Focus Ships New Digital Video Mixer Line
September 23, 2004
Campbell, CA - FOCUS Enhancements Inc. is now shipping product from its new digital video mixer models: the MX-4 and the MX-4 DV, introduced earlier this year. The MX-4 and MX-4 DV are designed for live event productions in the education, business, multimedia and the broadcast markets, the company describes.
The FOCUS Enhancements MX-4 Digital Video Mixer offers a host of features including:
- 10 bit 4:2:2 video processing with superior input comb filter circuitry
- Four times faster processor with flash-upgradeable memory
- Integral graphics store
- Ethernet for computer and network connectivity
- Four-layer video effects, including foreground graphics
- 700+ transitions, including cuts, fades, wipes, zooms, edges, shapes and trailing effects
- Two channel TBC (Time Base Corrector)
- Faster cuts and transition speeds
- Input effects with preview, including brightness, contrast, saturation, hue, posterization B&W, B&W Negative, Horizontal or Vertical Flip, Mosaic, Color Negative, Color Correction, Strobe and Chroma Key
- PiPs (picture-in-picture), which can be enhanced with soft edges, colored borders and drop shadows for 3D-like impact
In addition to the above features, the MX-4 DV model includes four FireWire/i.Link (IEEE 1394) inputs and one FireWire/i.Link output to enable videographers to mix DV video and 10-bit analog video in real time with fast cuts. Another advantage of using DV is its full support for up to four channels of embedded digital audio with CD-quality audio performance. The MX-4 DV is ideal as a production mixer or video processor upstream to an NLE or encoding station.
The MX-4 Digital Video Mixer has street pricing around $1,649.95
For more information, visit
www.focusinfo.com
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