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.
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All - In - One AV Mixer
The Indigo SD/HD mixer offers a complete feature set for controlling multiple analogue or digital video and audio sources. The installed HR card allows the Indigo to simultaneously process 15 sources: 12 SD, one scaled up from SD to HD, and two selected from HD video or computer inputs. It also upconverts to HD and downconverts to SD—even simulcasts live SD and HD output. The Indigo SD/HD also manages the mixing and timing of audio sources, ranging from unbalanced analogue to AES/EBU signals. And it seamlessly combines live, high-resolution computer-based media and presentation content with real-time video and audio materials.
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 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.
Expandable
With Indigo's powerful external device controls and an optional customized version of the Acappella router the Indigo HR AV mixer can connect up to 8 HD-SDI inputs. With this expansion you can cut and mix between all 8 sources - right from the buttons on the Indigo control panel.
