Applications

A Few Vision Applications...

Broadcast News

Ross Production Switchers are widely deployed in broadcast news environments. Covering the range from Small, to Mid and Top Market news casts and 24 hour news channels, the Vision Series is designed to have the scalability, flexibility and production power to meet the needs of getting a clean, great looking, news cast on the air.

 

Broadcast Sports

Vision offers the advanced feature set required to produce High Definition sports-casts with fast paced highlight packages, an intensive graphics look and great looking HD transition effects that will make your sports programming come alive and rivet your viewers to their seats.

 

Broadcast Production

Vision has a great feature set to support a wide range of general broadcast variety show style productions. A choice of tools like RGB color correctors, built in media stores and high quality HD DVE effects offer creative possibilities that will give your production that extra edge. Vision’s AuxKey™ “Mini-MLEs” makes it easy to put content into on-screen monitors while keeping your MLEs free for production use.

 

Broadcast Mobile

Vision makes a great mobile truck / OB van production switcher. The combination of production power and compact rack frame are ideal for mobile applications.

 

Sports Stadiums

Ross is the top supplier of production switchers to sports stadiums. Hey, our CEO has been known to switch the odd Buffalo Bills game. We know this application well and have a number of exclusive options in Vision such as AuxKeys™ and Daktronics interfacing. Our MLE centric effects architecture lends itself well to managing a multi-screen production and on the fly changing your board from single to dual to triple screen visuals.

 

Houses of Worship

Houses of Worship have special requirements for their video production equipment. It must be powerful, easy to use and handle multi-screen and multi-feed production.

 

Education

Ross Production switchers have always been popular with educators. The ease of use allows students to quickly grasp basic switcher concepts while the industry standard next transition style control means that training on a Ross switcher makes an easy transition to competitive industry models. Ross offers a unique program “Ross University” that allows educators to provide training and certification to their students on Ross production equipment. This certification is a great bonus on a student’s resume and helps to secure that important first industry job out of school.

 

Webcasting / Podcasting / Netcasting

Serious webcasters need serious tools to pull their productions together quickly and with a high quality broadcast look and feel. Being able to produce live hits from a studio complete with graphics, and effects can save hours of your precious time in editing. When working at web speed you will appreciate the ROI (return on investment) on your time that Vision can provide.

 

Live Events

Top name bands take Ross production switchers on the road with them. Vision gives their shows extra punch and has the unique ability to drive effects to multiple screens and fly images across multiple screens. Vision’s powerful device control capability allows you to run a wide range of gear, like servers and graphics boxes, creating a compelling show in which you never miss a beat. The Vision QMD chassis with 48 inputs and 4 MLEs in 3 RU offers extreme HD production power, while taking up less space on the bus.

 

Digital Cinemacasting

An emerging area, Digital Cinema brings live production to the big screen experience. Vision, offering 24 frame support makes a great solution for this type of production.

 

Multi-Screen Production

For Multi-Screen production, Vision is a breath of fresh air. Give everyone superb production values combined with minimal video delay for a tight match to the live performance. With the adoption of AuxKeys™, you can produce to as many as 12 screens without tying up any of Vision's floating MLE resources. All of this is controlled from Vision’s industry-standard production switcher control panel.

 

Automated Production

Vision offers a complete range of device interfaces to put more control in the hands of the technical director. Our ground breaking OverDrive Automated Production Control System puts all of your production devices into a simple and intuitive touch-screen interface. Running the production is as simple as stepping through a series of predefined looks that include camera shots, graphics, video clips, video effects and audio.