HD mobile truck companies install Accom's Dveous/HD
Apr 3, 2003 12:00 PM
Four new mobile units are now equipped with Accom's Abekas
Dveous/HD. Three of the country's mobile truck companies, National
Mobile Television (NMT), NEP Supershooters and New Century Productions
(NCP), chose to install the digital video effects platform to enhance
its coverage of ESPN HD games. The HD schedule includes the Super
Bowl, the National Basketball Association (NBA) finals,
Sunday Night Baseball, the Stanley Cup and the 2003-2004
season of ABC's Monday Night Football.
With 46 mobile trucks in the USA and Europe, NMT already has three
trucks equipped for HD. However, NMT's new HD 4 is the first mobile
truck to be multi-format ready throughout. NMT has more than two-dozen
Abekas Dveous systems installed in their SD trucks.
Dveous/HD is operationally identical to the industry-standard SD
Dveous, making the move to HD completely transparent to the user.
Because the channels are not chained together, users can cut channels
loose whenever they need to for clocks or other fixed effects.
Configuration options for the Dveous/HD are dual twin HD (four video or
two video plus key channels) or single twin HD (two video or one video
plus key channel).
The Dveous/HD features frame-based processing, hard drive storage
for effects and textures and five-channel color correction. It has a
two-channel wide range defocus and can defocus on each channel and each
component individually. It includes four-channel 3D lighting with
bump-mapped texture and four-channel Z depth combiner or priority based
layering.
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