 Granite 500
Video Control Center™
Pro Power in a Compact Space
The Granite 500 includes a compact control panel with a full set of professional controls in a small package.
Like all Granite models, the Granite 500 is a Video Control Center with an integrated switcher, clip store and CG Graphics inside. For a full description of Granite 500’s capabilities, see the Benefits Tab below.
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Benefits of a Granite 500 Video Control Center
1. Control Surface for today's content: video, files and more
Capture the spontaneity that is live production, with the most flexible and powerful control center:
- Granite 500 switcher controls: The professional switcher
layout accesses up to 9 sources directly and 18 with shift. There are
transition controls for 3 key layers or optionally 6.
- Granite 500 device controls: The patented bank of device
controls enable you to intimately control the built-in clip store,
animation store, and multiple graphics stores. Grab any clip or graphic
from the PixPad. Use the 2D joystick (3D optional), knobs and motion
buttons. Control external devices as well, including robotic cameras,
recorders and streamers.
- Fluent-View™: Enjoy the most powerful heads-up display in
the industry - called Fluent-View, as it’s fluent in both video and
file-based content. See all video sources in crisp, full motion. See
four outputs: Program, Preview, PowerAux and Clean Feed. See file-based
sources and their content libraries. See each of your key layers in a
window. Add clocks, counters and timers.
- Customizable Fluent-View: unlike ordinary multi-views,
Granite’s Fluent-View is fully customizable across two monitors. Choose
what windows you want, the size you want, where you want them. Even
replicate a window, like program output, on both monitors.
- Fluent Macros: add one-button magic to your production with
the only memory system that combines switcher moves with recalls of
specific clips and graphics. Add cameras moves as well. Triple box
interviews. Graphic transitions. Fluent Macros can make a novice look
like a pro.
- Virtual Sets: Easily create powerful virtual sets from green screens on up to 8 cameras, and then add 3 key layers on top. Use included sets, or use the image editor to make a virtual set out of any picture, transporting you anywhere.
- Control External Devices: Whether you want to drive robotic cameras, a multi-format stream, an external video recorder or server, or even an audio mixer, use your control surface to reach out and touch something.
- Fluent Watch-folders: Instantly access new clips and
graphics during a show. Whether you’re editing last-minute clips or
creating quick graphics, simply drag them into a Fluent Watch Folder,
and you’ll be notified of each addition right on the Fluent-View status
bar.
- Fluent Rapid CG 2 (optional): Automate your CG by linking it to a database, RSS feeds, action buttons, EZNews system, or a Daktronics Controller for Scoreboards.
- Dual Control: Use PowerAux to control a second composition on a secondary output to the Internet or to a second screen.
- Distribute Control: While one operator can create great video, you can add seats for a special show adding a graphics operator, or additional operators on SoftPanels running on an iPad, iPhone, Android or laptop.
- Non-Stop On-Air Control: The Granite Switcher and Granite Server both have redundant power, and redundant switching so it can still keep switching cameras even if the Granite server should ever stop.
2. Complete Studio
Granite starts with a great switcher, and then seamlessly integrates a dedicated high performance server running Windows 7 for exceptional file management and networking.
- Switcher: The HD switcher has 11 or 22 SDI inputs, and 6 or
12 SDI outputs, plus two DVI outputs. Each input can be 1080i, 720p or
SD, and
frame synchronizers are built-in. With 3 key layers (6 optional) and
DVEs, go ahead and pile on layers of Picture-in-Picture boxes,
graphics,
and animations.
- Clip Store: The integrated Clip Store offers up to 180 hours
of H.264 or ProRes clips, with audio. Clips auto-start on transition,
and can auto-advance to the next clip. Plus, there are 1 or 2 channels
of animations for transitions, backgrounds and moving titles.
- Graphics: Every production needs titles. A
broadcast-quality Harris Inscriber GS CG is included (Chyron Lyric PRO
CG optional). Fill four channels of graphic stores from your CG, or
import graphics from anywhere.
- Device Control: Whether you want to drive robotic cameras, a
multi-format stream, an external video recorder or server, or even an
audio mixer, use your control surface to reach out and touch something.
- Low Constant Delay: Always maintain lip-sync, even projecting to live events.
3. Low Cost of Ownership
Exceptional integration and control leads to surprisingly low cost of ownership.
- Broadcast Pix Systems are a fraction of the cost of buying a separate switcher, Clip Store and Graphics System
- Exceptional control means that fewer operators are needed to create compelling video
- You can save over $100,000 per year over a conventional control room from savings in equipment, space, power and staffing
- A modular family of products means it is easier to grow and economically upgrade to larger Broadcast Pix systems.
If you’re ready to create more compelling live video with less gear, less money and with less staff, your nearest Broadcast Pix dealer
can show you the powerful Granite 500 Video Control Center. Join the growing number
of professionals world-wide who rely on Broadcast Pix Granite to create
compelling live video.
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Broadcast Pix Granite HD live production systems are
used by leading broadcasters worldwide in a variety of production
applications. TV affiliates of ABC, CBS, PBS and Turner Studios rely on
Granite and Slate to produce live shows for broadcast, cable, mobile and
Internet, taking advantage of the most powerful control surfaces for
combining cameras, clips and graphics. The built-in Fluent™ workflow
readily accepts content, such as ProRes clips, QuickTime Animations and from throughout the facility via Fluent Watch
Folders. The integrated Fluent-View provides unprecedented visual
feedback to the operator and Fluent Macros can easily combine switcher
moves with specific file recalls for a polished on-air look.
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Broadcast Pix Granite HD live production systems
are used by leading corporations for high-impact presentations, training
and events. See why customers including Microsoft, Cisco,
Hewlett-Packard and Safeway utilize the most powerful control surfaces
for combining cameras, clips and graphics. One corporation uses 12
Broadcast Pix systems to produce more than 14,000 hours of live training
each year.
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Broadcast Pix Granite HD live productions systems are used in educational institutions ranging from major universities to high schools. Granite and Slate systems are used daily to produce school events, distance learning, campus-wide TV shows, school sports, and teaching live production. The unique way Broadcast Pix employs IP control means you can distribute control across many students on multiple control panels, internet browsers, mobile devices, or even a SMART Board.
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Because of its proven production flexibility,
Broadcast Pix Granite HD live production systems have always been
popular in government applications, and are now driving mission-critical
productions for the U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, Voice of America, state
houses, parliaments and municipalities worldwide. Both Granite and Slate
systems are perfectly suited to government video applications. Using
Broadcast Pix systems, government entities can televise large meetings,
and smaller school board discussions with broadcast-quality production
values.
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Create inspiring HD live video with
Broadcast Pix Granite, whether for internal projection or broadcast on
TV or Internet. See why large congregations like West Angeles Church rely on
the lowest possible delay for projection while streaming live to
thousands. With the tight integration of cameras, clips, graphics and
effects, it's easy for a solo operator to create a professional
broadcast look. Many of our church installations opt to integrate camera
control, giving the operator complete control of robotic cameras from
Sony, Panasonic, Hitachi and Telemetrics.
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Leading entertainment venues and staging companies such as Los Angeles Coliseum have discovered how Broadcast Pix creates and drives compelling live video. Enhance your entertainment venue, from major sporting and red-carpet events to big-ticket performances. Create dynamic video, picture-in-picture and animations while you tie in clips and graphics. Control cameras, streamers and audio mixers right from your PixPad. Sync the whole thing up with Fluent Macros, and see how much value Broadcast Pix can add to your show.
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Broadcast Pix offers tightly integrated live production systems, but
each production has different needs. Here are Granite software and hardware
options to further integrate data and external devices. Your Broadcast Pix dealer can help you customize your production workflow to meet your unique requirements.
VOX |
#788
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VOX™ automated video production is a revolutionary 1 RU panel option
for Granite, Mica and Slate. VOX eliminates the need for a technical
director during many live video productions, as it detects which
microphone is active, switches to that camera, and triggers Fluent
Macros assigned to that microphone. The VOX box controls 8 microphones.
For larger events, multiple boxes can cascade to accommodate up to 104
microphones.
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Camera Control |
#800-803 |
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Camera Control right on the control surface allows you to be your own
operator. Select preset positions on your PixPad and use your joystick
and device control knobs to remotely control position, zoom, focus, iris
- even white balance. Supercharge your Fluent Macro effects by adding
camera moves to them. Broadcast Pix lets you control robotic cameras
from Sony (#800), Panasonic (#801) or Hitachi (#802). The Telemetrics
control option (#803) works on just about any brand of camera.
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Fluent Rapid CG 2 |
#172 |
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Fluent Rapid CG 2 now enables to you to update dual channels of on-air graphics at once. Streamline your graphics creation when tied to the already integrated Harris Inscriber GS CG. Start with easy, quick and accurate templates. Have an RSS or XML feed automatically update multiple graphics and fields. Connect the CG to a database for unlimited access to dynamically updated stats and facts, much faster than ever before. Create your own action buttons to manually increment any text or number, like a score. Add times, dates, clocks (with by-the-second refresh) and now Daktronics scoreboard integration. It’s the perfect option for numerous applications with rapidly-changing data: sports, elections, auctions, game shows and more.
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Chyron CG |
#162 |
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Replace the standard Harris Inscriber TitleMotion GS with the Chyron
Lyric Pro 8 CG software. Producers can use Lyric PRO 8 to create
sophisticated titles and animations, access them from any Broadcast Pix
control surface, see them on the Fluent-View display, and play them from
integrated graphic and clip stores. With just a click, titles can be
edited live on-air. The system will also run files created on other
Chyron systems. Not available on Granite systems with Quad monitor.
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Remote Panel |
#110 |
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Whether you have a large team or a single operator, the Broadcast Pix
Remote Panel is a valuable addition to augment your productions. This
gives you full, file-based Fluent Macro control in addition to allowing
remote control of the Program, preview, clean feed, and PowerAux
functions of Mica. Select any external input and route that to a
desired output.
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iPixPanel |
(App Store) |
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The iPixPanel recreates a classic switcher layout, including auto
transition and cut buttons, plus eight-input program and preview busses
with shift for 16 inputs. It adds device controls for the graphics
system, clips store, etc. It also features PixButtons, which dynamically
change to show the device attached and even the file name currently
loaded, so you can tell at a glance what is loaded on every input, key,
and file library button.
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iPixPad
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(App Store)
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The iPixPad™ application, a FREE app, allows users of a
Broadcast Pix™ System to control their switcher system remotely from
their iPhone or iPod Touch through a WiFi connection. The iPixPad
replicates a PixPad from the systems control panel and allows users to
select and recall CG, Still, Logo and Clip content as well as trigger
macros directly from their handheld device.
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Premium Storage |
#153 |
| Upgrade your Granite Clip Store for more capacity an redundancy. This option triples clip store capacity from up to 60 hours in the standard system to up to 180 hours. The three additional 500GB drives are added in a RAID5 array. The array provided exceptional redundancy so that if a drive should ever fail, a clip keeps on playing, even if it's on-air. |
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Quad Monitor |
#340-341 |
| Customize your Fluent-View to meet your production
needs with four DVI-D outputs, allowing you to replicate Program,
Preview, source, clip and key windows to any of the four monitors. Quad
monitors not certified for Chyron CG option. |
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Advanced Keyers |
#126 |
| Elevate your production power by increasing chroma and luma key capability from one to eight layers. |
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Audio Follows Video |
#880 |
| For the ultimate one-man band, add audio control
software to your system which ties video transitions to audio channels
using your midi-capable audio mixer. |
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DDR Control |
#823-824 |
| Control an external server from your panel’s PixPad,
including servers from Omneon, Harris and 360 Systems. View clip names
on the PixButtons, use the panel’s motion controls to play, pause or
stop. Clips can be set to auto-start on transition to air. |
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External Tally |
#24,28,29 |
| Keep talent and crew informed which camera is on
the air with these external USB tally controllers. Choose either the
8-out tally, 8-GPI input or opt for the 24-out tally for larger
productions. |
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Optional Input/Output
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Desktop+ |
22 SDI Inputs and 12 SDI outputs
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Additional Clip Storage
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Double Clip Store capacity to 1TB
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Other Options |
| 203 |
Redundant power for switcher
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Service Options |
| 603-4 |
On-Site Training |
One or several days of training |
| 824 |
Extended Warranty |
Adds a second year for parts and labor |
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Inputs |
Standard |
Plus |
| SDI |
11 |
22 |
| Files |
7 |
7 |
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Outputs |
Standard |
Plus |
| SDI |
6 |
12 |
| DVI |
2 |
2 |
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Key Layers |
Standard |
Optional |
6 total
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3
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3
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Dimensions |
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| Panel |
15.2 x 9.3 x 4 in |
39 x 24 x 10 cm |
| Switcher 3RU |
19 x 16 x 5.25 in |
48 x 41 x 13 cm |
| Server 2RU |
19 x 23 x 3.5 in |
48 x 58 x 9 cm |
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Weight |
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| Panel |
5 lbs |
2 kg |
| Switcher |
16 lbs |
7.3 kg |
| Server |
37 lbs |
16.8 kg |
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Power |
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| Panel |
60 W |
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| Switcher |
300 W |
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| Server |
500 W |
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Granite Features |
Desktop
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500
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1000
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2000
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5000
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6000 |
Switcher - HD/SD SDI Inputs
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11-22
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11-22 |
11-22
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11-22
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11-22
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11-22
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Switcher - HD/SD SDI Outputs
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6-12
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6-12 |
6-12
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6-12
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6-12
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6-12 |
Switcher - DVI Outputs
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2
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2 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
| Switcher - M/E |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
2 |
| Switcher - Keys |
3 - 6 |
3 - 6 |
3 - 6 |
6 |
6 |
6 |
Clip / Animation Channels
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1 / 2
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1 / 2
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1 / 2
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1 / 2
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1 / 2
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1 / 2 |
Graphic Channels
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4
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4
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4
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4
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4
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4 |
| Panel - buttons / row |
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9
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9
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16
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16 |
24 |
| Panel - PixButtons |
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes |
Panel - PixPads
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1
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1
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1
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2
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2 |
| SoftPanel licenses |
3
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3
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3
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3
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3
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3 |
Fluent View monitors
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2-4
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2-4
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2-4
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2-4
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2-4
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2-4 |
Harris Inscriber GS CG
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes |
| Fluent Watch-Folders |
Yes
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Yes |
Yes
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Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Fluent Macros |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Streaming Controls
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Yes |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Ki Pro Recorder Controls |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
* The 100 does not have a control panel, and instead uses the included custom keyboard, or mouse, or a touch-screen. All Granite models can add optional Fluent Rapid CG, Chyron CG, Camera control, Audio follow video, clip storage expansion or tally box.
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A detailed view of the best control surface for combining cameras, clips and graphics.
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Typical Fluent-View Monitor 1 showing inputs and outputs, controls PixPad, clip timers, keys, and key priority.
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Typical Fluent-View Monitor 2 showing TitleMotion GS CG, Power Aux and Clean Feed outputs, Fluent Macros, Fluent chroma/luma controls, and analog clock. |
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A detalied view of the Granite HD Switcher, above and Granite Server below. |
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A detailed view of the 22-in, 12-out Granite HD switcher.
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A detailed view of the Granite Server I/O and power connections. |
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It can be a one-man show if we don’t have enough people. We love the switcher.”