Inside Look at Grass Valley Dyno Instant Replay
by Ken Kerschbaumer | Sep 15, 2008 - 10:51:50 AM
Finally
had a chance today to get up close and personal with the Thomson Grass Valley Dyno Instant Replay system. Thomson also rolled out the new Elite series of 4000 and 8000 cameras (the old versions are no longer manufactured), and improvements in DSP boards have resulted in sensitivity shifts from f8 to f10 and signal-to-noise improvements from 56 to 60 dB.
As for Dyno, here's the quick scoop:
What you get for $89,000:
a four-channel K2 Summit server (with eight 300-GB drives, enough storage for 24 hours of DV100 material) and a controller (with touch-screen panel, T-bar, usual assortment of buttons). The system scales out.
When it's shipping:
Anticipated ship date is three months.
Whom it's for:
Grass execs say it's for everyone from coaches to venues to truck vendors great and small.
The short story:
-It takes about a half second to go from play to record.
-The four channels are bidirectional.
-Each video channel has 16 channels of audio.
-The replay device generates four panels of video on display; when a mix/effect is done, preview channel is still available.
-Users can create touchscreen metadata templates for different sports (for example, offensive plays, different innings in baseball).
-Controller screen displays thumbnail key frames for each clip.
-It currently supports DV100, but other codecs will be supported in the future.
-Melts/clips can be offloaded to Rev Pro drives, thumbdrives, etc.
-Files are native Quicktime so Apple Final Cut can view the drive as a shared drive and edit directly onto the Summit server.
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