NewTek appreciates that most Technical Directors prefer to switch by touch. Just for them, we engineered the optional RS-8 hardware, providing the ability to focus on the production rather than the computer. RS-8 provides a fast, flexible and familiar control solution that may be used in place of the mouse or computer keyboard for live switching or editing, in a layout instantly recognizable by video professionals world-wide:

• 8-input Program Bus
• 8-input Preview Bus
• T-bar
• Auto and Take buttons
• Auto and Take Downstream Key buttons

RS-8 works in tandem with the SX-8 Switcher Expansion module to offer great flexibility between composite, Y/C or component inputs and outputs, with high-quality, hermetically-sealed, magnetic-reed switches, as you’d find on any high-end switcher.
Just as there are Auto and Take buttons for the transitions, there is a Fade and Take button for the selected Downstream Key device. There are also two DDR buttons to hot-select between two cue lists of loaded CG pages. For example, when you have a logo and need to do page peels, your logo stays through each page.