AutoAspect
Broadcast Pix, who redefined the production switcher to include graphics, clips and monitoring, now becomes the first switcher to include aspect ratio management as standard equipment. New AutoAspect lets 16:9 and 4:3 inputs, clips and graphics be used interchangeably and mixed together in the same production, while maintaining the aspect ratio of each, and can be extended to simultaneously output both sizes.
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Fail-Safe On-Air
Broadcast Pix switcher is the workstation-based switchers designed from the ground up for live production. Live broadcasts are a most unforgiving environment, because you can never backup and never re-shoot, no matter whether your broadcast is from a TV antenna, over a cable network, the web or a projector. So, Broadcast Pix builds multiple redundancies into every system for fail-safe on-air operation.
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PixButtons
At the heart of the unified control system of the Broadcast Pix
Switcher are the unique PixButtons. They provide streamlined control of
all tools, sources and keyers. Each has a display built into the
button. At the top of each PixButton is an icon, which shows which
device it is operating. Many buttons also tell which device is active,
and their color tells if they are on-air, on preview or off.
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Solo Production
Traditional control rooms are cumbersome collections of boxes that each
have there own control surface. They are designed for use by a team of
operators. Too often, economics require a single operator production,
forcing the lone operator to surround themselves with control panels,
keyboards, mice and tape decks. This results in most devices being only
rarely used, and so the quality of the television created suffers.
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Team Studio Network
While most productions that used to require a team can now be done solo
on a Broadcast Pix system, some especially complex or fast moving
productions still benefit from a team. For team operation just add more
hard or soft control panels to the network. Team members can be
anywhere, in the studio, in the back room, in another facility, even at
home.
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Remote ControlBroadcast Pix has a variety of remote control installations, ranging from one control room controlling a studio 40 miles away, to a central control room controlling 12 studios all over North America.
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Pre-Production
Slate switchers include a powerful pre-production tool called
PixMaster, which enables a show to be rapidly prepared. You can assign
the sources on the switcher. You can open the content library for each
source, select the graphics and clips for the show, and arrange their
order.
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Competition
Broadcast Pix switchers are unique. There are no other production switchers with multi-view monitoring, character generator, clip stores and networking built-in. Therefore Broadcast Pix systems are compared to a wide range of alternatives: a suite of control room components, another integrated system, or a conventional switcher.
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Versatility allows our operators to perform multiple functions as we have done in the past, in a less hectic manner. We are only limited by our imaginations.