Grass Valley Maestro Master Control v.2.4.0 - Manual (Page 267)

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Section 3 — Channel Branding Overview
Channel Branding Features
The key features of the Channel Branding options are as follows:
• Play four (4), 30-second, simultaneous Audio clips.
• Play four (4) simultaneous still images or CG text sources. These items
may have associated audio that will also playback through the com-
bined assignment and use of an Audio Mixer.
• Play two (2) simultaneous animation sequences or text crawls sources.
These items may have associated audio which will also playback
through the combined assignment and use of an Audio Mixer.
• Uses Windows-based Visualization Tool to:
• Process still images that may or may not include an alpha or key
channel.
• Edit or create a still image alpha or key channel.
• Create and format text crawl templates.
• Create CG text templates.
• Build character generator fonts.
• Review animation sequences.
• Review audio voice over clips.
Hardware Implementation
The Channel Branding hardware is implemented on the Maestro frame
processor board. Channel Branding hardware consists of three mezzanine
or “daughter” boards, an audio clip cache, and space for up to four (4) hard
disk drives. All of which is attached to the Maestro frame processor board.
Audio Clip Cache
The Audio Clip cache is 256-Mbytes of RAM that is located on the Maestro
frame processor board. This RAM is used for audio voice-over playback
buffering and other audio processing activities such as delay. The RAM is
allocated to support four (4) audio sources using 48-KHz sampling with 16-
bits per sample (CD quality) supporting up to 16-channels and a maximum
length of 30-seconds per source.