Broadway 2.5

Supreme Video + Electronics

Broadway Pro
$729.00

Broadway Pro specifications:

Full-Motion Video on Your Desktop

Broadway by Data Translation makes adding video to your presentations and web pages a snap! Designed specifically for the business professional, you do not need prior experience with digital video to install or use this all-in-one video capture, editing, and compression package.

Broadway seamlessly supplies MPEG-1 digitized video and audio to any presentation, animation, graphics, or multimedia authoring package. No additional boards, playback cards, monitors, or sound cards are required beyond those standard in your multimedia PC. Multimedia has never been this easy--or affordable.

Video Capture

Broadway captures full-color, full-motion video from an S-Video or composite video source at 30 frames per second (fps), and synchronizes the audio digitized by your computer's sound card with the captured video. Video is digitized in real time and stored on your hard drive in an editable .AVI format. This allows you to digitize full-motion video without dropping frames and without introducing undesirable artifacts.

You can also view your video source in real time on your computer's monitor before you capture to determine exactly which video to digitize.

Video Editing

You can edit (cut, paste, save selection, replace audio, and so on) in near real time with Broadway because the product uses hardware to accelerate the video editing.

Broadway allows you to combine several video clips in one sequence and include simple transitions. And because Broadway is Video for Windows standards-compliant, more complex video editing and sophisticated transitions can be accomplished in your favorite video editing package like MediaStudio Pro or Premiere.

Compression

Broadway fully compresses the edited video clips into MPEG-1 standard format, including I, P, and B frames, at about three times real time (three minutes for a one minute clip). To achieve this type of performance in the past, users have had to go to expensive service bureaus or pay more than $20,000 for high-end packages because MPEG-1 compression is very compute-intensive. Until recently, the only other inexpensive alternative, software compression, performed this task at thirty to sixty times real time (sixty minutes for a one-minute clip)!

Broadway can also compress existing uncompressed .AVI files from any video source. You don't have to capture a video clip with Broadway in order to compress it.

Use with Your Existing Software

You can easily insert Broadway-compressed video into files and presentations created with PowerPoint, Freelance, Persuasion, Harvard Graphics, Compel, Action!, or Director. This lets you take advantage of Broadway's high quality full-motion video capture and MPEG-1 compression capabilities within your favorite multimedia application environment.

Dynamic Web Pages, Presentations, and More

Broadway can improve the quality and effectiveness of all your multimedia projects including your home page on the web, electronic presentations, computer-based training, interactive kiosks, and electronic publications.

When your Broadway-enhanced presentation is complete, you can deliver it using a number of formats: over your network, on CD-ROM, or on your own PC. And you can quickly distribute it to your sales force, for example, over your LAN, WAN, or on CD-ROM.

Easy to Install

Broadway installation couldn't be simpler, and takes only minutes. Just plug the Broadway MPEG board into an available PCI slot, install the Plug-and-Play driver and application software, and you're done! There are no confusing extra steps, like configuring system IRQs or connecting feature cables.

Connecting your VCR or camcorder is easy, too. Audio connections plug into your system's sound card using a standard cable supplied with Broadway. The video source (S-Video or composite) connects directly to the Broadway MPEG board.

Broadway Version Pro Product Specifications:

Video Capture:

Compressed Data Format:
- MPEG-1 I frame stored in .AVI file.
- Full MPEG-1 IBP stored in .MPG file
Resolution:
- .AVI Capture:
  - NTSC: 352 x 240
  - PAL: 352 x 288
- .MPG Capture:
  - NTSC: 352 x 240, 176 x 112
  - PAL: 352 x 288, 176 x 144
Frame Rate:
- NTSC: 29.97 Hz.
- PAL: 25 Hz
Maximum Capture Data Rate: 10 MB/sec. or 75 MB/min. for .AVI

Audio Capture

Compressed Data Format: MPEG-1, Layer 2
Modes: Mono, Stereo, Joint Stereo, Dual
Maximum Sampling Frequency: 44.1 kHz, at 16 bits/sample
Maximum Data Rate: 176.4 KB/sec. (CD-stereo, uncompressed)

Video Input

Composite Video:
- Connector: RCA
- Video Formats: NTSC/PAL
- Signal Impedance: 75 Ohm
S-Video:
- Connector: S-Video
- Video Formats: NTSC/PAL
- Signal Impedance: 75 Ohm

Video Output of AVI

Composite Video:
- Connector: RCA
- Video Formats: NTSC/PAL
- Signal Impedance: 75 Ohm
S-Video:
- Connector: S-Video
- Video Formats: NTSC/PAL
- Signal Impedance: 75 Ohm

PC Bus Interface:

Bus: 32-bit PCI Bus Master

MPEG-1 Encoding:

Formats:
- Yellow Book CD-ROM
- Video CD, stream mixed and unmixed
Resolutions:
- NTSC: 352 x 240, 320 x 240, 176 x 112, 160 x 112
- PAL: 352 x 288, 320 x 240, 176 x 144, 160 x 112

Internet Video Streaming Encoding:

Formats:
- VDOnet VDOlive On-Demand
- Progressive Networks Real Video

Minimum System Requirements:
An IBM-compatible PC with one available PCI slot (for the Broadway MPEG board)
Microsoft� Windows 95� or Windows NT� 4.0 or later
A 90 MHz or faster Pentium� processor (a 133 MHz or faster Pentium is required for real-time capture to MPEG or video output)
16 MB of RAM
A hard disk drive with the following amount of free space:

8 MB for the Broadway application and video streaming software
9 MB for each minute of fully-compressed video (MPEG-1 format)
60 MB for each minute of captured video (if editing)
20 MB for MediaStudio VE 2.5

A SuperVGA graphics card (recommended that it include color space conversion and video scaling)
A Sound Blaster 16-compatible sound card and amplified speakers (Note that Broadway uses the computer's sound card to digitize audio.)
A CD-ROM drive and a 3.5", 1.44 Mbyte diskette drive for software installation.