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just:live is part of the ToolsOnAir Broadcast Suite, a complete set of powerful video production tools designed to create a professional TV broadcast facility on the proven Apple Macintosh platform.
concept
With its intuitive, timeline-based, single screen interface, just:live enables TV broadcasters to manage news and other live content, seamlessly integrating the playout of video files with still and real- time dynamic graphics.
quality
just:live is designed to deliver the high-quality video and audio playout you expect from a professional broadcast environment. Brilliant video can be achieved by using Apple’s advanced high-quality ProRes codec, or even uncompressed video and real-time graphics based on Apple‘s extensible Quartz technology.
flexibility
just:live is more than just a playout solution. With its innovative, customizable timeline-based user interface, just:live enables you to playout video and real-time graphics, including inserts, tickers and RSS feeds – all from a single workstation.
Using just:live’s integrated timeline, operators can easily monitor the progress of currently playing clips, while simultaneously building a rundown sequence which can be operated by a single mouse-click. Each clip can be assigned its own unique playout attributes, such as play next, cue, reload and loop.
Using the real-time input from standard off-the-shelf AJA video devices, just:live enables the overlay of real-time graphics or video (with alpha channel), without the need for an external video switcher. Up to four streams of uncompressed real-time graphics can be added independently to your live feed or QuickTime movie. For a traditional broadcast workflow, just:live delivers Key and Fill (depending on the hardware used) functionality to overlay from an external switcher.
reliability
Based on Apple’s proven, robust Mac OS X, just:live is a fully native Apple Xcode development, compatible with any current Apple Mac Pro and Mac mini model (please consult the System requirements).
Designed for tapeless workflows, just:live fully integrates into Apple’s Xsan, Tiger Technology’s MetaSAN and Apple’s Final Cut Server technology.
Key features
- Manually controlled video and graphics playout as well as router control
- Pre-built playlist rundown
- Finished action modes to play, cue first frame, hold last frame, reload, recue and loop
- Built-in audio mixing capabilities
- List view and thumbnail view
- Touch screen option
- Content trimming functionality
- N+1 and 2N redundancy available
- QuickTime movie and still image with alpha-channel playout
- Live feed insertion
- Full featured SD and HD playout
- Mixed resolution playout back to back
- Slow motion movie playout
- Up to four layers of realtime graphics
- Real-time data insertion: XML, RSS, ODBC
- Third-party hardware control integration
- Adjustable graphical user interface
- Custom graphics interface based on Apple’s Dashcode
- External time code display (optional)
- Local or networked control
System requirements
- Apple Mac Pro 3,1 - 5,1 (ATI or NVIDIA GPU) (please consult the manual)
- Mac mini 5,2 (AMD Radeon GPU only)
- Minimum of 4 GB RAM
- Mac OS X 10.6.8 and 10.7.3 or later (Administrator account required)
- AJA or Blackmagic Design video interface cards (please consult the manual for updates)
Supported Codecs SD:
- DV, DV Stream, DVCam, DVCPRO25/50
- IMX 30/40/50
- All ProRes codecs
- H.264
- MPEG-4
- Apple Animation
- Motion JPEG
- MXF (see Just In specs)
- Uncompressed in either 8- or 10-bit
Supported Codecs HD:
- HDV
- DVCPRO HD
- All ProRes codecs
- H.264
- XDCam (1080i/720p)
- MXF (see Just In specs)
- Uncompressed in either 8- or 10-bit
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