The Slate 5000 is the industry’s first live production system to integrate 2 M/E functionality. It allows a single operator to run all aspects of a sophisticated 2 M/E live HDTV production, including complex graphics, animations, clips and effects, as well as control robotic cameras, audio mixers, and video servers.
The Slate 5000 panel and multi-view monitor creates such a strong single point of control that a solo operator can create compelling live productions that require a team of operators in a conventional control room comprised of individual components. Yet the Slate 5000 can gracefully expand to team operation by adding a graphics operator, or by adding more operators anywhere on the system’s control network, even at a remote site.
The Slate 5000 can accommodate up to 32 video inputs, six keyers, six DVEs, animated transitions with audio, as well as a multi-view monitor, dual channel clip store for up to 60 hours of QuickTime and MPEG2 clips, Harris Inscriber© CG, and five channels of graphics. The panel has two banks of device controls, each of which can be assigned to a switcher function, clip or graphics store, or to control other devices in the studio. The panel features Broadcast Pix’s unique PixButtons (patent pending) which display the file names of every clip and graphic on the push-buttons.
The Slate 5000 is exceptionally multi-format. Models include HD/SD, SD only and analog models, or combinations of them. They can simultaneously process 1080i, 720p, SD-SDI, HD analog component, analog composite, Y/C, component, DVI and VGA inputs, with both synchronous and asynchronous signals, in both NTSC and PAL, and in both 16:9 and 4:3 formats without distorting aspect ratios. Slate HD models can output both 16:9 and 4:3 formats simultaneously.
The Slate 5008 provides 8 live inputs plus 2 channels of clips and 5 of graphics. The 8 live inputs can be purchased as all HD/SD-SDI, all SD-SDI, all analog, or a combination of these.
Slate 5016 and 5032 models include an integrated 16x16 and 32x32 router respectively, to increase I/O and redundancy. Slate 5016 is available in HD/SD or SD only and includes a
16x16 router. It provides up to 16 live inputs, 2 channels of clips
and 5 graphic, and has 8 auxiliary outputs for program,
preview, clips or any live input.
Slate 5032 is HD/SD or SD only. It includes a 32x32 router and can select up
to 32 of its inputs, and has 24 outputs.
Two switchers can share a central router by adding a Slate
1000 or Slate 100 to a Slate 5000 switcher. For larger
facilities, this greatly simplifies wiring, and lowers cost.
See the Slate family brochure for more specifics. Or click here for more information on using the Slate 5000 system in the Slate 5000 Installation Planning Guide
Fail-Safe and Ready for PrimetimeSlate workstations are very reliable for live television, as multiple levels of redundancy are built in to keep the show always on air. All Slate switchers include redundant control panels using the keyboard or the mouse. The switching is done on the Slate boards inside, not the workstation’s CPU, and the switcher automatically keeps a camera on air even if the workstation is unplugged. And all models that include a router feature fail-safe switching, so that if the workstation should ever stop, the cameras can still be switched using a redundant control system between the panel and router.
The Slate 5000 also has redundant power supplies built inside both the control panel and the workstation, so that if any power supply fails the other takes over. And Slate 5000 models that include routers also come standard with redundant power supplies for the routers.
Every Slate 5000 also has a Recovery System, which includes a second system disk drive that contains everything on the system disk drive. All factory software is loaded onto both drives, and auto-back-up software is also included that enables a customer to have their data periodically backed up to this second drive. For example it can be set to back up each week, including all show files, memories, and graphics. Every Slate 5000 also has removable media drives, which enable the clip data to be easily changed or saved on back-up 500GB removable drives.
Slate 5000 includes:
- Video Switcher with 16 button control panel, 6 keyers, 6 DVEs and
chromakey. Mix 8 to up to 32 live SDI or analog inputs plus 2 channels of clips and 5
channels of graphics.
- Inscriber TitleMotion Pro Character Generator with animations
- Clip Store with key, dual channel, 30 hours of storage
- Still Store, Title Store, Logo Generator
- Multi-View Monitoring with full motion displays of program, preview and 7 sources, slower monitoring of other sources, plus thumbnails of keys and libraries
- DVE on each key for up to 6 resized boxes (PIP)
- Non-stop, on-air operation, plus the 5016 and 5032 can still switch 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 router (on Slate 5016 and 5032)
- Rack-mounted workstation with Broadcast Pix, Inscriber
TitleMotion Pro CG, Windows XP, three Slate video boards, triple disks, dual
NICs, dual monitor support, r/w DVD/CD, keyboard, mouse (monitor not
included)
Options:
- Remote aux control panel(s) 16x1
-
Tally box for all live inputs
For Clip Store:
For CG:
- Another CG seat
- CG Connect, to tie on air CG to a database
Camera Control
- Sony camera control
- Hitachi camera control
Plus
- Audio follow video for control of an audio mixer
- Quad monitor support
- Redundant power for workstation
- Server control
- Extended warranty
- Training
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Specifications
- Internal processing is pristine 10-bit uncompressed digital
- Inputs can be synchronous and/or asynchronous sources
- NTSC or PAL switchable; 4:3 or 16:9
- Audio for clip stores: SMPTE 272M, plus break-out to XLRs for analog stereo.
Dimensions:
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Control panel
table-top or drops into console
inches 15.5 x 31 x 8
centimeters 39 x 79 x20
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Rack Mounted Workstation (4RU)
inches 16.75x20x7
centimeters 43x51x18
- Router
- 16x16 1RU
- 32x32 2RU
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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— 
The Broadcast Pix platform is ideal for live sports.