Control every call with complete confidence.
The live interview. It's the most compelling aspect of a newscast, entertainment show, sporting event or webcast. Great remote guests will make your shows more engaging, but only when they look and sound as good as their perspective.
TalkShow VS-100 is a video calling production system designed for television studios and live event producers. Transform every Skype video call with higher video and audio quality to deliver a great production to your audience.
Key Features:
Access to anyone with a Skype Account
Add to anyone else who downloads and signs up for the standard desktop client.
Single, 1RU rackmount device
Studio-grade production source plugs into standard Ethernet network and HD-SDI video infrastructure.
Audio quality enhancement
With SDI-embedded audio, built-in compressor/limiter tools, and onboard graphic equalizer that keep call volumes at consistent levels and prevent audio clipping.
Tally notification of video calls
Allows operators to see when TalkShow Skype feeds are currently live in a program.
Multiple Skype calls
Add TalkShow units and manage all within a single, user-friendly interface that offers previews, continuous call quality monitoring, and contact management.
SDI I/O
Output a live video call to any production switcher and input from router or any production source to send a return image back to remote caller over IP.
Record to local storage
Capture video call for later review and/or postproduction, or optional addition to media players playlists on connected NewTek products, whether for time-shifting, review and trimming, or queuing for subsequent insertion in a show.
Broadcast-style video from regular Skype calls
With automatic aspect ratio conversions and balanced audio, and without requiring a scan converter.
Built-in video quality checks
Failover to custom, still image when unforeseen bandwidth constraints occur below operator-defined preset value.
Front Panel Display
Rack-viewable RGB preview of Skype video calls, VU metering, caller, time, status, tally (on air) notification and more.
Video tools
With full proc-amp controls and automatic color correction to adjust image attributes for any lighting environment, enabling in-studio enhancement of video calls with poor lighting and contrast to appear with far higher quality.
Optimized on-air video
NewTek's proprietary, real-time video processing engine incorporates superb scaling, format conversion, aspect, and color correction routines; limit return video resolution in order to prioritize quality of incoming call video.
Network I/O
Network I/O in NewTek live production environment - output over Ethernet to 3Play integrated sports production system or TriCaster multi-camera production system, while reserving SDI hardware connection for other feeds.