Presteigne Charter purchases Kayenne

Presteigne Charter has bought a fully-equipped Grass Valley Kayenne Video Production Centre to service the UK rental market and has already a firm pencil for its use during the London Olympics.

“This is the beginning of our upgrading from five Kalypso switchers to the Kayenne,” says Mike Ransome, CEO of Presteigne Charter. “The Kayenne is a very powerful, large mixer with multiple inputs and it is just what our customers want, particularly those based in the US. Grass Valley has created an excellent product that is well designed, has an intuitive and easy to use layout combined with very advanced technology. We are really excited about being able to supply this product to our customers.”

GV’s Kayenne Video Production Centre is a range of powerful, highly modular production switchers, available with 1.5 to 4.5 M/Es. It offers the highest levels of video processing power available with up to 30 keyers and 20 DPM effects channels in a 4.5 M/E system. Grass Valley’s DoubleTake™ split M/E technology effectively increases the available M/Es to 10. The modular control panel is designed for easy expansion and service. Each source select and aux bus module has two rows of OLED source name displays that provide ultra-clear text with extremely wide viewing angles.