Grass Valley KayakDD-1 Installation - Manual (Page 24)

KayakDD-1 Digital Production Switcher
5 System Overview
5.1 Introduction
The Grass Valley KayakDD
™
digital production switcher is an affordable, compact, and
flexible system that offers an array of high-end features for everything from live studio
and mobile production to small corporate studios and editing applications.
The KayakDD switcher leverages many of the features found in the Thomson Grass
Valley XtenDD
™ and Zodiak ™ switchers. The result is a compact system with superior
image quality and features not found in any other product.
Switchable between 525-line and 625-line formats, the KayakDD system includes four
high-quality keyers and complete machine control functionality. It features 16 inputs,
five fixed outputs, and 10 timed auxiliary buses. And it accommodates such options as
Chromatte
™
chroma keying, RGB color correction, and up to four Digital Picture
Manipulators (iDPM) for sophisticated digital video effects.
For ease of operation, the KayakDD system features an intuitive menu using an
integrated touch-screen color display. It also offers a networking capability that enables
different frames to be delegated to a single panel as well as multiple panels to share a
single frame.
Only 2 RU high, the lightweight KayakDD-1 switcher is designed to be highly portable.
Its control panel is less than 19 inches wide, but has the largest number of direct
crosspoints of any 1 M/E switcher available.
5.1.1 Features
• Switchable between 525-line and 625-line formats
• Fully digital 10-bit, 4:2:2 inputs, outputs, and video processing
• Compact, lightweight 2 RU frame
• Low power consumption
• Intuitive menu with touch screen
• 16 inputs
• 5 fixed fixed M/E outputs (2x PGM, 1x Preview, 1xClean, 1xCleanPVW)
• 10 timed auxiliary buses
• Internal frame optional RAMRecorder holds short clips and stills and works as
frame synchronizer
• Remote monitoring support via optional NetCentral software
• Four keyers, each with linear, luminance and optional Chromatte
™
chroma key
functionality
• Optional RGB color correction
• Four channels of high-end digital effects (Option)
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