Re: Looking for a color multiplexer or sequencer with PIP

[Milhouse Van Houten <none@xxxxxxxxx>]

Matt Ion wrote:

>Milhouse Van Houten wrote:
>> Milhouse Van Houten wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Petem wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>I had a strange demand today,and my normal distributor cant help me...
>>>>
>>>>i have a site with 7 video source,6 are cameras in 3 different
>>>>building,one is a kind of community tv channel...
>>>>
>>>>they are all in color
>>>>
>>>>the customer want to take the output of a sequencer,and broadcast it
>>>>over chanel 78 CATV,that side if fine and already done...
>>>>
>>>>but now he want to add the 6 security cam in a PIP over the community
>>>>channel in sequence,so that he can provide to his tennant,the view of
>>>>the cam so they can see who is at the door..
>>>>
>>>>anyone can help?
>>>
>>>
>>>This sucker looks like it would do it- but at $9K it's probably
>>>overkill.
>>
>>
>> oh.. the link:
>> http://www.tvone.com/c2-7200-main.shtml?rid=hdnews
>
>As I said, any basic four-channel MUX will let you do the PIP part... the trick
>is in running the other six cameras in sequence WITHIN the PIP window.  Appears
>that this one MIGHT do that (the "Dual PIP Mode" description is somewhat
>marketing-blather-heavy, technical-info-light), but the rest of the features are
>EXTREME overkill.
>
>Then again, when you can do nice transitions between camera views... ;)


I agree using 2 MUX'es is a simpler soulution, the first MUX will be
set on single picture output rotating the images (6 cam input) - that
output fed into an input on the second MUX.

The second MUX will have the "community channel" as one input, and the
rotating 6 pictures from the first MUX as the second input.  Then the
primary output of the second MUX (setup for PIP), goes to the Channel
Vision modulator.  Seems kinda hokey, but it might just work.