GlobeCaster Studio 8000 Features
The GlobeCaster Studio 8000 is our most robust and powerful solution. Perfect the final cut creatively, intuitively and without limits in linear and non-linear formats. GlobeCaster's state-of-the-art editing, effects and titling software bring creative freedom to the editing process for editors of every skill level.
Make your all-in-one broadcast solution even more flexible!
Key Features
- Eight Input Digital Production Switcher
- Real Time Character Generator
- Up to Four Independent Downstream Keys
- Animation and Paint Compositing Tools
- Real-Time 3D Video Warp Effects Creation Tool
- Eight Input Digital Audio Mixer
- Fully Digital Streaming Video for Encoder Capture
- Internet Streaming Pixel Resolutions Supported: 160x120 to 320x240
Integration with existing systems
The GlobeCaster product line is compatible with all major video formats (Composite, S-Video{Y/C}, Component RGB/YUV, FireWire and Serial 601), as well as VTRs that support RS-422 control. The GlobeCaster product line is used by world-class companies and has won numerous industry awards, including recognition from the National Association of Broadcasters.
Live Broadcast Production Switcher
- On-screen switcher panel provides live access to four uncompressed video sources with full color correction plus multiple still stores and matte generators
- Live control over transitions, digital video effects, animated overlays, title rolls and crawls
- Active real-time chroma-keying and virtual set compositing
- On-screen video preview windows with vectorscope and waveform monitors
- Multi-format I/O, built-in true color correction, flexible chroma, luma and linear keying, RS-422 VTR control, GPI triggers and separate video preview, unparalleled real-time 3D visual effects, organic wipes, dramatic virtual set capabilities and 32-bit animating graphics
Paint, Animating and Compositing
- High-performance object-oriented 2D paint engine capable of nearly infinite layering
- Vector drawing tools, including geometry, freehand, particle clouds and soft airbrushes
- Extensive control of stroke properties such as transparency, soft edges and drop shadows
- Powerful image-processing strokes such as blur, magnify, colorization and posterization
- Properties of strokes can be animated over time with on-screen and timeline control
Comprehensive Real-Time Hybrid Linear/Non-Linear Editor
- Position, edit, scrub and play through dual video streams, 3D DVE, 32-bit animating graphics, still stores, 3D video tracing, CG rolls and crawls, organic wipes and warp effects
- Advanced timeline-based video editing user interface with real-time effects (no rendering)
- Parallel tracks for video, audio, transitions, effects and up to four graphic overlays without rendering
- Supports common professional video editing tape decks through RS422 transport control
- Extensive picon-based video and audio clip management features and user-defined bin storage
- Supports flexible combination of hybrid linear and non-linear systems
On-Air-Character Generator
- Sophisticated titling treatments, text effects and formatting
- Delivers a wide range of text attributes, flexible multi-layering and smooth real-time text effects
- Contains over 100 scaleable fonts from the industry-standard Bitstream broadcast font library
- On-screen user interface for text layout and font typestyle editing
- Based on a powerful font rasterizing engine, using Windows® True-Type"! font faces
- Independent application of image and transparency maps for face, border, sides and shadow
- Loads most common image formats for backgrounds, textures, images, logos, etc.
- Creates smooth sub-pixel variable-speed rolls and crawls
Breakthrough Real-Time 3D Digital Video Effects
- Includes a wide variety of 2D and 3D effects with 32-bit graphics and animation
- Can make your own effects in GlobeCaster's 2D or optional 3D software
- Features live production capabilities never before possible, such as Warp Geometry FX and Video Tracing
- Place actors on virtual sets, complete with real-time reflections and refractions
- Sub-pixel positioning, smooth filtering and edge anti-aliasing ensures the highest broadcast-quality output possible
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