Description

The Imagine Communications FS1 is a professional broadcast frame synchronizer and audio synchronizer card/module designed for use in Imagine’s Selenio™ Media Convergence Platform (MCP) frames and similar modular rack systems.

📍 Purpose & Overview

This card/module is built for frame synchronisation and audio timing alignment in complex broadcast video systems. It takes incoming SDI video and audio streams and performs accurate timing correction, ensuring signals align cleanly with a station’s local reference clock and with each other — a critical function in live broadcast, playout and multiformat environments.

🔧 Key Capabilities

🏷️ Video Frame Synchronization

• Auto-timing SDI frame sync

• Supports locking to external reference and input signals.

• Provides time base correction and noise-free output timing.

🔊 Audio Sync & Processing

• Handles audio timing and embed/de-embed tasks.

• Can process multiple audio formats depending on the configuration and expansion modules.

🧠 Rules Engine & Control

• Intelligent signal identification and user-configurable processing rules.

• Remote monitoring and control via Ethernet and management software.

• On-screen displays for status and parameter adjustment.

⚙️ Connectivity & Expansion

• SDI inputs and outputs (electrical and optional optical via SFPs).

• AES audio I/O with expansions for balanced/analog interfaces.

• GPI, serial and network control ports for integration with broadcast control infrastructure.