Eyeheight, a manufacturer of broadcast-quality modular infrastructure for the television production and post-production market, reports a successful IBC2009. There were eight additions to Eyeheight’s product family…
The CW-2M is an HD/SD logo and ticker generator with integral keyer that allows animated and static graphics plus a line of sideways-crawling text such as breaking news to be added to any part of a television image and is fully compatible with 1080i/1080p/720p high-definition or 575i/480i standard-definition environments — the CW-2M includes a dual-channel logo inserter which can be used to impose a background image or strap over live video.
The LE-2nM, LE-2nS and LE-2nU are fully-featured single-card legalizers housed in a compact and accessibly-priced half-rack-width 1 U chassis with external mains power supply unit. Models SA-2nM, SA-2nS and SA-2nU are safe-area generators and the AR-2nM and AR-2nS are aspect ratio converters.
Eyeheight’s LE-2U is a dual-link legalizer with composite, RGB, and YUV and YUV color space correction. The LE-2U legalizes the incoming signal in user-selected color space (RGB or YUV component, PAL, or NTSC composite, or RGB-and-composite combined). The unit auto detects whether the incoming video is SDI, HD-SDI or dual-link and switches into the appropriate format.
Eyeheight’s LI-2DM is a multi-rate dual logo-inserter with each channel completely independent (separate inputs and outputs), enabling mixed-rate operation. Each logo inserter has two independent layers allowing two logos to be superimposed at any one time. Logos can also be animated. Storage capacity is approximately one HD full frame of storage or five SD full frames of storage for each inserter.
Offering an efficient upgrade path from 525/625-line to 1080i operation in broadcast transmission centers, ‘playoutHD‘ is structured as a modular A/B switcher with four-group 16-channel audio facilities, supported by a wide range of modular options including keyer and bug/crawler inserter. Standard features of playoutHD include automation control, manual control and/or emergency control. ‘playoutHD’ is supplied complete with Eyeheight’s Playout Application Suite software for general set-up, operational monitoring and detailed diagnostics.
Shown in prototype at IBC2008, the SA-2U is a 4:4:4 dual-link capable graticule/safe-area and blanking generator designed for SD, HD-SDI, multi-definition (single-link) and 2K dual-link post-production applications. It generates safe-action graticules, safe-title and centre markers (short and full screen) for all common TV and film formats. The SA-2U is capable of handling 2048 x 1080 (‘2k’) and 1920 x 1080 SMPTE 274M HD signals as well as 4:3 up to 16:9 SD and includes operational blanking control.
The TC-2M is a multi-definition timecode reader and generator which reads LTC, VITC & ATC and will generate VITC & ATC. As a reader, each timecode type can be burned into an SD or HD picture or viewed on the LCD display of the Eyeheight Flexi-Panel, FP-9. In generator mode, the timecode can be preset to free-run or be jammed to any of the three read timecode format conversation, e.g. from LTC to VITC or ATC. All user bits and ancillary data can also be optionally displayed.
The UD-2 is a high quality up/down converter with three-field temporal processing and 3:2-pulldown frame-rate conversion. Like all Eyeheight multi-definition products, it is compatible with the 18 video standards currently in use across 525/625 SD as well as 720p, 1080p and 1080i HD. The UD-2 incorporates HD/SD input auto-sensing and is fully transparent to embedded audio. User-adjustable delay compensation is provided on all 16 audio channels to offset the video processing time.
