Lawo continues to expand Home Apps with new Downstream Keyer solution

Lawo’s tenth Home Apps, the new Home DSK Multi-Layer Downstream Keyer, will land imminently to bring keying and mixing capabilities to all types of IP environments.

Home Downstream Keyer allows operators to perform simultaneous and independent transitions of up to three key layers over an A/B background mix. This solution, Lawo’s first mix processing application, comes to market with eight ST 2110-20 receivers and two ST 2110-20 transmitters. In addition, each of the three keyers can perform Luma, Linear or Self keying to provide first class processing with transparencies and shadows.

As part of the Home Apps suite, the Home Downstream Keyer can be implemented in SDR and HDR workflows. It supports SMPTE ST2110 (including JPEG XS), NDI, SRT and Dante AV transport according to each broadcaster’s preference. Like all Home applications, Home Downstream Keyer can be licensed in perpetuity or ordered ad-hoc via Lawo Flex subscription credits.

Downstream Keyer is the tenth Home Apps application, an ecosystem that expanded at IBC 2024 with the launch of Home Test Pattern/Test Tone Generator (TPG), Home Color Corrector with HDR processing, Home Timecode Generator and Home Delay. These apps already sit alongside Lawo’s first batch of Home Apps, including Home mc² DSP, Home Multiviewer, Home UDX Converter with HDR processing, Home Stream Transcoder and Home Graphic Inserter.

Jeremy Courtney, senior director in Lawo’s CTO Office, summarises the key benefits of the company’s latest solution: “With Home Downstream Keyer, Lawo’s Home Apps have reached a new level of sophistication. Architecting the container-based Home Apps platform from scratch for bare-metal compute has allowed Lawo’s software developers to avoid the pitfalls and limitations of lifting and shifting existing technology to a different platform. The advantages of this clean-slate microservice approach are now becoming apparent.”