AVS MANUSCRIPT CADET

Model Details

The ManuScript Cadet is an entry level character generator for more basic use at a high quality.

Typical applications for the ManuScript Cadet are broadcasting and video production within a budget (e.g. Universities, schools & colleges, local and national government), cable production, corporate & industrial video, presentation systems, message board/display system or as a supplementary CG for non-linear editing systems.



composit & Y/C I/O, Internal composite Linear Keyer,18nS resolution, grduated color backgroundgenerator, logo composer drawing package 20 std Latin typeface styles, scalable.
CADET SPECIFICATION
FUNCTIONAL SPECIFICATIONS:

MASTER TYPEFACES
20 Standard AVS typefaces
All typefaces accessed on-line from hard drive

CHARACTER QUALITY
Anti-aliased to an effective resolution of 18nS

COLOUR PALATTE
16.7 million colours
24 colour stores per page for character, edge block, shadow and background colours
256 Transparency

STYLES Default style pages in every volume
Drop and solid shadow to 100 pixel depth
8 directions of shadow
Variable block outline and border

CHARACTER ATTRIBUTES
On-line sizing from 4 to 400 scan lines
Aspect ratio-expand/condense 4 to 400% of original width
Skew (italics) –angle between +/-64°
Character rotation through 360°
Mirror or reflect characters

EDITING COMMANDS
Insert & delete, wipe line, wipe to end
Full justification and centre horizontal/vertical fit and set tabs

LANGUAGE SUPPORT
Over 45 Latin-based languages with accents, graphics symbols and specific keyboard layouts Including: International English, Spanish/Portuguese, French Azerty, German, Scandinavian, Italian.
Optional: Vietnamese, Cyrillic, Greek.

DYNAMIC MOTION
Smooth Rollers (up or down) and Crawls (left or right) with pre-sets or user definable speeds, self-timing and embedded commands

PAGE TRANSITIONS
Cuts, wipes, reveals, pushes and fades to video, background and black. Manual or automatic with user definable timings

PAGE EFFECTS
10 marker points allow mixtures of page effects with user definable timings – zips and wipes in all directions, zips and wipes over blocks, reveals

PAGE SEQUENCING
5000 pages in 50 volumes of 100 pages
User definable page sequencing
Automatic, manual or GPI triggers
Adjustable dwell times

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION:

CADET VIDEO FORMATS
Internal Linear Keyer to Composite and Y/C (S-VHS) programme outputs
Composite PAL
Y/C (S-VHS) PAL
Component RGB (monitoring only)

OPERATIONAL MODES
Upstream, downstream, stand-alone

REFERENCE SOURCES
Composite video or Black Burst

KEYER BACKGROUND INPUT
Composite video: 1Vp-p
Y/C video: Y/C 4.43

LINEAR KEY OUT
Composite video: 1 Vp-p

PROGRAMME OUTPUT
Composite video: 1 Vp-p
Y/C video: Y/C 4.43

EDIT (MONITORING) OUTPUT
Composite video: 1 Vp-p
Component R,G,B,S: 700m Vp-p

MONITORING REQUIREMENTS
Programme – Composite or Y/C
Edit – RGB or a Composite monochrome

INTERFACES
Serial and parallel interface capability
GPI remote trigger

INTERNAL LINEAR KEYER SPECIFICATION
Frequency response: +/-0.15db to 5.5MHz
Differential gain: < 0.1%
Differential phase: < 0.1°
Chroma luma delay: < +/-5nS
Transient response: < 0.2%K
Return loss: < 40db for all video inputs & outputs

TIMING ADJUSTMENT RANGES
Horizontal phase: +/- 4µS
Subcarrier phase: 360

PHYSICAL SPECIFICATION
Keyboard: 215 x 483 x 35mm (DxWxH)
Mainframe: 44mm rack size (1U)
Chassis: 520 (+BNC’s) x 450 x 47mm (DxWxH)
Boxed: 630 x 550 x 220mm (DxWxH)
Shipped weight: 14Kg

ELECTRICAL SPECIFICATION
AC voltage, 230V (85V – 264VAC), 50Hz 625 (PAL)
AC power, 40W

Features:

Composite (VHS) and Y/C (SVHS) I/O’s

Internal Linear Keyer

1.2 Gb hard drive (minimum)

18nS resolution (non-broadcast)

Real-time operation and rendering

20 fully anti-aliased typefaces (over 3 million font sizes)

16.7 million available colours

LogoComposer drawing package

Graduated colour backgrounds

Dedicated support for over 45-Latin based languages as standard

Additional languages, logos and typefaces available on request