Product Parade

April 18, 2003
Leading Lite that is no lightweight

UNITED KINGDOM -- Gee Broadcast has introduced a new entry level server solution, the Geevs Lite. It provides full clip capture, management and playout functions. These can be controlled from the standard Geevs V4 Windows UI, via network control, triggered by GPIs or using Sony RS-422 VTR protocol.

Built on the success of the Geevs V4 multichannel server technology, Geevs Lite provides a single channel solution at a lower cost with all the resilience and facilities offered by the underlying Geevs V4 technology. It is a single channel solution that can insert logos over clips or provide a simultaneous picture and key out.

The Windows user interface allows clip capture either with VTR control or with simple crash recording -- that can be either open ended or for a fixed duration. The GPI can control playback of selected clips. For example, one GPI will load and cue a clip and another GPI will play it. This integrates the clip with other events such as Vision Mixer transitions.

Geevs Lite also provides a virtual tape mode for VTR playback emulation. It is easy to drag and drop video clips into the virtual tape. Thereafter, the Sony RS-422 VTR playback control is available with all advantages of a disk-based system. Clips can consist of Picture or Picture and Key with up to 4 audio tracks. Media is stored with MJPEG compression at quality levels up to 1.4:1 or DV25/50 or MPEG-2 at up to 50Mb. Standard SCSI drives allow storage from 30 minutes to over 100 hours.

Contact:
Gee Broadcast Systems Ltd.
Tel: 44-01256-810123
Fax: 44-01256-810061
Email: keith@geebroadcast.co.uk
Web: www.geebroadcast.co.uk