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Remote Message Titler
The RMT-50 instantly overlays up to sixteen "canned" text messages onto a composite video signal in response to remote inputs on the rear of the unit. Each alpha-numeric message is displayed on a single line of text of up to twenty characters in length. An optional mode provides for eight messages consisting of two lines of twenty characters each.
Messages can be prioritized to allow multiple selected messages to be assigned to the same line number, with only the highest priority message displayed at any one time. The message text can be input manually using the controls on the unit or via a standard PS2 keyboard.
Additional features include the ability to output the individual messages one after the other in a looping sequence with user defined start/stop times, a programmable onscreen up/down "talent timer", and multiple format time and date displays.
Audio / Video Cue "Streamer"
The ADQ-50 is a low cost, small, desktop sized unit that generates both video and audio cue prompts for use during ADR, Foley, or other post production audio tasks that require precise and repeatable timing or syncing of audio responses to specific video action.
The ADQ-50 overlays a thin white vertical line which sweeps across the screen from left to right. When the line reaches the rightmost side of the screen it meets a vertical white bar, and a square box is flashed for a few frames in the center of the screen. The combination of the disappearing line and the flashing square visually signals the start of the audio event.
In addition, as the line moves across the screen, the ADQ-50 outputs an audio cue pattern consisting of three evenly spaced audio tones, which a fourth tone missing in sync with the flashing square video prompt. The audio prompts also interact with the video display by turning off the sweeping line when the tones sound, permitting use on sound stages or other environments where low or zero volume levels are required.
The start of the left-to-right sweep is precisely triggered from a time code value that is "marked" or "captured" by the user in the SETUP mode of the ADQ-50. The ADQ-50 reads SMPTE time code from 1/30th play speed up to 10x play speed, allowing the user to quickly and easily locate the video cue point on the video monitor. A simple actuation of the pushbutton MARK switch captures the time code time associated with the cue point. The marked time can then be trimmed frame-by-frame to help zero in on the exact point at which the ADR, Foley, or other audio event is to occur.
In OPERATE mode the ADQ-50 automatically "backtimes" or subtracts from this marked time and starts the sweep display and audio tone cuing sequences when the incoming time code matches the calculated backtime value. The cueing sequence ends with the square video prompt flashed in the center of the screen when the incoming time code coincides with the marked time.
The ADQ-50 can also be triggered manually for rehearsal purposes or by RS232 serial data input from a PC. Event times can be entered manually from a list by using the MARK switches or input from the included QMe™ event list/ control software.
Pocket PA LTC - Bluetooth Transmitter with PDA-LOG™ Software
The Pocket PA logging system consists of an off- the- shelf commercially available Pocket PC with built-in Bluetooth wireless technology, the Horita LTC-Bluetooth wireless transmitter, and Horita's PDA-LOG™ logging software.
The LTC-Bluetooth wireless transmitter broadcasts the time code from the source, such as a TV camera or house TC generator, to the Pocket PC. A single touch of the Pocket PC stylus captures the time code and allows the user to enter comments. An optical character recognition (OCR) program deciphers handwritten notes and inserts them into data fields or the user can enter predefined "canned" notes such as "Mark IN", "Mark OUT", "Action", etc.
The resulting logs can be saved in Horita's PC-LOG text format, as an EDL, or as a comma- or tab- delimited file. Logs can be shared among Pocket PC's via an infrared link or exported to a PC when the Pocket PC is placed in its cradle and synchronized.
Elapsed Time Display
The ETD-100 is a 0.8"H LED display timer that can be used to time various situations and events such as talent, speakers, presentations, experiments, etc. The ETD-100 can count up or down and outputs a "GPI" signal when the count reaches zero.
The ETD-100 is actuated via simple local or remote switch closure inputs to initiate timing sequences of reset/count-up/stop and preset/count-down/stop. Local and remote setup of the preset time is also available and all counter setup information is retained in non-volatile memory.
The LED display has a brightness control and is large enough to be read across a room. Display of tenths and hundredths of a second can be turned on or off.
TSG-51 Picture $679 (call for availability)
Test Signal Generator
The TSG-51 adds a second set of 12 new digitally synthesized video test signals and patterns to the 12 already present on the standard TSG-50 Test Signal Generator, bringing the total up to 24. The second set of 12 includes various chroma/luma and FCC/Transmitter test patterns and signals, as well as a safe area retical. This wide range of signals is ideal for setting up, aligning, and evaluating the performance of various video equipment found in a typical video editing system, such as video monitors, distribution amplifiers, VCRs, switchers, effects generators, TBCs, etc. In addition to the video signals, the TSG-51 also generates composite sync and, with a video DA such as the HORITA VDA-50, becomes a high quality, multiple output, house sync generator.
Fully RS-170A SC/H phased and always correct. No adjustments ever required.
Built-in timer can automatically switch video output from video pattern to black and audio tone to silence after 30 or 60 seconds. Makes it easy and convenient to produce tape leaders of color bars and tone followed by black and silence.
Video signals generated by the TSG-51 are in accordance with industry standard EIA RS-170A video timing specification.
Convenient pattern selection by 12-position front panel rotary switch & 2-position toggle switch.
Generates precise oscilloscope trigger output signal one H line before start of color field 1.
Includes crystal controlled, 1kHz/400Hz, 0dB audio tone output.
TSG-51B Picture $739 (call for availability)
Bars/Test plus Multiple Black/SC Outputs
All features of TSG-51
PLUS5 additional outputs which may be configured for all blackburst or in various combinations with sync and subcarrier.
Up to 7 black/subcarrier outputs provided on Rackmount and Short Rack models.
UTG-50 Picture $699 (call for availability)
Universal Time Code Generator
The UTG-50 is a universal longitudinal time code generator which can generate time code at 24, 25, 29.97 or 30 FPS. The time value can be derived from external time code input (jammed), from an internal real-time clock/calendar chip, or from a GPS receiver RS-232 serial data input. In addition, the external time code or the GPS serial input can be used to preset the UTG-50 internal clock/calendar chip. Date information can be embedded in the user bits of the time code in HORITA or Leitch formats. The time code output can also be genlocked to an externally applied video input signal if desired.
Multiple "On-screen" menus provide quick and easy user setup of UTG-50 operation.
Various time and date display formats are provided for video overlay of time and date.
Add up to nine lines of twenty characters each of source ID to the time/date display.
Internal clock/calendar provides an accurate means of generating "time/date" SMPTE/EBU time code.
Video genlock feature allows accurate recording of time code on a video recorder.