Aston – Designers’ Choice for 2D/3D Motion Graphics
Aston – Designers’ Choice for 2D/3D Motion Graphics
Aston – Designers’ Choice for 2D/3D Motion Graphics
Aston is a motion graphics creation, CG and playout system developed with the designers in mind, created from the ground up to be extremely user-friendly so the operators can concentrate on creation rather than pure operation.
Broadcast design is a demanding task and the pressure is constant to quickly deliver or modify high-quality graphics that enhance a channel’s branding and program content. Designed for a robust on-air operation, designers can create, manipulate, animate and perform last-minute changes, even while on-air. Aston enables the design team to change any of the attributes on the template in real-time making the improvement process easier and faster.
Aston is resolution independent and works with any HDTV flavour, 4K or even higher resolutions for larger screens. In addition, Aston is MOS compatible and also supports a wide range of 3D formats such as .fbx, .dae, .obj and.3ds, to name a few.
Aston 4 gains a number of enhancements that further improve its capabilities, like shader-based 2D fonts or the ability to open multiple projects simultaneously for playout. And thanks to the LAYERS feature, the Aston family of applications is enhanced with the addition of Aston Multichannel. With this, Aston provides extended workflow possibilities, including playout of multiple channels from a single workstation or from different workstations, which can also be combined with multiple simultaneous projects. Additionally, InfinitySet now includes an Aston Crosspoint for further flexibility. Aston now takes full advantage of NVIDIA’s GPU movie decoding, while its PBR material rendering has been further enhanced.
Created for designers
Aston has been created from the ground up to be extremely user-friendly, so designers can concentrate on creation rather than on pure operation.
Intuitive drag-and-drop creation
Adaptive Contextual Interface. The basic tools are always present, but as the design grows the required contextual tools become automatically visible
Properties and attributes. Objects always display all their properties, so designers have all the information at hand, anytime.
Supports a wide range of 3D formats such as .fbx, .dae, .obj or .3ds
Advanced primitives, objects and materials
Brainstorm supports a wide variety of objects and primitives, from simple spheres to intricate curves or arrows, which also allow for multiple properties. Practically all the parameters (geometry, size, appearance, materials…) of the wide variety of objects and primitives supported by Aston are editable.
Aston includes a wide variety of primitives: Basic primitives (sphere, cone, cube…), curves, data bars, particles systems and much more, all with multiple parameters.
Parameters are fully editable and animatable: geometry, size, appearance, materials… Also, objects can be adhered together, grouped and work as a unit when required.
Font and text management
Aston supports advanced real-time 3D Fonts with extremely precise rendering quality and extensive features and parameters with real-time render and operation.
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- Low latency hardware video keyer
- Allows video layers to be combined in hardware with microseconds of delay
- Enables animated logos, captions, tickers, and more to be keyed over live video feeds at full 12-bit precision, and with minimum input to output delay
- Can also function as an image pre-multiplier to assist in previewing images with alpha data
Bluefish444 KRONOS K8
KRONOS K8 is Bluefish444’s fully-featured high-bandwidth 4K/UHD, 2K/HD & SD video and audio I/O card for professional video workflows on Windows, macOS and Linux operating systems.
Capable of up to 8 independent and simultaneous channels of 3G/HD/SD-SDI input or output, K8 also features Reference and LTC I/O.
Cross-platform support with Industry leading 3rd-party software
Adobe Creative Cloud | Assimilate SCRATCH | Avid | CasparCG | Dataton | Foundry Nuke | Resolume | Streamstar | Unity | Unreal Engine | vMix
All Bluefish video cards are Thunderbolt compatible, work with the free Bluefish acquisition application IngeSTore, the Bluefish cross-platform SDK, and leading 3rd party content creation tools.
Bluefish products are deployed globally throughout the broadcast graphics, post-production, live event and entertainment, immersive graphics, proAV, corporate, military, government, medical and education markets, including integration into digital intermediate, mobile production, QC and compliance, Video Over IP and video streaming workflows.
FREE multi-channel capture tool, IngeSTore
- Capture up to 4 channels of video
- Wide range of codec options
- Records direct to shared storage, including Avid shared storage
- Growing file support with Edit-While-Record in Adobe Premiere Pro and Avid Media Composer
- REST API to control remotely
- RS-422 Controller
- Encode for live production, post production, archival and streaming workflows
MAJOR FEATURES
Bi-directional I/O’s provide unrivalled flexibility
- 8 bi-directional HD-BNC video connectors supporting 3G/1.5G SDI I/O
- Multi-channel 4K UHD 60p playout or capture video Quad Link 3G-SDI
- Each BNC is completely independent
Maximum connectivity
- Reference I/O BNC
- LTC I/O
- Interlock between multiple K8 and Epoch | Neutron/4K Neutron cards
Optional connectivity
- Optional auxiliary I/O can be added to K8 via the STEM port interface and optional EX-1 and EX-2 products
- K8 with EX-1 adds LTC I/O, RS-422 control and AES audio I/O
- K8 with EX-2 adds LTC I/O, RS-422 control and Analogue audio I/O
The industry's lowest latency I/O, by design
KRONOS K8 has, by design, the world's lowest-latency providing access to captured fields or frames to on-board card memory event before the whole field or frame is complete, thereby reducing the latency to sub on field or frame. During a capture or playout, each process can occur at less than or equal to 1 field for interlaced modes, and less than 1 frame for progressive modes.
Maintaining a 12-bit processing pipeline
- 12-bit image processing is standard on all Bluefish video cards
- Allows 8, 10 & 12-bit SDI video signals to be produced from 8, 10, 12 & 16-bit pixel formats providing the highest image quality available from your source material
- 4096 discrete values of red, green & blue are maintained per pixel
- 4 times the colour precision of a traditional 10-bit processing pipeline!
Maintaining the highest quality RGB <=> YUV
- Fully programmable 4 x 4 x 33-bit colour matrix providing the highest quality colour space conversions
- Reduces colour space conversion errors and ensures the highest quality colour accuracy during capture, monitoring and mastering
Thunderbolt expansion chassis compatibility
- Compatible with Sonnet, One Stop Systems Magma, Netstor, and AKiTio Thunderbolt devices for multichannel mobile production
- Visit Bluefish's website for a full list of qualified 3rd-party chassis options
Low-latency video keyers
- 4 x Low latency hardware video keyer
- Allows video layers to be combined in hardware with microseconds of delay
- Enables animated logos, captions, tickers, and more to be keyed over live video feeds at full 12-bit precision, and with minimum input to output delay
- Can also function as an image pre-multiplier to assist in previewing images with alpha data
AirBox
AirBox Multi Parallel Output allows simultaneous running of two or more SDI or IP streaming SD / HD outputs so that broadcasters can easily deliver parallel output in any combination needed to deliver the content.
AirBox supports a wide range of video / audio formats from almost every known platform for production Third-party video server files like Leitch, Seachange, etc. are supported natively.
Any modifications to the playlist can be made during the on-air session. There will be no locked videos in the playlist except the one being played at the moment. They can be changed, edited or substituted.
On-the-fly commands such as skip to next or jump can change the playback order. Such changes in order are carried out seamlessly without stopping the current session. The powerful Live Show Clipboard facilitates live productions, enabling the insertion and/or execution of different events or live streams.
AirBox enables playlist scheduling for weeks ahead for automated playout. The associated gaps and time overlaps are overcome dynamically to ensure smooth service even when timed activities interfere with each other. If content files or even entire schedules are missing and misplaced, special facilities guarantee continuous operation.
MS Windows 10 compatible.
InfinitySet – The Most Advanced Augmented Reality and Virtual Set Solution
Forget all you know about Virtual Studios. Anything can be accomplished with InfinitySet, from simple virtual sets with fixed cameras to advanced and complex productions involving tracked cameras, external feeds with embedded tracking data and data driven graphics interacting in real-time with the set and the talents. InfinitySet’s advanced technologies are also user-friendly, providing the best tool to create amazing programs that engage viewers.
InfinitySet is the all-in-one virtual set and real-time 3D graphics solution, not just for showcasing a number of extremely advanced technologies, but also for the flexibility this solution gives to operators and producers alike. Brainstorm’s award-winning InfinitySet dramatically enhances production value to capture and retain new and larger audiences, while greatly reducing production costs and opening up new sources of revenue.
Why InfinitySet?
- InfinitySet is the most advanced virtual set solution thanks to the patented TrackFree technology.
- With advanced compositing features, it allows to create fully realistic real-time 3D scenes with elements that behave like those of the real world.
- InfinitySet is a complete real-time 3D Graphics tool, as it can embed all the power of Aston within the virtual set environment.
Brainstorm’s experience of over 25 years in producing advanced 3D graphics and virtual sets is concentrated in InfinitySet, which provides state-of-the-art Augmented Reality features used daily by broadcasters all over the world to create astonishing shows using virtual sets and graphics.
InfinitySet 3 introduced a plethora of high-end, advanced rendering features which, in addition to its Combined Render Engine with Unreal Engine, allow InfinitySet to create the most realistic content for virtual and mixed reality, virtual sets, real-time postproduction and film pre-visualization.
InfinitySet 4, the latest version of the award-winning augmented reality and virtual set solution, gains major updates to the rendering features and especially the management and compatibility with the Unreal Engine. This effectively enhances the way the Combined Render Engine, Brainstorm’s seamless integration between the company’s eStudio render engine and the Unreal Engine, works in practice. Another key development is that InfinitySet now features an Unreal-native behaviour, so InfinitySet users can achieve anything Unreal Engine provides in a workflow fully integrated into Unreal. The added value of this configuration is the multitude of benefits of including more than 25 years of Brainstorm’s experience in broadcast and film graphics, virtual set and augmented reality production, including data management, playout workflows, virtual camera detach, multiple simultaneous renders and much more.
Real-time ray tracing
InfinitySet takes full advantage of the latest hardware developments found in NVIDIA RTX GPU technology. By using NVIDIA Quadro RTX GPUs, InfinitySet can deliver real-time ray tracing, which provides a much more accurate rendering, especially with complex light conditions.
PBR and HDR
InfinitySet fully supports PBR shaders as materials and can also be imported from external shader editing software. In addition, InfinitySet can render HDR in floating 16 bit per channel/component, supporting for P2020 gamma correction output. This allows for post-rendering exposure control and extended-range filtering.
Combined Render Engine
InfinitySet features Brainstorm’s Combined Render Engine, which provides with the best of both worlds, the high-quality scene rendering of Epic Games’ Unreal Engine with the advanced graphics, typography and external data management of the eStudio render engine.
DMX Dynamic Light Control
InfinitySet InfinitySet can remotely control and adjust in real-time external light panels and external Chroma Keyer settings, allowing for changing the lighting conditions of the real set to match those of the virtual set, adding further realism and accuracy to the content.
Virtual Shadows and Defocus
Thanks to the TrackFree technology, InfinitySet can create virtual shadows along with the real shadows extracted from the chroma keyer, and apply then to virtual surfaces. InfinitySet can also adjust the focus and depth of field of a scene, even within the Combined Render Engine.
TrackFree Camera Detaching
Set space restrictions are no longer a problem, because, regardless the camera we are shooting is fixed, manned, tracked or robotized, InfinitySet can seamlessly detach the camera feed while maintaining the correct position and perspective of the talent within the virtual scene.
Augmented Reality and Broadcast Graphics
Broadcast graphics have specific requirements that are far beyond from what a Game Engine can do.
With the Combined Render Engine Brainstorm makes both engines work together, so adding Aston graphics as Augmented Reality objects as required within the scene is simple and straight forward.
Also, broadcast graphics workflows require external database connections, statistics, tickers, social media, lower-thirds, such a variety of graphics that are alien to the Game Engine framework but are essential for broadcast operation.
TrackFree
TrackFree is a patented camera-tracking independent technology that provides just what its name claims: the total freedom for operators to use any tracking system, trackless or fixed cameras, or a combination of these at the same time.
Allows for combined Chroma Keying, even within the same production:
•Internal chroma key software
•External chroma key hardware
•Combination of both
TrackFree advanced features:
•TeleTransporter
•3D Presenter
•HandsTracking
•FreeWalking
Enhanced internal Chroma keyer
InfinitySet features an advanced internal, resolution independent Chroma Keyer, supporting controls for main key, spill correction, detail recovering and color correction.
InfinitySet automatically creates an secondary key for feet tracking, independent from the main one. This key permits the calculation of the talent’s feet position for the FreeWalking feature and for creating virtual shadows and reflections.
TeleTransporter
This feature seamlessly combines 3D virtual sets with real characters and live or pre-recorded video feeds, all moving accordingly with precise matching of perspective, color, shadows, reflections or focus.
InfinitySet allows the incorporation of external post-production tracking hardware and software data along with real-time tracking data, combining both with any object or set on the scene. Also, external tracking data coming from real cameras or third-party tracking software can be included as metadata in live feeds or pre-recorded videos, and immediately be transferred and applied to the virtual camera’s parameters.
3D Presenter
Converts the talent into a 3D object, achieved by generating a true 3D representation of the talent from a video feed. The presenter becomes an actual 3D object embedded within the virtual set. 3D Presenter features:
•Casts real shadows and reflections of the talent from virtual lights over virtual and real objects.
•Allows for interaction of the talent with 3D elements in the virtual set.
•Adds volumetric lighting for selective illumination and color correction of the talent, the lights interact in a realistic manner with the talent’s 3D volume.
FreeWalking
Enables talents to move freely around the green screen theatre matching their movements within the 3D space. Presenters are allowed to move forward, backwards and sideways with precise perspective matching even though the real camera is in a fixed position.
HandsTracking
Allows the triggering of events and animations just with the simple movement of the bare hands.
HandsTracking brings gestures to life, so presenters can trigger animations, graphics or data with a simple movement of the hands and without the need for any additional costly and complex tracking devices.
Advanced TrackFree features
InfinitySet 3 includes a number of advanced features which improve the realism of the final composition, while allow for the seamless integration between virtual and real content.
VideoGate
Thanks to VideoGate, a presenter in the virtual set can walk into a virtual screen, into the featured news, and be part of the video itself with full realism regardless it is shown full screen or as part of the set.
The talent enters and exits the video with full precise and accurately matched perspective, and once inside the clip it behaves correctly in terms of spatial reference and with the inclusion of realistic shadows, defocus etc.
Real Set Virtualization
InfinitySet can use real, live or pre-recorded footage to use it as the background for the chroma keyed talent. The original stage can be recorded in pre-determined shots, and the chroma keyed talent that is recorded in a remote station can then use the original studio’s shots, including its tracking data if available, to be tele-transported to that set, therefore seeming they are placed physically on that set.
This functionality allows a remote talent to enter any stage at any time, while seamlessly mixing real and virtual elements.
VideoCAVE
Brainstorm’s VideoCAVE feature is a Mixed Reality application which uses monitors on a real set to behave as a CAVE multiple window, with virtual elements coming in from the virtual windows to the real scene as seen from the tracked broadcast camera.
The CAVE concept is the acronym of “Cave Automatic Virtual Environment”, and is related to a multiple virtual window, an immersive virtual reality environment where projections are directed to a cube or room space.
Selective defocus and bokeh
InfinitySet can even match the depth-of-field of the presenter with that of the scene.
Using the real camera’s parameters, InfinitySet is able to create a selective defocus and bokeh effects on the virtual scene adding an even more realistic effect to the final rendered composition.
Augmented Reality
Augmented Reality requires the interaction between sets, talents and virtual objects, often created out of external data sources. These in-context data driven objects allow for visually engaging and better explained representations of the data.
The combination of InfinitySet features makes Live projection mapping a straight forward application.
Motion graphics
As much Augmented Reality content requires advanced graphics features to guarantee the accuracy and realism of the result, InfinitySet includes graphics editing and creation features of Aston, so it can edit, manage and create 2D/3D motion graphics.
Also, Aston compositions, can be included, controlled and edited within InfinitySet allowing for the creation of great quality programs with enhanced information.
•Integrates Aston projects within the virtual set environment
•Imports 3D files into the virtual set: .fbx, .obj, .dae, .3ds…
Software Mixer
InfinitySet features a software-based Production Mixer Mode for enhanced production functionality such as full control of all the virtual cameras, with non-linear transitions such as Cut-Fade-Wipes and Flies between 3D cameras, plus controlling actions and objects.
Virtual Set Camera Controller
InfinitySet is fully compatible with Brainstorm’s Virtual Camera Controller, an external hardware that controls the Production Mixer Mode.
This hardware, also used by other Brainstorm solutions, is designed to further enhance the live production capabilities of InfinitySet, allowing full control of cameras, transitions, actions and objects.
Turnkey system
InfinitySet is delivered as a complete, turnkey system ready to use, fully and immediately integrable in any broadcaster’s workflow. Using standard broadcast plus complete IT connectivity, all Brainstorm products are prepared to work at its best since day one.
TitleBox
TitleBox is a complex and incredibly user-friendly on-air CG and graphics manager. It allows you to make and save various static or dynamic objects like rolls, crawls, multi-layered simultaneous still images, analog and digital clocks, animated logos, etc. These can be easily used for direct broadcasting or for future use as customized templates.
TitleBox is an interactive graphics manager that generates, shows and manages captivating multi-zone screens with rolls, crawls, animations clocks, station logos, 3D objects, and many more. It is ideal for broadcasting and cable TV channels digital signage systems and public and private facilities like schools, colleges, universities, business entities, corporations, retail, shopping malls, churches, airports, hotels, holiday resorts, theme parks, etc. Furthermore, TitleBox has a Scheduler that allows you to start items at different times from previously created tasks.
TitleBox provides on-air graphics that can be interactively controlled. You can enable multi-layer simultaneous crawls, rolls, animated icons, clocks and text templates with a click of the mouse. TitleBox provides full on-air command, including text selection, running speed and transitions.
MS Windows 10 compatible
Aston – Designers’ Choice for 2D/3D Motion Graphics
Aston is a motion graphics creation, CG and playout system developed with the designers in mind, created from the ground up to be extremely user-friendly so the operators can concentrate on creation rather than pure operation.
Broadcast design is a demanding task and the pressure is constant to quickly deliver or modify high-quality graphics that enhance a channel’s branding and program content. Designed for a robust on-air operation, designers can create, manipulate, animate and perform last-minute changes, even while on-air. Aston enables the design team to change any of the attributes on the template in real-time making the improvement process easier and faster.
Aston is resolution independent and works with any HDTV flavour, 4K or even higher resolutions for larger screens. In addition, Aston is MOS compatible and also supports a wide range of 3D formats such as .fbx, .dae, .obj and.3ds, to name a few.
Aston 4 gains a number of enhancements that further improve its capabilities, like shader-based 2D fonts or the ability to open multiple projects simultaneously for playout. And thanks to the LAYERS feature, the Aston family of applications is enhanced with the addition of Aston Multichannel. With this, Aston provides extended workflow possibilities, including playout of multiple channels from a single workstation or from different workstations, which can also be combined with multiple simultaneous projects. Additionally, InfinitySet now includes an Aston Crosspoint for further flexibility. Aston now takes full advantage of NVIDIA's GPU movie decoding, while its PBR material rendering has been further enhanced.
Created for designers
Aston has been created from the ground up to be extremely user-friendly, so designers can concentrate on creation rather than on pure operation.
Intuitive drag-and-drop creation
Adaptive Contextual Interface. The basic tools are always present, but as the design grows the required contextual tools become automatically visible
Properties and attributes. Objects always display all their properties, so designers have all the information at hand, anytime.
Supports a wide range of 3D formats such as .fbx, .dae, .obj or .3ds
Advanced primitives, objects and materials
Brainstorm supports a wide variety of objects and primitives, from simple spheres to intricate curves or arrows, which also allow for multiple properties. Practically all the parameters (geometry, size, appearance, materials…) of the wide variety of objects and primitives supported by Aston are editable.
Aston includes a wide variety of primitives: Basic primitives (sphere, cone, cube…), curves, data bars, particles systems and much more, all with multiple parameters.
Parameters are fully editable and animatable: geometry, size, appearance, materials… Also, objects can be adhered together, grouped and work as a unit when required.
Font and text management
Aston supports advanced real-time 3D Fonts with extremely precise rendering quality and extensive features and parameters with real-time render and operation.
OnDemand – Multipurpose Playout Solution
The control and playout of graphics is becoming increasingly complex as the number and combination of graphical elements to be displayed multiplies. OnDemand can control all such elements and is able to launch graphics simultaneously, sequentially, in random order and combine them as required.
OnDemand provides operators with a flexible toolset to create rundown lists, modify them on the fly, and delve into the details allowing individual editing of elements such as graphics, videos and on-air shots, and then playing them out to air. It is a powerful playout application that enables the easy management and playout of complex graphics templates in any order and combination, for broadcasters who require more than a simple rundown system.
OnDemand has the ability to operate in multiple modes, making it the ideal tool for any playout situation: live sports, channel branding, gameshows, news, tickers, election graphics and many more. The integration with Aston is such that OnDemand’s powerful playout even understands the specific behaviour of any Aston graphic.
Neuron – Brainstorm’s Pathway to Broadcast Graphics Management
Neuron is a MOS-compatible, template-based system that integrates graphics creation and management into most common newsroom, continuity and broadcast traffic operation environments. Allowing users to integrate high-quality pre-defined 3D graphics to their workflow without the constant input from the Graphics department.
Neuron is fully scalable and can be tailored to match any client’s requirements or budget while it integrates in most types of broadcast content management including traffic and branding. Initially designed for news operation, Neuron currently integrates in most common broadcast workflows, transcending the newsroom to support continuity and broadcast traffic.
AstonElections – Template-based Elections and Business Graphics
AstonElections combines the necessary key features to control all aspects involving data management. So, once data is loaded -manually or via a CSV file, Aston Elections automatically reorders data, rearranges the graphics and divides them into pages depending on the number of items to show, always ensuring they are displayed fluidly on screen.
Why AstonElections
AstonElections is a simple, easy-to-use application that provides customization and on-air playout of Elections and business graphics based on pre-defined templates
Allows for hassle-free operation for broadcast and corporate environments.
Combines the advanced graphics and CG features of Aston with the powerful playout features of OnDemand.
Template-based graphics
AstonElections provides customization and on-air playout of Elections and business graphics pre-defined templates, allowing hassle-free operation for broadcast and corporate environments. AstonElections does not require specialised election knowledge. AstonElections’ highly intuitive interface allows for the simple and easy use of complex, high-quality and eye-catching graphics.
AstonElections can sort the data for you, reformat the graphic with the data and divide it into pages depending on the content. In addition, AstonElections allows the entry of data manually. Use the same template with different data as many times as you want by loading an independent CSV file in the rundown mode. AstonElections comes with 20 customizable templates.
eStudio- The Most Flexible Real-time 3D Graphics and Virtual Studio Engine
Brainstorm eStudio is a powerful and flexible tool that provides solutions for any kind of real-time graphics. The eStudio is unique in the market due to its sophistication, open architecture and versatility, enabling both design and real-time playout of virtual studios and 3D graphics as well as the easy creation of customized applications. It provides excellent results for applications such as News & Sports, channel branding, weather, entertainment, charts and graphics, interactive corporate presentations or film pre-visualization.
Brainstorm has been pushing the boundaries of virtual set production and development for over 25 years. Brainstorm pioneered the application of camera tracking to 3D real-time virtual set, and eStudio interfaces with practically all current tracking systems, making integration with any production hardware an out-of-the-box feature.
XPression
NVG1 NewTek-Vizrt IP Graphics Server
- Deliver real-time, animated 3D graphics in resolutions up to 4K UHD, incorporating text, images, and video
- Customize ready-made templates, changing color schemes, textures, and styles, or utilize optional design services to align graphics with your brand standards and visual identity
- Integrate into any professional video workflow with intuitive playlist operation, multi-channel control, and support for macro automation
- Connect to compatible technologies over IP, including NewTek IP Series and TriCaster® live production systems, and the Vizrt product ecosystem
Paint Live
Paint Live is totally self-contained and easy to set up, requiring only simple SDI-in and SDI-out connections to work with SD, HD, or 4K content.
Paint Live employs internal, real-time image tracking that keeps graphics to tied to the field, even as the camera moves. A unique method of chroma keying can be used upstream to perform the image tracking, making it much easier for the technical director to manage Paint Live’s output.
With the unique ability to change the interface to match the user’s exact requirements, and a comprehensive set of tools for visualizing different parts of the play or highlighting individual player performance, your on-air team gets exactly what they want, exactly how they want it, live!
Virtual 1st
Virtual 1st allows a single operator to quickly insert virtual lines of scrimmage, 1st down markers and animated graphics that are easily customized to match your unique on-air or in-stadium style. “Hands-free” operation is also available since Virtual 1st integrates with the NFL’s GSIS data to automate the positon of the 1st down line.
Built on a fully blown virtual graphics package, it’s easy to create custom graphics such as a sponsored ‘red zone’, field goal lines, virtual Jumbotrons, and other graphics that connect and engage your fans.
Virtual 1st offers lower Total Cost of Ownership and a higher Return on Investment. For example, do you need to provide custom graphics and sponsor promos to your stadium suites and the big screen? No problem! Virtual 1st lets you take one camera and create up to three unique outputs – each with their own individual sponsor or advertising logo.
Metacast
For over two decades, Metacast has been a leading provider of weather graphics solutions. With clients on six continents, Metacast provides efficient weather workflows for broadcasters on any platform and for all weather situations.
Seamlessly integrated with ChyronHego’s renowned CAMIO workflow, Metacast gives your station a distinct competitive edge through low cost of ownership and a data source agnostic model.
And in our always-on-the-go, multi-platform world, Metacast delivers high-value content on demand to your viewers.
Metacast features a highly reliable SQL® database, which is continuously updated with radar, satellite, model forecast, pinpoint city/location forecasts, and up-to-the minute remote weather station data.
As a data source agnostic solution, Metacast works equally well for major network broadcasters, integrating data from a national weather center, as it does for a local TV station requiring a “one-stop delivery” data/system/graphics/storyboard solution.
Coach Capture
Speed and accuracy are the hallmarks of Coach Capture, the latest addition to ChyronHego’s expanding Coaching Product Suite. It’s easy to automatically add clips to playlists and reorganize them on the fly for those instances where time is critical and pressure is high.
Designed to suit the everyday needs of the sports video analyst, Coach Capture allows for both live and post-game video recording – all the way up to HD 1080p format – tagging, and telestration of game events.
Seamless integration to the analytical workflow of the Coach Paint Product Suite is at the heart of Coach Capture. Log, navigate through events, and easily push clips between Coach Capture and Coach Paint.
And just like Coach Paint, Coach Capture is the only cross-platform logging tool available on Mac OSX, Windows 7 & 10, and Windows® Tablets.
Delta-Stadium
3D Storm and Deltacast have developed a special interface, Delta-Stadium Perimeter, to display signage on LED perimeter screens or giant screens of an athletic field. The project has already proved its success at Groupama Stadium in Lyon, France.
LiveCG Broadcast
LiveCG Broadcast is now available as a software version, LiveCG Broadcast NDI (NDI in and NDI out) and can be installed on any PC. The software version takes any NDI feed and adds on top of it as many graphic layers as needed. It also comes with Social Hub, which allows to include the social media feeds to the overlay.
StormGeo Studio
Key features and benefits:
- Access to world class weather forecasting and data intelligence.
- A cloud and subscription based software built with award-winning graphics from Singular.Live.
- Requires no dedicated hardware or upfront investments.
- Easily integrates into your existing SDI, NDI or streaming media workflows.
Workflow and easily accessible:
- Built on common web standards.
- StormGeo Studio API’s for interaction, templates and rendering capabilities are easily integrated into your workflow.
- StormGeo Studio runs across all bowser enabled devices without the need for 3rd party plugins.
StormGeo Studio opens a lot of possibilities for publishers, such as on-demand weather data for over the top (OTT) playouts, adaptive graphics across different devices and the possibility to offer regionalized weather data to their users and viewers.
Leslie Kajomovitz
Product Manager Consultant for Media Production tools
Live/Non-Live Graphics Solutions
Live TV & Sports Graphics
Game Show Control Platforms
Virtual Advertising
Broadcast & Live Event Titles
Display Management
Flowics Graphics
Flowics Graphics supports NDI, SDI and cloud-based workflows and provides native data connectors for popular data providers including Stats Perform, SportRadar, Genius Sports, Weather Channel and many more.
MediaPower NewsTouch
Nowadays, news anchors are more than just pretty faces reading from a prompter; they moderate multitudes of information sources, including news clippings and images, online resources, media files, and live feeds. With standard news formats becoming increasingly complex, news teams must adopt increased control of news program components to ensure they can run their programs smoothly and engage viewers.NewsTouch is an innovative IT-based multimedia touch system created by MediaPower. It is a standalone multimedia presentation appliance dedicated to the live production of press clippings, web content, and recorded and live media files in the studio for a live broadcasting environment. For the rst time, multi-touch technology, together with a HD 3D graphic engine, enters the world of Broadcast Television at an extremely low cost.
Live and Online
NewsTouch is a complete product that provides a single graphical interface which brings you infinite power at the touch of a finger. NewsTouch is a highly advanced professional system that can handle multi-touch with up to 10 fingers simultaneously and independently. Therefore, it can be used easily at the same time, even by two operators.Using natural gestures on a multi-touch board, the news anchor or journalist is in full control of his delivery, simultaneously anchoring and presenting supporting news clippings, videos, and content. Other than being able to scroll, zoom, and rotate images to emphasize points, NewsTouch also offers a vast array of powerful illustration tools for drawing arrows, shapes and other markers on top of images and videos; these include different pen sizes (in a range of colors) and an eraser feature. This element is particularly useful for sports and weather newscasters, as they must often reference specific sections of their supporting images for clarity.Equipped with advanced graphics capabilities, NewsTouch also supports the broadcast of video fragments, freezing frames and permitting users to add comments with its instantly retrievable writing tools. Additionally, NewsTouch incorporates a web browser which allows journalists and TV presenters to outline live material directly from the web with ease, as well as providing integrated support for social networks like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.Texts, graphics, images and multimedia material can also be visualized live or saved before the show on a local disc in order to guarantee a smooth access to the network content during the broadcast.
Compact & Complete
NewsTouch is a compact product that can be used in a stand-alone mode by a single journalist; simplicity and user friendliness are key features of this tool. Even though it is a powerful and versatile instrument, it can be used by anyone, immediately and without training. Boasting four different pre-sets for color, layout and transparency, users can easily and precisely superimpose their own notes onto the background. Furthermore, NewsTouch has "no-panic" functions to distribute the presentation content evenly to a default zoom level, complete or selective cancelling tools, customizable menus and the option to exclusively visualize the essential information required during a live show, guaranteeing maximum concentration levels, without unnecessary distraction from excessive buttons and icons.
Dynamic Possibilities
With NewsTouch, create any kind of program that features dynamic and engaging presentations: from news, sports and weather reports, to special events like an election coverage, talk shows and much more. Apart from press clippings and web material, anchors can take control of live video inputs coming from other studios or the field. Output on the presenter display and on air is HD- enabled.
Supports Professional Mobile Devices
NewsTouch now supports professional tablets, starting with Microsoft Surface Pro 2, making it more flexible and convenient to use, than ever before. By using a Surface Pro 2, journalists or news anchors can now freely move around during their presentations. Some news anchors are also already used to using tablets in their news reports, thereby making it easier to incorporate NewsTouch as another delivery tool for their compelling and dynamic reports.
Compatibility
Through its HD-SDI and HDMI outputs, NewsTouch covers all features for a video mixer, interactive graphics, web video and so much more. External secondary events can be managed via IP by means of a specific video matrix with a maximum of 16 inputs (4 standard). Available for an extremely affordable price which does not compromise its outstanding performance and smooth graphics with elastic effect, NewsTouch does not require any installation or training costs, and is operated by a single connection to LAN and video matrix.News Touch is compatible with the following formats:
- Images: GIF, TIFF, JPG, PNG, BMP, PCX
- Container video: MXF, AVI, MPG, M2P, MP4, MOV (OPTIONAL)
- Video CODEC: H264 FLV, MPEG2, MPEG4, MPEG1, DV, DVCAM, RAW, DVIX, XVID
- Audio CODEC: AC3, PCM, MPEG1, MP3
- File audio: MP3, WAV
- File PDF: UNPROTECTED PDF, SINGLE AND MULTIPAGE PDF
TitleStation Mix
- Simultaneous work with several playlists simplifies managing sophisticated graphics.
- Graphics files of various formats support enhances graphics playout.
- Operators can edit text graphics by removing misprints while being on-Air.
- Automatic interconnection with NewsAir module speeds up going on-Air and prevents human-factor errors.
Multi-Touch
Multi-Touch lets your news and sports reporters dive deeper into their story with visually captivating, data-driven interactive touch screen presentations. Built on a real-time graphics-rendering engine, Multi-Touch offers the highest playout bandwidth when compared to other engines on the market.
Playout bandwidth is an extremely important consideration. With other engines on the market there can often be a trade-off between graphics rendering performance and touchscreen responsiveness. Not so with Multi-Touch. Multi-Touch is carefully tuned to ensure extreme levels of rendering performance while assuring the touch-sensitive interactive response of your studio presenter.
Virtual Placement
While some have regarded the placement of virtual graphics within live video to be a “complex art”, made possible only by expensive specialist cameras, ChyronHego has taken a decidedly different approach.
With Virtual Placement, ChyronHego product designers created a solution that is easy to learn and doesn’t require any specialist camera encoders or lengthy calibration processes, so you can get your sponsor’s content on-air quickly and without error. The system can be used in virtually any live broadcast scenario from augmenting physical studio-sets with virtual objects, to much larger scenes such as sports arenas, race-tracks or landscapes.
Virtual Football
Based solely on advanced image processing, Virtual Football doesn’t require camera sensors or special camera heads. A built-in keyer is designed to overcome harsh environmental effects, such as shadows and bright sunlight.
Designed with live OB production in mind and requiring only a single operator, you will be amazed by the ease and speed in which Virtual Football can be readied for action.
PRIME Graphics Platform
PRIME Graphics can be configured as a Branding solution, an integrated Clip Player, a unified Newsroom Graphics system, a graphics-driven Video Wall solution, or as an integrated touchscreen solution.
Whether used together or as standalone products, PRIME Graphics is a flexible and easy to use solution for news and sports broadcasters, playout facilities, and in-venue producers offering a low Total Cost of Ownership.
Click Effects PRIME
Click Effects PRIME answers that challenge.
Click Effects PRIME is a highly integrated, turnkey graphics authoring solution for live arena- and stadium-based A/V presentations. With Click Effects PRIME, it’s always any canvas size, to any number of outputs, in any resolution.
Click Effects PRIME unites the advanced authoring, rendering, and data binding power of ChyronHego’s renowned PRIME Graphics system with the industry-leading arena graphics generation and custom digital display control solution.
Click Effects products have always been renowned for their centralized, single-click action, built around an easy to learn and quick to use interface. Click Effects PRIME doesn’t disappoint by carrying on this tradition of excellence. While competing systems force you to train your operators through the vendor, Click Effects PRIME’s no-scripting-required design and low learning curve means your operators will be game ready when the first whistle blows.
LyricX
Whether in news, sports, venue, entertainment, or government/corporate today’s LyricX has the capabilities that designers and operators love.
RealityHub
Reality Hub brings ecosystem connectivity, automation and workflow integration with management capabilities from internal mechanism.
Through HTML5 technology, user interface can work on any desktop or mobile device that supports web technologies. Engine video output can be previewed in real time on the web interface.
It is a next gen yet simple platform that brings ease and utmost connectivity to your workflow
Reality Hub integrates with newsroom and MCR systems, studio automations, social media, and any external data such as weather forecast through its module host service.
Keywords:
- Data driven workflows
- Dynamic weather information fed from online sources
- Social media integration
- Live engine video output to mobile devices
- Asset management, integration with newsroom/MCR automation
X-Pert Graphics
X-Pert Graphics is a sophisticated, yet extremely user-friendly on-air CG and graphics manager. It lets you create different static or dynamic objects such as rolls, crawls, multi-layered simultaneous still pictures, analog, and digital clocks, animated logos, etc., and save them in projects. Those could easily be used for direct broadcasting or as customized templates for future use. In addition, the application has a built-in Scheduler that lets you start objects from a previously created project(s) at different times.
X-Pert Graphics can run as a standalone solution or in the background, without its front-end interface. This allows all objects and slide actions to be triggered by third-party OEM software that sends its script commands via a network protocol.
The solution is designed to work in sync with X-Pert Playout. Objects in X-Pert Graphics to be started or stopped by using X-Pert Playout. This is achieved by inserting X-Pert Graphics net control events in the X-Pert Playout playlist. Control can also be automated using scripts triggered by metadata conditions from X-Pert Playout. The playlist metadata value from X-Pert Playout can be sent to the text objects.
X-Pert Graphics provides powerful tools for project preparation and extensive control over on-air graphics.
Key features
- You can add basic effects to text, such as a shadow, or border, and change the color and transparency.
- You can define the appearance of your objects: define in and out transition, change position and size.
- Adding stationary, crawling, or rolling text, with either static or dynamic content.
- Insertion of logos, pictures, or animations with a wide range of supported formats.
- Items can be played once, run on a loop, etc.
- Items can be scheduled on a daily, weekly, or another basis.
- No layer limitation.
- Uses simple macros to automate metadata display directly from the playlist.
- Visualizes data from external data providers such as TXT files, XML, HTML files, ODBC, Weather, RSS, and Emergency alert systems.
- Creates animated objects, adds banners, chat boxes and so much more.
- You can use video objects in your project. You can open and use a video clip in your project or directly display a Live video source.
Newest Features
- New engine presentation – NDI output availability, user experience, etc.
- Many improvements
X-Pert Graphics comes in two options: X-Pert Basic Graphics and X-Pert Advanced Graphics.
M-WEBKEY web page keyer
The M-WEBKEY IP/SDI web page keyer provides a cost-effective alternative to a full graphics system. It's ideal for channel branding as well as providing news, weather, advert and emergency information overlays for both IP and SDI infrastructures.
The M-WEBKEY is unique because it can key a web page on to a video input. With traditional keying, the external key and fill have to be created and output as video which requires expensive dedicated character generator hardware, whereas keying a web page means that the key and fill source never become video.
The M-WEBKEY allows Flow 1 or a matte to be set as the background source, with the overlaid foreground source and key signal (which defines the graphic's location and transparency) coming from the URL that is entered. The M-WEBKEY plus a web designer and web server could provide all the graphics for a channel.
The M-WEBKEY can be used with IP (ST 2022 and ST 2110 video), with SDI or with both IP and SDI at the same time for hybrid systems. This gives you the easiest possible SDI to IP upgrade, while also making it perfect for mixed SDI and IP installations as well as fully IP or fully SDI environments. It works with 31 different video standards, including 1080p.
Features include the ability to fade the key up and down, crops to force areas of background or foreground, a framestore synchroniser plus ten frames of video delay to help with system integration and extensive signal monitoring.
The M-WEBKEY is a software app that runs on the MARBLE-V1 media processor. A card that fits in the Vision 3 frame, MARBLE-V1 features a powerful CPU/GPU processor, six bi-directional SDI connections and four 10GbE SFP+ network interface ports and allows different apps to be installed when needs change.
D3-CG
HD and SD Compatible | 2 Input and 4 Output Channels | Full 3D Functions, Supports Video Clip Playout and 3D DVE | Equipped with Professional Rear Panel and Redundant Power Supply | Supports Infinite-Layer and Multiple Task Simultaneous Playout.
Dayang 4U Chassis
Intel Xeon E5-2609 v3 1.9GHz * 2 | 8G Memory | 500G HDD | 300G SAS HDD*4 | 2GB Graphic | RedBridge6B-Graphic / RedBridge6B-Graphic-EXP I/O Card | DVD-ROM | Keyboard | Mouse | 22" LCD 16:9 Display | Windows7 Professional SP1 64bit English | D3-CG LIVE 3D CG Software
Reality Engine
Photorealism
Reality Engine™ uses Unreal® Engine by Epic Games, the photorealistic real-time game engine, as the 3D renderer. With the advanced real-time visual effects capabilities, Reality Engine™ ensures the most photorealistic composite output possible.
Real-time Ray Tracing
Reality Engine™ takes advantage of latest powerful technologies from world’s most leading companies like Nvidia® RTX® GPU technology to produce high quality and realistic rendering possible in the industry today. Real-time ray tracing technology brings cinematic quality rendering capability to live production and provides realistic lighting, shadows and reflections.
Real-time Compositing in 3D Space
As a unique approach in the industry, the green screen video is composited with virtual graphics in 3D space. This technique results in real-time dynamic reflections of the physical objects and the talent on the virtual graphics. Like reflections, refractions of physical objects are also created automatically in real-time. Reality Engine™ composites video by using 16-bit floating point arithmetic for HDR precision. Having the control of full compositing pipeline, all gamma and color space conversions are handled precisely. By using this technology, the real world and the virtual elements are blended seamlessly.
Reality Keyer
Reality Keyer™ is the world’s first and only real-time image based keyer that works on GPU. Reality Keyer™ preserves real environment details such as contact shadows, transparent objects and sub-pixel details like hair.
Reality Keyer™ can work also with 4:4:4 RGB camera sources. The keyer also supports 3D masks for “force-fill” and “spill bypass” buffers besides garbage mask. Those mask s enable hybrid virtual studio operation which lets you combine virtual and real environments.
Advanced Augmented Reality
Having the tracked camera feed as an input video, Reality Engine™ is able to render reflections and refractions of the real environment onto the virtual augmented objects. Real-time 3D reflections and the shadows of the virtual objects are also composited over the incoming camera feed simulated with 3D perspective.
Reality API
Reality.net API gives possibility to users to develop their own 3rd party control applications for specific needs such as data driven graphics.
Videowall and Portal Window
Reality Engine™ can feed your videowalls with high-resolution 3D graphics. By using camera tracking data, you can even convert your videowall into a portal to a virtual environment. Combining portal window with ceiling extension, you will be able to have a virtual studio without green screen.
Tracking Technology
Reality Engine™ supports industry standard mechanical and optical camera tracking systems. Reality can use the lens calibration data sent by the tracking devices.
Talent Tracking
When the talent tracking data acquired by Reality Engine, the engine positions the talent inside the virtual world in the correct position and depth. This technology automatically enables the creation of accurate reflections and refractions of the talent. Interaction between the real and physical is achieved with utmost realism thanks to Reality Engine’s industry first and only feature of com-positing in 3D space.
Singular.Live
We have a full authoring environment, and free pre-built templates available to all users, free control applications and multiple output options for getting overlays quickly and easily onto your video content.
Singular brings the best of digital to live video, enabling On Stream overlays for more traditional live video production as well as On Device overlays that are rendered by the viewer's device, enabling interactivity, localisation and personalisation. On Demand overlays enable your VOD content to remain fresh since any Singular overlays created can be updated or completely changed at any stage.
Singular already works with the main industry technologies and platforms for streaming including NDI®, LiveU, TVU, Terdek, OBS, vMix, Wirecast and many more so will easily fit into your production workflow.
We have full documentation, a support portal, APIs and SDKs, a developer platform, codepen and a growing library of training videos.
M-PIP picture-in-picture device
The M-PIP has been designed for IP or SDI playout applications that need one or two picture-in-picture boxes to be inset on the main programme or a coloured background.
Picture-in-picture functionality has previously only been available as part of some production mixers, channel-in-a-box systems and master control mixers. As a dedicated double box generator, the M-PIP therefore provides a cost-effective solution for those who only require picture-in-picture functionality, while it can also be used to add extra capability to a standard playout or studio system.
Up to two boxes can be inset on the programme or matte background when required, either by selecting the required foreground flow source or by using preset recall. Controls are available to independently size and position the two boxes on the screen, as well as to manipulate the size and position of the images inside those boxes. A coloured border, as well as edge softness, can be applied to each box if required. The boxes can be faded up and down, while the background can be faded out to black. The M-PIP provides 16 presets which can be used to create and store different looks for the boxes and then be recalled by using Crystal Vision's ASCII or JSON protocols in conjunction with the broadcaster's own control system, or alternatively by using the company's VisionWeb control software.
The M-PIP can be used with IP (ST 2022 and ST 2110 video), with SDI or with both IP and SDI at the same time for hybrid systems. This gives you the easiest possible SDI to IP upgrade, while also making it perfect for mixed SDI and IP installations as well as fully IP or fully SDI environments. It works with 31 different video standards, including 1080p.
The M-PIP is a software app that runs on the MARBLE-V1 media processor. A card that fits in the Vision 3 frame, MARBLE-V1 features a powerful CPU/GPU processor, six bi-directional SDI connections and four 10GbE SFP+ network interface ports and allows different apps to be installed when needs change.
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