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  MA Video Processing Unit (VPU)  
 
   
 
Timesaving – thanks to familiar operation and easy access
Plug & play for instant show start
Best hardware components for outstanding performance and rock-solid reliability
Efficient backup solution
Fast and simple programming via any grandMA2 and grandMA ‘series 1’ console
Powerful pre-programming and real-time visualisation with grandMA 3D
3 versions to suit all needs: MA VPU pro, plus and basic Up to 4 individual Full-HD (1,080p) outputs
Professional effects + write your own effects and import them easily
17GB content library pre-installed
Advanced pixelmapping functionality
Live Video-In
Sound playback
Convenient 3D keystoning & softedging
Up to 32 3D-video-layers
Blind programming support
Highest frame and DMX synchronicity


   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 MA Video Processing Unit (VPU)

Would you like to use video technology as a new or additional design element for your lighting show? And do you like to control it as fast, smoothly and easily as possible? Just like any other lighting fixture?

If you already know the grandMA system there is almost nothing new you have to learn. The whole operation relies on the well established MA philosophy and is highly intuitive. Even if you have never used video before you will instantly feel at home with the MA VPU.

Via four DVI-outs (MA VPU pro) you can control four individual outputs with one MA VPU. Thanks to the power of the MA VPU you can display all your videos also in Full-HD (1,080p) or HD (720p in case of the MA VPU basic). Furthermore the internal output synchronisation of the MA-Net ensures the highest frame and DMX synchronicity.

To scale your video to any size desired by your own imagination just use the valuable horizontal and vertical softedge blending, the keystone correction and enjoy expressive show designs you have never seen before. Size doesn’t matter anymore. More than that the MA VPU offers a convenient 3D Keystoning functionality and enables you to fit your content to any 3D objects irrespective of size and shape.

If there is a video running too fast or too slow, just use frame interpolation and smooth speed control to adjust the playback.

Beyond that there is a myriad of functions, features and effects available like frame blending, colour booster, dynamic colour key, contrast, brightness, hue, saturation as well as blur, sepia, black/white, ocean and invert. All of them can be easily accessed and are self-explanatory in their use. Combinations of video and still images can be mixed and controlled, and JPEG images and standard windows bitmap images such as *.bmp as well as *.gif are supported.

The MA VPU can also follow the blind programming of the grandMA console.

With up to 32 3D-video-layers (8 for the MA VPU basic) the MA VPU can help you realise additional creativity.

Based on the rock solid techology of MA Lighting, the MA VPUs offer extreme reliability, are optimized for transportation, longevity and on the road use, as well as for fixed installations like theatres, TV studios etc.

Finally each MA VPU comes with a pre-installed content library comprising of more than 17GB of professional pre-installed HD and SD video content.

Three different versions of the MA VPU are available to suit all needs: MA VPU pro*, MA VPU plus and MA VPU basic.

*MA VPU pro will be available from 2nd half of 2010
 
  Ordering Options
 
120145 MA Video Processing Unit (VPU) pro
 
120146 MA Video Processing Unit (VPU) plus
 
120147 MA Video Processing Unit (VPU) basic
 
120374 MA Content Package