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InSound

Roland Debuts V-1HD Video Switcher

R

oland has launched its V-1HD
Video
Switcher
that
can
accommodate up to four HDMI audio/
video sources with resolutions up
to 1080p, and features professional
compositing effects and creative video
switching capabilities.
The V-1HD can also be controlled
by the companion PC/Mac or iPad
application when connected by USB.
The Roland V-1HD provides switching
for up to four HDMI A/V sources
including
cameras,
computers,
tablets, smartphones, and even Bluray players, thanks to its HDCP copy
protection support.
The HD output of the V-1HD can be
switched between 720p or 1080i /
1080p at 59.94fps or 50fps.
In either 1080i or 1080p output

Roland V-1HD Video Switcher software

mode, the V-1HD can accept both
1080p and 1080i input signals
simultaneously, allowing it to be
used with a range of sources.
The V-1HD has a 12-channel
audio mixer for mixing stereo
audio from HDMI and external
stereo audio sources and its
dedicated microphone input.
The V-1HD includes two
HDMI programme and preview
outputs and a stereo audio
output.
The V-1HD gives users an array of
compositing effects, including picturein-picture and keying, allowing for
graphic insets plus titling and green
screen capabilities.
For live event video switching, the
V-1HD offers advanced transition and
filter effects - more than 30
effects and transition types
including mix, cut, full additive
mix, non-additive mix, wipe
and
other
performance
effects. The V-1HD also has
output fade, BPM Sync and
Auto-Scan functions.
The A and B video busses
each have controls for effects
assignment and parameter

Roland V-1HD Video Switcher

control. The output can be switched
A/B or in PGM/PST mode where the B
buss is used for signal preview.
The preview output can be set to
a multi view mode - where all inputs
are displayed with coloured borders
indicating the programme and preview
selections, or in a full-screen mode.
The preview output can be used
for additional, menu-driven set-up
control, or as a second output for
applications such as a simultaneous
webcast or recording output.
The 12-channel audio mixer offers
three-band parametric EQ, reverb, up
to 500ms delay for accurate lip-sync, a
compressor/gate on the mic input and

level/multiband EQ on the master mix.
A headphone output facilitates audio
monitoring and the V-1HD supports
mono or stereo plug-in-powered
microphones.
The V-1HD features a clean,
intuitive control layout with multifunction buttons and knobs as well
as a large T-handled T-Fader for
key and transition operations. The
rugged construction ensures longterm reliability even under the most
demanding conditions of portable and
professional use.
The Roland V-1HD High-Definition
Video Switcher will be available
December 2015.

BBC Studios And Post Production Upgrades
With New Merging Pyramix

S

trictly Come Dancing was first
aired in 2004 from BBC Television
Centre and Merging's Pyramix was
used for those early productions and
on the successive series.
The current series is transmitted
from the George Lucas studio used by
BBC Studios and Post Production.
The
demands
of
complex
entertainment shows suggested that
merely updating the Mykerinos-based

Pyramix was not going to be sufficient.
It made sense to replace it completely
with a new Pyramix MassCore 256
Music Pack with new hardware,
including a Horus Networked Audio
Interface. With the need to postproduce some of the shows, a VCube
Essentials pack was also part of the
package.
Sound Supervisor, Andy Tapley,
was responsible for the decision to
Elstree sound gallery showing
the Studer Vista X

continue with a Merging
rig as the recording
tool to complement
BBC S&PP's new Studer
Vista X. Apart from the
fact that the team was
familiar with the Pyramix
platform, the key point
was the ability to handle
high track counts, with
the long recording times Darcey Bussell, Craig Revel Horwood, Claudia Winkleman,
Tess Daly, Bruno Tonolio and Len Goodman
that are now the norm.
The requirement to record all of media drives, so that many hours of
the rehearsals and the shows over continuous recording can be stored
two days and to refine the mix, and safely. One special show each year
produce stems, for post-production, comes from Blackpool's iconic Tower
means that there is often the need to Ballroom, and Andy Tapley takes up
record as many as 152 tracks.
the story: "Even when we are in the
This is easily achieved with MassCore comfort of the Red TX sound recording
256 and the 128 channels of MADI plus truck on the Blackpool seafront,
24 AES/EBU I/O connectivity between capturing the show is simple because
the Vista X and the Horus. eMerging, Pyramix is part of their standard kit.
the UK distributor for Merging We can record here and easily transfer
Technologies supplied all the hardware the project to our base in Elstree for
including a new 4U computer chassis post-production work. Making the
with a RAID 0 array of three 1TB move to Horus has been seamless."


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