Want the impressive video processing capabilities of a highly sophisticated system with an intuitive interface anyone can understand? Get the Vista Spyder Video Processor from Christie. Then get creative. Spyder’s compact modular design gives you the options, versatility and power to make it easy, and it works in almost any application you can imagine. Whatever it is, if you need to visualise it, Spyder can display it.

The Christie Vista Spyder gives you total control and flexibility, so you can mix an incredible number of sources in multiple windows, create all kinds of picture-in-pictures (PIPs), define, shape and blend borders with remarkable ease, and do it all without a hitch, every single time.

There’s a reason why Spyder is the world’s most powerful video processor. In a word, versatility. When it comes to dynamic visual effects, there’s almost nothing Spyder can’t do:

• Supports up to 32 independent windows, 16 mixers, or any combination in between
• Adapts perfectly to widescreen (edge-blended), single and multi-screen discreet applications
• Permits unrestricted window and picture-in-picture (PIP) placement
• Allows any input to operate as a Native High Resolution Channel, Scaled PIP, Scaled Background, or Key Channel
• Switches inputs easily from any mode during normal operation, making all Spyder Inputs fully capable (not dedicated purpose)
• Adds inputs, outputs and pixel real estate with powerful expansion capabilities

• Business presentations
• Audience events
• Auditoriums
• Broadcast studios
• Houses of Worship
• Control Rooms
• 3D Visualisation

There's a Spyder with your name on it.
 
Everyone from the most sophisticated pro to the first-time user can find a Spyder that's perfect for them. With over a dozen models to choose from, you can configure any system to suit your needs. Spyder is available in the two-rack 200 Series, or the three-rack 300 Series. And expansion options allow you to add inputs, outputs and extra processing capabilities when necessary. Whether you're a technology wizard or a mere apprentice, prepare to conjure visual magic.

The Spyder 300 Series
The Spyder 300 Series comprises three-rack-space video processing systems that support up to 8 modules in a variety of input and output combinations.

Model 308 8 Output Expansion Processor	Model 326 2 Inputs 6 Outputs
Model 335 3 Inputs 5 Outputs	Model 3410 4 Inputs 10 Outputs
Model 344 4 Inputs 4 Outputs	Model 353 5 Inputs 3 Outputs
Model 359 5 Inputs 9 Outputs	Model 362 6 Inputs 2 Outputs
Model 365 6 Inputs 5 Outputs	Model 368 6 Inputs 8 Outputs
Model 371 7 Inputs 1 Outputs	Model 374 7 Inputs 4 Outputs
Model 380 8 Input Expansion Processor

The Spyder 200 Series
The Spyder 200 Series comprises two-rack-space video processing systems that support up to 4 modules in a variety of input and output combinations.

Model 204 4 Output Expansion Processor	Model 222 2 Inputs 2 Outputs
Model 225 2 Inputs 2 Outputs	Model 231 3 Inputs 1 Outputs
Model 234 4 Inputs 4 Outputs	Model 240 4 Input Expansion Processor
Model 207 7 Output Expansion Processor	Model 213 1 Inputs 3 Outputs

On a Spyder screen, you can see forever.

Spyder achieves stunning clarity and brightness in part because it has three times the pixels of any other presentation system. You can use the same input channels across more pixels, and you can view them through multiple outputs. The Integrated Operators Monitor allows you to see what the audience sees and preview what they will see next, all on a single monitor. Also, the system’s resolution independence allows you to use multiple projectors to increase pixel space and resolution beyond what any single display device could handle.

Mixing and Multiple Key Frame Effects

• Full Path Editing including Tension, Continuity and Bias control at each Key Frame
• Full Speed Editing including Ease In, Ease Out, and Velocity control at each Key Frame
• Adjustable PIP aspect ratio with smooth transitions between
• PIP borders, including drop shadows and soft inside edge with smooth transitions
• PIP Clone (mirror and offset) with smooth transitions
  Image cropping with smooth transitions

Keying

• Luminance keyer on every input
• Colour keyer on every input
• Alpha Channel Bitmaps on every input, for alpha channel titling or bugs from your favorite graphics application

Video Processing

• Up to 6.5-million-pixel display capacity from a single frame
• Multiple Outputs from the same box, up to 2048 x 1200 resolution on each output
• Inputs accept virtually any input up to 2048 x 1200 resolution
• 10-bit Analog Inputs and Outputs
• 12-bit scaling for the highest quality images
• Low delay (< 1.5 interlaced frames)
• Motion adaptive de-interlacing (SD & HD)
• 3:2 and 2:2 pull-down detection
• Aspect ratio correction
• Still Frame (Freeze) capability on every input
• Output synchronization: free-run or vertically referenced to NTSC/PAL black burst via framelock input
• Read/Write Still Store. Load bmp, png, tiff, or jpg images to (or capture images from) any Spyder Input.
• Any output can be a scaled Output for Recording Widescreens
• Any output can be an Operators Monitor, displaying preview and program for a given pixel space simultaneously on a single output
• Powerful Frame stacking capability, with the expansion (X) option, allows inputs/outputs from other Spyder systems to contribute/view a single pixel space
• S-Video and composite, with composite/S-Video (C) option, for inputs and outputs
• Fully integrated Test Pattern Generator on each input, output and pixel space

Powerful 5th-Generation Programming Environment

• So easy to use, anyone can create results quickly
• Powerful enough to satisfy the most demanding programming needs
• Powerful Preset Programming allows simple two-state on/off presets, or elaborate multi-step builds and motion presets
• Powerful Scripting Environment
• Smooth Go Processor allows quick, surefooted navigation from any window look to any other look. Options are user-definable with every preset.
• Results are predictable, highly user programmable, and most importantly, reproducible every time, all with a single button press
• Easy-to-use Programming Environment allows you to focus on your desired results, rather than the mechanics of getting there

The video processor’s processor.
 
We designed Spyder with every kind of user in mind, from the beginner to the most experienced pro. Components are modular, so you can build the system you need. Models are packaged as 2RU or 3RU units, and you can configure them to support up to 32 inputs and 32 outputs. This gives you unprecedented flexibility and versatility. No matter what you’re trying to achieve, Spyder’s processing skills allow you to go for it.

Ready for your input(s).
Spyder’s capabilities start with the wide array of inputs it handles. Feed virtually any source to Spyder, and it will process with ease. Input Channels support analog, SDI, HD-SDI and DVI. Spyder accepts composite and S-Video (NTSC, PAL, SECAM), SDI/ HD-SDI formats, and computer resolutions up to 2048 x 1200.

Analog HD formats are just as comprehensive, including 720p, 1080I, 1080p, HD-SDI video, 2048-1080p digital cinema video, and Plasma display resolutions.

Each Input Channel is universal and capable of a full range of processing:

• Native High Resolution Input for pixel-perfect backgrounds
• Scaled Input for Scaled background or PIP window with borders and shadows
• Native or Scaled Luminance Keyer, Color Keyer, PIP and Mixer (which requires two input channels)
  

Let’s start processing.
The baseline Spyder configuration has multiple input boards that give you a lot of room to play. So go ahead and get creative.

You can configure an input as a Colour or Luminance key, or as a PIP. You can use any two inputs as a mixer. You can size and position PIP and key images at any location on the screen in real-time, and keep track of them easily. You can use key images to create a variety of key effects such as superimposing titles on the image or creating special mask effects.

Seamless transition effects, window borders, drop shadows and a variety of keying effects are fully supported. Vista’s proprietary high-performance scaler features motion-adaptive de-interlacing for SD/HD, 3:2 and 2:2 pull down. It also provides very low video delay, as well as quick aspect-ratio correction, image cropping and real-time window resizing and positioning.

Spyder gives you two native or scalable resolution background buffers to provide a high-resolution still backdrop for PIP images or background inputs. These buffers have preview/program display, which you can transition just like a mixer. This allows a scene or theme graphic to be your background without having to use any of Spyder's inputs. It also eliminates the need to use one or more inputs to prevent screens from going to black.

What goes in must come out. Beautifully.
Any Spyder model will work with multiple output boards. These boards provide the full range of output interface functions and blending functionality. And Spyder's unique architecture is so advanced, it eliminates the need for external data-doubling processors for widescreen applications. Gone are the days of overly complex overlapping technology.

Output resolutions include computer resolutions of up to 2048 x 1200, analog HDTV resolutions of 720p, 1080I, 1080p, HD SDI video, and 2048 x 1080p digital cinema video, as well as plasma display resolutions. Output synchronization is supported to lock the output frame rate to an externally applied NTSC/PAL black burst signal in studio environments. Outputs also support the DVI 'Twin' specification that allows greater bit depth to the projector or display.

Modularity allows you to mix. And match.

Perhaps the best thing about The Spyder system is its incredible versatility. It is available in 2RU (200 series) and 3RU (300 series) configurations. Between the two series are 10 different models to choose from, all of which are perfectly compatible and configurable with each other, so you can build almost any size system you need, depending on your budget and the demands of your particular application. Choice is an operative word here, with a modular design that allows you to link together the optimum number of inputs and outputs.

Here are a few examples of how you might configure a Spyder 344, which has 4 inputs and 4 outputs. There are also two examples of how you might configure a 344 and a 380, which has 8 inputs. Select the configuration you'd like to see.