Broadcast Pix Slate 3000 Installation Planning Guide - October 2008
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Whether you are creating a widescreen 16:9 show, or a traditional 4:3 show, AutoAspect solves the many
challenges of mixing 4:3 and 16:9 content in the same production. Now 16:9 and 4:3 inputs, clips and
graphics can be used interchangeably and mixed together in the same live production, while maintaining
the native aspect ratio of each element. Conventional switchers can only stretch video when crossing
aspect ratios, causing people to look too wide or too thin. Slate enables each input to be set to one of 4
aspect treatments: Box, Crop, 14:9 or None (anamorphic). And each clip and graphic in the libraries can
be separately treated in same four ways.
DualAspect Outputs
While aspect treatment of inputs is standard on all Slate systems, you can also simultaneously output
16:9 and 4:3 versions of the same 16:9 show with a Slate 3016hh or 3032hh system.
AutoAspect™
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AutoAspect Input Treatment
AutoAspect Controls
Slate 3000hh
16:9 output
4:3 output
