[Specification]
- Supports up to 12 independent windows or 6 windows with seamless transitions
- (2) Native high resolution background channels provide background video with seamless transition effects
- Special Effects
- A full range of transition effects (dissolve, wipe, etc.)
- Smooth PIP move & sizing controlled via key frames
- Adjustable PIP aspect ratio
- PIP borders, including drop shadows and soft edge
- PIP clone (mirror and offset)
- Keying
- Luminance key
- Split key (key alpha and fill)
- Reverse key (key on background)
- Color key (graphics)
- Alpha mixing
- (1) Native high resolution downstream key channel independent of PIP/KEY processing channels
- Video processing
- 10-bit processing
- 1:1 pixel sampling
- Motion adaptive de-interlacing (SD & HD)
- 3:2 and 2:2 pull down detect
- Image cropping
- Aspect ratio correction
- Athena proprietary high-performance scaling
- Low video delay – less than 3 input fields
- Z-order control (priority layers) for overlapping PIP or key images
- Each mixer layer is dynamically re-assignable as a mixing (transitioning) PIP, or as two individual (SPLIT) nontransitioning PIP or key images.
- Still frame : frame grab of background and downstream key sources
- Complete look-ahead preview
- On-screen display (preview monitor) of layer information and status
- Supports blended widescreen projection
- Output synchronization: free-run or vertically locked to NTSC/PAL blackburst
- Edge blending
- 10-bit processing
- Variable overlap
- Supports standard and pre-overlapped background sources
- Edge blending (feathering)
- 3G/HD/SD SDI output
- SMPTE 259M-C (standard definition)
- SMPTE 292M (high definition up to 1080i @ 60Hz)
- SMPTE 424M (high definition up to 1080p @ 60 Hz)