Patent ID: 7408547

Claim:
A system for processing and producing video signals, the system comprising: means for storing; means for inputting video comprising: means for: receiving and forwarding one or more live video signals; and producing a forwarded video signal for each received live video signal; first pre-processing means for pre-processing VS 1 , wherein VS 1 is a first stored video signal received from the storing means or VS 1 is one of the forwarded video signals produced in the video input module, the first pre-processing means producing a first pre-processed video signal; and second pre-processing means for concurrently pre-processing VS 2 , wherein VS 2 is the same video signal being pre-processed in the preprocessing VS 1 means, and, in another configuration, VS 2 is one of the other forwarded video signals produced in the receiving, forwarding and producing means or VS 2 is a second stored video signal received from the storing means, the second pre-processing means producing a second pre-processed video signal, wherein VS 2 is different than the first pre-processed video signal wherein the first pre-processing means and second pre-processing means comprise a first pipeline and a second pipeline, alternatively operable to: pre-process with one of said first and second pipelines a live video signal for storage in the storing means; pre-process with one of said first and second pipelines the live video signal for output on display means; and concurrently pre-process with both the first and second pipelines the same live video signal for both output on the display means and storage in the storing means; and means for processing VS 3 , wherein VS 3 is a third stored video signal, the first pre-processed video signal, or the second pre-processed video signal, the processing VS 3 means producing a processed video signal.