Trackless Studio

Connect » Real-Time Signal Transfer » Audio Interfacing & Conversion » Audio signal processing, routing and infrastructure »

This system is the leading digital video and audio delay solution for easily eliminating all unwanted content from your live broadcasts or webcasts.

Key Features Include:

• Eliminate nudity, offensive language, and obscene gestures from live broadcasts while maintaining program continuity.


• Straight-forward to control with two large panic buttons; one for audio (red); and one for video (yellow). Simply press & hold to clean-up your broadcast.


• Allows for dual-user operations, with unique settings to accommodate each operator’s preferences.


• The viewer experience is minimally interrupted with subtle video and audio masking techniques.


• Compensates for the reaction time of human operators to an observed visual or aural event, ensuring every obscenity is concealed in its entirety.


• Solid-state technology equipped with bypass relay circuity to further ensure the integrity of your live television broadcasts.

Create » Content Acquisition and Capture » Cameras » Broadcast System cameras »

Create beautiful, clean, true high-resolution keys using the patented 0:4:4 UltrachromeHR output, a signal that contains full bandwidth color information for complete 4:4:4 data into the UltrachromeHR Chroma Keying System.

Produce » Real-Time Production » Video Production » Production switchers »

Acuity is the top-of-the-line large production switcher designed to handle world’s most challenging live events. This switcher has been built to easily adapt to evolving technology in the video production industry and is built with the biggest creative feature set – for the biggest productions.

Features include:

- Powerful Production Engines

- Output Transitions

- Facility-Grade MultiViewers

- MultiFeed Split MEs

- MultiFeed Configurable Outputs

- Tremendous DVE Resources

Support » Monitoring, Control & Communications » Audio Monitoring » Loudspeakers »

Offering a choice of 1RU and 2RU monitoring bridges, the MB-series fits your rack or console with ease. Choose the model with embedded SDI or discrete audio inputs to match your installation.

Front panels include large, bright displays and intuitive tactile controls to easily tailor your audio monitoring experience. Quickly choose what you want to listen to, they way you like it. Full DashBoard control and GPI interfaces round out a complete control solution.

The MB-series feature surround mix-down, channel summing, easy channel selection and loudness measurement – all the tools you need to ensure your audio is in check.

Produce » Real-Time Production » Video Production » Production switchers »

No ordinary compact production switcher, Carbonite Black Solo packs an astounding feature set including 2 MiniMEs and 9 keyers.

Carbonite Black Solo provides the compact form and affordability of a small switcher, while offering the big switcher feature-set of the Carbonite Black series.

If your productions are on the go, at different facilities and events, you want to make it easy to plug-in and get the show rolling. Carbonite Black Solo is built with internal video processing and MultiViewer resources, so no external gear is required.

XPression LiveCG complements your show with high quality still graphics. Graphics are fed directly into the switcher media channels over Ethernet for a truly simple workflow.

Smaller switchers generally feature base-level custom controls and memories, but not Carbonite Black Solo. This switcher features fully-customizable macros and a memory system with unique smart recall and effect recall functionality.

Produce » Real-Time Production » Video Production » Production switchers »

Carbonite Mosaic is built to get high-quality video onto your large-screen display, quickly and easily.

Large-screen displays have grown to massive scale in both size and resolution. Carbonite Mosaic gets the highest quality images on displays of over 20 million pixels.

A complete set of video processing resources guarantees a uniform look across your display. For ultra-high-quality imagery, Carbonite Mosaic supports 10bit HDR formats.

Powered by 10 independently-controlled tile outputs, it’s easy to weave a massive single display or feed multiple displays throughout your venue – the choice is yours.

Carbonite Mosaic and XPression Tessera team up for high-quality upscaled video and beautiful pixel-accurate graphics on your display. Live has never looked this good.

Like all Ross products, Carbonite Mosaic is part of the DashBoard Control Ecosystem. DashBoard makes it easy to control your display layouts or even your entire venue, from a single interface.

 

Support » Monitoring, Control & Communications » System Monitoring & Control » Broadcast system control SW and HW »

Dashboard enables users to quickly build unique, tailored CustomPanels that make complex operations simple. DashBoard provides control and monitoring to hundreds of products from more than 80 partners within the openGear and DashBoard Connect ecosystem, and of course most Ross Video products. Its ability to craft application specific solutions across this breadth of products is what makes DashBoard so special.

Produce » Real-Time Production » Real-Time Production Graphics » Virtual sets and chromakey »

Frontier works in a virtual studio environment for virtual sets and augmented reality. Frontier enables the creation of even the most complex graphical elements quickly, easily, and with unprecedented realism with greater accuracy than ever before.

Frontier uses the UX control platform as an operator-friendly front end, so operators are not required to know UE4 to use the system. Frontier supports customization, flexibility, and scalability in terms of number of cameras and graphics engines through the integration of UX and UX VCC applications.

Connect » Real-Time Signal Transfer » Video Interfacing & Conversion » Modular interfacing and signal processing »

Easily expand Gator’s capabilities by simply activating the appropriate software license.

Key Features:

Ultra-high Def - Gator features a native UHD processing core, featuring 12G-SDI interfaces.

Agile - A platform that becomes what you need it, when you need it. That’s what software-defined processing is all about.

Rock Solid - It has been carefully designed to meet the performance and reliability requirements of today’s demanding broadcast plant. Gator fits into the rock-solid openGear chassis featuring redundant power and cooling to maximize your all-important uptime.

Control - Gator is part of the industry-standard openGear ecosystem. Full control is available via DashBoard, allowing simple configuration, setup and alarm monitoring.

 

Connect » Real-Time Signal Transfer » Video Interfacing & Conversion » Standalone interfacing, signal processing and conversion »

A throwdown mini converter needs to be built tough. GearLite modules are all constructed from heavy steel and include features like locking connectors to ensure reliable operation, wherever you throw them.

Gearlite point-of-use modules let you put them right where you need them. Every GearLite module ships standard with flexible mounting accessories and a universal power supply. They feature a compact design, so they fit almost anywhere, be it in a rack, on stage, behind a monitor or in a fly pack.

Small and compact doesn’t mean you need to settle for lower-grade processing. Our GearLite mini converter and distribution modules are built using the same high quality components and processing as our modular solutions, giving you broadcast-grade signal handling for SDI, 3G-SDI, 12G-SDI, fiber, audio and HDMI.

Produce » Real-Time Production » Video Production » Production switchers »

Graphite provides a full production solution within a single 4RU frame. This simplifies connectivity, saves space, and makes it easy to take top-quality productions on the road. Built to withstand the rigors of a mobile production with carefully engineered physical construction. Graphite systems are extensively shake and bake tested before shipping. Rely on a system with consistent performance and immunity to traditional all-in-one software issues, thanks to unique dedicated hardware. Every aspect of the Graphite system is built with the quality of separate system components. The value of a single all-in-one system with no need for external supplement cannot be overstated. Crew your show as you see fit. A single operator can run an entire show through all-encompassing control, or roles can be separated for multiple operators during high-intensity events. Switcher resources and graphics power can be upgraded via software licences – and additional equipment is available through a single vendor for effortless integration and guaranteed support.

Produce » Manage Production » Production Software » Newsroom computer systems (NRCS) »

News happens quickly and users are turning to web and social media to get the news. Inception is a newsroom system that allow you to discover and get stories as they happen. A power news gathering tool and social media manager, all in one place.

From the smallest newsrooms to the world’s largest broadcasters, Inception can scale to meet any size operation or workflow with both subscription and purchase models available.

Inception’s robust MOS interface makes it easy to integrate with other broadcast devices like graphics, video servers, media asset management, teleprompters and automation.

Key Features:

- Story-Centric Workflows

- Enterprise Features

- Social media and Web

- Assignment Manager

- Horizon + Inception

- Messaging

Produce » Real-Time Production » Video Production » Newsroom production management and automation systems »

Inception Social enables you to bring text and image content from social media into graphics playout, manage moderating and approving content from social media channels, and prompt user engagement via social media polling.

Key Features:

Multi-platform publishing - Save time and increase productivity by using a unified platform to search and publish to social media and web platforms.

Feed social content to on-air graphics - Search, curate and display social media content by integrating Inception Social with broadcast graphic systems like Ross Video’s XPression.

Social Polls - Use social media polls to create content through real-time audience participation.

Geolocated Results - Use a location to produce focused results for breaking news, severe weather or live events.

User Permissions & Approval Workflows - Open up social media participation to your team while overseeing the final product before it is published.

Support » Monitoring, Control & Communications » System Monitoring & Control » Broadcast system control SW and HW »

Lightning provides fully integrated switcher, graphics and camera control with an intuitive interface ideal for single operator use. Perfect for legislative assembly, house of worship, education and corporate broadcasts.

 

Connect » Real-Time Signal Transfer » Video Interfacing & Conversion » Standalone interfacing, signal processing and conversion »

Ross offers Master Reference generators for any application. From a small openGear cards, ideal for fly packs and remote locations, up to flexible fully-redundant platforms for large multi-format facilities.

The SRG-series Master Sync Generators support a wide range of output signals and formats from composite to UHD. These reference generators can even provide multiple video standards simultaneously. Integrated video pattern generators with idents and motion are great for remote feeds.

Built to last and redundancy in mind, Ross Sync Generators will keep the heartbeat of your facility alive. All units feature redundant power and easy servicing. Automatic changeover units are available to ensure you never skip a beat.

Publish » Linear Playout » Linear Playout Systems » Master control switchers »

The MC1 system scales from stand-alone branding to multi-channel master control installations adapting easily to manual or automated control.

At its core, MC1 is a powerful AV mixer, offering 4 keyers, logo playout, transitions with full preview. You get the tools you need to build your on-air brand.

Shuffle, correct your levels, sum and downmix. Keep your audio in check with fast, intuitive presets and manual overrides.

Manage multiple Master Controls with ease from an intuitive DashBoard touchscreen or tactile hardware control panel.

From single stand-alone branding to large multi-channel Master Control; MC1 can scale to your needs.

It features hardware bypass to keep your channel on air in any situation. MC1 can also be used as great backup to Channel-in-a-box and IP playout systems.

Applications:

- Sports & Live Venue

- News

- Virtual Studio

- Mobile

- Government

- Corporate

- House of Worshio

- Education

Produce » Real-Time Production » Video Production » Real-time production replay and slow-motion servers »

Live instant replay system with compelling features, a unique ergonomically-designed control surface and purpose-built user application.

Features include:

- Easy-to-Use

- Single or Dual-User Workflow

- Reliable Protected Media

- Flexible Configuration

- Content Sharing

- File-Based Operations

 

Publish » Linear Playout » Linear Playout Systems » Master control switchers »

Make it easy with an ergonomically-designed control surface and intuitive “heads-up” user display. Mira delivers remarkably fast learning curves for both novice and veteran replay operators.

Share the load by splitting/sharing server resources—so two operators can work independently on two replay events or work in collaboration on the same replay event.

Ensure maximum reliability, with standard dual-redundant, hot-swappable power supplies. For ease of maintenance, all Mira servers feature hot-swappable chassis fans and media disk drives.

Mira adapts to a wide variety of live production workflows, thanks to a symmetrical, multi-channel server architecture.

Integrated clip networking permits operators to quickly and easily share media clips between any number of Mira replay servers interconnected via inexpensive Gigabit Ethernet.

Reduce cost and substantially streamline workflow with integrated media file import and export tools.

Connect » Real-Time Signal Transfer » Intra-Facility Connectivity » Hybrid SDI-IP video routers »

This is the first product species that brings to life compact, quiet and robust UHD-over-IP SDI/HDMI signal conversion. Newt is fluent in many open control protocols such as NMOS, EmBER+, and DashBoard (to name but a few), thus giving you the freedom to throw this little guy down into the IP environment of your choice.

Compact & Robust- Compact & robust signal conversion and processing of many formats from HD to UHD.

Open Control - Open control gives you the freedom to run Newt from our DashBoard™ control system, and/or seamlessly from many 3rd-party control systems.

Software Defined - What you need, when you need it: software defined processing enables multiple uses and functions.

Quiet - Newt is the strong silent type, with studio applications in mind. Unlike other IP conversion products with fans that scream loudly, you’ll barely hear a purr from Newt.

Goes Anywhere - Flexible mounting options enable Newt to scale any wall, zip-tie to a post, hide under a desk, behind a display, or for three of them to sit comfortably on an optional rack shelf.

Monetize » Acquire Content » Rights Management » Royalties and participations management »

Ross Video provides two solutions for encoding Nielsen watermarks:

NWE-3GA - Nielsen Watermarks Encoder

High quality insertion of Nielsen Watermarks into embedded and / or AES3 digital audio.

NWE-TS  - Nielsen Watermarks Encoder for ATSC Transport Streams

High quality insertion of Nielsen Watermarks into AC3 audio.

Connect » Real-Time Signal Transfer » Video Interfacing & Conversion » Modular interfacing and signal processing »

As the world’s first modular infrastructure platform open to other manufacturers, the Emmy®-award winning openGear provides solutions derived from hundreds of individual cards from dozens of companies. This cooperative effort gives users best of breed product and budget options, all while ensuring common control and monitoring within the DashBoard ecosystem.

Reliable

oGx is the 4th generation openGear modular infrastructure platform built for 24/7 operation. Featuring redundant power and cooling, service is a snap with zero downtime. Front-loading modules and passive backplane ensure ease of maintenance and maximum reliability.

Diverse

Ross offers a wide range of modular infrastructure solutions, including distribution, conversion, branding, fiber, timing and more. The openGear platform is flexible to support a multitude of signal types and formats from analog to UHD to IP.

SDI, IP or Hybrid

The oGx platform has been designed to meet the demands of today’s complex IP and hybrid infrastructures.

Produce » Real-Time Production » Video Production » Newsroom production management and automation systems »

Automated Production Control (APC) is now common place, delivering operational efficiencies, while taking complexity out of the production process. OverDrive is the most advanced APC system on the planet, enabling the most sophisticated productions to be executed cleanly and consistently, while delivering substantial savings in operational costs. With nearly 400 systems on-air, OverDrive is the world leader in APC. OverDrive offers unparalleled choice with integration to more than 220 different production devices. Both manual and automated control is provided to both Ross and third party devices including production switchers, routing systems, video servers, audio mixers, robotic cameras, and graphics systems.

Create » Content Acquisition and Capture » Cameras » Broadcast System cameras »

High performance image capture with quiet and accurate PTZ functionality, at a fantastic price-point.
PIVOTCam is the perfect companion for assembly, education, corporate and house of worship applications, along with events and broadcast POV productions.

Connect » Real-Time Signal Transfer » Intra-Facility Connectivity » Hybrid SDI-IP video routers »

Raptor lifts openGear to new purposes, adapting software defined modular processing to native IP or hybrid IP/SDI infrastructures. Raptor is fluent in many open control protocols such as NMOS, EmBER+, and DashBoard (to name but a few), thus giving you the freedom to soar through the IP environment of your choice.

This openGear appliance’s high-performance I/O and benchmark IP interoperability ensure a lasting investment designed to adapt to evolving IP standards and control requirements.

Manage » Manage & Orchestrate » Content & Workflow Management » Media asset management (MAM) »

Streamline Graphics is designed to work alongside your XPression motion graphics workflow to organize asset requests, search existing assets and easily add them to on-air graphics with ease.

Key Features:

• Make the most of your existing image and video assets by creating searchable metadata. End users can quickly find the right asset to tell any story.


• Utilize the built-in work order management system and user messaging capabilities to increase communication between newsroom staff and your graphics team.


• Requires no software installs on client machines. This increases the flexibility of devices that can be used to create content and decreases the amount of time it takes to perform upgrades. Streamline Graphics runs in a variety of supported web browsers on Windows and MacOS. It is also accessible directly inside the XPression MOS plugin.


• The system can scale to support larger scale operations with Streamline Enterprise.


•  Both purchase and subscription models available.

Manage » Manage & Orchestrate » Content & Workflow Management » Media asset management (MAM) »

Streamline Production is designed to bridge the gap between the newsroom computer system (NRCS) and playout server. Create placeholders, search customizable metadata and select the clip needed to tell the story. Use rules-based workflows to move content between locations and servers.

Key Features:

• Browsing Assets & Creating Placeholders - Users can browse assets or create placeholders inside the newsroom computer system (NRCS) using the HTML5 MOS plugin.


• Organize & Move Files - Index files in multiple locations to make them searchable within Streamline Production.


• Approvals & User Permissions - User permissions and approvals can be configured to help control the quality of your on-air content.


• Control Playout of Clips - Clips added to a rundown will be sent to the appropriate playout device and a playlist will be created and updated as changes are made.


• Streamline Enterprise - Robust features and scalability make Streamline Enterprise the ideal solution for large scale broadcasters.


• Streamline.cloud - Let Ross take care of the maintenance responsibilities and choose from a variety of subscription options to add Streamline Graphics to your workflow.

Create » Content Acquisition and Capture » Cameras » Specialist, POV, PTZ, action Cameras »

Ross Video has the most complete studio robotics offering available, whether you are looking for the unparalleled smoothness of a track-based system, the unbeatable flexibility of a free-roaming pedestal, or the simple efficiency of a standalone pan & tilt head.

All Ross robotic systems are designed, developed and manufactured in-house, using state-of-the-art technologies that provide industry-leading accuracy, precision, and payload capacity.

Key Features:

• Superior Performance - Ross robotic systems are engineered to outperform competitive offerings, providing more flexibility, better workflows, and highly consistent productions.


• Modern Control Architecture -All Ross studio robotic solutions communicate natively over internet protocol (IP), using a flexible and open control protocol. This makes our robots easy to implement and manage, simplifying installation into new and existing studios.


• Global Deployments & Support - With thousands of robotic systems deployed around world, few suppliers have more experience with installing, commissioning and maintaining robotic systems than Ross Video. As with all Ross products, you will enjoy the industry’s best support, legendary for its customer-oriented approach.

Produce » Real-Time Production » Real-Time Production Graphics » Virtual sets and chromakey »

Trackless virtual systems are all-in-one engines that require no external action on the part of the camera in order to create movement. They use a stationary physical camera, with all the camera movement being done within the graphics engine. This eliminates the need for physical tracking equipment.

Trackless Studio is an all-in-one virtual production tool that fits almost any budget. Built on the XPression Real-Time Motion Graphics System with an intuitive purpose-built interface, Trackless Studio leverages Ross Video’s years of experience with virtual sets and augmented reality to bring quality virtual sets to even the most basic productions.

Produce » Manage Production » Production Software » Newsroom computer systems (NRCS) »

From four independent PGM playout channels, this news playout server provides predictable and precise clip playout during live news shows. This server is built upon the robust and proven Abekas Tria server platform, which provides true hardware reliability and an intuitive software interface.

Tria News is tightly integrated with Ross Video’s Inception newsroom computer system, Streamline media asset management and OverDrive automated production control platform. With this seamless and comprehensive newsroom ecosystem, it's easy to organize newsroom media assets, create and manage run-down playlists, and present news story play out from Tria News. This system also uses well-established and proven MOS newsroom processes, providing reliable and worry-free live operations.

Produce » Real-Time Production » Real-Time Production Graphics » Virtual sets and chromakey »

Master the black art of chroma keying with UltrachromeHR, a high performance multi-channel chroma keying system that uses cutting-edge technology to create full resolution chroma outputs.

Choose the chroma key mode that gets the best results from your unique setup and fine-tune your key with built-in post key processing resources.

Produces excellent results from standard 4:2:2 camera inputs.

Measures your background video source and automatically adjusts your key edge and re-spill color accordingly.

Beautiful chroma keys with photo-realistic graphics and tracked + trackless virtual set technology – Ross can realize all your virtual set needs.

Connect » Real-Time Signal Transfer » Intra-Facility Connectivity » Router control »

Ultrix is the ultimate routing, multiviewer, and signal processing platform for Studios, OB Vans, and Flypacks. As the only software defined platform, customers realize significant cost, space, and power efficiencies with unparalleled flexibility and agility, especially relative to competitive hybrid routers.

Native routing control support for Probel SW-P-08, GVG Native, NV9000, and TSL 3.1, 4.0, and 5.0 for Multiviewer tally makes Ultricore powered systems easy to work with 3rd party control and automation.

System discovery, Database creation, HW/SW panel configuration all done from one UI.

Router, Multiviewer, and Processing configuration and control from one system.

Connect » Real-Time Signal Transfer » Intra-Facility Connectivity » SDI video routers »

The Ultrix 12G Router provides a compact and powerful combination of routing, multi-viewers, audio processing, and control, without requiring special hardware as advanced features can be added at any time via simple software licensing.

As the only software defined platform, customers realize significant cost, space, and power efficiencies with unparalleled flexibility and agility, especially relative to competitive hybrid routers.

You can easily add new features through additional software licenses. No additional hardware required.

Ultrix natively supports 12G throughout the entire chassis. This means it’s ready for UHD production when you are, without replacing any hardware or losing capacity. New version of the latest Ultrix-FR5 routing/AV processing platform that adds IP I/O to the already impressive feature set of this disruptive, ‘Swiss Army knife’ infrastructure solution.

The Ultrix 12G Router is infrastructure in a box. Video/audio routing, multiviewers, audio processing, frame synchronizers, clean/quiet switching, UHD gearboxing and more all unified in one single chassis.

Because of its size, base feature set, and software capabilities, owners save significant money on upfront capital costs. Additionally, the advanced architecture provides significant ROI in terms of power, cooling, shipping, and space costs.

 

Support » Monitoring, Control & Communications » Video Monitoring » Multiviewer display processors »

Ultriscape is the ultimate multiviewer  platform for Studios, OB Vans, and Flypacks. As the world’s first software defined multiviewer, customers realize significant cost, space, and power efficiencies with unparalleled flexibility and agility.

Key Features:

Software Defined - Easily add new multiviewer outputs through additional software licenses.  No additional hardware required.

Integrated Design - Ultriscape can be added to extensive routing, audio processing, and synchronization capabilities to create a completely integrated solution.

Flexible - Each multiviewer head is completely independent, offering tremendous flexibility for layouts and control.

12G Ready - Ultriscape supports inputs from 270Mb/s up to 12G.  This means it’s ready for UHD production when you are, without replacing any hardware or losing capacity.

Pay As You Go - The software defined architecture means you simply buy what you need, when you need it

 

Produce » Real-Time Production » Real-Time Production Graphics » Virtual sets and chromakey »

The application provides seamless integration with tracking systems and real-time 3D rendering engines such as XPression and Frontier. It comes installed on a touchscreen PC for virtual set camera calibration, scene manipulation, media replacement, event triggering, animation control, robotic camera movement control and more.

Produce » Real-Time Production » Real-Time Production Graphics » Production graphics and CG »

XPression uses intelligent caching to provide real-time access to content so there is no lag between keyboard entry and system operation.XPression employs clean user interfaces, logical menus, and controls based on other widely deployed creation tools, shortening any learning curve. XPression handles it all: SD, HD, in SDI or IP, UHD/4K in Quad-Link or 12G Single-Link SDI. XPression software is resolution independent and output card agnostic. XPression Studio and BlueBox supports SMPTE ST 2022-6, SMPTE ST 2022-7 and SMPTE ST 2110. XPression Studio with SMPTE ST 2022-6 is deployed at Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium, the world’s first all-IP stadium! XPression has always been available as a software only solution all the way up to a turnkey hardware product. From a portable configuration all the way to purpose-built hardware, there is an XPression platform that suits all configurations. XPression is in use around the world, in multiple languages. Designers have embraced XPression as a design tool, making it their entry point into creative design and animation development, rather than starting in a desktop suite.

Produce » Real-Time Production » Real-Time Production Graphics » Virtual sets and chromakey »

NEP is a leading provider of augmented reality (AR) solutions that have the power to visually change the world inside your studio. By combining real life with virtual elements, our AR solutions can transform a confined area into an infinite space, or replace a green screen with a set that can be anything you can imagine to perfectly fit the content of your program.

NEXT LEVEL AUGMENTED
We have developed an augmented reality solution that combines four key elements into one workflow, creating next-level results.

TRACKING METHODS AND SCALABILITY
In order to bring augmented reality to the next level we offer the new Mo-Sys Startracker optical system. By deploying this tracking technology on any broadcast camera, we can work in an environment of mixed encoded cameras, including handheld, crane cameras, hard/pedestal cameras—even steady cams.

ADVANCED LIVE RENDERING
Creating virtual graphics that are realistic to the human eye requires live rendering capacity, realistic live shadows and realistic live reflections. All of these things were lacking in today's broadcast render engines, so we adopted the most advanced gaming technology and modified it to fit in the broadcast environment. We use Zero Density Reality Virtual Studio as a bridge between hardware and our platform CUBE.

NEXT GENERATION KEYING
High-end keying is crucial in a virtual set environment, so we have integrated the latest generation "vision" based keying into our solution. Even the most difficult circumstances are no problem.

TOTAL WORKFLOW INTEGRATION
A virtual multi-camera environment is complicated. How do you handle the delays? What do you do with clean and dirty feeds? What back up scenarios are there for the live feed? We have created a seamless integration with the entire production chain, ensuring our virtual world is reality throughout the entire production.

Produce » Real-Time Production » Real-Time Production Graphics » Production graphics and CG »

Lucid Studio is a highly flexible and customizable control platform with an easy-to-use intuitive graphical user interface. Lucid provides seamless integration with tracking systems and real-time 3D rendering engines such as XPression and Voyager. It is a complete redesign of the legacy UX platform, with significant changes to the underlying code, and the graphics interface. Lucid Studio offers unparalleled customizability, flexibility and accessibility to all types of operation and operators. Lucid Studio is used for virtual set camera calibration, scene manipulation, media replacement, event triggering, MOS newsroom integration, animation control, robotic camera movement control and much more.

Produce » Real-Time Production » Real-Time Production Graphics » Production graphics and CG »

Vizrt pioneered virtual set (VS) and augmented reality (AR) and continues to push the boundaries of what is possible. With a combination of efficient newsroom workflows for journalists, integration with advanced tracking systems, and rendering with the world’s most powerful graphics engine and video playout server, Viz Engine, Viz Virtual Studio is the global standard and innovator for live virtual sets and augmented reality productions.

Produce » Real-Time Production » Real-Time Production Graphics » Production graphics and CG »

Reality Engine™ is world's first real-time node based 3D compositor enabling real-time visual effects pipelines featuring video I/O, keying, compositing and rendering UHD/4K in one single software in real-time. As the most photorealistic virtual studio production product, Reality Engine™ provides its client the tools to create the most immersive content possible including augmented reality productions, real-time data driven graphics and real-time ray tracing for cinematic quality rendering and revolutionize storytelling in broadcasting, media and cinema industry.

Photorealism

Reality Engine™ uses Unreal®  Engine by Epic Games, the photorealistic real-time game engine, as the 3D renderer. With the advanced real-time visual effects capabilities, Reality Engine™ ensures the most photorealistic composite output possible.

Real-time Ray Tracing

Reality Engine™ takes advantage of latest powerful technologies from world’s most leading companies like Nvidia® RTX® GPU technology to produce high quality and realistic rendering possible in the industry today. Real-time ray tracing technology brings cinematic quality rendering capability to live production and provides realistic lighting, shadows and reflections.

Real-time Compositing in 3D Space 

As a unique approach in the industry, the green screen video is composited with virtual graphics in 3D space. This technique results in real-time dynamic reflections of the physical objects and the talent on the virtual graphics.  Like reflections, refractions of physical objects are also created automatically in real-time. Reality Engine™ composites video by using 16-bit floating point arithmetic for HDR precision. Having the control of full compositing pipeline, all gamma and color space conversions are handled precisely. By using this technology, the real world and the virtual elements are blended seamlessly.

Reality Keyer

Reality Keyer™ is the world’s first and only real-time image based keyer that works on GPU. Reality Keyer™ preserves real environment details such as contact shadows, transparent objects and sub-pixel details like hair.

Reality Keyer™ can work also with 4:4:4 RGB camera sources. The keyer also supports 3D masks for “force-fill” and “spill bypass” buffers besides garbage mask. Those mask s enable hybrid virtual studio operation which lets you combine virtual and real environments.

Advanced Augmented Reality

Having the tracked camera feed as an input video, Reality Engine™ is able to render reflections and refractions of the real environment onto the virtual augmented objects. Real-time 3D reflections and the shadows of the virtual objects are also composited over the incoming camera feed simulated with 3D perspective.

Reality API

Reality.net API gives possibility to users to develop their own 3rd party control applications for specific needs such as data driven graphics.

Videowall and Portal Window

Reality Engine™ can feed your videowalls with high-resolution 3D graphics. By using camera tracking data, you can even convert your videowall into a portal to a virtual environment. Combining portal window with ceiling extension, you will be able to have a virtual studio without green screen.

Tracking Technology

Reality Engine™ supports industry standard mechanical and optical camera tracking systems. Reality can use the lens calibration data sent by the tracking devices.

Talent Tracking

When the talent tracking data acquired by Reality Engine, the engine positions the talent inside the virtual world in the correct position and depth. This technology automatically enables the creation of accurate reflections and refractions of the talent. Interaction between the real and physical is achieved with utmost realism thanks to Reality Engine’s industry first and only feature of com-positing in 3D space.

Produce » Real-Time Production » Real-Time Production Graphics » Virtual sets and chromakey »

Swift Studio offers full multi-camera virtual studios to take your productions to the next level or gives you the option of dropping 3D augmented reality objects such as score boards into live studios or outside broadcasts.

We also offer a highly cost effective single fixed camera system called Swift Studio Lite.

• Swift Studio works with all the main camera tracking products.


• Use Swift CG+ to design and incorporate 3D designs from other leading 3D design tools.


• Incorporates live data feeds for accurate on air graphics.


• Supported by our Swift Services to ensure all camera renderers are in sync.


• Scales from single self contained PC, up to large scale facility wide distributed architecture.


• Wide range of broadcast format support - HD, UHD, HDR, SDI, ST2110, NDI.


• Fonts and language support including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, etc.

Produce » Real-Time Production » Video Production » Production automation systems »

Edison PRO is an innovative, template-based playout application that seeks to transform any live, online presentation or conference into an immersive experience through AR and virtual environments, allowing users to enhance their speech and storytelling with real-time 3D graphics and other visual aids, including immersing themselves in the presentation.

Based on Brainstorm’s 25 years of broadcast experience in virtual sets and AR, Edison PRO substantially improves the impact of any presentation. Users do not require any experience in graphics, video, image or 3D, as the starting point for their sessions is a PPT of PDF document.

Based on 25 years of the broadcast experience of Brainstorm in virtual sets and AR, Edison PRO substantially improves the quality and impact of your presentations without requiring specific knowledge in 3D, virtual studios or video.

Edison PRO is a standalone product that includes a future-proof hardware to ensure the ease of operation, compatibility and performance. Installation, training and support are straight-forward, ensuring a rock-solid operation even in highly demanding, live production environments.

Compatible with standard presentation tools

Edison PRO can import standard PPT and PDF files so the slides or pages can be displayed and controlled by the presenter by using Edison’s interface. The presentation can also be controlled using standard clicker devices, smartphones or tablets.

Easy to use and control

Running a presentation is as easy as loading a template and importing the slides. Once a template is loaded, Edison PRO can key out and insert the presenter inside the 3D Virtual Reality scene, which can be further customized.

TrackFree virtual cameras that turn your virtual set limitless

Using Brainstorm’s patented TrackFree™ technology, Edison PRO takes the video feed of your fixed camera and creates virtual camera views from it. These are flexible, independent from the live feed, and can move freely in 3D space, as pedestals or cranes do in live production environments. This feature expands the virtual environment far beyond the limits of the physical chroma set. Users can change the camera view or create a new one at any time, instantly, with just a click!

Unreal Engine compatible

Edison PRO is compatible with UE scenes, which can be used as 3D backgrounds for the presentation. This improves your presentations with the ability to use hyper realistic background scenes in real-time.

Also, the optional Edison UC (Edison Unreal Control) plugin allows for controlling and editing the UE scene’s blueprints, objects and properties directly from Edison’s own, user-friendly interface.

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Reality Keyer is the world’s first and only real-time image based keyer that works on GPU. Reality Keyer provides spectacular results for keying of contact shadows, transparent objects and sub-pixel details like hair. Reality Keyer can work also with 4:4:4 RGB camera sources. The keyer also supports 3D masks for “force-fill” and “spill bypass” buffers besides garbage mask. Those masks enable hybrid virtual studio operation which lets you combine virtual and real environments.Besides the quality of its results, Reality Keyer is still very easy to setup and operate.

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The world’s first pre-configured complete virtual studio system. All the flexibility and creativity virtual sets offer without the complexity or cost.

This state-of-the-art virtual studio system provides unlimited creative freedom to generate visually impactful digital studios for every video type.

Create all your video content with a single studio

• 3-camera 4K virtual studio system – expandable to 16 cameras.


•  Pre-confi gured system with pre-calibrated lenses.


•  1 vendor for supply, installation, training, and support.


• 1 day installation.


• No additional virtual studio compositing software required.


• Works with LED wall studios or green studios.


• 4K recorders included – shoot live to air, or record for post-production.


• Includes Mo-Sys Beam In technology – include remote guests in a virtual studio.


• Uses Unreal Engine 4 (UE4) - the market leader in photo-realistic graphics engines.


• Suitable for live broadcast/streaming, real-time film workflows, and rapid reaction social media video

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AirBox provides automated content playout for satellite channels, cable head-ends, over-the-air broadcasters and corporate TV users. It is designed to be extremely robust, in order to meet the highest reliability demands of on-air playout. Due to its unique modular architecture, it is also suitable for webcasters, hotel Pay TV channels, corporate presentations, video wall sourcing and other program distribution systems.

AirBox Multi Parallel Output allows simultaneous running of two or more SDI or IP streaming SD / HD outputs so that broadcasters can easily deliver parallel output in any combination needed to deliver the content.

AirBox supports a wide range of video / audio formats from almost every known platform for production Third-party video server files like Leitch, Seachange, etc. are supported natively.

Any modifications to the playlist can be made during the on-air session. There will be no locked videos in the playlist except the one being played at the moment. They can be changed, edited or substituted.

On-the-fly commands such as skip to next or jump can change the playback order. Such changes in order are carried out seamlessly without stopping the current session. The powerful Live Show Clipboard facilitates live productions, enabling the insertion and/or execution of different events or live streams.

AirBox enables playlist scheduling for weeks ahead for automated playout. The associated gaps and time overlaps are overcome dynamically to ensure smooth service even when timed activities interfere with each other. If content files or even entire schedules are missing and misplaced, special facilities guarantee continuous operation.

MS Windows 10 compatible.

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eStudio - The industry’s fastest real-time 3D graphics and virtual studio engine.

Brainstorm eStudio is a powerful and flexible tool that provides solutions for any kind of real-time graphics. The eStudio is unique in the market due to its sophistication, open architecture and versatility, enabling both design and real-time playout of virtual studios and 3D graphics as well as the easy creation of customized applications. It provides excellent results for applications such as News & Sports, channel branding, weather, entertainment, charts and graphics, interactive corporate presentations or film pre-visualization.

Brainstorm has been pushing the boundaries of virtual set production and development for over 25 years. Brainstorm pioneered the application of camera tracking to 3D real-time virtual set, and eStudio interfaces with practically all current tracking systems, making integration with any production hardware an out-of-the-box feature.

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InfinitySet: the most advanced virtual set solution.

Forget all you know about Virtual Studios. Anything can be accomplished with InfinitySet, from simple virtual sets with fixed cameras to advanced and complex productions involving tracked cameras, external feeds with embedded tracking data and data driven graphics interacting in real-time with the set and the talents. InfinitySet’s advanced technologies are also user-friendly, providing the best tool to create amazing programs that engage viewers.

InfinitySet is the all-in-one virtual set and real-time 3D graphics solution, not just for showcasing a number of extremely advanced technologies, but also for the flexibility this solution gives to operators and producers alike. Brainstorm’s award-winning InfinitySet dramatically enhances production value to capture and retain new and larger audiences, while greatly reducing production costs and opening up new sources of revenue.

Why InfinitySet?

- InfinitySet is the most advanced virtual set solution thanks to the patented TrackFree technology.

- With advanced compositing features, it allows to create fully realistic real-time 3D scenes with elements that  behave like those of the real world.

- InfinitySet is a complete real-time 3D Graphics tool, as it can embed all the power of Aston within the virtual set environment.

Brainstorm’s experience of over 25 years in producing advanced 3D graphics and virtual sets is concentrated in InfinitySet, which provides state-of-the-art Augmented Reality features used daily by broadcasters all over the world to create astonishing shows using virtual sets and graphics.

InfinitySet 3 introduced a plethora of high-end, advanced rendering features which, in addition to its Combined Render Engine with Unreal Engine, allow InfinitySet to create the most realistic content for virtual and mixed reality, virtual sets, real-time postproduction and film pre-visualization.

InfinitySet 4, the latest version of the award-winning augmented reality and virtual set solution, gains major updates to the rendering features and especially the management and compatibility with the Unreal Engine. This effectively enhances the way the Combined Render Engine, Brainstorm’s seamless integration between the company’s eStudio render engine and the Unreal Engine, works in practice. Another key development is that InfinitySet now features an Unreal-native behaviour, so InfinitySet users can achieve anything Unreal Engine provides in a workflow fully integrated into Unreal. The added value of this configuration is the multitude of benefits of including more than 25 years of Brainstorm’s experience in broadcast and film graphics, virtual set and augmented reality production, including data management, playout workflows, virtual camera detach, multiple simultaneous renders and much more.

Real-time ray tracing

InfinitySet takes full advantage of the latest hardware developments found in NVIDIA RTX GPU technology. By using NVIDIA Quadro RTX GPUs, InfinitySet can deliver real-time ray tracing, which provides a much more accurate rendering, especially with complex light conditions.

PBR and HDR

InfinitySet fully supports PBR shaders as materials and can also be imported from external shader editing software. In addition, InfinitySet can render HDR in floating 16 bit per channel/component, supporting for P2020 gamma correction output. This allows for post-rendering exposure control and extended-range filtering.

Combined Render Engine

InfinitySet features Brainstorm’s Combined Render Engine, which provides with the best of both worlds, the high-quality scene rendering of Epic Games’ Unreal Engine with the advanced graphics, typography and external data management of the eStudio render engine.

DMX Dynamic Light Control

InfinitySet InfinitySet can remotely control and adjust in real-time external light panels and external Chroma Keyer settings, allowing for changing the lighting conditions of the real set to match those of the virtual set, adding further realism and accuracy to the content.

Virtual Shadows and Defocus

Thanks to the TrackFree technology, InfinitySet can create virtual shadows along with the real shadows extracted from the chroma keyer, and apply then to virtual surfaces. InfinitySet can also adjust the focus and depth of field of a scene, even within the Combined Render Engine.

TrackFree Camera Detaching

Set space restrictions are no longer a problem, because, regardless the camera we are shooting is fixed, manned, tracked or robotized, InfinitySet can seamlessly detach the camera feed while maintaining the correct position and perspective of the talent within the virtual scene.

Augmented Reality and Broadcast Graphics

Broadcast graphics have specific requirements that are far beyond from what a Game Engine can do.

With the Combined Render Engine Brainstorm makes both engines work together, so adding Aston graphics as Augmented Reality objects as required within the scene is simple and straight forward.

Also, broadcast graphics workflows require external database connections, statistics, tickers, social media, lower-thirds, such a variety of graphics that are alien to the Game Engine framework but are essential for broadcast operation.

TrackFree

TrackFree is a patented camera-tracking independent technology that provides just what its name claims: the total freedom for operators to use any tracking system, trackless or fixed cameras, or a combination of these at the same time.

Allows for combined Chroma Keying, even within the same production:

•Internal chroma key software

•External chroma key hardware

•Combination of both

TrackFree advanced features:

•TeleTransporter

•3D Presenter

•HandsTracking

•FreeWalking

Enhanced internal Chroma keyer

InfinitySet features an advanced internal, resolution independent Chroma Keyer, supporting controls for main key, spill correction, detail recovering and color correction.

InfinitySet automatically creates an secondary key for feet tracking, independent from the main one. This key permits the calculation of the talent’s feet position for the FreeWalking feature and for creating virtual shadows and reflections.

TeleTransporter

This feature seamlessly combines 3D virtual sets with real characters and live or pre-recorded video feeds, all moving accordingly with precise matching of perspective, color, shadows, reflections or focus.

InfinitySet allows the incorporation of external post-production tracking hardware and software data along with real-time tracking data, combining both with any object or set on the scene. Also, external tracking data coming from real cameras or third-party tracking software can be included as metadata in live feeds or pre-recorded videos, and immediately be transferred and applied to the virtual camera’s parameters.

3D Presenter

Converts the talent into a 3D object, achieved by generating a true 3D representation of the talent from a video feed. The presenter becomes an actual 3D object embedded within the virtual set. 3D Presenter features:

•Casts real shadows and reflections of the talent from virtual lights over virtual and real objects.

•Allows for interaction of the talent with 3D elements in the virtual set.

•Adds volumetric lighting for selective illumination and color correction of the talent, the lights interact in a realistic manner with the talent’s 3D volume.

FreeWalking

Enables talents to move freely around the green screen theatre matching their movements within the 3D space. Presenters are allowed to move forward, backwards and sideways with precise perspective matching even though the real camera is in a fixed position.

HandsTracking

Allows the triggering of events and animations just with the simple movement of the bare hands.

HandsTracking brings gestures to life, so presenters can trigger animations, graphics or data with a simple movement of the hands and without the need for any additional costly and complex tracking devices.

Advanced TrackFree features

InfinitySet 3 includes a number of advanced features which improve the realism of the final composition, while allow for the seamless integration between virtual and real content.

VideoGate

Thanks to VideoGate, a presenter in the virtual set can walk into a virtual screen, into the featured news, and be part of the video itself with full realism regardless it is shown full screen or as part of the set.

The talent enters and exits the video with full precise and accurately matched perspective, and once inside the clip it behaves correctly in terms of spatial reference and with the inclusion of realistic shadows, defocus etc.

Real Set Virtualization

InfinitySet can use real, live or pre-recorded footage to use it as the background for the chroma keyed talent. The original stage can be recorded in pre-determined shots, and the chroma keyed talent that is recorded in a remote station can then use the original studio’s shots, including its tracking data if available, to be tele-transported to that set, therefore seeming they are placed physically on that set.

This functionality allows a remote talent to enter any stage at any time, while seamlessly mixing real and virtual elements.

VideoCAVE

Brainstorm’s VideoCAVE feature is a Mixed Reality application which uses monitors on a real set to behave as a CAVE multiple window, with virtual elements coming in from the virtual windows to the real scene as seen from the tracked broadcast camera.

The CAVE concept is the acronym of “Cave Automatic Virtual Environment”, and is related to a multiple virtual window, an immersive virtual reality environment where projections are directed to a cube or room space.

Selective defocus and bokeh

InfinitySet can even match the depth-of-field of the presenter with that of the scene.

Using the real camera’s parameters, InfinitySet is able to create a selective defocus and bokeh effects on the virtual scene adding an even more realistic effect to the final rendered composition.

Augmented Reality

Augmented Reality requires the interaction between sets, talents and virtual objects, often created out of external data sources. These in-context data driven objects allow for visually engaging and better explained representations of the data.

The combination of InfinitySet features makes Live projection mapping a straight forward application.

Motion graphics

As much Augmented Reality content requires advanced graphics features to guarantee the accuracy and realism of the result, InfinitySet includes graphics editing and creation features of Aston, so it can edit, manage and create 2D/3D motion graphics.

Also, Aston compositions, can be included, controlled and edited within InfinitySet allowing for the creation of great quality programs with enhanced information.

•Integrates Aston projects within the virtual set environment

•Imports 3D files into the virtual set: .fbx, .obj, .dae, .3ds…

Software Mixer

InfinitySet features a software-based Production Mixer Mode for enhanced production functionality such as full control of all the virtual cameras, with non-linear transitions such as Cut-Fade-Wipes and Flies between 3D cameras, plus controlling actions and objects.

Virtual Set Camera Controller

InfinitySet is fully compatible with Brainstorm’s Virtual Camera Controller, an external hardware that controls the Production Mixer Mode.

This hardware, also used by other Brainstorm solutions, is designed to further enhance the live production capabilities of InfinitySet, allowing full control of cameras, transitions, actions and objects.

Turnkey system

InfinitySet is delivered as a complete, turnkey system ready to use, fully and immediately integrable in any broadcaster’s workflow. Using standard broadcast plus complete IT connectivity, all Brainstorm products are prepared to work at its best since day one.

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KRONOS K8 is Bluefish444’s fully-featured high-bandwidth 4K/UHD, 2K/HD & SD video and audio I/O card for professional video workflows on Windows, macOS and Linux operating systems.

Capable of up to 8 independent and simultaneous channels of 3G/HD/SD-SDI input or output, K8 also features Reference and LTC I/O.

Cross-platform support with Industry leading 3rd-party software

Adobe Creative Cloud | Assimilate SCRATCH | Avid | CasparCG | Dataton | Foundry Nuke | Resolume | Streamstar | Unity | Unreal Engine | vMix

All Bluefish video cards are Thunderbolt compatible, work with the free Bluefish acquisition application IngeSTore, the Bluefish cross-platform SDK, and leading 3rd party content creation tools.

Bluefish products are deployed globally throughout the broadcast graphics, post-production, live event and entertainment, immersive graphics, proAV, corporate, military, government, medical and education markets, including integration into digital intermediate, mobile production, QC and compliance, Video Over IP and video streaming workflows.

FREE multi-channel capture tool, IngeSTore

• Capture up to 4 channels of video


• Wide range of codec options


• Records direct to shared storage, including Avid shared storage


• Growing file support with Edit-While-Record in Adobe Premiere Pro and Avid Media Composer


• REST API to control remotely


• RS-422 Controller


• Encode for live production, post production, archival and streaming workflows

MAJOR FEATURES

Bi-directional I/O’s provide unrivalled flexibility

• 8 bi-directional HD-BNC video connectors supporting 3G/1.5G SDI I/O


• Multi-channel 4K UHD 60p playout or capture video Quad Link 3G-SDI


• Each BNC is completely independent

Maximum connectivity

• Reference I/O BNC


• LTC I/O


• Interlock between multiple K8 and Epoch | Neutron/4K Neutron cards

Optional connectivity

• Optional auxiliary I/O can be added to K8 via the STEM port interface and optional EX-1 and EX-2 products


• K8 with EX-1 adds LTC I/O, RS-422 control and AES audio I/O


• K8 with EX-2 adds LTC I/O, RS-422 control and Analogue audio I/O

The industry's lowest latency I/O, by design

KRONOS K8 has, by design, the world's lowest-latency providing access to captured fields or frames to on-board card memory event before the whole field or frame is complete, thereby reducing the latency to sub on field or frame. During a capture or playout, each process can occur at less than or equal to 1 field for interlaced modes, and less than 1 frame for progressive modes.

Maintaining a 12-bit processing pipeline

• 12-bit image processing is standard on all Bluefish video cards


• Allows 8, 10 & 12-bit SDI video signals to be produced from 8, 10, 12 & 16-bit pixel formats providing the highest image quality available from your source material


• 4096 discrete values of red, green & blue are maintained per pixel


• 4 times the colour precision of a traditional 10-bit processing pipeline!

Maintaining the highest quality RGB <=> YUV

• Fully programmable 4 x 4 x 33-bit colour matrix providing the highest quality colour space conversions


• Reduces colour space conversion errors and ensures the highest quality colour accuracy during capture, monitoring and mastering

Thunderbolt expansion chassis compatibility

• Compatible with Sonnet, One Stop Systems Magma, Netstor, and AKiTio Thunderbolt devices for multichannel mobile production


• Visit Bluefish's website for a full list of qualified 3rd-party chassis options

Low-latency video keyers

• 4 x Low latency hardware video keyer


• Allows video layers to be combined in hardware with microseconds of delay


• Enables animated logos, captions, tickers, and more to be keyed over live video feeds at full 12-bit precision, and with minimum input to output delay


• Can also function as an image pre-multiplier to assist in previewing images with alpha data

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Epoch | 4K Neutron is Bluefish444’s fully-featured 4K/UHD, 2K/HD & SD video and audio I/O card for professional video workflows on Windows, macOS and Linux operating systems.

Capable of up to 3 independent and simultaneous channels of 3G/HD/SD-SDI input or output, 4K Neutron also features 4K/UHD HDMI monitoring, AES Digital Audio IO, Analogue Audio Output, RS-422 Control, and auxiliary Reference Input. 4K Neutron is also available as a low-profile configuration compatible with compact installations or devices.

Cross-platform support with industry-leading 3rd-party software

Adobe Creative Cloud | Assimilate SCRATCH | Avid  | Avmeda  | Brainstorm  | BTi | CasparCG | ChryonHego | ClassX | Dataton | Drastic Technologies 4KScope & VideoQC | DVBControl | Etere | Foundry Nuke | Libero Systems | Marquise Technologies MIST & ICE | Masterplay | Media 5 | Media-Alliance | Medialooks | Metus | MOG | NewTek | Nverzion  | Resolume | Ross Video | Streamstar | Telestream Wirecast | Touchdesigner | Unity | Unreal Engine | Unreal Streaming Technologies | Vizrt Viz Engine & Viz Arena | vMix | VRi | Xdream Media | Zinemath zLense

All Bluefish video cards are Thunderbolt compatible, work with the free Bluefish acquisition application IngeSTore, the Bluefish cross-platform SDK, and leading 3rd party content creation tools.

Bluefish products are deployed globally throughout the broadcast graphics, post-production, live event and entertainment, immersive graphics, proAV, corporate, military, government, medical and education markets, including integration into digital intermediate, mobile production, QC and compliance, Video Over IP and video streaming workflows.

FREE multi-channel capture tool, IngeSTore

• Capture up to 3 channels of video


• Wide range of codec options


• Records direct to shared storage, including Avid shared storage


• Growing file support with Edit-While-Record in Adobe Premiere Pro and Avid Media Composer


• REST API to control remotely


• RS-422 Controller


• Encode for live production, post production, archival and streaming workflows

MAJOR FEATURES

Bi-directional I/O’s provide unrivalled flexibility

• 3 bi-directional BNC video connectors supporting 3G/1.5G SDI I/O


• Up to 4K UHD 30p playout or capture via Dual Link 3G-SDI


• Each BNC is completely independent


• Third BNC can be set to Reference input instead of standard video signal

Maximum connectivity

Included breakout cable provides:

• RS-422 machine control for control of VTRs and other serial-controlled devices


• 8 channels of AES EBU audio input and output for 7.1 surround sound monitoring. Capture and playout digital audio signals in crystal-clear quality


• 2 channels of Analogue Audio for quick and simple high quality audio monitoring


• Auxiliary Reference (Input) connector frees the 3rd BNC for 3G/HD/SD video I/O

The industry's lowest latency I/O, by design

4K Neutron has, by design, the world's lowest-latency providing access to captured fields or frames to on-board card memory event before the whole field or frame is complete, thereby reducing the latency to sub on field or frame. During a capture or playout, each process can occur at less than or equal to 1 field for interlaced modes, and less than 1 frame for progressive modes.

4K/UHD HDMI monitoring

• Cost-effective 4K/UHD monitoring via HDMI 1.4


• Simultaneous SDI and HDMI playout

Maintaining a 12-bit processing pipeline

• 12-bit image processing is standard on all Bluefish video cards


• Allows 8, 10 & 12-bit SDI video signals to be produced from 8, 10, 12 & 16-bit pixel formats providing the highest image quality available from your source material


• 4096 discrete values of red, green & blue are maintained per pixel


• 4 times the colour precision of a traditional 10-bit processing pipeline!

Maintaining the highest quality RGB <=> YUV

• Fully programmable 4 x 4 x 33-bit colour matrix providing the highest quality colour space conversions


• Reduces colour space conversion errors and ensures the highest quality colour accuracy during capture, monitoring and mastering

Thunderbolt expansion chassis compatibility

• Compatible with Sonnet, One Stop Systems Magma, Netstor, and AKiTio Thunderbolt devices for multichannel mobile production


• Visit Bluefish's website for a full list of qualified 3rd-party chassis options

Low-latency video keyer

• Low latency hardware video keyer


• Allows video layers to be combined in hardware with microseconds of delay


• Enables animated logos, captions, tickers, and more to be keyed over live video feeds at full 12-bit precision, and with minimum input to output delay


• Can also function as an image pre-multiplier to assist in previewing images with alpha data

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Epoch | Supernova CG is Bluefish444’s 2K/HD & SD video and audio I/O card for professional video workflows on Windows, macOS and Linux operating systems.

Capable of up to 4 independent and simultaneous channels of HD/SD-SDI input or output, Supernova CG features a flexible combination of multi-channel SDI I/O, and a dedicated Reference input BNC.

Cross-platform support with industry-leading 3rd-party software

Adobe Creative Cloud | Assimilate SCRATCH | Avid  | Avmeda  | Brainstorm  | BTi | CasparCG | ChryonHego | ClassX | Dataton | Drastic Technologies 4KScope & VideoQC | DVBControl | Etere | Foundry Nuke | Libero Systems | Marquise Technologies MIST & ICE | Masterplay | Media 5 | Media-Alliance | Medialooks | Metus | MOG | NewTek | Nverzion  | Resolume | Ross Video | Streamstar | Telestream Wirecast | Touchdesigner | Unity | Unreal Engine | Unreal Streaming Technologies | Vizrt Viz Engine & Viz Arena | vMix | VRi | Xdream Media | Zinemath zLense

All Bluefish video cards are Thunderbolt compatible, work with the free Bluefish acquisition application IngeSTore, the Bluefish cross-platform SDK, and leading 3rd party content creation tools.

Bluefish products are deployed globally throughout the broadcast graphics, post-production, live event and entertainment, immersive graphics, proAV, corporate, military, government, medical and education markets, including integration into digital intermediate, mobile production, QC and compliance, Video Over IP and video streaming workflows.

FREE multi-channel capture tool, IngeSTore

• Capture up to 4 channels of video


• Wide range of codec options


• Records direct to shared storage, including Avid shared storage


• Growing file support with Edit-While-Record in Adobe Premiere Pro and Avid Media Composer


• REST API to control remotely


• RS-422 Controller


• Encode for live production, post production, archival and streaming workflows

MAJOR FEATURES

Bi-directional I/O’s provide unrivalled flexibility

• 4 bi-directional BNC video connectors supporting 1.5G-SDI I/O


• Up to 2K/HD 60p playout or capture via Dual Link 1.5G-SDI


• Each BNC is completely independent

Maximum connectivity

• Dedicated Reference Input BNC

The industry's lowest latency I/O, by design

Supernova CG has, by design, the world's lowest-latency providing access to captured fields or frames to on-board card memory event before the whole field or frame is complete, thereby reducing the latency to sub on field or frame. During a capture or playout, each process can occur at less than or equal to 1 field for interlaced modes, and less than 1 frame for progressive modes.

Maintaining a 12-bit processing pipeline

• 12-bit image processing is standard on all Bluefish video cards


• Allows 8, 10 & 12-bit SDI video signals to be produced from 8, 10, 12 & 16-bit pixel formats providing the highest image quality available from your source material


• 4096 discrete values of red, green & blue are maintained per pixel


• 4 times the colour precision of a traditional 10-bit processing pipeline!

Maintaining the highest quality RGB <=> YUV

• Fully programmable 4 x 4 x 33-bit colour matrix providing the highest quality colour space conversions


• Reduces colour space conversion errors and ensures the highest quality colour accuracy during capture, monitoring and mastering

Thunderbolt expansion chassis compatibility

• Compatible with Sonnet, One Stop Systems Magma, Netstor, and AKiTio Thunderbolt devices for multichannel mobile production


• Visit Bluefish's website for a full list of qualified 3rd-party chassis options

Low-latency video keyer

• Low latency hardware video keyer


• Allows video layers to be combined in hardware with microseconds of delay


• Enables animated logos, captions, tickers, and more to be keyed over live video feeds at full 12-bit precision, and with minimum input to output delay


• Can also function as an image pre-multiplier to assist in previewing images with alpha data

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Epoch | 4K Supernova S+ is Bluefish444’s fully-featured 4K/UHD, 2K/HD & SD video and audio I/O card for professional video workflows on Windows, macOS and Linux operating systems.

Capable of up to 4 independent and simultaneous channels of 3G/HD/SD-SDI input or output, 4K Supernova S+ also features a fifth BNC for SDI monitor output and a dedicated Reference input BNC.

Cross-platform support with industry-leading 3rd-party software

Adobe Creative Cloud | Assimilate SCRATCH | Avid  | Avmeda  | Brainstorm  | BTi | CasparCG | ChryonHego | ClassX | Dataton | Drastic Technologies 4KScope & VideoQC | DVBControl | Etere | Foundry Nuke | Libero Systems | Marquise Technologies MIST & ICE | Masterplay | Media 5 | Media-Alliance | Medialooks | Metus | MOG | NewTek | Nverzion  | Resolume | Ross Video | Streamstar | Telestream Wirecast | Touchdesigner | Unity | Unreal Engine | Unreal Streaming Technologies | Vizrt Viz Engine & Viz Arena | vMix | VRi | Xdream Media | Zinemath zLense

All Bluefish video cards are Thunderbolt compatible, work with the free Bluefish acquisition application IngeSTore, the Bluefish cross-platform SDK, and leading 3rd party content creation tools.

Bluefish products are deployed globally throughout the broadcast graphics, post-production, live event and entertainment, immersive graphics, proAV, corporate, military, government, medical and education markets, including integration into digital intermediate, mobile production, QC and compliance, Video Over IP and video streaming workflows.

FREE multi-channel capture tool, IngeSTore

• Capture up to 4 channels of video


• Wide range of codec options


• Records direct to shared storage, including Avid shared storage


• Growing file support with Edit-While-Record in Adobe Premiere Pro and Avid Media Composer


• REST API to control remotely


• RS-422 Controller


• Encode for live production, post production, archival and streaming workflows

MAJOR FEATURES

Bi-directional I/O’s provide unrivalled flexibility

• 4 bi-directional BNC video connectors supporting 3G/1.5G SDI I/O


• Up to 4K UHD 30p playout or capture via Dual Link 3G-SDI


• Each BNC is completely independent

Maximum connectivity

• Additional BNC for SDI monitoring


• Dedicated Reference input BNC

The industry's lowest latency I/O, by design

4K Supernova S+ has, by design, the world's lowest-latency providing access to captured fields or frames to on-board card memory event before the whole field or frame is complete, thereby reducing the latency to sub on field or frame. During a capture or playout, each process can occur at less than or equal to 1 field for interlaced modes, and less than 1 frame for progressive modes.

Maintaining a 12-bit processing pipeline

• 12-bit image processing is standard on all Bluefish video cards


• Allows 8, 10 & 12-bit SDI video signals to be produced from 8, 10, 12 & 16-bit pixel formats providing the highest image quality available from your source material


• 4096 discrete values of red, green & blue are maintained per pixel


• 4 times the colour precision of a traditional 10-bit processing pipeline!

Maintaining the highest quality RGB <=> YUV

• Fully programmable 4 x 4 x 33-bit colour matrix providing the highest quality colour space conversions


• Reduces colour space conversion errors and ensures the highest quality colour accuracy during capture, monitoring and mastering

Thunderbolt expansion chassis compatibility

• Compatible with Sonnet, One Stop Systems Magma, Netstor, and AKiTio Thunderbolt devices for multichannel mobile production


• Visit Bluefish's website for a full list of qualified 3rd-party chassis options

Low-latency video keyer

• Low latency hardware video keyer


• Allows video layers to be combined in hardware with microseconds of delay


• Enables animated logos, captions, tickers, and more to be keyed over live video feeds at full 12-bit precision, and with minimum input to output delay


• Can also function as an image pre-multiplier to assist in previewing images with alpha data

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Welcome to the next generation of Bluefish444, with the arrival of the KRONOS range of video, audio, and data processing I/O cards. Built with multi-channel 4K UHD 60p, High Dynamic Range, High Frame Rate SDI and SMPTE 2022 & SMPTE 2110 support for Video Over IP workflows for broadcast, production and post-production, the new KRONOS range is ready for anything that you can throw at it.

The KRONOS optikós offers future-proofing connectivity with 3 SFP+ cages in addition to 2 HD BNC connectors for 3G/HD/SD-SDI I/O. These SFP+ cages provide limitless connectivity options exposing greater than 3G SDI, IP connectivity across 10Gb Ethernet, and flexibility to choose from numerous physical interfaces.

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Welcome to the next generation of Bluefish444, with the arrival of the KRONOS range of video, audio, and data processing I/O cards. Built with multi-channel 4K UHD 60p, High Dynamic Range, High Frame Rate SDI and SMPTE 2022 & SMPTE 2110 support for Video Over IP workflows for broadcast, production and post-production, the new KRONOS range is ready for anything that you can throw at it.

KRONOS will offer the choice of SDI I/O connectivity with the KRONOS ēlektron, featuring 8 high-density BNC connectors capable of 3G/HD/SD-SDI. Each HD BNC connector is fully bi-directional, enabling numerous configuration options, including 8 input, 8 output, or a mixture of SDI input and output connections.

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Aximmetry Technologies provides end-to-end, real-time 3D graphics and virtual studio solutions for the broadcast and entertainment industries for many years and to a truly global user base. Its ambition is to make high-end virtual studio software technology accessible to all.

Our Aximmetry virtual production platform offers the choice of two real-time rendering engines: Aximmetry's own engine and Unreal Engine integration. In 2022, Aximmetry DE software editions with complete Unreal Engine integration are tried and tested by thousands of users around the world from indie content creators, to large production houses and Television Stations using multiple licenses for complex productions.

 Aximmetry is the studio glue that holds these productions together by easily interfacing a multitude of hardware used in the broadcast environment. These are various input and output possibilities, LED screens, all known tracking systems, numerous controlling devices, and API to name a few.

Our built-in, advanced Aximmetry Keyer provides superior results for real-time chroma keying. Aximmetry Calibrator is there to make lens and camera calibration user-friendly.  Our high-end live compositing tools include light wrap, customizable reflections and shadows of the talent, and visual interactions of virtual and real elements. Plus, Aximmetry also provides flexible scripting tools for full control of the production and user-friendly tools for realtime pre-and post-processing of the rendered image.

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The application provides seamless integration with tracking systems and real-time 3D rendering engines such as XPression and Frontier. It comes installed on a touchscreen PC for virtual set camera calibration, scene manipulation, media replacement, event triggering, animation control, robotic camera movement control and more.

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Master the black art of chroma keying with UltrachromeHR, a high performance multi-channel chroma keying system that uses cutting-edge technology to create full resolution chroma outputs.

Choose the chroma key mode that gets the best results from your unique setup and fine-tune your key with built-in post key processing resources.

Produces excellent results from standard 4:2:2 camera inputs.

Measures your background video source and automatically adjusts your key edge and re-spill color accordingly.

Beautiful chroma keys with photo-realistic graphics and tracked + trackless virtual set technology – Ross can realize all your virtual set needs.

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Trackless virtual systems are all-in-one engines that require no external action on the part of the camera in order to create movement. They use a stationary physical camera, with all the camera movement being done within the graphics engine. This eliminates the need for physical tracking equipment.

Trackless Studio is an all-in-one virtual production tool that fits almost any budget. Built on the XPression Real-Time Motion Graphics System with an intuitive purpose-built interface, Trackless Studio leverages Ross Video’s years of experience with virtual sets and augmented reality to bring quality virtual sets to even the most basic productions.

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Frontier works in a virtual studio environment for virtual sets and augmented reality. Frontier enables the creation of even the most complex graphical elements quickly, easily, and with unprecedented realism with greater accuracy than ever before.

Frontier uses the UX control platform as an operator-friendly front end, so operators are not required to know UE4 to use the system. Frontier supports customization, flexibility, and scalability in terms of number of cameras and graphics engines through the integration of UX and UX VCC applications.

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The Safire 3 chroma keyer is ideal for real-time applications from weather to immersive virtual studios.

It has a simple intuitive workflow for setting up a key, support for resolutions from SD to 1080p and features such as lighting compensation, colour correction and video delay to help solve common real world issues.

It's also the lowest cost of the industry's best real time chroma keyers - and includes the best support as well as a five year warranty.

Safire 3 is used by broadcasters across the world.

You can set up an impressive chroma key automatically using multi-point sampling, or you can manually adjust the picture using any of the fine-tuning tools available. These adjustments can be made using a choice of control options – from touch screen control panel to web browser.

Safire 3 is a module that fits in Crystal Vision’s Indigo frames, saving you rack space by allowing up to 12 chroma keyers (or other cards) in 2U.

 

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Released as oARo’s latest innovation for Virtual Production, our EZtrack® Hub for camera tracking relies on a compact system unit that is operated by an intuitive interface. The solution delivers accurate tracking, compatibility with multiple tracking standards, image sync, zoom/focus data acquisition, communication with world-class 3D engines as well as objects or talents tracking in real-time.

Operating like a “Hub”, the EZtrack® unit processes the tracked data in real-time before sending it to the 3D rendering station. From live tracking to 3D compositing, the process remains straightforward and promises a complete control at every step.

Achieving an excellent value for money, the solution has been especially engineered to be lighter and easier to use than other tracking products, thus enabling quick deployment of your virtual studio set-up with significantly less efforts.

 

Designed for mastered virtual studio conditions without many reflective surfaces, every EZtrack® Hub unit can handle up to 1 camera rig and up to 2 objects or live talents tracking.

From live TV sets to On-Set Previs, EZtrack® can be interfaced with multiple configurations :

– Virtual Studio setup for Live show/Live Entertainment in Augmented Reality (AR)

– Camera tracking : steadycams and handheld cameras, dollies, small cranes

– Objects tracking : 3D assets insertion, virtual accessories

– Talent tracking: automatic depth compositing

 

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Viewers are shifting to mobile for news and information. You need to get
them back with weather and traffic presentations they can only see on the
big screen. Max Reality visualizes weather data in a whole new way, using
advanced Augmented Reality technology to create dynamic, 3D images of
storms and atmospheric events that make even routine weather look
fascinating. This solution includes:

- Weather and traffic storytelling with virtual 3D immersive experiences
- Ability to retain share of audience by telling a weather story that is engaging and provides an explanation of the impact on viewers
- Your broadcast will stand out to compete and meet audience’s higher expectations for TV