Indigo AV Mixer
Indigo is a new addition to the Grass Valley professional A/V product portfolio. It is an A/V mixer—a new product category that uniquely combines the essential components needed for mixing a live presentation into a self-contained, easily affordable unit. The Indigo mixer combines features normally found in separate devices such as event controllers, production switchers, seamless switchers, and audio mixers in a single powerful control interface that is simple enough for a single operator, while still providing the features and flexibility a seasoned switcher operator expects.

• Computer and video
• HD and SD
• Analog and digital
• Audio integration provides audio-follow-video and automatic delay timing

The Indigo platform offers a complete feature set for synchronizing and controlling multiple analog or digital video and audio sources. When the High Resolution (HR) board is installed, it is designed to simultaneously process 15 video sources: 12 SD sources, one source scaled up from SD to HD, and two sources selected from HD video or computer inputs. It is also designed to up-convert to HD and down-convert to SD—even simulcast live SD and HD output.

The Indigo mixer also manages the mixing and timing of audio sources, ranging from unbalanced analog to AES/EBU signals. Supporting eight stereo audio input channels from a selection of digital and balanced or unbalanced analog sources, each Indigo audio channel has a four-band parametric equalizer and may be controlled by a motor-driven fader. The mixer also provides phantom power for four microphones.

There are two standard Indigo models: INDGO1-SD includes all SD channels with associated still stores, keyers, and DVE along with all audio functionality; INDGO1-HD adds the Indigo High-Resolution (HR) board with HD-SDI and DVI-I inputs, additional still stores, and all of the scaling capability. The HR Board can be purchased separately for later installation if desired.

View some examples of how Indigo fits into your production workflow.

Indigo: Key Features

• Live seamless switching of video, computer, and audio sources
• Mix digital and analog sources
• Upconvert/downconvert multiple video channels between HD and SD
• SD/HD simulcast output
• Pre-programmable video layouts with four keyers for picture-in-picture and other effects
• Digital effects with 2D and 3D transformations, including page turns, ripples, and swirls
• Luminance and chroma keyers
• Integrated control of the Grass Valley Turbo intelligent digital disk recorder (iDDR) and other devices
• Stereo analog and digital audio
• SDI audio de-embedding and re-embedding
• Four-band parametric equalizer and motor driven audio faders
• Simple audio-follow-video mode
• Intelligent audio-delay management for live production lip sync

Indigo: Specifications

• 1 x Indigo AV mixer unit
• 1 x Indigo High-Resolution board†
• Power cord
• User manual

• NTSC/PAL: 50/59.94Hz
• HD-SDI: SMPTE 292M (720p or 1080i)
• SD-SDI: SMPTE 272M (525 lines/625 lines) 10-bit
• Composite: (525 lines/625 lines) 10-bit
• DVI-I: 640x480 up to 1280x1024 @ 60Hz/75Hz,
  1600x1200 up to 1920x1080p @ 60 Hz

• 6 x SD-SDI (BNC)
• 6 x composite/SD-SDI (shared BNC)
• 4 x S-Video (4-pin miniDIN)
• 2 x DV25 FireWire (6-pin IEEE 1394)
• 2 x HD-SDI (BNC)*
• 2 x DVI-I*

• 2 x composite (BNC)
• 1 x S-Video (4-pin miniDIN)
• 2 x SD-SDI (BNC)
• 1 x DVI-I*

• 1 x composite (BNC)
• 1 x S-Video (4-pin mini DIN)
• 1 x SD-SDI (BNC)
• 1 x DVI-I*

• 3 x composite/SD-SDI (BNC pair)

• 2 x RCA analog stereo pair (unbalanced)
• 6 x TRS analog stereo (balanced)
• 4 x XLR analog mono (balanced) (microphone option)
• 6 x AES/EBU digital stereo channels
• 2 x embedded audio within SD-SDI

• 1 x RCA analog stereo pair (unbalanced)
• 1 x XLR analog stereo pair (balanced)
• 1 x AES/EBU digital stereo channel

• 1 x RCA analog stereo pair (unbalanced)
• 1 x TRS analog stereo pair (balanced)
• 1 x AES/EBU digital stereo channel

• 2 x TRS analog stereo (unbalanced)
• Located on front and rear panels

• 2 x ref sync out (BNC)
• 1 x analog black burst ref sync loop in/out (BNC)
• 2 x RS-422 (9-pin D-sub)
• 1 x GPI I/O / TALLY (50-pin D-sub)
• 2 x USB (Standard-A) front panel
• 1 x USB (Standard-B)
• 1 x 100Base-T Ethernet

• Warranty on the system applies as per the period stated in the Complimentary Warranty Services Summary

• How to Buy

• View the Datasheet (PDF)

• Awards

• Turbo iDDR