The switcher itself is 100% hardware based, and absolutely rock solid. Ross falls in line with the other bigger brands that are used in “real” productions like Grass, Sony etc. Nothing against people who use them a ton, but I’ve noticed a lot of people who work mainly on them seem to brush the issues off as normal. ![]() OTOH if you are selling sponsored elements based on things running from the switcher it functioning perfectly every time may very well be worth the money. Im a stadium if there is another control system between you and the boards, you may not consider this a big deal if you can just dump to a graphic when issues arise. ![]() It’s also not uncommon to see freezes, glitches, significant panel lag (press a button and the action takes sometimes multiple seconds to happen). Ross also announced a 10-20 percent price reduction on its CrossOver and Carbonite Production Switchers effective this month.When you are using a Tricaster, the question is always when it will crash, not if. Ross updated its DashBoard open facility control and monitoring system with v6.0, which now includes PanelBuilder to create custom control panels, sophisticated Timers and VDCP Support. Ross also launched Inception Newsroom Control which allows journalists to directly create content for broadcast, social media and the web with publication to a growing list of services including: Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flicker, Brightcove, BIM and Wordpress. “It’s our most successful mid-sized production switcher introduction ever, with more than 2,000 shipped in two years,” he said. Ross was particularly enthused about the Carbonite product line, which was launched at the 2011 NAB Show and targets the mid-range market. The feature is available free as a software download for current Carbonite customers by the end of 2013 and will be a standard feature for all Carbonite switchers. MultiScreen production is now possible directly within a standard Carbonite with Ross’ new MiniMEs. MiniMEs can be used anywhere in the signal flow as pre-keyers to build a layered composition with keyed graphics, or as a virtual set background with a chroma key and add an OTS DVE selected as a direct input. Also new is the Carbonite MinME, which includes a mixer and 2 keyers-one traditional keyer that accepts linear and chroma keys and one reserved for DVE use. Ross Carbonite, which already has six control panels, now has a seventh, the Carbonite C2S, a new 2 ME control panel based on the Carbonite 2X but with 24 source select buttons instead of 32. This new application provides Vision production switcher control via touchscreen or keyboard and mouse. Also new is the Vision DashBoard Control Panel, running under the Ross DashBoard PC, MAC or Linux control system. The company has also redesigned control panel modules for the Vision Octane 3G, Octane and Tritium models that have smaller ‘Euro’ style control buttons. In the Vision product range, Ross announced the Vision Tritium, a 3MLE production switcher with the same production power found in the company’s Vision Octane. ![]() Overdrive, now in version 14.0 now includes a new ActiveX NRCS plug-in, along with support for third party switchers. “We plan on making more acquisitions in the next 12 months than at any other time in our history,” he said.Ī number of new additions to its broad range of switcher, graphics, automation and routing products were announced. AMSTERDAM-Ross Video launched a range of new products and upgrades at the 2013 IBC Show here.ĭave Ross, president of Ross Video, opened the company’s IBC press conference announcing that the company was on track to log its 22nd consecutive year of growth and also hinted at things to come.
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