Grass Valley adds new features to its Kayenne and Kayak mixers

Coinciding with NAB 2011, Grass Valley will introduce new enhancements to the software versions of its line of Kayenne and Kayak HD production mixers. Both software updates aim to streamline production workflows, giving technical staff greater control over camera setup, macro editing, and signal routing.

Coinciding with NAB 2011, Grass Valley will introduce new enhancements to the software versions of its line of Kayenne and Kayak HD production mixers.

Both software updates aim to streamline production workflows, giving technical staff greater control over camera setup, macro editing, and signal routing.

Multi-camera control

New functionality in Kayenne v3.0 and Kayak v7.0.4 offers control of multi-camera TDs directly from the mixer control panel via an Ethernet interface. This includes each camera's tally, with controls including auto iris, auto-black level, filter wheel and color bars.

Scene files from each camera can also now be retrieved from the mixer itself quickly and simultaneously. This includes complex settings, such as camera shading that is created and stored by operators on location or studio recordings. Additionally, the new software provides easy and reliable three-color tally installation over Ethernet.

Built-in macro editor

The new Kayenne software also offers a new macro editor that eliminates the need to rebuild a macro from scratch just to modify some of its functions.
In this way, version 3.0 of the Kayenne software allows the editor to be embedded in the mixer menu, thus giving direct access to the TDs from the interface itself or from an auxiliary PC. The macro editor provides a text description of macro functions that allows you to modify lines before loading or their respective functions. From the macro editor integrated in the menu itself, all the file management functions of the mixer are easily accessible

Auxiliary bus routing

Grass Valley has introduced in its mixers the possibility of controlling the source selected in the router, used mainly for pre-selection of the destination of the sources through the mixer itself. With Kayenne v3.0, GVG has advanced mixing and routing to a new level of performance with the ability to control the Kayenne's auxiliary buses from the Encore or Prelude control systems. Independent router control panels with Preludio software can also be configured remotely from auxiliary panels. Including Joystick Override mode for temporary cutting of a specific source or backup.