Aveco's Redwood BLUE is a professional multipurpose video engine powered by Harmonic Spectrum technology. It is designed for ingest, playout and integrated channel origination applications where quality, reliability and redundancy are paramount.
Complete Channel Workflow
Providing a platform for live-to-disk recording, clip playout, graphics insertion, master control switching with DVEs, subtitling, independent branding of simultaneous channels and many other broadcast features, Redwood BLUE's hardware and software is both modular and scalable to provide the right feature set required by today's premium broadcasters as well as budget-constrained stations.
Redwood BLUE is fully integrated with Aveco's ASTRA automation products including ASTRA Studio, ASTRA Take 2, ASTRA MCR, ASTRA MAM and ASTRA Ingest, providing a powerful, fully expandable and adaptable system.
Best of Both Worlds
As a result of the combined technologies of Harmonic - the worldwide leader in video delivery infrastructure solutions, and Aveco's robust, industry-standard automation system, Redwood BLUE meets the needs of the most demanding customers.
Video Engine
The Redwood BLUE video engine is a highly scalable solution suitable for traditional broadcast chains as well as for integrated channel playout. Built-in multilayer graphics and dynamic text over playback or live video, DVE, master control switching with clip playback and ingest capabilities makes Redwood BLUE perfect for a wide range of applications. Providing two SD/HD channels per module, with up to four channels per unit, Redwood BLUE gives you the ability to add channels as your business needs change. For reliability and fault tolerance, the video engine components operate independently so that any failure is self-contained and has no impact on any other operation. Moreover, should a failure occur, components are hot swappable so that the system remains operational.
Automation Platform
The ASTRA Suite of Tools can automate your facility’s workflows. By automating ingest, media asset management, master control playout and studio operation, your costs are lower and your workflows are simpler. Built around powerful media asset management, ASTRA provides tools to manage all of your content locally from your desktop or from remote locations.
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| CONNECTIVITY |
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| SDI Inputs/Outputs | SD-SDI (SMPTE-259M)/HD-SDI (SMPTE-292M)
BNC or Mini-DIN female, 75 Ω
Up to 2x 8 bidirectional
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| Others | LTC I/O, Ref In, Ref Loop, AES |
| Network | Two 1GbE ports Access: FTP, CIFS, AFP |
| VIDEO |
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| SD Output Video Definitions |
720 x 486i @ 29.97 fps
720 x 576i @ 25 fps
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| HD Output Video Definitions | 1280 x 720p @ 50 & 59.94 fps 1920 x1080i @ 25 & 29.97 fps |
| Media File Wrappers | QT MOV (self-contained and referenced), MXF OP1a (also low latency), GXF |
| Codecs | SD MPEG-2: 3-24.9 Mbps long GOP; 25-50 Mbps I-frame HD MPEG-2: 18-85 Mbps long GOP; 50-100 Mbps I-frame DV 25, DVCPRO 25, DVCPRO 50, DVCPRO HD XDCAM HD: 18, 25, 35, 50 Mbps AVC-Intra Class 50 and Class 100 VC-3 (SMPTE 2019-1) 120, 145 Mbps ProRes 422: 122, 147 Mbps; Standard Quality mode |
| Aspect Ratio Conversion |
Up - configurable pillarbox, crop, anamorphic
Down - Configurable letterbox, crop, anamorphic Cross - 720p to 1080i, 1080i to 720p |
| AUDIO |
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| Channels | SMPTE 299M/272M Up to 16 embedded per video channel |
| Formats |
Uncompressed: 16, 24, 32-bit PCM @ 48 kHz
Compressed: passthrough, Dolby® decode |
| Features | Audio track swapping, track tagging, language rules Audio mix effects, VO insertion |
| AUXILIARY DATA |
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Closed Captions
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EIA-608, EIA-708
Up convert: EIA-608 captions translated to EIA-708
Down convert: EIA-608 compatibility bytes extracted from EIA-708 data to create EIA-608 captions |
| Subtitles | Line21, OP47 Up convert: Line 21 OP-42 subtitles translated to OP-47 Down convert: OP-47 subtitles translated to line 21 OP-42 |
| Digital Cuetone | SCTE 104 |
| VBI,VANC | Passthrough |
| CHANNEL ORIGINATION |
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| Integrated Channel Playout | Up to 6 live inputs, 4 independent program outputs |
| Master Control Switching | Frame-accurate transitions between live and recorded clips |
| Clip Playout | Up to 4 bidirectional HD channels |
| Branding & Graphics | Adobe Creative Suite authoring 8 keyers (graphics layers) Single layers from clip or live inputs
Dual DVE for playout of two clips or live inputs
Independent branding for simulcast channels Up to 2 external key, fill inputs 3-point animations Dynamic text substitution from Astra or external source
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| Typefaces | All standard font formats are supported |
| Captions & Subtitles |
Localized and customized open captions
File-based closed-caption insertion
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| Audio |
Integrated voice-over
Independent duck-mix-shuffle of live, clip and graphics audio sources
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| PLAYOUT & INGEST |
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Media Ports
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Up to 4 bidirectional ports (decoder/encoder)
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| INTEGRATION |
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Dedication
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Videoserver for playout and ingest, Integrated Channel Playout
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Automation
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ASTRA Studio, ASTRA Take 2, ASTRA MCR, ASTRA MAM and ASTRA Ingest
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| MAM |
Proxy encoding (MPEG4)
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| STORAGE |
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| Capacity | Up to four 4 TB hot-swappable SATA drives, 12 TB usable (450 hours at 50 Mbps) |
| Redundacy | 3+1 modified RAID 4 (single parity) |
| POWER |
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| Power Supply | Dual redundant, hot-swappable |
| Input Voltage Range | 90-260 V, 45-63 Hz |
| Power Consumption | max 175 W |
| PHYSICAL |
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| Dimensions | 1U, depth 67.3 cm / 26.5 in |
| Weight |
12.2 kg / 26.9 lbs
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| ENVIRONMENTAL |
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| Operating Temperature |
+5º to +40º C
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| Operating Humidity | 10% to 85% non-condensing |