Pinnacle Systems ships low cost Deko550

Pinnacle Systems have begun shipping Deko550, the company's new cost-effective, full-featured, entry-level character generator for live and automated broadcast operations.
France 3, the largest public broadcaster in France, has purchased 71 Deko550 systems to enable centralisation and automation of its broadcast graphics.
Yves Lebras, Engineering Director at France 3 said: "Deko 550 results from a close collaboration with Pinnacle Systems. Thanks to our work, we now have a solution which meets perfectly our needs and expectations in terms of look and style."
Deko550 provides a cost-effective solution for real-time, broadcast quality character generation and is ideal for smaller market stations and post-production facilities where quality and ease-of-use demands compete with budget constraints.
The low-cost of Deko550 also make it a good choice for non-traditional broadcast users such as stadiums, local governments, churches and corporations.
Built on the same core set of broadcast tools as Pinnacle's flagship FXDeko II, Deko550 provides all of the workflow efficiencies broadcasters need including support for automation, macro creation to minimize repetition, templates for fast graphics creation, extensive file support, drag-and-drop from the Web, MOS and database integration, and more -- all from within Deko's flexible graphical user interface.
For further information visit www.pinnaclesys.com
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