The Slate
2100 is the most powerful member of the Slate family.
Extending beyond what the Slate 1000 offers, the 2100
features 8 to12 live video inputs, fail-safe switching,
a dual-channel clip store, a fourth keyer, tally and add
AES/EBU audio for its clips. Most of these added
features are because the 2100 adds an intelligent
Break-out-Box, named
iBoB™.
Powerful I/O
The Slate 2100
doubles the Slate 1000’s four standard live video inputs
to eight, and is expandable to twelve, allowing more
cameras to be attached. Unlike conventional switchers,
all these inputs can be devoted to cameras and other
live devices, since none are consumed by the CG, still
store, clips stores, etc. that are built inside the
system’s workstation. Slate switchers have built-in
frame synchronizers allowing Slate inputs to be either
genlocked broadcast equipment or asynchronous sources
such as a DVD player.
Whereas video and audio cables plug directly into the
back of the computer on the Slate 1000 with BNCs for SDI
and break-out cables for analog video and audio, the
iBoB provides professional secure I/O connections with
BNCs for all video, as well as XLRs for audio. The iBoB
has unique SmartLights, which are LEDs next to each
input that tell the operator if a video source is
present and whether it has reference or is asynchronous.
No other switcher provides this information, which
creates peace of mind for operators of all experience
levels.
Fail-Safe and Ready for Primetime
There are
other integrated ‘studio-in-a-box‘ systems on the
market, but they all lack two things which the Slate
2100 provides - a professional control panel that is
instantly familiar to switcher operators, and fail-safe
switching so you can keep switching cameras even if the
workstation stops. While Broadcast Pix computers are
extremely reliable, any workstation-based system used in
live TV production must be ready for the day when its
network goes down, its computer stops or something is
simply unplugged.
The Slate 2100’s control panel is connected to the iBoB
with both a network cable and a redundant serial cable.
If the workstation or network goes down — the serial
control takes over and enables the operator to continue
switching cameras. The Slate 2100 also comes standard
with dual redundant power supplies for both the control
panel and iBoB that automatically fail-over, as well as
a back-up SoftPanel that can take over all panel
operations if the physical control panel should ever
fail. No other switcher has a back up softpanel or
standard redundant power supplies.
The Slate 2100 also adds a downstream keyer to the Slate
1000’s three keyers, for a total of four keyers. This
downstream key is inside the iBoB where it can
accommodate an external video source with key, such as
an older CG, or a special-purpose device that the
operator might wish to employ. The Slate 2100 expands
the single channel clip store in the Slate 1000 to dual
channel, and increases clip storage capacity from 15 to
30 hours. The Slate 2100 also adds built-in tally
relays.
Slate 2100 includes:
-
Video Switcher
with 9 button control panel, 4 keyers, 3 DVEs and
chromakeys. Mix 8 live SDI or analog inputs with 2
clips and 5 graphics.
- Inscriber
TitleMotion Pro
Character Generator
with animations
-
Clip Store
with key, dual channel, 4 hours of storage
- Still Store, Title Store, Logo
Generator
-
Multi-View
Monitoring with full motion displays of program,
preview and sources, plus thumbnails of keys and
libraries
- DVE on each key for up to 3
resized boxes (PIP)
- Non-stop, on-air operation, and
still switch 8 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 iBoB - Intelligent
Break-out-Box
- Rack-mounted workstation with
Broadcast Pix V5, Inscriber TitleMotion Pro CG,
Windows XP, Slate video boards, triple disks, dual
NICs, dual monitor support, r/w DVD/CD, keyboard,
mouse (monitor not included)
Options
(see brochure for details)
For Switcher:
For Clip Store:
- Compressed Clip Import, for DV
and MPEG2
For CG:
Camera Control
- Sony camera control
- Hitachi camera control
Plus
- Redundant power
- Server or VTR control
- Extended warranty
- Training
* Suggested list price, monitor not
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Specifications
- Internal processing is pristine
10-bit uncompressed digital SMPTE 259M Analog
conversion is also 10-bit
- Inputs can be synchronous and/or
asynchronous sources
- NTSC or PAL switchable; 4:3 or
16:9
- Audio for clip stores: embedded
SMPTE 272M, plus break-out to XLRs both analog
stereo and digital AES/EBU.
- Just 1 frame of delay for
synchronous sources, even inside a DVE box
Dimensions:
- Control panel
table-top or drops into console
inches 18.5 x 12.5 x 5.5
centimeters 47 x 31.8 x 14
- Rack Mounted Workstation (4RU)
inches 16.75x20x7
centimeters 43x51x18
- Intelligent Break-out-Box (5 RU)
inches 19x10.5x3
centimeters 48x27x8
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The
Slate 2100 starts with a Slate 1000 and adds an iBoB
(intelligent break-out-box) for more I/O and redundancy. It also
includes a second channel of clip store. 
