Snell & Wilcox announces launch of IMPAKT 3D DVE option

Snell & Wilcox has significantly enhanced the capabilities of the industry’s most advanced production switcher, the multiformat SD/HD Kahuna, with the launch of Kahuna IMPAKT, a powerful, easy-to-use suite of 3D digital video effects (DVEs).
With IMPAKT, Kahuna now offers up to four twin-channel 3D DVEs that users can apply in either SD, HD, or both, and which work in source-based or bus-based modes, allowing both background and fill-and-key manipulation. Kahuna IMPAKT provides a variety of powerful effects including spheres, slabs, zooms, warps, tiling, ripples, rolls and peels, fragmentation, lighting effects, and corner pinning. All these options are housed in the Kahuna’s compact, 11-RU mainframe and require no additional connections or extra rack space.
Kahuna’s flexible, networked architecture gives users the option of controlling its DVEs directly from the main Kahuna control surface or from a separate 1-M/E Kahuna control panel for productions requiring a separate DVE operator. Kahuna’s DVEs can also be timelined, allowing for full key-frameable control, easy editing and pausing, and play/store recalls.
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