The Slate 2100 is the most powerful member of the Slate family.
Extending beyond what the Slate 1000 offers, the 2100 features 8 to12
live video inputs, fail-safe switching, a dual-channel clip store, a
fourth keyer, tally and add AES/EBU audio for its clips. Most of these
added features are because the 2100 adds an intelligent Break-out-Box,
named iBoB™ .
Powerful I/OThe
Slate 2100 doubles the Slate 1000’s four standard live video inputs to
eight, and is expandable to twelve, allowing more cameras to be
attached. Unlike conventional switchers, all these inputs can be
devoted to cameras and other live devices, since none are consumed by
the CG, still store, clips stores, etc. that are built inside the
system’s workstation. Slate switchers have built-in frame synchronizers
allowing Slate inputs to be either genlocked broadcast equipment or
asynchronous sources such as a DVD player.
Whereas video and audio cables plug directly into the back of the
computer on the Slate 1000 with BNCs for SDI and break-out cables for
analog video and audio, the iBoB provides professional secure I/O
connections with BNCs for all video, as well as XLRs for audio. The
iBoB has unique SmartLights, which are LEDs next to each input that
tell the operator if a video source is present and whether it has
reference or is asynchronous. No other switcher provides this
information, which creates peace of mind for operators of all
experience levels.
Fail-Safe and Ready for Primetime
There are other integrated ‘studio-in-a-box‘ systems on the market, but
they all lack two things which the Slate 2100 provides - a professional
control panel that is instantly familiar to switcher operators, and
fail-safe switching so you can keep switching cameras even if the workstation stops. While Broadcast Pix computers are extremely reliable,
any workstation-based system used in live TV production must be ready for
the day when its network goes down, its computer stops or something is
simply unplugged.
The Slate 2100’s control panel is connected to the iBoB with both a
network cable and a redundant serial cable. If the workstation or network
goes down — the serial control takes over and enables the operator to
continue switching cameras. The Slate 2100 also comes standard with
dual redundant power supplies for both the control panel and iBoB that
automatically fail-over, as well as a back-up SoftPanel that can take
over all panel operations if the physical control panel should ever
fail. No other switcher has a back up softpanel or standard redundant
power supplies.
The Slate 2100 also adds a downstream keyer to the Slate
1000’s three keyers, for a total of four keyers. This downstream key is
inside the iBoB where it can accommodate an external video source with
key, such as an older CG, or a special-purpose device that the operator
might wish to employ. The Slate 2100 expands the single channel clip
store in the Slate 1000 to dual channel, and increases clip storage
capacity from 15 to 30 hours. The Slate 2100 also adds built-in
tally relays.
Slate 2100 includes:
- Video Switcher with 9 button control panel, 4 keyers, 3 DVEs and
chromakeys. Mix 8 live SDI or analog inputs with 2 clips and 5
graphics.
- Inscriber TitleMotion Pro Character Generator with animations
- Clip Store with key, dual channel, 4 hours of storage
- Still Store, Title Store, Logo Generator
- Multi-View Monitoring with full motion displays of program, preview and sources, plus thumbnails of keys and libraries
- DVE on each key for up to 3 resized boxes (PIP)
- Non-stop, on-air operation, and still switch 8 cameras even if
the workstation stops
- AutoAspect to enable mixing of widescreen (16:9) and traditional (4:3) cameras, clips and graphics without stretching video.
- Broadcast Pix control panel
- Broadcast Pix iBoB - Intelligent Break-out-Box
- Rack-mounted workstation with Broadcast Pix V5, Inscriber
TitleMotion Pro CG, Windows XP, Slate video boards, triple disks, dual
NICs, dual monitor support, r/w DVD/CD, keyboard, mouse (monitor not
included)
Options
(see brochure for details)
For Switcher:
For Clip Store:
- Compressed Clip Import, for DV and MPEG2
For CG:
Camera Control
- Sony camera control
- Hitachi camera control
Workstation Options
- Premium workstation includes redundant power, removable media drives, and recovery system
- Recovery system includes back-up system drive and auto-back-up software
- Quad monitor support
Plus
- Redundant power
- Server or VTR control
- Extended warranty
- Training
* Suggested list price, monitor not included. |
Specifications
- Internal processing is pristine 10-bit uncompressed digital SMPTE 259M
Analog conversion is also 10-bit
- Inputs can be synchronous and/or asynchronous sources
- NTSC or PAL switchable; 4:3 or 16:9
- Audio for clip stores: embedded SMPTE 272M, plus break-out to XLRs both analog stereo and digital AES/EBU.
- Just 1 frame of delay for synchronous sources, even inside a DVE box
Dimensions:
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Control panel
table-top or drops into console
inches 18.5 x 12.5 x 5.5
centimeters 47 x 31.8 x 14
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Rack Mounted Workstation (4RU)
inches 16.75x20x7
centimeters 43x51x18
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Intelligent Break-out-Box (5 RU)
inches 19x10.5x3
centimeters 48x27x8
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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. 
The quality through the box is spectacular.