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Alchemist Live IP
Alchemist Live from Grass Valley, a Belden Brand, offers the very best motion compensated framerate conversion, providing transparent, artifact-free conversion for seamless global distribution of live media.
Neuron IP processing
Neuron IP processing
Atomos Connect Converters
Atomos Connect Converters
The Atomos Connect Convert line comes colour coded and forms a comprehensive and versatile lineup of 15 different conversion, signal processing and system integration boxes that connect, convert, scale, sync, split and repeat your video signals. The new lineup of Connect converters is not to be confused with the already existing Connect H2S HDMI to SDI and visa versa. The new lineup of Connect Convert devices feature a robust construction with locking DC and HDMI connectors, USB power and detachable mounting ears. Status is clearly displayed on bright LEDs and they can be quickly and easily configured using the free ConnectOS software.
VICO-4L
VICO-4L
Key features:
- Low latency 32 video lines fixed delay, or according to Genlock/FrameSync
- Compression ratio 4:1(4K3G-SDI), 8:1(4KHD-SDI)
- High image quality high peak signal to noise ratio (PSNR)
- Standardized SMPTE RDD 35 (TICO Alliance)
- 1 RU rack mount size (max dual channel)
Application areas
- Contribution
- Storage cost reduction to storage 1/4. 1/8
- OEM board can be provided
Technical specifications
SDI input BNC 75Ω 3G-SDI Level A 2SI, 12G-SDI Chroma 4:2:2 Bit Depth 10Bits Frame rate 50P(4:1 only), 59.94P, 60P Encoder input 4K (4 x 3G-SDI), 4K(1x12G-SDI) Decoder output 4K (4 x 3G-SDI)、4K(1x12G-SDI) Signal split mode INTER(2SI: 2 sample interleave division) Dimensions (ｍｍ) 435W x 260D x 44.5H Power supply AC 100～240V Power consumption 30VA Weight About 3.0Kg Operation temperature ０～35℃ Operation humidity 20 to 80% RH * No condensation
TICO-XS IP cores
TICO-XS is a smart upgrade path to manage higher resolutions (4K, 8K, …) and frame rates while assuring visual quality, keeping power and bandwidth at a reasonable budget and significantly reducing the complexity and cost of a system, a chip or an infrastructure.
Applications:
From 3G-SDI to IP in 4K
The mapping of the TICO-XS mezzanine compression to carry UHDTV 4K 60P over a single 3G-SDI cable has been specified in the SMPTE RDD35. intoPIX provides the needed building blocks to create a 4K over 3G-SDI solutions. Have a look at the intoPIX TICO-XS IP-cores and peripheral IP to map the compression over SDI.
4K with TICO compression over SMPTE2022-6
As SMPTE ST2022-6, defines the transport of HD-SDI or 3G-SDI over IP, using TICO-XS, it is easy to leverage an existing SMPTE 2022-6 system to carry up to three UHDTV 4K 60P streams over a single 10 GbE port using the SMPTE 2022-6 standard.
SMPTE 2110 and TICO compression
SMPTE ST2110-22 specifies the transport of compressed video over IP (including JPEG-XS), enabling you to transport any video formats over IP with full flexibility and all the benefits of TICO-XS compression.
8K over a single 10GbE
It has already been proven. TICO-XS can enable you to carry with lossless quality a 8K 60fps video stream over a single 10GbE link using TICO RTP payload and a SMPTE 2110-22 transport.
8K over a single 12G-SDI
It has already been proven. TICO-XS can enable you to carry a 8K 60fps video stream over a single 12G-SDI link with lossless quality.
Cosmos
Cosmos
Cosmos provides software based playout engines for Broadcasters, Over The Top service providers and Broadcast Services companies.
The distributive virtualised architecture of the playout engine from Cosmos provides a fast and trusted cloud based playout solution enabling broadcasters and service providers to spin up both OTT and traditional TV channels in a few minutes thus lowering the cost of ownership.
Channels can be hosted from data centres or from your own Master Control Room over a private or public cloud. Cosmos also gives you the ability to playout both file based and live services .
Cosmos is an open system which enables all the features of a playout engine be implemented on a service basis. Cosmos reduces the need to invest in capital infrastructure. It removes the need to find space for technical equipment and the ongoing cost of technical maintenance.
Channel owners in worldwide gain the freedom to outsource practically all the technical equipment traditionally required for broadcasting.
Cosmos virtualises the process of channel management under control from a standard enterprise computer via a firewall-protected secure internet connection. Programme playout can be automated to any required extent while always retaining the freedom to insert live content.
Cosmos offers established broadcasters and content owners the ability to introduce new programme channels at very short notice, whether a permanent additional to an existing bouquet or a supplementary programme stream covering a temporary event. It can be matched to a wide variety of deployment models, enabling consistent operation across baseband, hybrid IP, and virtualised, cloud-based networks.
Cosmos also enables independent content producers to establish television channels without the high start-up cost usually inherent in such ventures.
Cosmos delivers unsurpassed flexibility in format handling and transcoding. It supports practically any technical standard in today's fast-evolving television industry, whether for terrestrial, satellite or online viewing, live, near-live or catch-up.
Smart-telecaster Zao-S
Smart-telecaster Zao-S
The Zao-S is a portable video H.265 HEVC encoder that compresses video in real-time, enabling full HD live video streaming to anywhere from anywhere, all while on the move. The equipped H.265 video compression is the most efficient standard for encoding and compression on the market today. As a result, the Zao-S enables constant HD video quality, low latency, and the freedom to transmit live video from across the globe. The Zao-S is made in Japan and features the high quality craftsmanship that Japanese products are known for. The Zao-S is constantly being improved as our engineers develop new features and increase its capabilities.
Sophisticated Multi-Network Bonding Technology - RASCOW
The Zao-S allows up to 3 external USB modems to be bonded together to form a single connection via 4G, 5G, Wi-Fi, and/or satellite. When transmitting video live over the mobile network, many factors such as the carriers being used, cell tower locations, and varying bandwidth levels affect video quality. Our proprietary protocol, RASCOW, monitors these factors along with the changing mobile signal strength in real-time and adapts the most optimum bonded combination of the network connections. The Zao-S, with the RASCOW protocol, continues to reliably send high quality video even when signal strengths become low or fluctuate rapidly.
Sleek. Compact. Mobile.
The Zao-S maximizes mobility without sacrificing quality. Due to its lightness (about 350g) and portability, the Zao-S can be carried with a body strap or be mounted on a camera. The compact design, and one hour internal battery, make the Zao-S an excellent choice for drone applications as well.
LiveU LU600 HEVC – UBMS
LiveU LU600 HEVC – UBMS
The LU600 is LiveU’s flagship portable transmission unit for global newsgathering, live sports and events coverage. Combined with the 4K HEVC Pro Card, the LU600 delivers unparalleled video performance with extreme bandwidth efficiency – in one of the smallest portable cellular bonding units in the market.
ULTIMATE VIDEO QUALITY
The LU600 HEVC delivers the highest video quality and bitrate in the market (up to 20Mbps), fastest file transfer (60Mbps) and lowest delay.
Using the LU600 HEVC, broadcasters can provide the same video quality as H.264 while using about half the bandwidth, or offering greatly improved video quality wherever original H.264 bitrate is maintained.
BUILT FOR YOUR NEEDS
Tailored to the needs of mobile journalists, the LU600 HEVC product suite offers three configurations, including: HD, 4K-HDMI and 4K-SDI.
The unit comes in a specially designed smart backpack, with improved usability, remote control functionality and easy access to display, controls and interfaces.
ADVANTAGES
- Superior 1080/4K video quality based on broadcast-grade hardware encoding – supporting VR and 360 degree applications
- Very low power consumption, with 4 hours of battery time
- Dynamic bitrate and resolution changes on the fly
- HEVC and H.264 file encoding capability for production workflows
- ‘Live & Store‘, allowing broadcasters to go live under any network conditions while simultaneously saving a high-quality copy of the live video for future purposes.
- High speed bonded internet capabilities
- 5” LCD with ultra-responsive capacitive touchscreen
greenMachine HDR Evie+
greenMachine HDR Evie+
The greenMachine HDR Evie+ (Enhanced Video Image Engine), 1 RU half 19” rackmount, is a real-time segmented frame-by-frame broadcast-quality High Dynamic Range (HDR) to Standard Dynamic Range (SDR) converter, with frame sync supporting formats up to 4K UHD (3840x2160). It is the world’s first system that uses the advanced algorithm for sectional dynamic tone mapping, which automatically analyzes different sections of an image in HDR stream and applies optimal corrections on a frame by frame basis in real-time. This unique capability is unlike any other solution today. It is the perfect real-time production tool for sports or any live broadcast event needing high-quality real-time HDR to SDR conversions. HDR EVIE+ fits best in the single native HDR workflow reducing the cost of equipment and manual operations.
The sectional dynamic tone mapping technique is applied to several spatial areas (sectors) in the image. In this type of tone mapping technique, the algorithm adjusts the signal by using several dynamic curves, one per image segment/sector. The algorithm then combines the result with global dynamic curves based on the entire image. While the dynamic curves of the different sectors are perfectly adapted to the respective image content of their segments, the global curve is perfectly adapted to the content of the entire image. Depending on the image content within these sectors, the algorithm reacts dynamically, which allows lights and shadows to be treated independently. Therefore, dark areas can be brightened, and the bright areas can be darkened without getting a flat gradation of the image. “
HDR EVIE+ provides a 1x 4K/UHD processing channel supporting down-conversion from HDR transfer characteristics to SDR through appropriate sectional dynamic tone mapping. It also supports the Wide Color Gamut (WCG) needs of broadcasters and professional AV live events requirements. HDR Evie+ package also includes HDR Static configuration for Static HDR SDR conversions, which performs static tone mapping to realize UP/Down/Cross conversions between HDR and SDR, suited best for the studios or the environments where the light conditions do not change dynamically.
IP Virtual Card
IP Virtual Card
Besides the well-known VideoMaster SDK dealing with the DELTACAST I/O cards and FLEX products, the DELTACAST portfolio now includes a new SDK (Software Development Kit) component called the IP Virtual Card, offering a new programming interface named VideoMaster IP.
The IP Virtual Card is a new video and multimedia programming interface allowing the use of 3rd-party computer network cards to capture and stream out video just like you are used to do over any DELTACAST card.
Designed from the ground up to allow high-performances multimedia capture and streaming using an off-the-shelf network card, the first version ofthe IP Virtual Card targets ST2110 connectivity.
The IP Virtual Card brings in support for video transport as per ST2110-20, audio transport as per ST2110-30, and ancillary data transport as per ST2110-40. It also includes a PTP synchronization solution compliant to ST2059-1. Thanks to an optimized network stack, the IP Virtual Card insures accurate, PTP locked, media streams compliant to ST2110-21 Type W senders, and it allows implementing ST2110-21 Type A receivers.
The IP Virtual Card implements an optimized network stack based on the operating system sockets, so that it is compatible with any NIC brand and model, and so that it can be used under Windows and Linux, and also targetting virtualization environments and execution in containers. For most demanding applications, the IP Virtual Card also exists in a version based on the DPDK kernel bypass.
Using the IP Virtual Card features requires installing a license. Please contact us for further details about this.
MCC-4K-A
MCC-4K-A
The MCC-4K-A provides exceptional quality frame rate and format conversion for UHD/3G/HD signals. MCC-4K-A offers support for quad link 3G-SDI of two-Sample Interleaved (2SI) or Square Division (SQD) format as well as single link 12G/6G-SDI and SFP connectivity.
The MCC-4K-A is an ideal solution for live frame rate conversion applications, where UHD content sourced at a chosen production rate needs to be converted to other frame rates for international contribution and distribution. International sports, concerts, breaking news and current affairs can all be simply and impeccably converted to the desired output format and frame rate.
Key features:
- Motion compensated conversion from any UHD frame rate to any other UHD frame rate
- Simultaneous UHD single link 12G/6G and UHD quad link 3G-SDI output
- Automatic detection of SMPTE ST425-5 (sample interleave input) and ITU-R BT.2020 colorimetry
- Motion compensated conversion from any 3G/HD-SDI frame rate to any other 3G/HD-SDI frame rate
- Up-conversion from 3G/HD to UHD
- Down-conversion UHD to 3G/HD
- HDR/SDR conversions
IF8K-FSCC
IF8K-FSCC
The IF8K-FSCC synchronizes full 8K video with both 12G-SDI and 3G-SDI signals. Asynchronous input of quad-link 12G-SDI (12G-SDI x 4) or 16 link 3G-SDI (3G-SDI x 16) for 8K can be synchronized by the external reference input and output with quad-link 12G-SDI. It is designed and manufactured by InSync Technology for exclusive distribution by FOR-A.
The IF8K-FSCC is an ideal solution for 8K synchronisation and colour correction. It’s especially valuable where perfect synchronisation without audio disturbance is needed in live 8K productions.
Key features:
- Video signal processing of the luminance level, chroma level, chroma phase, and black level
- Colour corrector to set white balance, black balance, and color gamut
- Horizontal/vertical phase adjustment by the external reference input
- Additional audio delay for upstream or downstream equipment for each audio channel
- MADI audio input/output interface
- Optional remote control via IF8K-REMOTE
