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The ESS-3 production - position access station Frequently use
System. lt‘s the perfect way More than a Shu provides the interactive colors for backgrounds,
to get added production stare system human interface to the graphic elements or titles
versatility- at a price you creative capabilities of the can be instantly recalled
can well afford. lt’s ideal for r system. With the familiar and selected from an on-
TV stations or teleproduc- T2 keyboard and eight menu- screen palette. Full
tion houses and all other he ESS-3 is based soft keys, the rgdepenflent control of the
types of television much more than just a still transition to electronic t ree co or parameters —
applications. store system. The com- graphics composition can hue. saturation and
be easily accomplished. luminance — allows any
The video monitor displays color to be created or
_ . . - the functions which can be matched. This allows
selected and prompts the custom palettes to be
{ _ user as to the variable created efficiently. The
""†, Q parameters. These are creation of video montages
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control of both horizontal p _ F S . ,
and vertical size. Thus a · T _ _ , __·_ ‘ 1
circle can become an ‘·" .`* ? ? `l' >
ellipse and a rectangle can l i F T! E * iw
become a square. The cut — lv ·g· v g ~
image can be reduced in Ramon Access . ‘ ` ’ . .
size if desired and pasted station with ‘ ` . — » A - · i . s l
in any position on the Playback List
second image with a hard Displayed , _ , _ , g
orvariablewidthsoftedge. ` "’` i‘ f " T
There is also a full range of
transparency control on the Since the individual news is usually presented size, cropping, position,
cut image. All this, characters are stored as "live," the preprogramming bordersize and color can be
combined with full control pictures, not digital data, of the still presentation varied from still to still with
digital blurring, will provide no time—consuming "clean reduces the effort required to reduced possibility of
an array of creative tools up" action is required. produce the newscast. The human error The second
unequalled among still The scanned—in fonts second access station function provided by these
store systems. can be recalled from the available for ESS-3 is the accessories allows the still-
Another mode used keyboard, varied in both remote access station. This to-still transitions to be
in assembling dynamic horizontal and vertical size, is a compact device with a pre-programmed and
graphics is the use of either colored, bordered, outlined bright fluorescent display performed with a single
luminance or chrominance or shadowed and then designed primarily to allow pushbutton function. This
keying. The digital keying overlaid over still images to an operator to play a pre- also frees a portion of the
system allows precise caption the graphic assembled list of stills in mix/effects function of the
control without typical montage. sequence with a minimum of switcher and increases the
complex operations physical or mental effort. A creative aspect of the news
functions. The keyer will group of eight dedicated presentation.
also operate in a unique S keys provide fast, convenient The large bright
"scissors" mode in which ummary access for the various list display keeps the operator
the signal from a copy playback functions. The informed as to what still is
camera is used as the typical system used in this present on either channel
cutting information between manner has two output and also indicates the
two stills. This process n summary, the channels, with one used for location within the list and
allows irregular shapes to ESS-3 provides full previewingthe next stillwhile what transition will take
be cut out of any still to creative control from a the other is on the air. The place between subsequent
create unique composition single easy—to-use control large program and preview stills.
effects. station over tasks normally keys allow the transitions to Functional values are
requiring two or three be performed with single added to the remote access
different types of function ease. station by providing the
‘ · - e ui ment. The ualit of Though the planned capability of recording a still
` pnonlng trile rgsulting imacge w% be list playback is the ideal frame or a still field. The
unequalled since all news presentation, the l`£SS—3 always stores a frame
_ manipulations have been capability to leave this mode (2 fields) of information on
performed in the digital and insert a still of a late- the disk. When the image is
he capability to domain without the breaking story has also been "grabbed†from a scene with
use captions or titles as decoding and re—encoding provided. action, thefield grab mode is
graphic elements on still required with outside used and the system
images is another innovative analog equipment. provides the secopd field
feature ofthe ESS-3 - through the use o digita
composition system. Prisentatmn interpolation techniques. This
Character fonts are stored More than e ancements method provides the opti-
in the system as 8 st"' pla er mum picture quality without
monochrome images with . Y » any creative limitations.
full luminance resolution.
Therefore, they retain their he two access- `
optical or printed type ories that greatly enhance
quality throughout multiple he most common the still presentation also
generations. This method use of still images in the reduce the effort on the
of storing fonts also allows broadcast world today is to operator Since the presen-
the user to scan in any font add interest and variety to tation attributes of each still
using a video camera. news presentations. Since can be entered onthelist, the
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