Eyeheight Promotes BroadcastSafe Software

Eyeheight has announced a free trial of its BroadcastSafe compliance software for Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut and Avid Media Composer.

Full-function versions of all three are now available to download from the Eyeheight website for free-of-charge evaluation.

"BroadcastSafe has proved a very successful product," comments Eyeheight Sales Director Martin Moore. "Much of that success derives from recommendations by established broadcasters, post-production houses and independent editors. These downloads will remain fully functional until September 2015. Permanently licensed versions can then be purchased at a very cost effective price up to the end of that month. We are confident that users of the industry's leading editing workstation software around the globe will appreciate the ability to test-drive BroadcastSafe without the restrictions usually imposed on demonstration software. The complete toolset is fully active and allows files to be saved for actual use."

BroadcastSafe is a complete plug-in legaliser, safe-area generator and graphic measurement toolset. It allows users to verify and conform content prior to submission to any file-based quality control system. It can perform composite, RGB, RGB-plus-Y and simultaneous composite-plus-RGB legalising, all with user-adjustable soft clipping at high and low thresholds. Precise chroma-space conversion and accurate limiting ensure compliance while keeping the full gamut available for creative use.

Editors can select from a range of presets, or work in custom mode which gives access to 15 configurable parameters. Facility administrators can assign which built-in presets are available to users, create new presets or disable the custom option to ensure that only approved configurations are implemented.

An integral Broadcast Evaluate display indicates which parts of a video image require adjustment in order to be fully broadcast compliant. Non-compliant areas of content are displayed in a user-definable colour with the option of manual or automatic correction, giving editors greater choice in the way they work.

BroadcastEvaluate supports all common compliance standards. Users can alternatively define their own compliance standard as an XML file.

Also integral to BroadcastSafe is BroadcastSafeArea. This allows a range of graticules to be superimposed over the video monitor display. BroadcastSafeArea supports standards including SMPTE, EBU and DPP, in 525/625 standard definition, 720/1080 high definition and 2K line formats. Also included is a centre marker plus a measurement utility to ensure minimum text height conformance in commercials. Any marker colour can be assigned by the operator.

BroadcastSafe is available in three versions:

• BroadcastSafePP for Adobe Premiere Pro on Microsoft Windows or Apple OS X operating systems
• BroadcastSafeFX for Apple Final Cut (for Apple OS X)
• BroadcastSafeMC for Avid Media Composer (for Microsoft Windows or Apple OS X).

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