Grass Valley Group Extends Kalypso Video Production Center Line With Introduction Of Two M/E Version—Addition Brings Comprehensive Capabilities of Four M/E Predecessor to New Live, Post Production, and Mobile Markets—As the hub of a teleproduction environment, the Kalypso Video Production Center family supports the Grass Valley Group's Media Without Bound™ technology and solutions initiative to optimize video and other content creators' digital distribution strategies. It derives that support by combining industry-leading switching and powerful M/E capabilities with an open, networked architecture that offers a precedent-setting degree of operational integration. Able to support both SD signals today and HD signals before the end of the year, the Kalypso family enables broadcasters to readily customize graphics and keys for multiple clients and places significant levels of control into the hands of a technical director. "The Kalypso Video Production Center, with its enormous flexibility is unmistakably the most advanced production switcher on the market today, "said Tim Thorsteinson, president and chief operating officer of the Grass Valley Group. "Today's introduction of the two M/E version brings those capabilities to a variety of new markets and customers." Designed for small- and mid-sized live production facilities, postproduction houses of all sizes, and mobile applications, the two M/E version of the Kalypso Video Production Center offers the same comprehensive, powerful M/E capabilities as its four M/E predecessor. Users can network the two M/E control panel with a four M/E system to allow simultaneous sharing, useful during pre-production or when two post suites need to share the same system. The two M/E electronics frame also scales easily to support a four M/E system with the inclusion of only three boards. On every M/E bank, users can place four keys such as graphics or logos over a background video. Each keyer can also function as a chroma key. In addition, every keyer in the system has a Borderline® generator to create drop shadows, extrudes, and outlines. The Kalypso system also includes two utility buses per M/E for such functions as external masks, video in wipe border operations, or the Grass Valley Group's industry exclusive secondary background transitions. Like the four M/E version, the two M/E Kalypso system provides up to six channels of internal DVE and a 100 frame still store with on-board hard disk storage and animation capability. The Kalypso Video Production Center features powerful M/E partitioning for secondary composites and layering. With its DoubleTake™ split M/E technology, users can divide the four keyers between two separate background transitions—effectively creating two complete M/E outputs from a single M/E bank. Using its FlexiKey™ programmable clean feed capability, operators have complete control over customizing graphics for multiple clients. This feature is useful when a single event produced in two languages requires different language-based graphics. The two M/E version of the Kalypso Video Production Center is priced starting at $145,000 (US) and will be available in May of 2000. The Grass Valley Group is a privately held digital broadcast and video company at the forefront of the transition to digital transmission and video content production and has more than $2 billion of equipment installed worldwide. Whether it's distributing video over the air, through digital broadcast facilities and across standard data networks, or providing the industry's best video storage and production products, the Grass Valley Group has the digital solutions for the world's media markets. Its product lines include the Emmy® award-winning Profile® digital video server, Emmy-award winning Grass Valley™ switchers, and Grass Valley router and modular lines. For the latest Grass Valley Group product information, see www.grassvalleygroup.com. # |
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