Chyron's Digital PC CODI is a PCI board that turns a Windows computer into an economical and powerful character generator with 64 megabytes of onboard memory, flipbook animations, and a variety of video effects. Combined with the ReCall software application, it can convert and display messages, fonts and graphics from the Chyron iNFiNiT!, MAX! or Maxine! Character generators.

• High-Quality Digital Interface

The Digital PC CODI features SDI (Serial Digital Interface) connections for video and key inputs and outputs. The SDI connections pass embedded digital audio.

• Fast Digital Signal Processing

The high-performance real-time graphics processor works independently from the PC's processor and manages two internal graphic planes - one for background graphics and one for foreground graphics, where dynamic effects like dissolve, roll and weave are performed.

• Remote Operations

The supplied auxiliary panel features an analog video monitor output as well as 16 GPI (General Purpose Interface) connections for remote triggering of the Digital PC CODI from an editing system or other device. (The auxiliary panel uses an additional rear panel position on the PC.)

• Special Effects

The Digital PC CODI's video effects include dissolve, fade, wipe, roll, crawl, push, cover, hide, reveal, split and weave.

• Expandable

Multiple Digital PC CODI boards can be used in a single PC. Each can provide independent outputs. Or the boards can be used in tandem by cascading the video outputs from board to board to produce eye-catching graphics. ReCall can access up to four channels of output with four Digital PC CODI boards.

• Import Graphics

The Digital PC CODI reads TIF, TGA, BMP, Chyron RGBA and PCX files, and can also read fonts and messages from Chyron's iNFiNiT! system.

• Time Code

The built-in time code reader and generator meet SMPTE and EBU specifications and features an on-screen burn-in window with programmable position, size and character attributes.

• Power Outage Protection

Should the PC lose power an on-board mechanical video bypass relay passes the digital video input directly to the digital video output.