AV Stumpfl’s RAW server 8K developments

The Wings Engine RAW media server is capable of playing out four simultaneous streams of uncompressed 4K (4:4:4) content at 60fps.

RAW servers can also display video content using a full

12-bit colour depth, delivering more colour information than the current media server standard, which is particularly interesting for broadcast studio setups using the latest generation of LED displays.

The render engine allows for the use of high frame rate footage of up to 120fps and makes it possible to create seamless 8K soft edge blending panoramas.

Native image sequences like TGA, DPX or TIFF can be used without any need for converting them into an intermediate codec format.

RAW servers can be equipped with two, four or eight channel 3G-SDI input cards that support formats from SD (PAL, NTSC) to 3G-SDI (1080p) per channel.

The individual channels can be combined for capturing 4K at up to 60p either using the Square Division or the 2-Sample Interleave method.

The new input card options make it a lot easier to integrate RAW media servers into existing 4K broadcast workflows.