The Switcher Redefined

Slate is a live integrated production system

Live video production used to mean assembling an expensive control room and hiring a team to run it. Now Slate switchers from Broadcast Pix have an entire control room built-in. Slate’s file based architecture streamlines workflow by integrating with your edit bays. Now it’s easy to create high-end live television, even working solo.  See workflow whitepaper .




Now one person can create compelling live television on a switcher with a built-in character generator, clip store and full motion monitoring of outputs and sources. Now clips andgraphics can flow into your switcher from your edit bays. Options can extend control to robotic cameras and audio mixers . When you still want a team, it gracefully expands. Slate combines the human interface and on-air robustness of a switcher with the power of a contemporary workstation. It’s so complete that you just add cameras and a monitor.









Broadcast Pix Slate switchers Include:

• Digital Video Switcher
• Multi-view Monitor
• Inscriber Character Generator
• Clip store uncompressed and QuickTime
• Still Stores, Logo generator, animations
• AutoAspect handles 16:9 & 4:3 elegantly
• Non-stop, on-air operation
• Mix HD SD-SDI, SD-SDI,  Analog, DVI, VGA, Clips, DVDs, stills,…
  

Easy LIVE TV

The Slate 100 is a complete live video production studio that is so affordable and easy to use that anyone can create great looking live television. It includes a switcher, CG, Multi-View and clip store.  See workflow whitepaper.


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Combining a traditional switcher panel with built-in monitoring, CG and clip store

Slate SD switcher with SDI and ANAlog I/O and fail-safe switching

The Slate 2100 starts with a Slate 1000 and adds an iBoB (intelligent break-out-box) for more I/O and redundancy. It also includes a second channel of clip store.


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Most Powerful 1M/E Slate switcher with Maximum I/O and fail-safe switching

The Slate 3000 starts with a Slate 1000 and adds an integrated router for more I/O and redundancy.  Slate switchers are the only production switchers on the market with a built-in CG , or a built-in clip store , or multi-view monitoring of outputs and sources. Packing in an entire control room worth of equipment makes them highly affordable, but the real beauty is that Slate enables a solo operator or small team to create a high-end broadcast look that previously required a team of operators. Solo operators can easily create live video complete with visually compelling graphics, animated text, picture-in-pictures, keyed clips, spinning logos and even robotic control of cameras.

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large 2 M/E switcher with Integrated monitoring, clips and graphics

The new Slate 5000 switcher has the switcher capabilities of the top, established 2/ME HD production switchers on the market today. But the Slate 5000 is unique in that it also includes and integrates all of the functionality of an entire live production control room— switcher , CG , clips store , and monitoring — which none of the others do. It even does aspect and format conversion and routing. The Slate 5000 creates a dramatically more cost-effective price point, far lower than any alternative 2 M/E HD live production suite, which makes powerful HD live video productions suddenly affordable, in both equipment and staffing.

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1 M/E Slate systems with a control panel

There are three models to choose from:

Slate 1000

Slate 2100

Adds SD intelligent break-out-box for more I/O and fail-safe switching.

Slate 3000

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