Panasonic's Kairos demonstrates its readiness to face even more demanding productions at NAB 2023

Panasonic is showcasing the latest enhancements to the Kairos live production platform at NAB 2023, as well as the new AW-UR100 PTZ and the AV-HSW10 mixer.

The latest developments from Panasonic for Kairos, which can be discovered in NAB 2023, aim to expand the capacity of the platform so that it can face productions more complex by streamlining workflows. Panasonic Connect has worked closely with a significant number of players in the broadcast sector to continue taking its flagship development to new levels.

In the cloud world, Panasonic has joined forces with LiveX, cloud-based production specialist, to develop Global Live Control Room. This solution combines the capabilities of Kairos of Panasonic y Virtual Video Control Room (VVCR) de LiveX to deliver a hybrid turnkey solution that allows productions to direct all cloud applications to VVCR and all on-premises equipment to Kairos. Singular Live, Videon, Scoreboard OCR y Telos Infinity VIP They are also contributing their know-how to bring mixing, ISO recording, intercom, playback, graphics and more functions to this control room.

Panasonic also presents the new solution for touch control surfaces within the framework of NAB 2023 AT-SFTC10 for Kairos. This software development can be installed on a Windows touch PC to enable control of mixing, macro, scene selection, clip playback and other operations on the Kairos system. The system allows several remote or local TCP instances to be used simultaneously to control it. Kairos Core, so producers can easily add a Kairos control surface anywhere they can place a touchscreen PC. It will be available for the KC200 in June 2023, and later in the year for the KC100, KC1000 and KC2000.

Panasonic has also brought to NAB 2023 the new núcleos de Kairos AT-KC200 y AT-KC200, presented at ISE 2023. With a 4RU chassis design, capabilities UHD and all the operational flexibility of Kairos, will be available in June 2023 (KC200) and late summer 2023 (KC2000).

PTZ AW-UR100 and mixer AV-HSW10

Other notable products from the arsenal of solutions Panasonic for NAB 2023 are the outdoor PTZ camera AW-UR100 and the mixer AV-HSW10.

The AW-UR100 arrives with capabilities 4K/60FPS; and dynamic image stabilization system (DISS) prepared to work in large venues; a robust design that would allow live broadcasting during “blizzards, typhoons and other weather phenomena”, and compatibility with numerous protocols and interfaces. Other strong points of the camera are its horizontal wide-angle lens of 74,1°, are 24x optical zoom y zoom digital de 10x, or its three types of image stabilization systems: optical image stabilization (OIS), electronic roll correction (EIS) the pan-tilt image stabilization (Dynamic Image Stabilization System-DISS). Regarding its connectivity, Panasonic's solution is committed to compatibility with 3G-SDI, 12G-SDI and fiber, as well as with IP protocols such as IS y SRT. It is also compatible with FreeD, which allows creating systems AR/VR.

The AV-HSW10 mixer, meanwhile, is a compact solution with 10-bit processing and IP compatibility. Panasonic's latest development is committed to being compatible with broadcast protocols most used and to include IP inputs/outputs as NDI y SRT, además de SDI y HDMI, in a chassis the size of a laptop. The AV-HSW10 also supports RTMP for direct upload to streaming services, as well as USB Video Class for support for web conferencing services.

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