Vision mixing

Mosart supports all major video switchers including Snell, Ross, Grass Valley, Sony and Echolab. Should a different switcher interface be required, Mosart will do a thorough implementation as part of a normal delivery project.

Control of vision mixers include:
- source selection on all banks (ME-rows)
- transitions on all banks including cut, mix, wipe and effect
- triggering of DVE-effects
- global memory (G-MEM) recalls
- individual bank memory (D-MEM) recalls - aux-bus outputs control

Source selection can be absolute such as CAM1 or automatic such as next server-play channel. Sources can be template pre-specified or specified in newsroom computer system - and optionally overridden by the Director in the Mosart user interface. Similarly, transition type and duration can be template pre-specified, but can be changed in the newsroom computer system or by the Director.

In order to optimize utilization of vision mixer banks, Mosart provides dynamic vision mixer bank allocation. This is important to ensure correct bank allocation in case of last second editorial rundown modification. Assume ME1 is on-air to display over shoulder graphics, next is a DVE using ME2, then Weather using ME1. The Editor suddenly floats the story containing the DVE. Mosart will immediately allocate ME2 to Weather in order to protect the current event which is on-air using ME1.

Mosart has the ability to virtually extend the number of video switcher inputs when a router is connected. For the newsroom staff and Mosart users, the router inputs will behave as if they were mixer connections. Mosart performs dynamic router to mixer tie-line allocation.