Overview

The Grass Valley™ Professional Line of products is the next generation of solutions for audio/video professionals, helping you create and deliver broadcast-quality presentations while streamlining your investments in personnel and technology. A key component of this line is the Grass Valley Indigo A/V mixer, a new class of high-quality, multi-format audio/video mixer. Combining features normally found in video production switchers, AV presentation mixers, and audio mixers, it is a powerful, cost-effective, and easy-to-operate platform for live-presentation environments.

Indigo SD Rear Connections

All - In - One AV Mixer
The Indigo SD offers a complete feature set for controlling multiple analogue or digital video and audio sources. The Indigo SD also manages the mixing and timing of audio sources, ranging from unbalanced analogue to AES/EBU signals.

Fits Any Skill Level
The Indigo AV mixer is simple enough for anyone to use. While providing full production switcher capabilities, its menu-driven touch screen interface can access powerful presets to get a new operator up and running in minutes. A senior operator can also customize these presets and save them for recall when needed.

Video Processing and Effects
The Indigo platform features numerous 2D and 3D transition effects that you can modify and save, along with all other layout data, into its E-MEM preset storage banks. Indigo keyers include linear, luminance and chroma keys.

Advanced Audio Mixing
Supporting eight stereo audio input channels from a selection of digital and balanced or unbalanced analogue sources, each Indigo audio channel has a four-band parametric equalizer and motor-driven fader. The mixer also provides phantom power for four microphones. And it can operate in audio-follow video mode, automatically fading audio up or down when its associated video source is taken to program. The mixer also features delay tracking, delaying audio automatically to coincide with any delay of video through the switcher, as well as user-defined output delay. These features ensure lip sync in live productions.

High In Value and Very Affordable
The Indigo SD mixer offers a number of economic benefits. Its competitive price, expansive functionality, and feature set ensure that you will no longer need separate—and often more expensive—production switchers and audio-mixing devices to get the job done.

Automated Playback, Device Control
The Indigo platform's integration of machine control automates functions through memory presets that have previously required a dedicated operator. You can control external devices via RS-422 or Ethernet connections using GPI, BVW, or AMP protocols.

Particularly powerful is the Indigo mixer's ability to control Grass Valley Turbo iDDRs. Menus on the mixer's touch screen emulate those featured within the iDDR's control panel to streamline setup, recording, clip management, and playback directly from the iDDR.

Key Features

• Live seamless switching of video, computer, and audio sources
• Optional HR (High Resolution) Card
• Mix digital and analogue sources
• Pre-programmable video layouts with keyers for picture-in-picture and other effects
• Digital effects with 2D and 3D transformations, including page turns, ripples, and swirls
• Linear/luminance and chroma keyers
• Integrated control of the Grass Valley Turbo™ intelligent digital disk recorder (iDDR) and other devices
• Stereo analogue and AES/EBU audio
• SDI and DV audio de-embedding and re-embedding
• Four-band parametric equalizer and motordriven audio faders
• Simple audio-follow-video mode
• Intelligent audio-delay management for live production lip sync

Technical Specs

Package Contents:

• 1 x Indigo AV mixer unit
• Power cord
• User manual

The Indigo HR board is not included with INDIGO-SD, but is available separately.

Technical Specifications

Video Standards:

• NTSC/PAL: 50/59.94Hz
• SD-SDI: SMPTE 272M (525 lines/625 lines) 10-bit
• Composite: (525 lines/625 lines) 10-bit

Video Input Connectors

Processes up to 15 channels selected from the following input connections:

• 6 x SD-SDI (BNC)
• 6 x composite/SD-SDI (shared BNC)
• 4 x S-Video (4-pin miniDIN)
• 2 x DV25 FireWire (6-pin IEEE 1394)

Video Output Connectors

All output connections are simultaneously active

PGM
• 2 x composite (BNC)
• 1 x S-Video (4-pin miniDIN)
• 2 x SD-SDI (BNC)

PVW
• 1 x composite (BNC)
• 1 x S-Video (4-pin mini DIN)
• 1 x SD-SDI (BNC)

AUX
• 3 x composite/SD-SDI (BNC pair)

Audio Input Connectors

A total of eight stereo channels with up to six stereo digital channels may be processed at the same time

• 2 x RCA analog stereo pair (unbalanced)
• 6 x TRS analog stereo (balanced)
• 4 x XLR analog mono (balanced) (microphone option)
• 6 x AES/EBU digital stereo channels
• 2 x embedded audio within SD-SDI

Audio Output Connectors

Main
• 1 x RCA analog stereo pair (unbalanced)
• 1 x XLR analog stereo pair (balanced)
• 1 x AES/EBU digital stereo channel

Submix/Delay
• 1 x RCA analog stereo pair (unbalanced)
• 1 x TRS analog stereo pair (balanced)
• 1 x AES/EBU digital stereo channel

Headphones

• 2 x TRS analog stereo (unbalanced)
• Located on front and rear panels

Control and Interface

• 2 x ref sync out (BNC)
• 1 x analog black burst ref sync loop in/out (BNC)
• 2 x RS-422 (9-pin D-sub)
• 1 x GPI I/O / TALLY (50-pin D-sub)
• 2 x USB (Standard-A) front panel
• 1 x USB (Standard-B)
• 1 x 100Base-T Ethernet

More Information

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