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ChyronHego Releases PRIME Graphics 3.6 CHYRONHEGO HAS INTRODUCED PRIME Graphics 3.6, the newest version of preview predefined templates for augmented reality graphics directly from the the company’s platform for real-time graphics authoring and playout. familiar newsroom system - just as they would for video walls, lower thirds, PRIME Graphics users now can run an instance of LyricX on the PRIME and more. platform, with both design and control of LyricX messages remaining within Designed to improve workflow efficiency, PRIME’s Style Sheets functionality the familiar LyricX interface. The platform can simultaneously play out a single allows users to tag objects and then set up logic statements that trigger the LyricX channel along with PRIME channels, or it can dedicate all channels application of a certain property value, such as colour. Taking advantage of to either PRIME or LyricX playout. With backwards compatibility for existing Style Sheets streamlines workflows by allowing designers to quickly change LyricX messages, LyricX Mode allows broadcasters to future-proof their the look of some or all objects in a scene to match team colours, eventproduction capabilities with minimal workflow impacts. specific branding, and more. Now with best-of-breed camera-tracking data support, PRIME’s familiar real-time graphics workflow extends to augmented reality graphics design and playout. Broadcasters working with PRIME 3.6 can entertain and inform viewers with immersive, data-driven 3D graphics for sports, entertainment, PRIME Graphics 3.6 allows users to build if/then conditions as part of a Logic Effect that may be applied to any object in a scene. With the ability to reuse conditions and apply them to multiple objects in a scene, or even different scenes, users can quickly build smart, logic-based templates. elections, and news studio productions in 4K or HDR. PRIME AR’s powerful New easy-to-use visual guides for the spline editor in PRIME allow designers data binding to scene elements ensures that designers can easily create to adjust ease — the gradual rate at which animations start or stop — for and visualize data as real-time events unfold. Fully integrated with CAMIO, complex 2D and 3D animations more quickly and with greater accuracy for ChyronHego’s MOS-driven, template-based graphic asset management even better-looking graphics. solution, PRIME AR allows producers and journalists to browse, fulfill, and Visit www.chyronhego.com

Dalet Advances Mobility for News Operations DALET HAS ANNOUNCED usability improvements to its Dalet On-theGo mobile app for smartphones and tablets, boosting the collaborative experience between remote journalists and the newsroom with advanced content contribution and remote planning capabilities through a brand new, modern UI. Advancements to the underlying Dalet Galaxy five news production and distribution platform bring remote editing features like cloud-based “edit while record” and support for modern open-source communications frameworks to accelerate secure content exchange across multisite and distributed newsrooms operations. Dalet Galaxy xCloud, the dedicated, cloud-hosted system managed by Dalet as a full SaaS service, also benefits from these enhancements and connects securely with users’ existing onpremises systems, supporting advanced workflows for remote editing and news production teams. Available from Apple’s App Store and Google Play, the latest release of Dalet On-the-Go connects journalists, reporters and chief editors to the newsroom enabling them to manage assignments, story development, review and approval, rundowns, planning, status and contact search, all remotely. Users can easily access their Dalet Galaxy five catalog of video, audio, scripts and wires. Advanced content contribution capabilities and templates let users record media and craft stories quickly mixing local media together with remote content stored within the Dalet Galaxy five system. Dalet’s smart upload features guard against connectivity issues, reconnecting to the upload exactly where it left off when necessary. A feature-rich teleprompter supports on-the-fly reporting while tickers, wires and chat messages keep staff connected to information and late-breaking news. Meanwhile, the SaaS-based Dalet Galaxy xCloud offering is a full-featured version of the latest Dalet Galaxy five platform that, hosted by Dalet, leverages the cloud to facilitate end-to-end, remote news production workflows. The core remote editing framework supports advanced proxy editing workflows, mixing of central and local content, with proxy content cached locally to eliminate disruptions due to limited bandwidth. Rendering is offloaded to the Dalet Galaxy xCloud system, optimising performance to break news faster. In addition to the rapid release of customer-centric features, Dalet Galaxy five’s new public API empowers news organisations to customise workflow capabilities and integrations, further optimizing specific operations and business opportunities. Visit www.dalet.com Concern Over Newsroom Redundancies THE MEDIA ENTERTAINMENT & ARTS ALLIANCE says it is concerned that Network 10 recent round of redundancies will strip newsrooms and deprive audiences of local news. The MEAA said the loss of jobs, particularly editorial positions, will limit the amount of essential news and information available to the communities the network is supposed to serve. The decision to cease weekday news bulletins from Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide and replace them with bulletins originating in Sydney and Melbourne shows enormous disrespect to viewers. MEAA Media acting director Adam Portelli said: “The end result of these cuts is that viewers will simply seek their news and information somewhere else. “When the network was taken over by ViacomCBS three years ago this month, it was hoped that Network 10 would finally enjoy stability and an injection of new ideas. Despite the best efforts of staff who have constantly struggled to do more with less, we are now seeing deep cuts that have cruelled the hard work done by so many loyal employees. “Concerningly, under the restructuring being introduced by management, we now have the prospect of sports journalists having to film their own news stories. That’s a slippery slope that presents a real danger for news presentation in Australia,” Portelli said. The MEAA says it will continue to support members at Network 10 during this restructuring. Visit www.meaa.org News Analytics Tools from Google GOOGLE HAS ANNOUNCED the launch of a new suite of free tools designed to help online news publishers simplify and better understand data to improve their overall digital strategy. The new tools include: News Tagging Guide (NTG) – allows users to make the most of Google Analytics by identifying the engagement metrics that matter for audience and revenue growth. NTG simplifies the technical implementation and unlocks new actionable insights. News Consumer Insights 2.0 (NCI) – allows users to identify reader funnel optimisation opportunities to increase profitability and build deeper relationships with readers. NCI gives users access to personalised insights and actionable recommendations based on the user’s Google Analytics data. Realtime Content Insights 2.0 (RCI) – Publishers can identify in real time which articles and videos are the most popular with their readers and what broader topics are trending in their region. RCI enables engaging data visualisation for the newsroom and is available for publishers using all versions of Google Analytics. Visit https://newsinitiative.withgoogle.com

Secure Gateway for IP Contribution and Distribution

VITEC HAS ANNOUNCED its new MGW ChannelLink IP distribution gateway. Designed for broadcast, corporate, and government, the appliance acts as a central hub where IP channels from the field can be received and reliably retransmitted live over any IP network. It can receive a large number of input streams and translate them into a multicast or unicast MPEG Transport Management and

Stream over UDP (UDP TS) or an SRT-protected stream. VITEC’s MGW ChannelLink is ideal for stream management, routing, rebroadcasting, or IPTV stream reflection over WAN or the internet. For broadcasters, it simplifies content delivery of live channels from news agencies as well as from sports or entertainment venues. Designed to meet stringent security criteria, it is also suited for secure government and military full-motion video applications. As latency is key to any IP streaming application, MGW ChannelLink achieves the lowest processing time for IP-based channels. When used in conjunction with VITEC’s MGW Ace Encoder and Decoder in its ultra-low-latency HEVC profile, the gateway provides the best end-to-end latency without compromising video quality. The solution enables remote production

and contribution over the internet and avoids the use of expensive fibre or satellite transmission infrastructure, leading to dramatically reduced OPEX. MGW ChannelLink is fully interoperable with third-party encoders and decoders. In addition, the compression-standard-agnostic gateway is compatible with MPEG-2, H.264, and HEVC codecs, any resolution and frame rate (SD, HD, 4K, and more), and is engineered to evolve and support future transport protocols. Tailored to streamline IP video contribution, backhaul, and distribution, users benefit from the solution’s straightforward interface. They can manage all incoming channels from around the world and view information and statistics, such as quality of the network link and packet loss. The gateway also provides users with a centralized location for aggregating content and monitoring incoming streams. Designed to facilitate the setup for operators, a large number of channel sources (encoders) spread around the globe can be set to target a single IP address associated with the MGW ChannelLink. Additionally, the user-friendly interface is designed to simplify channel sourceto-destination routing. VITEC encoders and decoders are capable of encrypting audio and video streams. MGW ChannelLink handles the management of such encrypted streams to secure content end to end. Visit www.vitec.com

Viz Mosart 4 with NDI Live Sources in Touch Interface

VIZ MOSART 4 HAS CHANGED the studio production dynamic by adding within the touch-based user interface, opening the door to entirely new workflows and allowing producers to build shows that can be run more easily, from a wide variety of locations. Further improvements to usability also mean that anyone in the organisation is able to execute a pre-built show, reducing dependencies on limited resources. Viz Mosart 4 features a fully customisable interface with interactive live sources. Viz Mosart integrates video over IP directly to the user’s monitor to give an unrivalled view of the show – displaying any video source, program and preview directly in the user interface. Building on the software-based and IP leadership within Vizrt Group and NDI, this setup can be deployed to an existing network environment and does not require radical infrastructure or monitoring changes. Designed for breaking news, new functionality gives instant and unscripted access to assets including templates, show openers, and much more. The new graphics panel lets users access all their Vizrt graphics, preview them and then put them directly on-air. The template organisation capability introduced in Viz Mosart 4 significantly reduces the time spent on creation and maintenance of automation templates, allowing users to focus on their show and not the tools needed to create and bring their vision to life. Visit www.vizrt.com

Web-Based Weather Data live IP video support directly

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POLYGON LABS, A DEVELOPER OF interactive data applications and visual branding, has launched a centralised web-based weather data management and curation solution, Ipsum Weather. This announcement follows the recent release of Ipsum 2.0, the company’s data aggregation and visualisation platform for broadcast news, sports, weather and branding. Ipsum Weather, a data aggregation, management and playout scheduling solution for on-air weather presentations and sponsorship graphics, aggregates and curates weather data (point-data, satellite, radar, isobars, wind conditions, etc.) and weather alerts from a number of different providers. For gallery and studio weather graphics, the real-time weather data solution is fully integrated with Viz Trio and Viz Director for Viz Engine playout control, as well as newsroom templates in Viz Pilot. It can also provide database management and automated playlist control of master control weather graphics played out on Unreal Engine or Viz Engine. “While significantly streamlining operations, Ipsum Weather generates customer value with simplified weather data and content aggregation integrating with Vizrt’s playout tools and with the Viz Engine and Unreal Engine outputs to provide the most engaging weather graphics,” explains David Jorba, Polygon Labs’ Chief Strategy and Business Development Officer. “The software supports full screen, ticker, augmented and virtual studio weather graphics and is fully integrated with weather data providers like WSI, Weather Bell, or NOAA, as well as data feeds coming from local providers, AP, Reuters, Twitter, Facebook, XML, JSON and RSS sources.” Visit www.polygonlabs.us

Bluefish444 Works with Aximmetry Virtual Studio

BLUEFISH444, the manufacturer of uncompressed 4K SDI, ASI, Video Over IP & HDMI I/O cards and mini converters, has announced SDI I/O support for real time 3D graphics and virtual studio software from Aximmetry for the KRONOS K8 and Epoch range of video cards. Aximmetry provides end-to-end, real-time 3D graphics and virtual studio solutions for the broadcast and entertainment industries. Aximmetry offers the choice of two real-time rendering engines: Aximmetry’s own engine and since the launch of the Aximmetry DE software products: Unreal Engine integration, giving users the flexibility to choose. Aximmetry also has its own advanced keying technology which is included in all licences. The company’s solutions cover all aspects of advanced broadcast presentation: tracked virtual sets, Augmented Reality (AR), interactive touch-screen displays, data-driven graphics, virtual product placement, and audience interaction via second-screen devices. Content created in Aximmetry can be live-streamed directly to YouTube or Facebook. The integration between Bluefish and Aximmetry will provide the highest quality SDI I/O to Aximmetry 3D graphics for broadcast, live streaming, live event and projector/LED wall workflows. All Bluefish Epoch and KRONOS video cards feature bi-directional SDI I/O and are compatible with a wide range of Thunderbolt expansion chassis. Visit www.bluefish444.com

Integrated Approach with Vizrt VIZRT, THE PROVIDER OF software-defined easy for editorial teams needing to find content visual storytelling tools for media content fast and create stories quickly. The Viz One 7 creators, has announced the release and release enables video editing by integrating Viz integration of Viz One 7 and Viz Story 2. This Story 2 to compliment ingest, graphics, content combination empowers creatives by making aggregation, logging, metadata association, and media editing a fully seamless part of their multi-destination publishing capabilities. complete live production workflow. Viz Story is a browser-based video editing and By combining browser-based editing and multi-platform publishing tool that transforms publishing with a full-fledged metadata back how digital media houses and broadcasters end, journalists in the field and editors in any location can work together to edit, publish, and re-edit both urgent and complex stories for air with greater speed, ease, and quality. With minimal training, any user can edit from a browser with full access to stored files, stories, graphics, and metadata. Conversely, a story edit and distribute news programs and video content. With only one single installation point, collaborative video and audio editing capabilities are expanded and content can be delivered from any location without expert skills due to Viz One integration. created in the field can be picked up again in The Viz Story 2 release also enables content the broadcast centre for further refinement, creators to search for and access assets versioning, or even complete re-editing for a using metadata, to choose whether to include different platform with full flexibility using non graphics, and to publish finished articles for burned-in graphics and concurrent editing tools. broadcast when combined with the latest Viz Viz One is a premium production workflow One 7 release. management platform that makes collaboration Visit www.vizrt.com

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