Digital Keyers in Video Switchers and Effects Systems
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- Publisher
- SMPTE — White Plains, NY, USA
- Doc Type
- Journal Article
- Content Type
- Original Research
- Abbreviated Title
- SMPTE J
- Volume
- 100, No. 3, pp. 178–180
- Abstract
- Designing a digital video production switcher by simply copying the analog building blocks, adder for adder, multiplier for multiplier, can have inferior results. Digital technology offers opportunities for improvements that were not possible with analog circuitry. This article focuses on keyers and first explains how a keyer works in an analog switcher. It then shows how this implementation can result in jagged key edges in a digital keyer and presents a solution that can eliminate this problem. Self-keyers are discussed and a digital keyer that eliminates key fringing is presented.
- Publication Date
- 1991-03-01
- DOI
10.5594/J02500- ISSN
- Print:
0036-1682 - Link
- https://doi.org/10.5594/J02500
- Author(s)
- Richard S. BannisterProduction Systems Division of The Grass Valley Group, Inc., Grass Valley. CA 95945.
- Copyright
- © 1991 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.
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<li> Richard S. Bannister; <cite id="bib-10-5594-j02500">Digital Keyers in Video Switchers and Effects Systems</cite>, SMPTE Journal ( Volume: 100, Issue: 3, March 1991); SMPTE, 1991 <span class="doi">10.5594/J02500</span> </li>