1 M/E Digital Switcher

1 M/E Grass Valley^TM KayakDD^TM digital switcher is highly affordable system designed for live production, small corporate studios, and editing applications. Leveraging the same high-quality engineering and many features of our Zodiak^TM and XtenDD^TM lines, it features a compact design, superior image quality, and a number of high-end features not found in any other manufacturers' products.

2 M/E Digital Video Production Switcher

Highly popular KayakDD^TM line is installed in more than 650 installations worldwide and is designed for live production, small corporate studios, and editing applications. 2 M/E version leverages the original KayakDD design to deliver a compact design, superior image quality, and a number of high-end features not found in any other manufacturers' products.

Kayak HD SD/HD Digital Video Production Switcher Family

Kayak HD and HD-upgradeable Kayak SD switcher family includes 14 highly affordable systems designed for live production, small corporate studios, and editing applications in environments requiring HD and/or SD production capabilities. This powerful, multi-format expansion of our popular Kayak family features a compact design, superior image quality, and a number of high-end features not found in any other manufacturers' products.

Kalypso Video Production Center Family

From the moment it was introduced, line of Kalypso Video Production Center switchers set new standards for live production. Today, it continues to break new ground, with standard- and high-definition (SD and HD) models as well as the only switcher that can be upgraded from SD to HD via software.

The Kalypso line includes:

· Kalypso Classic SD Video Production Center

Next-generation Kalypso Video Production Center puts unparalleled live production tools at your fingertips. This digital system offers powerful mix/effects capabilities with unprecedented levels of keying and compositing and an open, networked architecture for robust operational integration. All from a familiar, intuitive Grass Valley interface.

· Kalypso HD Video Production Center

The Grass Valley Kalypso HD Video Production Center provides native support for 1080i and 720p production. It also offers the same user interface, feature set, and effects-generation capability as the groundbreaking standard-definition Kalypso system.

· Kalypso Duo Video Production Center

Kalypso Duo Video Production Center is the only switcher than can be upgraded from standard- to high-definition (SD to HD) with a simple software installation. It features the familiar Kalypso user interface, control panel, and advanced production technologies, making it instantly familiar to operators worldwide. It also adds a new, macro feature for creating multiple keystrokes and recalling them from a single button.

 

Integrated Kurl Effects Option for Kalypso and Zodiak Systems

Expand the creative power of Kalypso Video Production Center or Zodiak digital production switcher with Kurl effects option. Much like high-end, stand-alone, real-time devices, Kurl option effects include page turn, page roll, splits and mirrors, ripples and spheres, size and position modulation, and other great ways to enhance your video product.

All effects in this demonstration were created exclusively with the Kalypso Video Production Center system.

Family of large, single-format routers

Trinix^TM family of digital video routers offers the highest-density systems available. Designed to provide a high return on investment, it supports standard- and high-definition (SD and HD) signals in the same frame. It offers configurations that scale from 128x128 to 2048x2048-and a design that can support 3 Gb/s routing. What's more the Trinix line combines the features that video professionals love with the adaptability, reliability, and serviceability that broadcasters demand.

Family of large, single-format routers

Trinix NXT is the first of the second-generation of 3 Gb/s routers. At its core are all new matrix cards designed for a mixed-format 3 Gb/s environment. It uses second-generation 3 Gb/s technology for its I/O circuits top provide robust signal handling with long-distance cable equalization at 3 Gb/s and all SDI rates. The router can also switch hundreds of crosspoints on a single frame boundary And it supports an optional built-in redundant matrix with its 128- and 256-sized frames for an extra level of confidence and signal protection.

Family of large, single-format routers

Apex audio routing switcher combines the features that audio professionals love with the adaptability, reliability, and serviceability that broadcasters demand-all while using less power and less space than any other system available. This industry-leading design has a dozen patents pending.

Family of mid-size, mixed-format routers

Let you mix multiple formats within a single frame to create a custom signal-management system. Leveraging common backplanes, power supplies, control interfaces, cooling systems, they also offer a compact solution for your facility.

Highly configurable Venus^TM routing switcher handles all signal types up to 1.485 Gb/s, including standard- and high-definition (SD and HD) digital video, analog video, AES digital audio and analog audio, and data. It supports multiple signal types and levels in the same frame. And it scales from 32x32 to 256x256.

Family of mid-size, mixed-format routers

Family of compact routers (16x4)

Small single- and mixed-format technologies completely change how you invest in, configure, and access powerful routing systems. These highly scalable analog and digital systems offer a flexible, future-proof approach for a variety of applications, from traditional broadcast functions and multi-screen presentations to mobile and post-production applications.

Acappella^TM multi-format utility system of small, single- and mixed-format routers is designed for a variety of broadcast and production settings, including small studios, sports arenas, and space-constrained environments such as mobile production trucks. Only 1 RU in size, the line ranges from 8x4 to 16x16 models with up to four independently controlled levels and offers single- and select multi-format routing capabilities. Best of all, it comes ready to operate right out of the box-and you can customize it with a Web browser quickly and easily.

Family of compact routers

Small single- and mixed-format technologies completely change how you invest in, configure, and access powerful routing systems. These highly scalable analog and digital systems offer a flexible, future-proof approach for a variety of applications, from traditional broadcast functions and multi-screen presentations to mobile and post-production applications.

With a similar size and I/O configuration and sharing the same protocol as our familiar Triton line, the Triton Plus family of compact routers expands this offering to include 32x32 and 64x64 sizes, while adding the crucial AES110 Ohm and 3 Gb/s HD signals. They're perfect for applications that demand a small size, low weight, and affordability.

Feature-rich control systems are used by the world's leading content providers, distributors, and automation system vendors in applications ranging from small dubbing operations to very large broadcast centers. They offer extensive built-in redundancy-from power supplies and controllers to interfaces and configurations-and scalable designs to maximize your signal-management system investments.

Encore^TM system is an open, scaleable platform for full router and facility control that features tight integration with automation systems, third-party tally and UMD systems, and other equipment. This scalable system gives you everything from simple crosspoint configuration to real-time centralized and distributed machine control.

Feature-rich control systems are used by the world's leading content providers, distributors, and automation system vendors in applications ranging from small dubbing operations to very large broadcast centers. They offer extensive built-in redundancy-from power supplies and controllers to interfaces and configurations-and scalable designs to maximize your signal-management system investments.

The Prelude^TM control system leverages the Encore^TM facility control software to provide an affordable control alternative for simple routing systems. The Prelude system is a key component of the strategy to extend Grass Valley products into to small- and mid-market facilities as well as adjacent markets, including small studios, sports arenas, corporate and university media centers, and space-constrained settings such as mobile production trucks.

Feature-rich control systems are used by the world's leading content providers, distributors, and automation system vendors in applications ranging from small dubbing operations to very large broadcast centers. They offer extensive built-in redundancy-from power supplies and controllers to interfaces and configurations-and scalable designs to maximize your signal-management system investments.

Jupiter^TM control system is a flexible and expandable distributed architecture that can grow with your facility. Offering router and VTR control, master control and production switcher interfacing, and support for multiple automation systems, it handles everything from small production or dubbing operations to very large broadcast centers and major production facilities.

Jupiter^TM control panels span single-bus controllers and full-featured, multi-level, menu-based panels

They include:

· Jupiter L32 & L64 Button-Per-Source Panels - powerful L32 and L64 button-per-source (BPS) panels provide direct access to a set of sources-a set that you can predefine for maximum flexibility. The panels are well-suited for applications that require rapid source selection as they provide push-to-select operation and their large buttons make for accurate selections. They have the added advantage of high-resolution color status displays.

· Jupiter LD4 Full-Function X-Y Panel - Jupiter^TM LD4 router control panel is a feature-rich, full-function panel that supports multi-destination functionality. With visible status indicators across four destinations and category entry in a compact 1 RU panel, it nicely balances features and size-and is ideal when you need the control of destinations and the speed and flexibility of category entry.

· Jupiter LD16 Full-Function X-Y Panel - Jupiter^TM LD16 router control panel is a status-rich full-function panel supporting 16 simultaneous destinations and control of up to 96 levels. It functions as a multi-destination panel allowing quick access and simultaneous status across the 16 displays. It's also highly optimized for controlling breakaways over 96 levels and visible status on 16 of them at a time. And you can use it to switch back and forth between both roles seamlessly.

· Jupiter S100 Large-Capacity Button-Per-Source Panel - Jupiter^TM S100 router control panel is a feature-rich, button-per-source panel (BPS). With up to 100 sources directly available in just 2 RU, it is the highest density panel available. Add to this a host of additional functions and the high-resolution displays to provide detailed status and you have a powerful BPS solution.

· Jupiter SXY Scroll-Wheel Router Control Panel - Jupiter^TM SXY is a comprehensive multi-destination router control panel supporting almost every function you need. With an easy-to-use scroll wheel, it helps you rapidly select from very large numbers of sources and destinations. And with its broad range of functions and comprehensive one-button controls, it can support multiple workflows and work styles-and function as a supervisor's panel.

· Jupiter S25 & S50 Button-Per-Source Control Panels - powerful Jupiter^TM S25 and S50 button-per-source (BPS) panels provide direct access to a set of sources-a set that you can predefine for maximum flexibility. With push-to-select operation, they are ideal for areas where rapid source selection is required.

SD/HD Branding and Master Control System

Next-generation Maestro^TM master control system offers an exceptional combination of integrated features, expandability, and control options, including the support for multi-format video and audio on a single board. In addition, the Maestro system fits within our Concerto^TM Series routing matrix frame, offering the convenience of master control and routing in the same frame.

Master Control Systems

Highly configurable Saturn^TM master control system supports numerous digital or analog applications-from single- channel, standalone uses to networked, fully automated, multi-channel facilities that leverage the crosspoints of a routing matrix. Letting you mix and match formats easily, it is also tightly integrated with our JupiterPlus^TM control system for routing and machine control and offers an external digital effects option.

Production Control

CP-2002 LCD control panel can be used in TV broadcast systems, production studios, transmission centers, and OB vans to switch matrix crosspoints via the Jupiter^TM control system.

Production Control

Slim-line Under Monitor Displays (UMDs) are only an inch deep and 1 RU high. Available in single and dual eight-character display units, they feature three color displays and tally lights in red, green, and amber. A separate 19-inch 2 RU controller can drive up to 16 displays as well as the UMDs to create a space- and cost-saving solution.

KVM, A/V , and Control Routing System

Providing the redundancy that live environments demand, XSWITCH^TM system switches production control between two Ignite^TM automated production solutions. With a push of a button, it reroutes all critical control and program signals to the monitor wall, control room speakers, and other resources shared by the two systems. It can also reroute input signals from your production devices, eliminating the need for duplicate equipment such as VTRs.

High-quality, multi-format solution 

Able to control multiple analog or digital video and audio sources, Indigo^TM platform is a high-quality, multi-format solution that features video up- and downconversion, the ability to mix in high-resolution PC graphics from any DVI-I source, advanced audio mixing, and automated device playback and control via industry-standard connections.

Indigo HD expander solution provides up to eight HD-SDI inputs and four outputs to Indigo AV mixer

A combination of the mixer's powerful external device controls and a custom version of Acappella^TM router and connecting via Ethernet and standard BNC video cables, it lets you cut and mix between eight sources right from the buttons on the Indigo control panel. The operation and video processing capabilities of the mixer-including keys, effects, and scaling-remain unaffected.

Flexible Processing System Frame Supporting Audio/Video Modules

GeckoFlex^TM is a flexible, cost-effective, highly serviceable modular system in a compact frame that handles a complete range of modern broadcast signals. Its dual-reference distribution busses can share reference signals within a frame-and you can update its I/O connections to fiber easily. All high-definition (HD) and most other GeckoFlex modules provide SNMP monitoring of signal formats and conditions as well as module operation, identification, and status.

Key Features

· 2 RU, 10-slot architecture
· Hot-swappable modules
· Hot-swappable, redundant power supplies
· Supports existing 8900NET card for Ethernet interface
· Supports all currently shipping Gecko (8900) signal-processing modules
· Supports newly released HD distribution amplifiers
· Supports HD, fiber optic, monitoring down-conversion, reclocking, and equalization
· Supports Web browsers and Grass Valley^TM Newton^TM, control solution
· Supports Grass Valley NetConfig^TM Ethernet-based configuration software
· Supports SNMP-based remote monitoring tools, including Grass Valley NetCentral^TM software

Media Processing System

Kameleon^TM Media Processing System incorporates multiple discrete modular functions into a single processing module-functions you can combine in more than a dozen different ways. It's ideal for the complex processing of multiple program streams in broadcast centers, video production facilities, satellite uplink operations, OB vans, and production trucks.

Key Features

· Complete audio and video processing in a single module set
· Processes up to 4 program streams in a single 1 RU frame - up to 12 in a 3 RU frame
· Integrated audio and video multiplexer and demultiplexer
· Audio A-to-D and D-to-A conversion options
· 5 user-programmable E-MEM registers
· Save/load module specific configuration files to configuration PC
· Audio and video delay, synchronization, and processing amplifiers
· Audio and video test signal generators
· Powerful audio processing, including:
- Eight channels of audio A-to-D or D-to-A conversion
- Eight channels of embedding/de-embedding
- AES input sample rate conversion
- Built-in 8x8 audio router for remapping to specific I/O
· High-quality 3-D adaptive NTSC/PAL decoding to SDV
· Powerful VBI processing
· Intuitive Web-browser-based configuration and SNMP monitoring
· Hot swappable
· Supports use of Newton hardware and software based remote control panels for on-the-fly facility operations or engineering required adjustments

Modular Control System

Newton^TM modular control system gives you fast, multi-knob, Ethernet-based access to Grass Valley^TM modular products. Using it, you can separate system-level configuration tasks from operational ones, minimizing the potential for on-air mistakes. And you can group modular products-regardless of their physical locations-into a logical signal path that you can easily access and manipulate.

Key Features

· Ethernet-based control of Grass Valley Gecko^TM and Kameleon^TM modular products
· Control panels:
- Compact 1 RU rack mount panel
- PC soft-panel with same functionality
- No limit to number of panels on a network
- Panel operation independent of configuration
· NetConfig application and configuration plug-in tool for:
- Network-wide device configuration
- Control panel configuration
· Control panel functions:
- Four user-configurable control knobs to update device parameters
- Twelve soft keys for quick recall of user-configurable parameters
- Simple up/down, left/right navigation
- Each panel supports 128 channels with 12 setups each
- Clearly visible status of controlled devices
- Enable button locally disconnects knobs and buttons from devices
- Identify button reveals identity of controlled devices
· Requires only two simple connections: RJ-45 Ethernet and IEC AC Main
· Optional Grass Valley Encore^TM routing control system integration

NetCentral^TM SNMP-Based Remote Monitoring Software

Grass Valley^TM NetCentral^TM software for SNMP-based facility monitoring is the most powerful stand-alone application for centrally and proactively checking the status of equipment on a digital facility network. Running on a standard PC, our NetCentral 4.1 software supports off-the-shelf computer systems and third-party products so you can monitor more devices, more accurately, than ever before.

Key Features

· PC-based facility monitoring software
· Continuous local and remote monitoring over a TCP/IP network using SNMP or Syslog
· Localization tool for multi-language support
· GDP tool for adding new SNMP-enabled devices
· Trend-analysis tool for monitoring device performance over time
· UIM monitoring for supervising file transfers between Profile® servers
· Ability to link folders to floor plans, rack elevations, maps, photographs, or other HTML pages
· Programmable alert notification via e-mail, pager, launching programs, Windows messages, and more
· Powerful logging and reporting tools with backup and archiving
· Graphical representation of log messages for easy problem identification
· History management for annotating and acknowledging messages
· Sophisticated monitoring of disk arrays, fans, and redundant power supplies to alert operators of potential problems before they become critical
· Tri-level security model