Powerful Turnkey Broadcast Paint Solution
Twister: Powered By Design

Twister HD is a complete high definition paint, graphics content creation, and workflow solution for Broadcasters. With Twister, artists will now have access to VDS' famous content creation tools and file transfer utilities right from within a single user environment. This includes a full suite of comprehensive paint tools and brushes, unlimited layering capabilities, and sophisticated image processing and masking tools developed specifically for broadcast workflow. In addition, most Photoshop plug-ins may be run from within Twister, allowing access to hundreds of inexpensive image effect libraries currently available. Twister HD is available in either rack-mount or tower configurations.

Broadcast Oriented
Twister draws from VDS' extensive library of Liberty code, which has been completely re-engineered under a Windows user environment.


Twister's User Interface - Click to Enlarge

The product is designed to ensure a clean, intuitive operator experience and is infused with broadcast-friendly features such as direct connection and file/database support for most industry-standard devices such as Chyron, Aprisa, Pinnacle, Avid, Quantel, and many others.

Feature Rich
In addition, the software supports such features as 3D paste image and mask layers, R/W Photoshop layer files and video grab to canvas/real-time paint show to video.

Always working in proper video aspect with built-in safe title/action generator and illegal color suppression, Twister is resolution-independent and allows the operator to easily switch from analog to digital, NTSC to PAL, or SD to HD at the click of a mouse.

Great Video I/O Options
View your work in realtime on a digital monitor! Broadcast-quality HD video I/O is provided by way of the Bluefish444 I|O board for realtime show, and frame grab.




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