips
  • Count up or count down project time or clip time
  • Operate multiple DDRs simultaneously
  • EDL import/export (Grass Valley, CMX, Sony, Excel)
Proc Amp:
  • Brightness
  • Contrast
  • Hue
  • Saturation
  • U Offset, V Offset
  • U Gain, V Gain
  • Track Preview function
  • More than 70 adjustable parameters
  • Calibrate computer sources as well as analog sources
  • Auto Calibration for 75 IRE bars, 100 IRE bars and video pass-through mode
    (requires SX-84)
VT-Scope™:
  • Full-frame data
  • 50 fields-per-second
  • Monitor Program or Preview
  • Waveform of Y/C, Y, C, YUV or RGB
  • Vectorscope at either 75% or 100% Chroma
VT-Vision™:
  • Fully fielded on-screen playback
  • YUV video display
  • Monitor Program, Preview, Key / Aux or DSK buses
  • Display supports for 4:3 and 16:9 aspect
  • Underscan mode
  • Zebra stripes for 75 IRE and illegal video
  • Proc-Amp for matching computer display to reference video monitors
Character Generator:
  • WYSIWYG editing
  • Save projects or pages
  • Display Program output within CG interface
  • Use any installed TrueType font
  • Save pages as 32-bit images or animations
  • Soft shadows
  • Create graphic objects (boxes, circles, splines)
  • Instantly save or recall text styles
  • Powerful drawing tools
Digital Video Effects:
  • More than 500 real-time transitions
  • All transitions reversible
  • Expansions
  • Wipes
  • Curls
  • Trajectories
  • Fades
  • ChromaFX
  • Overlays
  • Rotations
  • Compressions
  • Borders
  • Much more
VT-Edit™:
  • Ultra-intuitive interface
  • Integrated Timeline and Storyboard editing
  • Unlimited layering in real-time
  • 3D control of position, size and rotation of layers in real-time
  • Spline-based movement of all animations
  • Unlimited undo, saved with project
  • Real-time color correction
  • No rendering of complex projects required
  • Create subprojects within a project
  • CG Post™ for moving text
  • Real-time Targa sequence playback
  • Multi-format and multi-standard editing
  • Real-time playback of compressed and uncompressed clips
  • Real-time FireWire in and out
  • More than 500 real-time transitions
  • Real-time slow motion and reverse
  • Real-time chroma and luma keying
  • Real-time high-quality scaling of graphics
  • Real-time video and audio filters
  • Real-time audio mixing of unlimited layers
  • 3D audio positioning
  • 12dB of audio headroom prevents digital distortion
  • All performed in software
External Controller:
  • Control external decks from your VT[4] desktop
  • Supports multiple RS-422 and DV decks
  • Interfaces with batch capture deck lists and configurations
  • Jog and shuttle support
  • Record allows user to generate time code settings
LightWave 3D ®:
  • Established industry standard
  • World-class rendering
  • Fast, versatile Modeler
  • Powerful scripting language
  • Advanced character Animation tools
  • Particles
  • Explosions
  • Numeric entry (and math in input fields)
  • Unlimited points and polygons per object
  • Multiple cameras per scene
  • Unlimited images
  • Unlimited surfaces
  • Easy import of Illustrator ® data
Aura Video Paint™:
  • Amazingly fast 16-bit paint engine
  • Paint over live video
  • Four-point pixel tracking
  • Color isolation
  • 3D compositing
  • Stroke recorder
  • Wide range of text controls
  • Instantly use a graphicís alpha channel
  • Animate text along a path
  • Native DV support
  • AVI and QuickTime audio support
  • Apply Photoshop ® filters to any animation

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