The name " Carbonite " unites a family of video mixer for television productions "multi- definition" medium-sized, the Canadian Ross Video.
Alessandro Asti, Vice President of the Italian distributor Aret Audio Video Engineering Ltd. comments: "These mixers are born to "small-medium" users and for those who want to grow "bigger" who understood how to make a television production of great importance without necessarily investing astronomical sums. These are products that are equally valid in applications like control rooms as well as in mobile vans.
And right on the mobile vehicle of Young Television Unit 7, production service engaged the customizations of football Serie B broadcasts, a Ross product is central.
Roberto Burchielli , chief engineer of Young Television says: "We very intense use of a mixer Ross Carbonite Plus version based on 16 inputs, expandable to 24 and 10 outputs. Our panel is the model 24 keys 2 banks.
The real secret weapon of this mixer is the ability to be born to live, so the possibility of recall effects or configurations in real time is crucial for us in shooting sports.
Its specifications make it ideal - and not by chance we chose it - to be the true "beating heart" of a compact ob-van like ours: we call it "Unit 7" and is a nimble, 4 full HD camera, set up on a Ducato vehicle.
In live tv shooting we appreciate it best, first of all for the opportunity to manage 2 totally independent multiviewer which are quickly configurable, we do use a lot other channels dedicated to still images and animations and more, the good availability of outputs makes it almost single-handedly capable of performing functions of other devices.
The mobile production vehicles of Young Television are very often engaged in producing sports broadcasts of football, a lot of Serie B matches, and the new tech specifications required by Infront (which owns the rights and accurately indicates the minimum requirements of the technical equipments) are fully satisfied by the Ross Carbonite Plus mixer: it has a full-featured video matrix, is responsible for the distribution, has on-board signal converters , and synchronizers. In this regard, I emphasize that our mobile Unit 7 has other converters and synchronizers, but given the completeness of the mixer, they play a role of mere redundancy and back-up.
During the production of national and international sports supplements that we are very often engaged with, when we are presented with the need to take numerous signals from the host broadcaster (clean, dirty, world feed and iso cameras) we found it very useful the to apply to each a dedicated input a dedicated synchronizer, able also to carry out the up and down conversions, depending on the operating standard; for more, matched to the excellent potential of the single color correction.
The operational speed with which we can perform all typical operations of the live broadcast, the practicality of the layout of the controls that are immediate on all operations, are conducted by us at the highest quality and most of all with a negligible delay.
In addition, the possibility to visually customize all buttons, change the colors of the various sections and quickly configure the panel according to the type of production, or the needs of the filmmaker or director is another very useful feature."
