Sport Applications

Target Areas:
Broadcasters and Outside Broadcast

Description:
Edifis Sting is well suited to the demands of sports production. It is mechanically robust and well able to withstand the rough treatment dished out to OB equipment. In addition, because it is not PC based, it is very quickly back into action in the event of power failures or interruptions.

Sting has many uses with sports production, amongst them being:

• VTR Replacement as recorder in an edit suite
• Edit suite playout
• Truck playout of edited clips
• ISO Camera Recorder and Slo Mo replay device
• Synchronous Key & Fill Playout under serial interface control
• On-Air Shot-box or random access Compilation Reel equivalent

Benefits:

• Competitive price makes VTRs unattractive option
• Many ways to control system:-
• Edifis Panel for creating loops, time shifting, slo mo replay etc
• VTR controllers through 9 pin interface for slo mo replay
• Edit controllers through 9 pin for non-linear editing
• PCs for playout of playlist
• Very high reliability due to being purpose built and not PC
• Uncompressed picture quality means that concatenation of compression artefacts is not introduced by

Sting Features:
1. High capacity storage - up to 14 hours uncompressed video & audio
2. Compact dimensions - 4RU high and weighs less than Digi Beta VTR
3. VTR loading & layoff, for dubs, through RS422