Back in the day I would surround myself with individual monitors showing each of my sources. Sometimes it even means putting cameras out front so that I can see if the screens are working or if something is happening that I should capture for the screens or recordings, or even if the slide clicker is on the lectern. That means seeing all of my inputs and outputs.
I like to have a lot of situational awareness when I am backstage at a live event. But if you use multiviewers or are new to AV or television production, this might be of interest or might provide helpful information.Īs a video director in the corporate events industry I have always been a fan of multiviewers, MVs for short. I certainly wouldn’t be offended if you stop reading this right now. They are used in control rooms at television broadcast facilities, operation command centers and in live events. Multiple Control Options - Front panel with menu LCD, on-screen display (OSD), Ethernet and RS-232.Ĥ × RGB/component HD on 20 BNC connectors, 6 Analogue SD on 12 BNC connectors, 5 DVI-D on DVI-I connectors, 4 SDI on BNC connectorsġ × RGB/component HD on 5 BNC connectors, 1 DVI-D on a DVI-I connector, 2 SDI on BNC connectors
Lock Button - To prevent unwanted tampering. Screen Handling Buttons - Freeze, size, position. Image Controls - Brightness, contrast, colour and sharpness. Window and Image Scaling - Zooming (up to 1000%) and aspect ratio control. Input Cable Equalization - Up to 350m (1150ft) for SD signals, 140m (459ft) for 1.5GHz HD signals, and 120m (394ft) for 3GHz HD signals.Ĭhroma-Key Engines - Four independent chroma-key engines for each image layer. Powerful Cross Conversion - Any format to any format, any standard to any standard. Multi-Video Output Formats - SD-SDI (259M), HD-SDI (292M) and 3G HD-SDI (SMPTE 424M), HDMI, HD, SD, Analogue and composite.
Kramer Equalization & re-Klocking™ Technology - Rebuilds the digital signal to travel longer distances. Both preprogrammed and customizable screen division is supported. The device can window up to four sources (plus a background) in any layout and output the image as SDI, DVI, component and composite video signals. The Kramer MV-5 is a versatile, high performance video and graphic multi-window viewer for DVI signals, SD and HD Analogue signals up to and SDI signals up to 3G HD-SDI.