1. Grass Valley Krystal™
4300
Digital Picture Manipulator
A Truly Innovative Real-Time Video
Effects Device
Advanced User Interface Lets Operators
Build Effects Quickly and Easily
Independent Function Timelines and Partial
Key Framing
Versatile and Intuitive Effects Editing
Allowing Unparalleled Creativity and Control
High Quality 10-Bit Digital Image Processing
DTV Ready – supports 16x9 picture formats
New, Patented Combiner Technology
Solves Traditional Serial
Combiner Problems
Depth Mode for Four Intersecting Planes
with Transparency and Softness
Up to Four Simultaneous Users
Connect Up to Eight Video Processor
Channels as Pooled Resources
Up to Four Layers over Video Background,
per User
2. The Krystal Four Channel
Combiner now gives simultaneous
users greater access to more
processing power, allowing them
to work faster and more efficiently.
Great Effects and High Fidelity
In addition to its unmatched
blend of technologies, the
Krystal industry-leading effects
creation capabilities are supported
by the high quality of its video
processing. Running on powerful
RISC technology with bicubic
interpolation, the Krystal 4300
offers video processing that goes
beyond older technology. Every
Krystal system incorporates our
exclusive enhanced video
technology with key processing
for a higher level of quality
and fidelity.
System Packages
The Krystal 4300 is available in
various standard optioned and
fully optioned packages, starting
with a single channel, single
user package up through a four
channel, single user package.
Additional channels and add-
itional user options are available.
Powerful Effects
Innovative system features
include corner pinning, separate
but mixable crop and mask
patterns, mixed internal and
external key processing and
emboss, blur and modulated
border mattes. In addition, the
Krystal system contains an
extensive complement of
luminance and chrominance
pixel processing, including color
mixing, contrast, posterization
and color compensation.
Use the Kurl effects generator for
acrobatic non-linear imaging.
Add trails, mosaics, montages
and other recursive effects to
your creative repertoire with
TrailBlazer. Take advantage of
your agile new Defocus
technology for real-time control
of rack-focus transitions or light
source simulation option. The
Dual Light Source option adds
realistic shading and lighting to
3-D transforms.
In post-production or live
broadcast, the Krystal 4300
Digital Effects System gives users
fast, precise, intuitive controls
over a full spectrum of effects
capabilities. Powered by
Grass Valley high-performance
10-bit digital image processing
and video enhancement
technologies, Krystal 4300 is
adaptable to a variety of multiuser,
multichannel configurations. In
every application, Krystal
delivers unsurpassed effects
artistry and technical versatility.
Totally New Design
The Krystal Four Channel
Combiner's patented architecture
allows video to be combined,
mixed and layered in any order,
without regard to the physical
connection of channels. Other
DVE combiners use cascading,
or serial combining where
placement of video in any layer
desired is not possible. Each
successive combination of
channels binds the first layers
together. The Krystal combiner
provides layering flexibility,
even with transparent and
soft-edge video.
Variable Layering Modes
The new Four Channel Combiner
also uses the Variable Combiner
modes, previously available only
in the Krystal Two Channel
Combiner, that allow one channel
to mask another. Video is revealed
only where channels overlap, or
video is revealed only where
channels do not overlap, and so
on with up to 14 various
compositing modes. Since each
channel has both video and key
processing, a wide variety of
effects can be created.
New System Control Frame
For facilities that require
multiple users sharing a pool of
video processor channels, the
Krystal 4300 is currently the
only system available that can
be configured for up to four
simultaneous users sharing a
pool of up to eight video
processor channels.
Complete Creative Control
Partial keyframes and
independent function timelines
give you more resolution and
control of effects than any other
digital effects system on the
market. For ultimate versatility,
including complex, multichannel
moves, Krystal provides two
global channels and a camera
channel. And it lets you
manipulate each image in
source, target or camera space.
Finely tuned, yet flexible, the
Krystal 4300 can be customized
to suit your creative process. Its
controls will be instantly
familiar to Kaleidoscope™ users,
and just as easy to learn and use
for studio professionals who are
migrating to Grass Valley
products. With Krystal, each
effects artist can operate in the
way that’s most comfortable and
efficient, entering values via
keypad, joystick or panel knob.
The system’s macro capability
enables the artist to automate
frequently used sequences,
speeding operations and freeing
up time for what’s most important
in digital effects: creativity.
Configurations and Compatibility
The Krystal 4300 Digital Effects
System is available in
configurations of one to eight
channels for one to four users,
with up to eight control points
able to acquire channels via a
standard Ethernet LAN. Krystal
carries a full complement of
video industry-standard interfaces
for connection to other production
and editing equipment. Aux bus
control is standard with our broad
range of switchers - including
the Models 2200, 3000, or 4000.
The Model 2200-2i control panel
provides control of two Krystal
channels and the production
switcher. You can use the effects
send loops of all listed switchers
with Krystal to insert digital
effects into a single keyer.
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3. - Kurl non-linear effects
- Light source provides two
independent light sources
per channel, positionable in
3D space
Options
- Kurl with Splash, plus dual
light source for upgrades from
standard to full option packages
- 4x1 conbiner for combining
four foregrounds over
background video
- Simultaneous control and
combiner ouputs for up to four
users
- Up to eight channels pooled
for control by up to four
simultaneous users combining
up to four channels
Standard Option Package Features
- Multi-user, multichannel
configurations
- 10-bit image processing
- RISC technology and bicubic
interpolation
- Macro capability for automation
of frequently used sequences
- Two global camera channels
- Image manipulation in source
or target space
- Separate crop and mask
patterns with mix capability
- Mixed internal and external
key processing
- Emboss, blur and modulated
mattes
- Keypad, joystick or panel
knob interfaces
- One to four channel control
of a pool of eight channels
- One to four simultaneous user
control available
- Enhanced Image Fidelity
- Input recursive
- Output recursive
- Defocus with glow in either
video, key
- Graphics display option for
wire-frame channel
representation with axis
and source indicators
Fully Optioned Package Features
Single and multichannel
packages are available, loaded
with all channel options. This
includes all features of the
Standard Option Package plus
the following:
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4 Additional
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Combiner Out
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