Broadcast Pix: ‘Flint’ a Professional Live Production and Streaming System

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Broadcast Pix have announced their first integrated live production system – Flint. Traditionally Broadcast Pix have insisted that certain key functions are better handled outside of the system than within, these include recording and streaming! With other manufacturers providing totally integrated systems it was only a matter of time before they announced one, and they have done that with the Flint which is availabe as 2 models the LE and LS.

 

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Broadcast Pix Flint integrates the entire live production workflow from ingest to delivery, enabling highly professional live video to be created, and both streamed and broadcast.

  • Ingest: up to 6 cameras in HD SDI, SD SDI, HMDI and Analog, plus 2 channels of clips and 6 of graphics, plus files and cloud-based content from Skype, Twitter, Drop box, Google Drive, Microsoft SkyDrive and more.
  • Create: with leadership Broadcast Pix production tool set and control surfaces, including switcher, CG, clip server, device controls, Fluent-macros, virtual sets, customizable Fluent-View and camera control
  • Deliver: streaming, recording, plus video outputs in 6 formats, with lip-sync protection
  • New Slate to Flint upgrade program too
  • See Broadcast Pix Flint at NAB, shipping in April

 

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flint_serversl_backside_web  LS Back panel

Video Inputs

    Flint LE  
    Flint LS  
External
  HDMI/analog 3 2
  HD/SD SDI 0  4
  Total External 3 6
Internal
  Clip Channels 2 2
  Graphic Channels 6 6
  Total Internal 8 8
Total Inputs 11 14

Video Outputs
Simultaneous output of:
  Stream 1 1
  HDMI 1 1
  Analog Component 1 1
  Analog Y/C 1 1
  Analog Composite 1 1
  HD SDI – 1
  SD SDI – 1

 

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Live Streaming
Up to 720p, supporting most common streaming profiles and custom multi-bitrate streaming profiles, confiqured via browser based plug-ins, Adobe Flash to Flash media server connections.

Audio
  • Input: Flint has 1 balanced analog output to send the clip server’s audio to an audio mixer.
  • Output: Flint has 1 balanced analog audio input to take in the mixed output of the audio mixer, delay it to synchronize with the video, and then embed it in the video from streaming. On the LS it is also embedded in both SDI outputs and the HDMI output. Both the LE and LS also have a second balanced audio output of this delayed mixed audio.

Keys
Switcher has 3 key layers, each with customizable DVE for PiP, scaling, cropping, and flying. Each key has chromakey.  Key priority control to move the 3 layers front to back. Integrated animated transitions.

Supported Video Formats
1080i/59.94, 1080i/50, 720p/59.94, 720p/50, 480i/59.94, 576i/50

Video Processing
HD

Media Formats
  • Clips: ProRes, H.264, DNxHD
  • Animations: QuickTime
  • Graphics: .tga, .png, .jpg, .gif, .bmp, .scribe
  • Capacity: up to 30 hours of clips and animations, thousands of graphics

Monitoring
Outputs for HDMI, DVI and VGA.  Choose any two for 2 monitors.
Fully customizable Fluent-View layouts.

Flint System
Dimensions: 19 x 5.25 x 20.8 in / 48.3 x 13.3 x 52.8 cm
Size: 3 RU
Weight:  32 lbs / 14.5 kg
Power:  500 Watts

Panels
500 Panel 
   Dimensions: 15.2 x 9.3 x 4 in / 39 x 24 x 10 cm
   Weight:  5 lbs / 2 kg
   Power:  30 Watts
1000 Panel 
   Dimensions: 18.5 x 12.5 x 5.5 in / 47 x 32 x 14 cm
   Weight:  7 lbs / 3 kg
   Power:  45 Watts
2000 Panel 
   Dimensions:   27.5 x 12.5 x 7 in / 70 x 32 x 18 cm
   Weight:  16 lbs / 7.3 kg
   Power:  100 Watts