Viz Video Engine™ is a cost-effective solution that is easy to implement and
still powerful enough to take care of all professional ingest and playout
needs. By relying on conventional PC hardware and Windows as an operating
system, Viz Video Engine integrates seamlessly into existing Vizrt
installations without effecting the complexity and manageability of the
system.
The Vizrt Video Server Solution
Viz Video Engine is a cost-effective and easy to install video server. Still
the solution is powerful enough to take care of all professional ingest and
playout needs.
By relying on conventional PC hardware and Windows as an operating system, Viz
Video Engine integrates seamlessly into existing Vizrt installations without
effecting the complexity and manageability of the system.
The setup
Viz Video Engine functions as a control software for the Matrox X.mio HD and
SD multi-channel video and audio I/O cards. It is capable of dual channel
HD/SD ingest and broadcast-quality dual channel playout.
In a typical environment Viz Video Engine will normally be used in combination
with one of Vizrt’s Media Asset Management systems, either Viz Ardome or Viz
Video Hub.
Viz Video Engine was developed to seamlessly integrate into the Vizrt product
suite and to give extra flexibility to the video workflow. The ingest and
playout application Viz Capture or the scheduling system Viz Dart can be
used as a front-end to control the Viz Video Engine solution. Alternatively,
any program that can take advantage of Viz Video Engine’s command line
interface can be used as an optional front-end.
A wide variety of formats
Viz Video Engine supports multiple formats both in SD and HD quality.
Supported SD formats are DV and MPEG-2 I-frame with 25 to 50 Mbits. IMX with
30 and 50 Mbits is also supported.
Supported HD formats are DV at 100 Mbits and MPEG-2 I-frame ranging from 50 to
200 Mbits. YUV 4:2:2 uncompressed is supported both in SD and HD.
Viz Video Engine also supports the Material eXchange Format (MXF). MXF is a
container format that allows easy exchange of audio and video data.
Additionally, Viz Video Engine supports scrubbing, gapless (back-to-back)
playout and ingest for all supported formats, and the Vertical Interval Time
Code (VITC). VITC is supported both for ingest and playout, meaning that
analog formats with slow tape speeds can now benefit from a higher accuracy
than with linear timecode (LTC). This makes Viz Video Engine an extremely
competitive and compact solution for all video server needs
- Two SD/HD channels for input or output
- Supports 16 channels of 24 bit embedded AES audio per port
- Back-to-back playout and ingest for all formats
- Features extended resolution for preservation of VBI lines
- Supported SD formats; DNxHD (VC3), DVCPRO25, DVCPRO50, IMX30, IMX40, IMX50, DVCPROHD,
YUV 4:2:2 uncompressed
- Support for the Material eXchange Format (MXF)
- Scrubbing support (in future release)
- VITC support for both ingest and playout
- RAID-5 setup with 700+ GB monitored by Viz Video Engine and Viz Video Hub / Viz
Ardome
