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CHYRON DUET

EMP has added the Chyron Duet & Lyric Software to our Rentals, Post-Production and Mobile Services. These additions will provide the latest in graphics production for both edited and live broadcasts and events including C-Mix and the Clip Player. Some features of this system include:
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Duet LEX brings outstanding graphics with real-time animation to applications that require
the highest quality. It’s feature set includes real-time animations and Chyron’s CAL application.
Each Dual Channel system includes a Duet Keyboard, C-Mix, digital downstream keyer with
bypass, analog output monitoring, video capture, GPI/O triggers, 422 Expanision, internal
clip player, dual 72 GB hard drives and the latest version of Lyric software. Duet LEX excels
in 3D-hungry animation applications like live sports and entertainment. With its superior blend
of features & performance, you’ll find it excellent for your demanding application.

Some of the features and benefits include:

  • 2 channels, each with video/key
  • Lyric 2D/3D CG/animation with 500 TrueType fonts
  • Import/export 25+ file types, including iNFiNiT! family, for fast re-purposing of existing text/graphics
  • Real-time & flipbook animations
  • Use standard animations or quickly & easily build your own
  • CAL API is standard for automated data-driven applications such as Chyron’s NewsCrawl option
  • Timeline is standard & precisely times all text, graphics, clips & animations for a sharp look
  • Unique dual Operating System:
    o Windows NT/2000 for familiar, friendly user I/F
    o VX Works for real-time performance & reliability of the video hardware
  • SVGA preview outputs provided standard for each output channel
  • Realtime on-board Video Clip Player






Included in our Duet systems, C-MIX allows multi-channel mixing and layering capability and lets you effortlessly display two video squeezeback sources, text, object-based animations and multiple rolls and crawls over an internal video clip background. Playback animations simultaneously on both output channels. Designed for use in graphics production and master control operations, C-MIX allows up to four video and key input pairs be combined in any order on the two independent mixers, and keyed over program video. All mixer settings are controlled by the Lyric Timeline, and can be varied as part of the animation. Typical inputs to the Mixer are Clip Player Video and Character Generator Video. Multiple graphics planes can be combined; for instance, combining CAL and Lyric applications, bug inserters, and animated
Some of the features and benefits include:

  • Two independent, 4-layer mixers with program keyers
  • Relay bypass for the main video channel
  • Analog or digital genlock
  • USB control interface for operation under Lyric or software remote control panel
  • Video bypass relay
  • Video Effects include cut, dissolve, fade, wipe, roll, crawl, push cover, hide, reveal, split & weave
  • Preview/Air effects include Cut &Swap, Fade & Swap, Dissolve & Swap




Lyric is our highly advanced graphics creation and playback application that is standard with
every Duet system. In addition to Lyric’s powerful graphics capabilities described with the Duet
products, the true beauty of Lyric is that it functions apart from Duet hardware, on any
Windows NT/2000 computer, letting you create graphics anytime, anywhere. For the small
price of a software license, graphic artists can create dazzling 2D/3D graphics off-line for
later transfer to Duet for broadcast-quality playback. Based on Chyron's legendary experience
in broadcast graphics, Lyric is without equal as a foundation for media content creators: intuitive
and agile operation, powerful flexibility, hardware transparent, interoperable with many third-party
graphics applications and technologies such as iTV, and designed from inception to accommodate
future enhancements. Lyric removes traditional equipment/operational boundaries and gives you
ultimate creative freedom.

Features include:

  • Windows NT/2000 OS for familiar user conventions
  • Create unique effects: multiple, simultaneous rolls & crawls at different speeds, slow reveals, clocks, timers, etc.
  • ‘Canvas’ 3-D composition & animation space provides infinite manipulation of 2D objects, even those larger than the display area
  • True WYSIWYG editor displays compositions exactly as they’ll appear from Duet’s broadcast-quality output
  • Use standard animations, or for a unique look, easily build your own using a
    keyframe method with a variety of interpolation modes
  • Resolution-independent for output to any digital TV format or multi-media
    composition environment
  • Import/export 25+ file formats, including iNFiNiT! family, to quickly re-purpose graphics
  • Timeline is standard & precisely times all text, graphics, clips & animations
  • Industry’s most advanced clip player gives total control over clip layering & timing


Be sure to include these latest tools in your next Equipment Rental,
Post-Production project or Mobile Broadcast.
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