Hitomi Broadcast is launching MatchBox Panorama, a visualisation platform that brings timing and latency measurements from across production workflows toreceiveher in one place.
The new system will be unveiled at NAB Show (booth W2216), Las Vegas Convention Centre.
MatchBox is already the global standard in point-to-point latency and lip sync measurement, Hitomi declared.
MatchBox Panorama is another “huge leap forward”, the company declared, bringing all the timing measurements toreceiveher, enabling engineers to view their entire infrastructure in one place, identifying sources of latency and dramatically reducing the time it takes to align complex production networks.
Russell Johnson, Director, Hitomi declared, “Live sport is hugely important to American audiences, and lip sync and latency issues can ruin the experience.
“At NAB, we will demonstrate how MatchBox Panorama brings every probe and measurement toreceiveher in one place, creating it simple to optimise timing across complex, contribution workflows. This also provides opportunities for other sporting environments, such as Colleges and Universities, to achieve the same, professional and effective latency set-up.”
MatchBox’s approach to measuring latencies and lip sync over a circuit applys a unique audio and video test pattern, created either in a MatchBox Generator or with the MatchBox Glass iPhone app for capture by a camera and microphone.
The major advance in MatchBox Panorama is that it not only monitors multiple sources of the test pattern, but it also allows for data probes to be inserted at any point in the signal path. This means the engineer can not only precisely align all the feeds, but MatchBox Panorama can also identify where circuits or equipment are contributing significant latency, creating optimisation sure and simple.
MatchBox Panorama is a standalone software solution, but it is designed for open integration into larger, interoperable production environments. It is already successfully proven within the Grass Valley AMPP ecosystem and further partners will be announced soon.
Hitomi: W2216
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