Vista Spyder - The ultimate ultra widescreen processing system

What kind of input have you got? HD, DVI, Analog RGB, SDI, HD-SDI, composite, or s-video. Name it and you're mixing, animating, manipulating and projecting it. Manipulate a virtually limitless variety of inputs through a single output. Stretch a single 1080i input across three or more projectors for a seamless ultrawidescreen display. Or do almost anything in-between. And that's just for starters.  Spyder gives you total control and flexibility, so you can mix an incredible number of sources in multiple windows, create all kinds of picture-in-pictures, define, shape and blend borders with remarkable ease, and do it all without a hitch, every single time.

Spyder's unique architecture allows for a resolution independent environment. You are no longer restricted to the resolution of a single source, or a single display. Multiple displays can be used to increase the resolution of what the audience sees to exceed what any single display can handle by using Spyder to drive multiple displays to acheive greater brightness, image quality and resolution than previously possible.

Spyder is powerful, flexible, and easy to use. The expansion capabilities in Spyder ensure that you'll never come up short; up to 32 inputs can added to a Spyder system, but what you can do with those inputs is where the real power is unveiled. All Spyder inputs are universal and can be assigned as native backgrounds, scaled backgrounds or PIP windows, or mixers. These assignments are completely dynamic and can change from cue to cue, or preset to preset. For instance, a Spyder unit configured with 12 inputs might use 2 of those primarily used for dual head high resolution graphics for a background, another input might be primarily used as an HD-SDI background. 6 more might be assigned as generic mixers to cover cameras, graphics and tape rolls. The system would still have 3 layers to spare that can be used as needed for PIPs, overlays, keys, titles, bugs, etc.. The very next preset could use all 12 on screen at once to create a mosaic.

Mixers can be assigned numerous transition types

• Morph: smoothly transitions size, pos, aspect ratio, border, crop and clone settings from preview to program, flip-flopping after the transition is complete.
• MixOn MixOff: mixes program off, and preview on simultaneously, flip-flopping after the transition is complete.
• Mix Through Black: which allows a two stage transition, taking the program window completely to black (or background) before bringing on the new window, flip-flopping after the transition is complete.

The keying capability of Spyder, and the flexibility of Spyder's design, allow practical use of the system that is simply not available in any other product. For instance you may want a triple head graphics computer, or an HD-SDI animation to provide a background, while a single head high resolution graphics machine provides a text overlay using the chroma key feature. This allows for great performance in the text animations without having to sacrifice the resolution or motion on the backgrounds.

Using the Background image mixer, two Background images can be loaded at the full resolution of your display, these can mix just like any other mixer, but they don't use any input resources, which allows you to place logo or theme graphics at native resolution on the display without having to burn precious resources just to keep the screen from going to black.

• Supports up to 32 independent windows, or up to 16 mixers, or any combination in between
• Perfect for widescreen (edge blended) multi-screen discreet, or single screen applications
• Permits unrestricted window and PIP placement
• All Spyder Inputs are fully capable (not dedicated purpose), allowing any input to operate as Native High Resolution Channels Scaled PIP, Scaled Background, or Key Channels.
• Spyder Inputs can also be switched easily from any of the modes during normal operation
• Powerful Expansion capabilities, allows adding inputs or outputs through the Spyder expansion connection, or add pixel real estate by adding more Spyder units in parallel, or do both.
• Spyder has 3 times more pixels than any other presentation system. The same input channels can be utilized across more pixels, and these pixels can be viewed by multiple outputs
• Integrated Operators Monitor allows you to see what the audience sees, plus what the audience will see next (preview) on a single monitor.
• Resolution independence allows multiple projectors to be used to increase pixel space and increase resolution beyond what any single display device can handle.

Special Effects

• Mixing and Multiple Key Frame Effects
• Full Path Editing including Tension, Continuity and Bias control at each Key Frame
• Full Speed Editing including Ease In, Ease Out, and Velocity control at each Key Frame
• Adjustable PIP aspect ratio and smooth transitions between aspect ratios
• PIP borders, including drop shadows and soft inside edge with smooth transitions
• PIP Clone (mirror and offset)with smooth transitions
• Image cropping with smooth transitions

Keying

• Luminance keyer on every input
• Color keyer on every input
• Alpha Channel Bitmaps on any input, for alpha channel titling or bugs from your favorite graphics application

Video Processing

• Up to 6.5 million pixel display capacity from a single frame.
• Multiple Outputs from the same box, up to 2048x1200 resolution on each output
• Inputs accept virtually any input up to 2048x1200 resolution
• 10-bit Analog Inputs and Outputs
• 12-bit scaling for the highest quality images
• Low delay (< 1.5 interlaced frames)
• Motion adaptive de-interlacing (SD & HD)
• 3:2 and 2:2 pull down detection
• Aspect ratio correction
• Same proprietary high-performance scaling as Vista's Montage
• Still Frame (Freeze) capability on every input
• Output synchronization: free-run or vertically referenced to NTSC/PAL black burst via framelock input
• Read/Write Still Store. Load bmp, png, tiff, or jpg images to or capture images from any Spyder Input
• Any output can be a Scaled Output for Recording Widescreens
• Any output can be an Operators Monitor, displaying preview and program for a given pixel space simultaneously on a single output
• Powerful Frame stacking capability, with the expansion (X) option, allows inputs/outputs from other Spyder systems to contribute/view a single pixel space
• S-Video and composite, with composite/S-Video (C) option, for inputs and outputs
• Fully integrated Test Pattern Generator on each input, output and pixel space

QED combines the latest in high performance computing, system processing and soft edge-blending technology  from leading manufacturers such as Vista Systems, Analog Way, Cyviz and Silicon Optix to produce the very best ultra widescreen solutions for all applications.

Individual production units combine all the source hardware and software, data and video switching, PiP insertion, effects, edge-blending, projector control, monitoring and signal distribution to ensure seamless integration into all environments.  QED offers by far the most comprehensive range of ultra widescreen soft edge projection facilities in the av industry.

Real-time processing and operation makes ultra widescreen ideal for live events.  Programming is quick and simple, and show operation extremely straightforward.  50Hz operation always ensures that live camera images are of the very highest quality with no apparent delay.