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Making broadcast a more social place Eyeheight By Michael Burns TVtweetCaster is being introduced by Eyeheight to the European mar-
ket as a solution for integrating social media into broadcast. The new launch includes a complete software and SD-SDI/HD-SDI hardware package for accessing, filtering and inserting Twitter content
into a live broadcast. The system uses industry standards in combination with application domain expertise to deliver an integrated solution that encompasses CG hardware, data inter-
Eyeheight’s TVtweetCaster enables broadcast integration of social media
faces, user interaction and application-specific automation. TVtweetCaster adds realtime twitter data to graphical page layouts, overlaying this onto SD and HD SDI systems. Each channel is capable of three fields of single line text in a user-defined font, one right to left text crawler with flexible fonts for displaying tweets, and two bitmap image layers for supporting graphics such as backgrounds, crawler straps and channel idents. There are also date and clock fields, updatable by timecode or video frames. Each channel can hold up to 64 pre-defined layouts, where the text can be dynamically inserted. 8.D92
Removable drives for recorders Datavideo By Carolyn Giardina The latest additions to Datavideo’s range of recorders include the Datavideo HDR-45 and HDR-55, hard drive-based video recorders and players with a removable hard drive enclosure. Both are being previewed here at IBC and are expected to ship next month. The new products record from standard and high definition video equipment via SDI, with a loop through for live monitoring. They feature HD-SDI and SD-SDI inputs as well as both HDMI and HD/SDSDI outputs. The HDR-45 and HDR-55 offer users a choice of recording formats in MPEG-II, including 1080i, 720p, 576i and 480i, with a choice in IBP or i-frame. The hard drive carrier connects to a PC or Mac-based nonlinear editing system via USB-2. N o ex tr a p owe r s u p p ly is required as USB-2 provides power. The technology is designed so that users can work directly from the removable drive or copy video files to the nonlinear editing system’s video drives. The HDR-45 is a compact 2U design that can be integrated with other equipment or can be used as a standalone recorder/player in the studio or on location. The HDR-55 is a 1U 19-inch rack-mountable design and can be integrated with other equipment such as Datavideo’s Mobile Video Studio range. 7.D39