MELVILLE, N.Y.—Chyron has released Chyron Weather 2.4 with an enhanced DataFlow module, offering a managed framework of modern open-source tools designed for future-proof workflows, third-party Climate Data Operators (CDO) integration and expanded Time Referencing capabilities to increase data flexibility and smarter weather data validation to ensure accuracy and reliability.

"This release was fully designed based on customer insights. We listened carefully to their needs, analyzed their workflow, and, as a result, developed exciting new functionalities to elevate their weather storytelling," said Michael Harter, product manager of Chyron Weather. "We are deeply grateful for the close relationship we have with our clients, since their valuable feedback contributes to our development plans and helps make our weather solution more flexible."

Weather 2.4 supports future-proof workflows via a managed framework of modern open-source tools integrated into DataFlow, helping teams to stay aligned with current and future industry standards. The release includes integration with Climate Data Operators (CDO). This allows users to process complex climate and meteorological data, such as GRIB and NetCDF files, directly from the same Weather platform.

Since CDO versions are packaged and managed by Chyron, teams can reduce setup time and avoid manual installation. Another improvement is extended time referencing capabilities, which provide more flexible file and folder pattern configuration to facilitate data ingestion from providers with inconsistent or non-standard naming conventions. Chyron Weather can identify available data, extract the relevant date and time information, and map it automatically to the standard weather timeline.

Future updates will add support for ImageMagick and FFmpeg for image and video conversion. The managed framework helps ensure users work with the same versions and settings, especially valuable in hub-and-spoke workflows.

Smarter weather data validation is now available via the new File Integrity Validator feature. Automated checking and gating nodes continuously monitor incoming data, trigger alerts and route files to quarantine if they don't meet quality standards (based on user-defined thresholds). This helps ensure data-driven graphics are based on accurate inputs, delivering air-ready weather visuals.

More information is available on the company’s website.

MELVILLE, N.Y.—Digital broadcast titling and graphics systems provider Chyron has added David Silverstein as U.S. sales executive.

A multi-Emmy Award winning media professional, Silverstein most recently was national sales director for the Associated Press. His background includes work as a producer, executive producer and news director at several major-market television stations.

"I am excited about sharing Chyron innovations with the industry, and look forward to leveraging my hands-on industry experience to build relationships that are truly collaborative,” Silverstein said. “The Chyron news ecosystem, with CAMIO as its backbone, integrating everything from graphics to virtual sets, to video walls and even weather segments to the newsroom rundown, is very robust and efficient, and I am very familiar with it. The company’s strong partnerships with third-party vendors, resellers and clients is a great building block.”

Silverstein will focus on strengthening Chyron’s relationships with station groups, universities and others, the company said. His client roster will include legacy customers, new major broadcaster clients and emerging broadcasters, Chyron said,

"We are delighted to welcome David to our team," Chyron Senior Vice President of Sales, Americas Steve Papadakis said. "His background encompasses a lot of time in the newsroom and the control room. He knows the challenges. But he also has proven executive sales experience built on his ability to think strategically and help customers move forward. I am confident that he will be a benefit to Chyron, to his colleagues and to our customers."

MONTREAL—ChyronHego has selected Matrox QuadHead2Go multimonitor controller for its Prime Video Wall integrated graphics authoring and video playout solution for broadcast video wall applications, Matrox has announced.

The combination enables studio set designers to create odd- and ultra-sized video walls of any size, shape or pixel count.

“The modern broadcast studio has changed, and video walls have played an integral role in that upgrade,” said Francesco Scartozzi, vice president of sales and business development at Matrox broadcast and media group. “Video walls provide the perfect canvas to deliver stunning graphics and video content to engage audiences like never before. It is now a critical part of the studio design and production process as it is about showcasing one’s brand.”

Prime Video Wall is a resolution-agnostic, real-time graphics application. It integrates seamlessly with QuadHead2Go multimonitor controllers to synchronize any number of pixels to multiple outputs.

By capturing a single 4K channel feed from the Prime Video Walls platform, QuadHead2Go instantly supports up to four standard and non-standard aspect ratio video monitors. Prime Video Wall sub-channel technology allows users to define custom-sized areas of a larger output channel and playout graphics to any position on any of the screens in any order, the company said.

“Video walls are the backdrop in studios but are often brought to the forefront if done properly,” said Olivier Cohen, senior vice president of marketing at ChyronHego. “Content producers are incorporating these large or uniquely-shaped display configurations to complement and enhance storylines ….”

Together the technologies offer “the simplest and most visually enriching experience possible,” said Cohen, adding that ChyronHego is “happy to recommend” the QuadHead2Go to its broadcast system integrators.

More information is available on the ChyronHego and Matrox websites.

MELVILLE, N.Y.—ChyronHego is rolling out the latest version of its Prime graphics platform, Prime 3.7. The primary focus of this iteration of the platform, according to ChyronHego, is to meet the expectations of operators in live playout environments.

One of the key features of the Prime 3.7 is the integration with the new Chyron Classic Keyboard, which will enable users to drive Prime with the special keys and keyboard shortcuts available through the Chyron Classic Keyboard, per ChyronHego. With additional options to configure and customize keyboard shortcuts through the Prime interface, this should enable faster live playout.

Operators can now save .psk and .dsk files with Prime 3.7 to keep, recall or transfer preferred shortcut key settings for playout and design. Graphics can also be saved as .tiff, .png or .jpg for reference or use off the system. There is also new file zipping and file management functionality.

In addition, operators can now tab to different areas of the user interface and easily see the next message set to cue to a channel, even as they switch from one channel to another.

For more information, visit www.chyronhego.com.  

MELVILLE, N.Y.—ChyronHego has promoted Jennifer Paonessa to director of the company’s new Venues Solutions division. The new division focuses on custom, workflow-driven graphics solutions to deliver an end-to-end sports production ecosystem that combines traditional LED content control, advanced graphics creation, virtual and data visuals to boost fan engagement and team branding.

 "Jenn has a great understanding of the sports and live events business, particularly on the venue side, and she's the perfect person to lead our new Venues Solutions division," said Ariel Garcia, CEO at ChyronHego. “She understands how content can drive emotional connection to a game or event, and she works hard to give customers the tools and features they need to generate content that resonates with their stakeholders."

Paonessa began her career in the LED and digital signage world, where she saw the technology evolve into the sophisticated systems that have become central to the fan experience in today's sports and entertainment venues. Through work in control rooms and production trucks, she gained experience with graphics on the broadcast side. More recently, while at Learfield IMG, she facilitated sponsorship deals in the collegiate sports arena and developed partnerships in the growing area of stats and data integration. Since joining ChyronHego in 2019, she has played an important role in building the company's in-venue solutions business.

MELVILLE, N.Y.—ChyronHego has appointed Michael Harris as senior director of sales, strategic accounts. He will be responsible for managing and growing strategic accounts in the United States with a focus on major networks.

Harris joins ChyronHego from Vizrt and has held sales and management positions over the last two decades including roles at Harris Corp., Data Direct Networks, Avid Technology, Pinnacle, Dalet Digital Media Systems and BroadStream Solutions.

ChyronHego President and CEO Ariel Garcia said Harris is an “industry expert with remarkably deep experience in selling graphics workflows and editing solutions to the broadcast industry.”

The company said Harris will help clients identify their goals, challenges, threats and aspirations to implement solutions that address both their business and technical requirements.

MELVILLE, N.Y.—ChyronHego is adding to the curriculum of its ChyronHego Academy training program, announcing a new certification course for the company’s Paint sports production analysis system.

Paint is designed for sports pundits, commentators or producers to visually analyze game play using augmented data-driven graphics and immersive video highlights. Among the ways that Paint can be used are creating graphical illustrated replays. This new course supports industry professionals in acquiring and updating the skills for using the Paint platform.

The ChyronHego Academy course is online and self-paced, developed by product experts with professional field experience. Participants will use a trial version of Paint to work on practical exercises and quizzes. When the course is successfully completed, operators can earn ChyronHego Academy certification by submitting a professional recommendation confirming they have demonstrated their Paint skills in a real-world environment.

“Telestration traditionally has been considered a specialized and complex tool that only a limited pool of specialists can use successfully,” said Carol Bettencourt, director of product marketing at ChyronHego. “Easy to learn and use, Paint takes the mystery out of telestration. And now, with this new ChyronHego Academy course, we’re taking any mystery out of Paint.”

For more information about the ChyronHego Academy, visit the company’s website. 

MELVILLE, N.Y.—ChyronHego has announced that its Click Effects PRIME fan engagement engine is a partner product with the recently unveiled Panasonic Kairos, an IT/IP-centric next-gen live production platform.

The Kairos was designed for high-quality video production and delivery, live or in the studio. By pairing with the Click Effects PRIME, ChryonHego says it will add new capabilities and versatility to sports production.

Click Effects PRIME combines ChyronHego’s PRIME graphics platform with Click Effects’ tools to simplify the design and playout of dynamic content. Through this integration, keyframed actions are available to any SDI- or DVI-powered display of any aspect ratio, says ChyronHego. Operators can deliver real-time graphics, video clips, audio tracks, animations and sponsor ads.

The Kairos, meanwhile, has GPU-based processing, with all processing layers performed in one step. The platform also offers ultra-low one-frame latency processing.

“Sitting at the heart of in-venue entertainment, this video processing architecture can play the role of video processor, scaler, mixer or server—a uniquely versatile solution that pairs well with Click Effects PRIME for the latest in live venue production and maximum fan engagement,” said Michael Bergeron, Panasonic Broadcast Camera Systems senior product manager.

For more information, visit www.chyronhego.com.  

MELVILLE, N.Y. —ChyronHego has been collaborating with Nexstar, Sinclair and Quincy Media to source and aggregate current U.S. statistics on how COVID-19 is spreading at the national, state and local levels. 

This data is being gathered by reporters at call-letter stations across the U.S., organized by ChyronHego and then provided to local broadcasters so they can provide the latest information to viewers.

“We knew that with our technology and the human resources of our broadcast partners, we could help ensure that local news outlets have the tools and information they need to tell this story for their communities,” said Drew Hahn, senior vice president, customer success at ChyronHego.

The key piece of ChyronHego technology being used in this circumstance is the NewsTicker content management platform, which features the data management capabilities of Prime Graphics. Nexstar, Sinclair and Quincy Media have standardized on NewsTicker at the local level.

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“Our team worked day and night to help make this collaboration a success,” said Hahn. “We’re proud the database we’ve created ultimately will help people and communities across the U.S. to stay informed and stay safe in this very difficult time.”

For more information, visit www.chyronhego.com.  

ChyronHego's spring plans will be to showcase the latest updates to its graphic offerings that cover news, sports and other programming.

Part of ChyronHego’s offerings will include the latest version of its universal graphics platform, PRIME Graphics 3.6. PRIME Graphics provides a single 4K-, HDR-, IP-ready graphics design, authoring and playout platform that can create design packages like lower thirds/news tickers, video walls and interactive touch screens. The show will also serve as the debut of PRIME AR, the augmented reality application of the PRIME Graphics platform.

Updates will also be shown of ChyronHego’s Camio end-to-end content creation, production and playout workflow. Among this is the integration of the re-skinning feature with PRIME’s Style Sheets to create a consistent look. Then there’s the new Camio 4.9 media engine for rapid browsing, fulfilling and importing PRIME Graphics templates directly via MOS plug-in into a compliant nonlinear editor. 

For virtual studio and augmented reality graphics, ChyronHego’s Fresh 1.4 is available, now with full 4K support as well as UE 4.24 features like the 3D plug-in Datasmith. Additional features include support for higher resolutions, more inputs and outputs, a new scripting library and improved web panels.

ChryonHego also plans to highlight a couple of products that boost sports broadcasts, Paint 8.2 and Virtual Placement 7.3. Paint 8.2 is a telestration and analysis tool that now boasts HDR recording for the creation of Illustrated Replays in 1080p and 4K HDR, and new usability features such as auto-save, enhanced timeline functionality and richer editing features. Virtual Place 7.3, meanwhile, added an automatic chroma keyer for using AI to help add virtual graphics to live productions.

For weather broadcasts, the Metacast platform helps with unified content creation across linear and nonlinear productions. Its new features include a new 3D font, built-in HEVC clip encoding and decoding, H.264 clip export and an automation Rest API for the option to use an external automation system to drive Metacast.

Additional technologies from ChryonHego include Click Effects PRIME for venue graphics, a new Chyron Classic Keyboard and new modules of Axis World Graphics.

For more information, visit www.chyronhego.com.

MELVILLE, N.Y.—ChyronHego is unwrapping the latest version of its graphics asset management system for news content creation, production and playout, the Camio 4.8, touting simplified quality control features and new rendering and replication features to help with content creation for designers, producers and directors.

“New features within Camio 4.8 simplify day-to-day tasks for these users while further optimizing the system for distributed teams and making it even easier to ‘create once, publish many’ in a hub-and-spoke graphics workflow,” said Teus Groenewoud, vice president of product and technology at ChyronHego.

Camio 4.8 has a WebM Proxies feature, available via the Google Chrome browser, that allows users to generate clip previews that are playable in the HTML5-based Camio interface and asset manager.

There is also the metadata & autofill replication feature that includes all asset metadata, thumbnail and proxy regeneration, as well as Camio (LUCI) interface autofill data. This provides more flexible control over graphics across the station group, particularly for remote stations and teams, according to ChyronHego.

Another new feature is saved items within the Camio interface, which provides a configurable folder-based hierarchy for permissions and access to templates. Users can also set expiration dates that align with news cycles and have ready access to frequently used templates.

A media rendering feature is also available that enables users to create full broadcast-quality stills and animations from MOS-based templates in the HTML5-based Camio interface. These renderings can be saved locally or to the Camio asset manager.

ChyronHego is now shipping the Camio 4.8. More information is available at ChyronHego’s website.

LONDON—ChryonHego is heading onto the pitch for FIFA soccer matches, at least virtually. The company’s Virtual Football system has been officially certified as a virtual offside line technology that will be used by not only broadcasters, but as the official resource for the video assistant referee workflow.

The Virtual Football system inserts virtual graphics onto the field, including the accurate placement of offside lines. The system is built on advanced image processing, allowing users to insert virtual graphics without the need for camera sensors or special camera heads. It also has a built-in keyer to overcome environmental effects like shadows or bright sunlight.

Updates to the Virtual Football system that have allowed it be certified by FIFA have included optimized calibration speed and workflow, field and lens parameters, and allowing selections from multiple angles to improve accuracy and streamline user workflow, according to Niall Hendry, product manager, Sports, at ChyronHego.

FIFA’s approval came after a number of testing events that measured the rendered offside lines for their accuracy in a variety of scenarios. Virtual Football passed all of the performance criteria laid out by FIFA.

“It is critical that technologies used in professional football are of the highest quality and accuracy, and FIFA certification shows that Virtual Football has met this high standard,” said Ian Wray, sports director for EMEA and APAC at ChyronHego.

More information is available at www.chyronhego.com.

MELVILLE, N.Y.—ChyronHego announced it has begun shipping version 3.5 of its Prime Graphics platform with features to make it easier to add creative graphics into news and sports broadcasts, in-stadium productions and government and corporate events.

"Driven by the industry's most powerful rendering engine and equipped with a full set of authoring and playout applications, Prime Graphics gives users the flexibility they need to deliver rich and engaging visual experiences," said Teus Groenewoud, vice president of product and technology at ChyronHego.

New features, which are accessible from within the Prime Designer user interface, include:

• the ability to import Adobe Photoshop content with editable layers and text;
• enhanced keyboard support for quick graphics recall during authoring and playout; and
• advanced keyframe capabilities.

Prime Graphics, ChyronHego’s universal graphics platform, can be used for branding, as an integrated clip player, a newsroom graphics system, video wall graphics driver or a touch-screen solution, the company said.

A variety of workflow features, such as Live Mode editing, streamline Prime Graphics tasks, saving hours of work, ChyronHego said.

The product’s new Adobe Photoshop layer import allows designers to import .PSD files and associated layers, including editable text, giving uses a direct path to making sure an art director’s vision is reflected in on-air graphics, the company said.

The new advanced keyboard support makes it easy to use recalls for fast scene authoring and easy manual playout, which is especially useful in live sports and entertainment productions, it said.

The new Keyframe Ease Editor makes it simple to adjust the speed between keyframes, allowing designers to create more sophisticated 3-D animations and transitions, ChyronHego said.

Prime Graphics’ new support for multiple-style effects makes it faster and easier to apply multiple effects to a single text object. The new feature allows multiple text styles to be applied without requiring designers to account for spacing, it said.

More information is available on the ChyronHego website.

MELVILLE, N.Y.—Ariel Garcia has been appointed CEO of ChyronHego, effective Sept. 13, the company announced.

Garcia takes on the new role after having served as the company’s president of broadcasting since late last year. Joining the company as a board member in 2015 following a strategic investment from Vector Capital, Garcia will focus on driving product innovation based on what customers require, the company said.

Since 2014, he has served as operating partner and head of value creation at Vector Capital. Previously, he was senior principal at The Boston Consulting Group, where he led the company's technology, media and telecommunications practices.

Garcia holds a Master of Business Administration from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and a degree in computer engineering from the Universidad Católica Argentina.

"I am thrilled to step in as CEO during this exciting growth stage for ChyronHego. Our sports intelligence and broadcasting products are top-notch, and our increasing focus and partnership with our customers will prove critical for future success," Garcia said.

Garcia is taking over as company CEO from Marco Lopez.

More information is available on the ChyronHego website. 

SAN FRANCISCO—If there’s an overarching goal for broadcasters looking to freshen their look or retool their brand, it’s to use new high-end graphics solutions to add context and dig deeper into the stories they’re trying to tell.

That was the goal for the Canadian media company Global Television when it began plotting how best to cover the Alberta provincial election this spring.

But rather than installing an oversized new set, the company decided to incorporate a series of touchscreen-based web widgets that would tell a more compelling story. These web widgets incorporate live election results, historical results and key demographic data to help broadcasters expand election coverage to mobile and online devices.

ENGAGING THE AUDIENCE

Global Television used web widgets designed by Bannister Lake to illustrate connections between election results, local maps and contextual data like household income and family status. The result was a way for viewers to more simply understand and analyze regional and city-suburban voting outcomes.

The result: the creation of colorful, impactful datasets that were designed to help Global Television tell a more compelling election story.

“Election night coverage is all about results,” said Gerry Belec, director of news technology and operations at Corus Entertainment, the network’s parent company. “The touch-enabled maps and the new features in Elector allowed us to use data in new ways that genuinely engaged our audience.”

According to Georg Hentsch, president of Bannister Lake in Cambridge, Ont., these HTML5-based widgets can be launched for other live data applications, including sports and finance, and customized so that viewers can access and manage the specific content they want to consume.

Global Television also decided to employ Elector election software from Bannister Lake that helps reporters identify overall voting trends and locate races that are fluctuating dramatically or are too close to call.

The network also integrated a virtual set system that gave it the opportunity to design a customized virtual set. Using the Avid Maestro graphics suite, 4Designer 2D/3D authoring software and ProSet virtual studio, Global said it has been able to produce more compelling virtual sets, 3D graphics and animation solutions, which has led to a more visual, compelling type of news program.

“VR has allowed us to go places we couldn’t go,” Belec said. “It also means that we can tell these stories in ways that are highly visual, which is critical for good television but wasn’t a reality previously—the tools just weren’t available.”

HYPER-REALISTIC

Other companies are investing in hyper-realistic graphics to retool broadcast studio spaces, including TV2 East in Denmark. The company recently invested in a new graphics rendering engine from Ross Video, which enables the development of photorealistic scenery and realistic graphics in a virtual studio environment.

“Voyager helps us make virtual sets and augmented reality look even more realistic,” said Stuart Russell, senior communications manager for Ross Video. “It’s a great tool to enhance storytelling and help produce more engaging and compelling content.”

The new Voyager—which is built on the Unreal 4 gaming engine and based on the company’s Frontier rendering system—can be used to design photorealistic scenery for virtual sets and augmented reality. TV2, a regional television network that has been using virtual studio technology since 2012 for its news studio, will use the graphics platform as part of a full-blown virtual studio solution. The system includes graphics features like real-time reflections, dynamic texture, skeleton animation and cloth animation.

“We hope the change will give us easier access to an effective augmented reality workflow, hopefully a MOS-based workflow,” said Kasper Thor Larsen, technical chef for TV2 East.

Other manufacturers are introducing solutions that more accurately integrate disparate graphics into a newsroom scene. At the 2019 NAB Show, ChyronHego launched its Fresh graphics-rendering solution that also integrates with the Epic Games Unreal Engine 4. By tying the ChyronHego augmented reality and virtual set software into the Unreal platform, users are able to bundle text and titles into an AR scene via a 3D graphic object library that’s pre-integrated into the Unreal environment. This allows producers to add 3D elements without having to re-render them for the gaming engine.

“Producers are able to tell a better story and captivate viewers through high-quality AR graphics,” said Alon Stoerman, senior product manager, live production solutions with ChyronHego. They’re also able to do it faster and easier than ever before, since Fresh can be operated as an integral part of the rundown.”

Integration with the ChyronHego CAMIO template-based asset management system can be used to incorporate AR/VS elements into a station’s news environment. This integration makes it even easier for producers to tell a better story, the company said, because AR graphics are part of the news rundown along with other graphics element.

Telling a more compelling story was also the goal for the Finnish telco provider Telia. In an effort to grow the burgeoning Finnish esports market, the company launched a new national e-sports league called “Telia Esports Series in April.” To boost its popularity and help players compete at a higher level, the series is being broadcast internationally on the Twitch channel and nationwide on Finnish television.

The program is broadcast in two locales: from a remote production hub and from a formal studio. The physical studio employs virtual reality technology Zero Density led by systems integrator Broadcast Solutions Finland. The facility switches from programs broadcast in 1080i50 to the Telia production platform of 1080p50 in a few seconds, the company said.

LAS VEGAS—ChyronHego recognizes the changing nature of the broadcast industry and has crafted a series of products that seek to address many of the issues facing content producers. ChyronHego will have these products, both new and newly updated, as part of its 2019 NAB Show presentation.

One of the new products from ChryonHego that will be on-hand is the Vidigo News platform. Designed for OTT content creation and publishing, Vidigo News is an all-in-one production system that combines ChryonHego’s Vidigo Live Compositor for live multicamera production with the Live Assist production automation system and a Live Assist Panels user interface.

PRIME Graphics 3.5, the latest version of ChyronHego’s universal graphics platform, will also be on display. This 4K and IP-ready graphics design and playout system has added GPU capabilities that enable PRIME to drive pixels and synchronize multiple outputs for video walls of any size and shape. It also now has the ability to create native HDR graphics and output them to an HDR channel.

New developments have also been made to the company’s family of AR graphics and virtual set platforms. ChyronHego’s Hybrid AR systems allow for AR graphics to be created and managed from the same NRCS rundown. The products have also been integrated with Epic Games’ Unreal Engine, featuring rendering and real-time special effect tools.

ChyronHego will address channel branding needs with new capabilities built into its NewsTicker 5 and PRIME Graphics systems. By integrating the two products, NewsTicker 5 can use PRIME’s data management capabilities for delivering localized channel branding and support for multiple languages. It also features a new HTML5-based user interface for remote control from laptops and tablets.

Focusing on the graphic needs of sports broadcasters, ChryonHego plans to highlight its Paint and Virtual Placement products. Paint is a telestration and analysis tool for broadcasters to generate Illustrated Replays by visually analyzing game play and graphically highlighting the video to be replayed. In addition, the latest version of Paint, 7.5, has full 4K support, integration with EVS and Grass Valley replay systems and tools for automatic publishing of telestrated replay clips to social media outlets.

The newly updated Virtual Placement 7.1 adds the ability for a single Virtual Placement system to output up to four different virtual graphics at once. The system also has remote graphics placement for international rights holders, allowing broadcasters to insert a virtual graphic into clean feed with no additional calibration needed for realistic tracking.

There will also be the Click Effects PRIME system, which is a set of integrated and turn-key graphics-authoring tools for in-venue experiences.

All of these products will be at the ChyronHego booth, SL1208, throughout the 2019 NAB Show.

To register for the NAB Show, visit www.nabshow.com.

NASHVILLE, TN.—TNDV has redesigned and upgraded its Destination live multi-camera HD production truck to offer sports and entertainment producers an agile, compact mobile production solution in a 40-foot form factor.

“While there are plenty of full-sized HD production trucks on the road today, there aren’t many that can fit backstage or in the alley behind the venue,” said TNDV President and owner Nic Dugger. “By offering the same firepower in a much smaller footprint, Destination definitely fills that void in this specialized, niche market.”

The truck, originally called Blackjack, had been owned by three different companies before being acquired by TNDV, moved to Atlanta and parked outside the Philips Arena (now State Farm Arena) for four years where it was used to produce the home games of the NBA’s Atlanta Hawks.

Once done with that coverage, the vehicle was redesigned, upgraded and rebranded. Destination was re-engineered with a robust infrastructure to handle a high density of video and audio feeds, said Dugger.

The redesigned Destination has expanding sides that broaden the production vehicle from nine to 11.5 feet. The interior is divided into a main video production area, an audio suite and an isolated video production space to allow producers and editors to work on content without disrupting live shows.

The main production space is equipped with a Ross Carbonite 3 M/E production switcher, which faces a large multiviewer. Digital video effects and live broadcast graphics options include two Ross xPression dual-channel CG systems, and either a Chyron Duet Hyper X3 or Pinnacle Deko 3000 dual-channel live graphics system.

A bank of AJA Video Ki Pro digital disc recorders are provided to record programs. Sony 1800 HDCam and Panasonic AJ-HD1200A VTRs are available as options. The production area also offers a six-channel EVS HD XT[2] slo-mo system for live sports production.

Destination carries Hitachi SK-HD 1200 portable HD studio/field production cameras that are capable of low-noise 1080p image capture with support for high dynamic range (HDR).

Audio support includes a Soundcraft Si Impact 32-facer digital audio mixer with a Soundcraft stagebox. A large Imagine Communications Platinum router handles video signal distribution, including multiviewer support.

More information is available on the TNDV website.

WASHINGTON—At the 2018 Government Video Expo, Nov. 28-29, ChyronHego will showcase its newly launched Vidigo News product, an all-in-one newsroom production solution designed specifically for OTT content creation and publishing. Vidigo News packages ChyronHego's Vidigo Live Compositor, an intuitive software solution for live multicamera production, with LyricX graphics creation and playout solution, Live Assist playout automation system, and a custom GUI based on the Live Assist Panels user interface and control panel creation tool. Vidigo News combines a scalable switcher, an audio mixer, a powerful video effects engine, a LyricX graphics channel, clip players, and even robotic camera control in an easy-to-use solution that can be controlled by a single operator.

ChyronHego will also demonstrate CAMIO 4.5, the next release of the company's industry-leading graphic asset management solution, with key features designed to make producer-driven news workflows even more versatile, flexible, and cost-effective. CAMIO 4.5 enhancements include a powerful new render engine; the ability to publish content straight from the newsroom to social media; and the latest version of LUCI5, the HTML5 plugin for fulfillment interface.

ChyronHego will also showcase Paint 7.4, its telestration and analysis solution for sports broadcasting. Version 7.4 includes full 4K support including built-in recording in 4K, as well as new IP capabilities including support for HTTP H.264 live IP stream recording. Also joining Paint's existing integration with EVS slow-motion replay servers is an all-new integration with the LiveTouch replay system from Grass Valley, a Belden Brand. The new version of Paint also includes new automatic player-tracking capabilities that remove the need for key framing — making the telestration solution fastest to air — and tools for publishing content directly to social media.

Also on display will be PRIME Graphics 3.1, the new version of ChyronHego's universal graphics platform. Driven by ChyronHego's powerful rendering engine, PRIME Graphics 3.1 addresses five mission-critical use cases within a single easy-to-use 4K- and IP-ready graphics design and playout platform: ChyronHego's renowned character generator, a powerful clip player, a video wall solution, a graphics-driven touch-screen platform, and a branding solution. PRIME Graphics 3.1 includes support for the SMPTE ST 2110 standard and now includes HDR-enabled 16-bit color, which allows the platform to deliver 10-bit HDR output in the customer's choice of HLG or S-Log3 formats. Other new capabilities include support for ChyronHego's new INTELLICOMMADER Keyboard for Lyric, a new fast recall feature, a true HDR canvas, and a new "base scene" workflow concept.

ChyronHego will be in Booth 609. 

The Government Video Expo takes place at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C., Nov. 28-29. Click here to register. 

MELVILLE, NY--ChyronHego has released PRIME Graphics 3.0, an update to its integrated broadcast graphics platform that adds support for the new SMPTE ST 2110 standard and IP-based workflows.

The update also adds high dynamic range (HDR) 16-bit color capability, which enables the platform to deliver 10-bit HDR images in user-selectable HLG or S-Log3 formats. By supporting both HLG or S-Log3 formats, ChyronHego claims that PRIME Graphics 3.0 offers customers a future-proof solution that lets them to choose the standard they need.

This integrated broadcast graphics platform incorporates CG, clip player, video wall, graphics-driven touchscreen, and ChyronHego's NewsTicker branding solution within a single 4K/IP-ready graphics design and playout system. The video wall can automatically feed content to any size canvas, with any number of outputs, and any resolution per output.

[Read: Prime Graphics v2.6 Now Available From ChyronHego]

For news production, PRIME Graphics 3.0 integrates with CAMIO, ChyronHego's MOS-based and NRCS-connected graphics asset management solution, allowing news and sports broadcasters to extend their newsroom capabilities.

The resolution-agnostic solution also leverages advanced 64-bit GPU- and CPU-based technologies to handle the demands of rendering graphics and effects, as well as HDR-enabled 16-bit color. 

MELVILLE, NY—ChyronHego has debuted "Coach Capture," a product that streamlines the logging, tagging, telestration and HD recording live and post-game events. The product’s features and functionality make analyzing game play faster, easier and more accurate, the company says.

Designed for sports video analysts and coaches, Coach Capture offers cross-platform compatibility with macOS X, Windows (versions 7 and 10), and Windows tablets, as well as existing production workflows.

Seamlessly integrated with the ChyronHego’s Coach Paint product suite, users can log, navigate through events, and push clips between Coach Capture and Coach Paint. They can also automatically add clips to playlists, reorganize them on the fly, log notational data with pop-out labels, and import and export game footage.

“[Time] is the most crucial commodity for sports analysts, and there are [many] events they’d like to capture during any given game,” said James Clarke-Reed, head of sports performance and technology solutions at ChyronHego. “Coach Capture removes the restrictions that…limit analysts’ ability to quickly capture, log, and organize game clips.” 

LONDON—Mark Roberts Motion Control, a Nikon subsidiary and supplier of robotic camera systems and ChyronHego have partnered to develop automated, robotic camera-based player and ball tracking systems for sports.

The partnership brings together key technologies, including ChyronHego’s TRACAB optical sports tracking system, which identifies and follows players as they move, while providing live game-play metrics. Also key is MRMC’s new Polycam System for synchronized movement of multiple robotic cameras, and new Robotic Pod camera system that captures video and stills of game action from multiple angles around the field.

[Read: ChyronHego To Debut Latest Broadcast Graphics Tools at 2018 NAB Show]

“ChyronHego’s graphics solutions and installed tracking systems expand the possibilities for our automated remote camera systems,” said MRMC CEO Assaff Rawner. The Robotic Pod incorporates a Nikon D5 Digital SLR camera that captures high-quality imagery, even in challenging lighting conditions, as well as live color-control technology for matching the color output of multiple cameras.

MRMC can capitalize on ChyronHego’s broad sports industry connections to market their new products, and ChyronHego can sell and distribute MRMC’s automated solutions to its own customer base. Initially, distribution will be through Nikon Inc. (USA), Nikon France S.A.S. (France), and Nikon GmbH (Germany), while MRMC will handle UK distribution directly.

TRACAB camera-based player and ball tracking systems are now installed at over 300 stadiums and “capture live tracking data for over 4,500 games every year,” said Sören Kjellin, CTO, ChyronHego. “[This] partnership is the latest example of how data-driven, innovative solutions are accelerating professional sports teams, leagues, and broadcasters around the world.”

MELVILLE, N.Y.—Dome Productions is doing graphics on the go with the addition of new ChyronHego equipment in its fleet of 17 mobile production vehicles.

Dome already utilized ChyronHego’s LyricX graphics creation and playout environment, but with the addition of 13 Mosaic XL2 graphics platforms it can bring the trucks into its overall LyricX graphic workflows. The 1080p capable Mosaic XL2 will help with Dome Productions reported ventures into 4K.

“A common character-generation format across our entire fleet will give us a boost in both speed and capability and help accelerate productions of all sizes,” said Mike Johnson, director of engineering for Dome Productions.

LAS VEGAS—ChyronHego is set to debut enhancements to its live broadcast graphics solutions at the 2018 NAB Show, including version 4.4 of the CAMIO Universe graphic asset management ecosystem for multiplatform delivery.

A software-driven, template-based solution, CAMIO 4.4 now enables newsroom content to be published directly to Facebook, Twitter and other social media outlets, further unifying news and weather workflows. With LUCI5, ChyronHego’s new HTML5-based LUCI plug-in, producers can browse, create and order video assets and images from within the MOS-based CAMIO ecosystem, without leaving their newsroom computer system, making graphics generation easier.

LyricX 3.2 graphics creation and playout solution now features a built-in HTML browser, user interface upgrades, improved performance, timer and masking and streamlines integration with ChyronHego’s HTML-based systems Live Assist Panels and CAMIO.

As the latest version of ChyronHego’s 64-bit, software-driven graphics rendering engine, PRIME 3.0 features tighter integration with CAMIO, and 10-bit hybrid log gamma (HLG) HDR output capability.

NewsTicker 5 for branding and displaying tickers now manages all content—including automated, manual and viewer-generated—without need for scripting. Its browser-based interface supports mobile devices, tablets and other platforms, and features support for multiple languages and seamless integration with the PRIME graphics platform and breaking news and weather alerts data.

ChyronHego will also showcase real-time data visualization, including v7.4 of its Paint telestration and analysis solution, now with 4K support. Paint 7.4 now integrates with Grass Valley’s LiveTouch replay system and adds HTTP H.264 live IP stream recording.

The Virtual Placement product family now includes support for 4K, auto masking and enhanced real-time data integration with the company’s TRACAB and ZXY sports tracking solutions and third-party data sources, like NFL NextGen Stats.

Booth visitors will see demos on an 80-square-foot ultra-high-resolution LED wall, including: the Click Effects PRIME (v3.1) live A/V presentation solution for arenas; the latest Live Compositor multi-camera studio workflow with integrated virtual set and augmented graphics and Metacast weather graphics in a news production workflow driven by CAMIO.

The 2018 NAB Show takes place in Las Vegas, April 9-12. ChyronHego will be in booth SL1208. For more information, visit www.nabshow.com.

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MELVILLE, N.Y.—It didn’t take long for Marco Lopez to find his next stop. After Grass Valley announced his departure as its president last week, Lopez has officially been announced as the new CEO for ChyronHego, effective Jan. 8.

Marco Lopez

Lopez takes over for ChyronHego’s former president and CEO, Johan Apel, who will continue to serve as executive chairman of the board and will focus on sports solutions, per ChyronHego’s announcement.

“With this change in our executive team, Marco will apply his deep experience and powerful leadership skills to grow our business amongst broadcast customers, while I will work with the team to continue expanding our worldwide presence in sports,” said Apel.

Lopez had been president at Grass Valley since 2012, and previously served as a vice president at Miranda Technologies through its acquisition by Belden Inc. He also spent time at Matrox, holding senior director of sales and marketing, and director of products during his 11-year tenure.

MELVILLE, N.Y.—ChyronHego is unwrapping the latest version of its Prime Graphics, 64-bit, all-software rendering engine for the Prime graphics platform. The updated v2.6 now offers 16-bit color, 10-bit I/O, a new Scene camera effect, additional codecs for recording inputs and advanced touchscreen features.

Prime Graphics v2.6 is a 4K-ready, 3D graphics authoring and playout system. Among the key features for v2.6 is the Prime Designer, a design tool for graphics authoring. Prime Designer has a drag-and-drop intuitive design; Advanced Data Object provides filtered data binding; and integration with ChyronHego’s NewsTicker. The platform’s new Scene Camera effect enables users to add multiple cameras to a scene. In addition, an Inline Text effect enables users to add scene objects to text objects, like crawls.

Other toolkits available in the updated system include Prime Branding to deliver branding elements; Prime Clips, an integrated broadcast clip player; Prime News, a unified newsroom graphics system; Prime Studio Monitors for feeding graphics to non-standard-aspect-ratio monitors; Prime Interactive, a graphics-driven touchscreen; and Prime Workflow, an integrated extension of ChyronHego’s workflow content distribution and syncing technology.

Additional features include tube object and embedded Lua and shader effects to the Prime Interactive toolkit. Prime Studio Monitors now has subchannels for studio monitor solutions and stadium LED screens.

MELVILLE, N.Y.–Boromy Ung has been named ChyronHego’s new chief product officer and will be responsible for charting the roadmap for its products, the company announced earlier this month.

Boromy Ung

Ung, who will report to ChyronHego President and CEO Johan Apel, has more than 14 years of product management experience. Ung joins the company from Grass Valley where he most recently was VP of news with responsibility for the P&L of that company’s automation, graphics, asset management and editing solutions.

His other positions at Grass Valley included VP of product management for the Digital Media & Workflow and Monitoring & Control divisions; director of strategic marketing; market segment manager; and playout and product manager at Miranda Technologies prior to its acquisition by Grass Valley parent Belden.

Ung’s most recent experience at Grass Valley with responsibility for its news products will be particularly a valuable in his new role with ChyronHego, said Apel.

“Our vision of the CAMIO Universe as a comprehensive, software-based production ecosystem is taking hold in TV newsrooms everywhere, and momentum is continuing to build worldwide for our sports broadcast solutions, such as the Emmy Award-winning TRACAB," he said.

BOTHELL, WASH.—The Alliance for IP Media Solutions has added a quartet of new companies: China Digital Video Beijing Limited, ChyronHego, Dayang Technology Development and TAG Video Systems Ltd.

AIMS is an organization representing a group of broadcast and media companies with the goal of assisting the transition from SDI to IP through industry standards and interoperable technology. Currently, the organization officially endorses an IP transition that includes support for SMPTE 2022-6, AES67, VSF recommendations TR-03 and TR-04, and AMWA NMOS IS-04.

All four of the companies are joining AIMS as associate members.

MELVILLE, N.Y.—ChyronHego upgraded Camio, its graphic asset management server, with features including the HubDrive file distribution tool and Luci5, an HTML5 update of the company’s modular user interface for newsroom producers. With this release, Camio 4.2.2 brings new capabilities and even greater product integration to the Camio Universe, ChyronHego’s comprehensive, software-based newsroom production ecosystem.

“With Luci5’s simple and clear workflow connecting the newsroom to the art department and the control room, users can focus on writing the news and breaking it first. And HubDrive makes it easier than ever before to manage and distribute graphics assets across a network of playout devices,” said Sören Kjellin, chief technology officer of ChyronHego.

With Luci5, producers are able to browse, create, and order images and video assets from Camio without having to leave the familiar environment of their newsroom computer systems (NRCS). Luci5 enables the creation of reusable graphics, clips, and automated cues. While Luci5 is based on the Media Object Server Protocol’s new HTML5 plugin specification, making it compatible with most current NRCS solutions, the interface also supports some older NRCS via an ActiveX container.

The HTML5-based Luci plugin also enables engineering staff to maintain the deployment. Since Luci5 is a webpage served from Camio, producers will get the latest version of Luci without the need for software upgrades at their workstations.

ChyronHego’s new HubDrive feature in Camio 4.2.2 is a Dropbox-like folder synchronization and file distribution system that empowers art departments to distribute Camio content automatically to a network of playout devices. Via its fast and lightweight client/server architecture, HubDrive automatically installs necessary fonts and ensures that all required files are distributed where they are needed throughout the network. Seamless support for the full range of solutions in the Camio Universe ensures that graphics content is in place when and where it is needed.

LAS VEGAS—Emphasizing the importance of virtualization and making it viable for broadcasters, ChyronHego showcased its VPX virtual production server at the company’s Sunday press conference. Designed for hosting end-to-end live production workflows, VPX allows broadcast news operations to run content creation and playout software in a virtualized, IT-based environment.

Click Effects PRIME user interface

Acknowledging that the potential for virtualization has existed for some time, ChyronHego Chief Marketing Officer Jesper Gawell said, “We asked ourselves, ‘Why is this not a reality for broadcasters?’”

Gawell continued, “With the VPX platform, we’re going to the next phase in IT-based broadcast operations by enabling these solutions to run in a virtualized server environment. With VPX, we clearly show the transformation from SDI to IP to IT is here.”

Also new from ChryonHego is Click Effects PRIME, a turnkey graphics authoring solution for live arena and stadium A/V presentations. Combining the authoring, rendering and data binding power of ChyronHego’s PRIME graphics ecosystem with the graphics generation and custom digital display control of its Click Effects CrossFire and Blaze solutions, Click Effects PRIME features realtime integration with ChyronHego’s new Live Assist Panels for user interface creation and scripting, as well as the Live Compositor software-based video switching system.

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MELVILLE, N.Y.—ChyronHego will continue on as part of English Premier League’s (EPL) production team for the next three seasons per a recent announcement. The EPL has extended its contract to use ChyronHego’s TRACAB image-based tracking system for real-time ball- and player-tracking data for all 20 of its clubs.

The EPL began using the TRACAB system in 2013, but with this new deal a hardware upgrade will be provided to the systems in all 20 stadiums. The TRACAB system uses image-processing technology to determine the position of all moving objects on the field of play at 25 times per second. The results provide a live data feed for all the X, Y and Z coordinates for each identified object. The data can then be streamed in an open format to a multitude of visualization platforms, like broadcast graphics systems and online or mobile platforms, as well as prepare performance statistics for sports analysis.

The TRACAB system will be used for all EPL matches for the 2016/2017, 2017/2018 and 2018/2019 seasons.

MELVILLE, N.Y.—ChyronHego’s Channel Box Prime channel branding system has hit the big 2-0, as the company has launched Prime 2.0. The updated platform is a 64-bit, all-software rendering engine behind the Prime Ecosystem, a universal graphics system.

Prime 2.0 leverages GPU and CPU technologies to render graphics and effects. It can output graphics and clips through a single system. Among Prime 2.0’s features is the Prime Designer, a design tool for graphics authoring that provides drag-and-drop workflows for scene construction and data binding. Additional features include Warp Effects technology, auto-follow, mask, render to texture and integration with ChyronHego’s NewsTicker data and content management system.

New with the Prime 2.0 update is Clips Prime, a flexible broadcast clip player that can support up to six independent channels of video from a single server. Clips Prime features dynamic and pre-canned transitions and provides full integration with Camio, ChyronHego’s MOS-based and NRCS-connected graphics asset management system. This makes Prime 2.0 an element of the Camio Universe of technology.

ChyronHego can deliver the Prime Ecosystem either as a series of packages operating together or as stand-alone products.

MELVILLE, N.Y.—ChyronHego’s LyricX graphics creation and playout system has a whole new look, as the company has announced the system has been updated to version 2.0. LyricX 2.0 now offers support for different graphics applications, including HD and 4K, while also providing a transition from Lyric PRO.

With the updated version, users can now execute macros, load-and-play, and handle clips up to five times faster than the previous LyricX model, per ChyronHego’s press release. The system can support broadcast IP transport protocols like SMPTE 2022-6, allowing LyricX 2.0 users to move between SDI and IP, 4K and HD video within the same graphics platform. Native support for NewTek NDI IP protocol is also available.

In addition, LyricX 2.0 is a part of ChyronHego’s Camio Universe, a software-based ecosystem for users to create graphics and deliver them on-air.

ChyronHego has made the LyricX 2.0 available for shipping.

MELVILLE, N.Y.—ChyronHego and the Israeli Premier Football League, along with Israeli pay-TV operator Charlton, have gotten the ball rolling on a five-year deal that will see ChyronHego supply its graphic technology to live IPFL broadcasts. The broadcasts will utilize a trio of ChyronHego products, including its LyricX graphics creation and playout system, TRACAB player tracking system, and Virtual Placement virtual graphics system.

The deal will kick off with the 2016-2017 season. All broadcasts of IFPL’s Ligat Winner first division and State Cup will use the LyricX system. All Ligat Winner stadiums, meanwhile, have been equipped with optical cameras that enable TRACAB, which captures and deliver real-time data on movement of the players, officials and the ball. Virtual Placement will be used to create “instant virtual replays,” providing real-time animation that recreates player movement.

ChyronHego has similar deals with other soccer leagues, including the UEFA Champions League, English Premier League and La Liga.

NEW YORK—The broadcast workflow designer ChyronHego will be at this year’s NAB Show New York, located in the Javits Convention Center on Nov. 9-10. To be showcased is Chyron’s software-based newsroom production workflow CAMIO Universe, its latest version of a graphics creator and playout software LyricX and a hybrid virtual studio/augmented reality tracking solution, to name a few.

The CAMIO Universe addresses the newsroom trend towards software-based operation methods. Chyron staff will be demoing the solutions capabilities and its integration with LyricX 2.0.

LyricX 2.0 is the updated version if Chyron’s 64-bit graphics creation and playout platform, released earlier this year. The platform supports HD and 4K resolution video and graphics.

The Hybrid Virtual Graphics Solution provides real-time camera motion within 2D or 3D computer-generated backgrounds and integrates into the CAMIO Universe.

Also on display is the PRIME Ecosystem, the latest version of Chyron’s render engine to support graphics, branding, and a dedicated clip player. The PRIME has a new user interface that allows users to drag-and-drop designs for scene construction and an all-new browser and scene designer with an enhanced timeline. Lastly to be shown is the Paint Telestration and Analysis Tool for sports broadcasters seeking to do illustrated replays. Users can create analysis scenes of near-live replays or post-match analysis.

To see all of ChyronHego’s latest workflows, visit booth 1525.

MELVILLE, N.Y.—After previously using ChryonHego’s Channel Box system, Indianapolis-based WISH-TV has announced that it is making the move to the company’s new PRIME Ecosystem for channel branding. The 24-hour news channel made the upgrade to utilize the system’s new rendering capabilities.

WISH-TV used the Channel Box system to send non-newscast information to air automatically during specific programming. One operation the station used it for was the “L bar,” a group of graphics on the left and bottom portion of the screen, which were built by the station’s graphics team. The PRIME system will now build off of Channel Box and add next-generation, future-proof technology, per ChyronHego.

ChyronHego’s Creative Services team will assist WISH-TV with its customization of the PRIME Ecosystem.

MELVILLE, N.Y.—ChyronHego is taking a seat in the sports stadium presentation and broadcast side of the industry, announcing that it has acquired Sound & Video Creations Inc. The Nashville, Tenn.-based developer of digital content management and delivery technology is known for its ClickEffects family of products for live A/V entertainment production, including the CrossFire, Blaze, BackDraft and ProAudio.

The ClickEffects systems are capable of providing services that include video playback and replay, data deliver, graphics generation and audio content delivery.

According to ChyronHego’s press release, ClickEffects systems have been deployed by more than 75 percent of Major and Minor League baseball teams, and by nearly 65 percent of professional football, hockey and basketball teams. The company also reports that hundreds of colleges and universities use it for their sporting events.

MELVILLE, N.Y.—A.J. Steffenberg is the latest addition to the ChyronHego staff, as the company appointed him vice president of worldwide customer support. Steffenberg will be responsible for “bringing best practices and procedures for customer support” to the company’s global technical teams, according to ChyronHego’s press release.

A.J. Steffenberg

Prior to coming on board ChyronHego, Steffenberg worked with Avid Technology, leading a direct and indirect global training organization. He also served as a critical situation manager for IBM’s software group.

Steffenberg will report directly to ChyronHego President and CEO Johan Apel.

LAS VEGAS—KLAS-TV, 8 News Now has served the Las Vegas community since 1953. As our market has grown more competitive, one of the ways we’ve stayed ahead of the technology curve has been to continually adapt our brand and presentation format. A couple of years ago, we took a major step forward by installing a suite of broadcast graphics solutions from ChyronHego, which included four channels of playout on a Mosaic graphics engine and PowerClips multiformat production clip server.

We continued to operate with our previous look and feel, with a plan to embark on a complete graphics refresh including an all-new set for our news studio. The release updates to ChyronHego’s Camio graphic asset management system last year propelled us forward with the project, enabling us to build a completely new look and graphics workflow from scratch.

The Camio workflow has allowed the KLAS graphics team to focus more on graphics creation.NEW LOOK
The 2016 NAB Show offered the ideal opportunity for ChyronHego to unveil the new look for KLAS. Prior to the deadline, we brought in the ChyronHego consulting team who walked us through the features in Camio and showed us how we could rethink our workflow and streamline graphics creation using the new tools built into Luci, Camio’s modular graphics fulfillment interface. From there, we brought in a creative services team from ChyronHego to execute a complete news graphics package integration leveraging our Lyric resources in a Camio workflow.

Prior to the graphics refresh we had added another channel to Lyric in order to accommodate the NewsTicker application. Now, with ChyronHego’s acquisition of Newsroom Solutions, maker of NewsTicker, we have a “one-stop-shop” for creating ticker graphics and integrating them with the graphics created in Lyric. Plus, with News-Ticker and Luci working in tandem, this has brought even more flexibility and graphics power to both news and master control.

By adding additional Lyric channels dedicated to playout, we’re able to spread our resources and maximize workflows. The new configuration also streamlines our use of PowerClips, automating the previous process in which producers had to build the PowerClips stack manually for playout prior to a show. Also, we’re now able to use PowerClips to drive the monitors on the set rather than using oldschool DVD players, as we were doing before.

INCREASED CONTROL
The Camio-driven graphics workflow has brought impressive time savings and new flexibility to our news operation. Graphics creation is more instantaneous because Luci places more control in the hands of our producers. We also added Axis World Graphics to our workflow, which allows our producers to quickly use templates to create graphics for broadcast. Rather than have to send every graphics request to an artist, a producer can update a graphic on the fly and then immediately play it out to air. This allows our graphics artists to be less burdened with as many day-to-day tasks and focus on more strategic projects.

Not only did the ChyronHego team help with the actual implementation and graphics template creation, they played an important strategic role as well, taking the time to observe our newscasts and how we were using the equipment previously. With input from our newsroom team, producers, graphic artists, and directors, ChyronHego came up with a plan that would help us leverage Axis, Camio, Luci, Lyric, and NewsTicker in new and effective ways to build a newsroom setup that would serve us well into the future.

Tim Foley is director of technical services and Eric Aegerter is senior director for KLAS, the CBS-affiliate station based in Las Vegas. They can be contacted atTimFoley@8newsnow.com.

For more information, please visitwww.chyronhego.comor call 631-845-2000.

LAS VEGAS—ChyronHego is bring out a new version of its LyricX graphics creation and playout technology at this year’s NAB Show. It builds on the established Lyric platform, which has16,000 installations worldwide, according toJohan Apel, president and CEO of ChyronHego

“LyricX presents a robust new framework with which to develop next-generation capabilities to meet our customers’ increasing performance demands,” he said.

A central component of LyricX is an all-new keyboard and control surface that exposes all familiar Lyric functions and offers programmable LCD keys that can be completely configured for any use case. With the revamped user interface in LyricX, users can configure screens for specific programs, such as news shows, and they can easily switch between these individual environments.

LyricX is a fundamental element in the Camio Universe software-based newsroom production ecosystem. Camio Universe is driven by Camio 4.2, slated for release in Q3 of 2016. With version 4.2, newsrooms will be able to leverage the speed improvements of LyricX. With the Camio Universe, the greater ChyronHego family of products will emulate Lyric’s template-based tools and playout control, including the company’s Hybrid virtual graphics solution, Metacast weather graphics generation tool, PowerClips multi-format production clip server, and GS2 Multi-Touch touchscreen generation platform.

ChyronHego will showcase LyricX working in tandem with the company’s Channel Box Prime 64-bit channel branding system, in booth SL1210.

The vendor also noted that it was tapped by NBC Olympics for graphics. NBC Olympics will use Lyric PRO graphics technology running on the Mosaic XL platform to provide on-air graphics for the games, which take place in Rio de Janeiro Aug. 5–21. NBC Olympics will be deploying the Lyric PRO software on 12 Mosaic XL systems for the creation and on-air playback of fast and on-the-fly data-driven graphics, during its presentation of the 2016 Rio Olympics.

The company also announced the sale of 17 tracking analysis and virtual graphics systems to Swedish horse race broadcaster, Kanal 75.Each system combines ChyronHego’s ZXY sports analysis product, its Virtual Placement tool, and its GS2 graphics engine. The project is the first for ChyronHego’s ZXY technology outside of soccer and one of the largest of its kind in the world of horse racing.

The systems, which are set to be installed at 17 Swedish Trotting Federation tracks by the summer, rely on ChyronHego’s ZXY transponder-based player tracking and analysis technology. ZXY tracks the position of all of the horses and analyzes data about each one, such as its path around the track, speed and efficiency when running the route, distance from one horse to another, acceleration, and more. ZXY also applies behavioral algorithms that can predict, for example, when a horse is about to go into a gallop, which is prohibited in harness racing.

From there ChyronHego’s Virtual Placement system and GS2 graphics engine make it possible to translate that data into virtual graphics that are in harmony with the action on the screen, such as live marking horses within the broadcast; tracing a particular horse’s path around the track; or displaying names, times, positions, statistics, and sponsor logos. These on-screen graphics bring ZXY’s analysis to life for viewers, creating a better media product that supplies critical data for more informed, more strategic betting.

At this point the system is intended to benefit the viewers, but all data is being saved so that one day racing teams might use it to help identify adjustments that could improve their performance, just as many coaches and players do now.

MELVILLE, N.Y.—ChyronHego has announced it is launching a software-based newsroom production ecosystem, the Camio Universe. At the heart of this new system is the newly released Camio 4.3 graphic management server.

Camio 4.3 is able to control the Lyric graphics creation environment as well as provide template-based tools, including ChyronHego’s Hybrid virtual graphics system, Metacast weather graphics system, PowerClips multiformat production clip server, GS2 Multi-Touch touchscreen-generation platform and VidiGo Live Compositor video switching unit. Access to these tools is provided by Camio’s Luci user interface. The ecosystem is automated by the VidiGo automation and multicamera TV production system.

The Camio 4.3 manages and distributes all content, assets and interfaces with MOS-compliant newsroom computer systems. Users of the Camio universe are able to share both ground and cloud-based content via the Luci workflow.

The Camio Universe also offers an order management component, allowing users to request content without leaving their production environment.

ChyronHego is a broadcast graphics, playout and real-time data visualization technology provider.

MELVILLE, N.Y.—ChyronHego recently took part in the production of the NXL National Paintball League’s NXL Paintball World Cup. To help deliver a graphics package for the live webcast, ChyronHego utilized its Lyric PRO broadcast graphics production and playout platform and its Graffiti graphics platform.

During the webcast, Lyric Pro generated an on-screen score bar while user-created macros in the Graffiti character generator allowed for rapid score bar updates. The NXL, and its production partner Casadonte Productions, previously used the Graffiti and Lyric Pro systems for a pair of paintball events earlier in the season.

In addition to the Lyric Pro and Graffiti, ChyronHego provided its SHOUT social media editor to display Twitter comments from fans during the webcast. In the future, the system will expand to include Facebook and Instagram content.

The NXL Paintball World Cup took place in Kissimmee, Fla. in October.

MELVILLE, N.Y.—Telefónica del Peru, a telecommunications and pay TV services provider, is going with ChryonHego’s Channel Box Prime to help launch a promotional channel on its Movistar TV network. The Channel Box Prime offers an automated channel that displays up-to-date programing schedule for Movistar TV.

ChyronHego developed a customized and automated workflow based on the Channel Box Prime that integrates with Telefónica Media Networks’ traffic and scheduling systems. The Channel Box acts as the playout engine for the channel, using the traffic and scheduling data to display the info for all broadcast channels in the network’s TV service. The service features separate crawls for programs currently airing and those scheduled for later in the day.

Movistar’s new promotional channel went live May 4 and is available to all cable and satellite subscribers throughout Peru. The service is expected to be extended to online streaming services and second-screen applications.

MELVILLE, N.Y.—ChyronHego has given a facelift to its Camio graphic asset management technology with the announcement of Camio 4.2. The updated system features a redesign of the Luci modular interface for fulfilment of graphics in newsroom computer systems with tight integration across the ChyronHego product line.

Luci allows users to fulfill templates from any ChyronHego graphics product via its content library, then play out the graphics on the devices or with automation. In addition, Luci has been re-engineered based on HTML5 for more flexible and powerful interfaces on PCs, Mac computers and tablets. Easier sharing and rescue of content within stations or between stations in a workgroup is also available. In addition, directed notifications of any orders, maps, or news graphics that have been delivered and are available, or the ability to view pending orders, is included.

ChryonHego will demonstrate Camio 4.2 and the new Luci interface at IBC 2015, Sept. 11-15.

MELVILLE, N.Y.—Getting into the scrum for the first time with rugby, ChryonHego has announced that it will supply the Welsh Rugby Union with its Paint telestration/visualization tool for the 2015 Rugby World Cup in England.

Welsh Rugby Union

The WRU will offer Paint to coaches to enhance and highlight video graphically from practice and matches.

“With Paint, we’re giving our member clubs an important new advantage for improving team and player performance, using the same video tools for game-play analysis that we’ve all seen on live major-network sports broadcasts,” says Rhys Long, head of performance analysis, Wales Rugby Union. “Paint promises to bring an exciting and powerful new dimension to our clubs’ training and strategic development during the tournament.”

The Rugby World Cup will feature teams from 20 countries around the world and will take place from Sept. 18-Oct. 31.

ChyronHego is a provider of broadcast graphics, playout and real-time data visualization for live television, news and sports production.

MELVILLE, N.Y. – ChyronHego has announced that it has acquired the Amsterdam-based VidiGo. The Dutch company provides tools for the creation and management of broadcast-quality video content. VidiGo products focus on usability and automation to minimize the need for specialized technical staff and are able to integrate with third party equipment.

“The broadcast industry is currently quite fragmented and is primed for consolidation, with a key driver being the migration to all-IT, software-based production environments,” said Johan Apel, president and CEO, ChyronHego. “With our recent acquisition by Vector Capital, ChyronHego is well-equipped to take a lead role in that consolidation and the industry’s IT transformation.”

ChyronHego is a developer of broadcast graphics creation, playout, and real-time data visualization products for live television, news and sports production. The company is based in Melville, N.Y.

MELVILLE, N.Y. – IBC attendees who make their way to the ChyronHego booth will see the broadcast graphics company’s BlueNet end-to-end graphics workflow. The BlueNet workflow contains new and updated products designed to enhance offline graphics production and create graphics using file-based video import and export.

Channel Box Prime

One of ChyronHego’s new products is the Camio 4.2 graphics asset management tool. The latest update of the Camio line comes with a complete redesign of LUCI, the modular interface for producer fulfillment of graphics in newsroom computer systems, with tight integration across ChyronHego product line, can now utilize forward-thinking technology for interfaces on PCs, Macs and tablets.

A new update of the Channel Box, Channel Box Prime, will also be shown to IBC attendees. The redesign of ChyronHego’s channel branding was done for the 64-bit environment. New features for Channel Box Prime include a dedicated rendering engine, scene designer, and Warp Effects, a special-effect that integrates third-party modeling and rendering tools.

ChyronHego’s Paint series also have new versions that will be shown. Paint 6.1 will allow broadcasters to introduce and telestrate a 4K stream in an HD broadcast without losing resolution, according to ChyronHego; Paint Live is designed for live OB productions; and Paint Offline enables users to access file-based import and export video on their laptops.

Studio MediaMaker

Making its IBC debut is the Lyric64, a 64-bit application of the Lyric graphics product. Lyric64 offers a single product for graphics creation and playout with an updated user interface with point-and-click access to data, seamless usability and easy access to Lyric’s feature set. In addition, Lyric 64 is resolution-agnostic, supporting authoring and playout in nonstandard aspect ratios and resolutions of 4K.

An all new ChryonHego will bring to the show is the Studio MediaMaker. This new product streamlines broadcast productions into smaller or non-traditional organizations, providing automation for end-to-end processes of broadcasting. A stand-alone system, Studio MediaMaker also provides tight integration to MOS-compatible newsroom computer systems with template file-based delivery of content to internal MAMs, transmission servers and websites.

ChyronHego will be located at booth 7.D11 at the 2015 IBC Show, which runs from Sept. 11-15 in Amsterdam.

ChyronHego Paint provides quick turnaround for in-game graphics.
SAN FRANCISCO—Wholly owned by 12 universities, Pac-12 Networks—which includes the members of the Pac-12 collegiate athletic conference—features a rich lineup of sports programming. Every year, we offer live coverage of 850 sporting events and produce extensive original programming through one national and six regional networks. In addition to showcasing marquee football and basketball events, we also cover traditionally underserved women’s and global sporting events.

COLORFUL ANALYSIS

In order to provide the best possible viewing experience for televised Pac-12 games and events, we’re continually challenged to stay on the cutting edge of broadcast graphics. That’s why we decided to give fans one more thing to cheer about at the start of the 2014 football season: state-of-the-art on-air graphics analysis capabilities using ChyronHego Paint.

Although we had worked with other graphics systems in the past, we needed a solution that would enable us to add enhanced graphics analysis breakdowns to video packages in quick turnaround situations. As an advanced telestration tool designed specifically for the needs of sports broadcasters, Paint was the ideal solution. With our existing ChyronHego BlueNet graphics workflow already in place to include HyperX3, Camio, and Channel Box, we knew we could expect Paint to offer rich functionality coupled with extreme ease of use; and we haven’t been disappointed.

Most events televised by Pac-12 Networks are driven through our exclusive Mobile Input-Output (MI/O) appliances, which travel from venue to venue. In effect, the MI/O box replaces the satellite truck and sits next to the mobile truck, uploading and downloading data throughout the game through a specialized fiber link. Central to our IP workflow for multicam productions, the MI/O boxes are the pipelines that feed raw video and audio assets to the central Pac-12 studio. The inbound content goes to an edit bay where a technician uses Chyron-Hego Paint’s feature-rich telestration tools to visually analyze gameplay and to graphically enhance and highlight the video.

IDEAL FOR QUICK TURNAROUNDS

In one common Paint application, a technician creates a custom, telestrated content package that the on-air talent can use to illustrate talking points during pregame, post-game, and halftime programs; for example, a Cody Kessler touchdown package that uses telestration to demonstrate the USC Trojans quarterback’s correct reads and outstanding offensive drives during the first half.

Since these enhanced graphics become part of the storyline of a game, the Paint telestration elements have enabled us to push the quality of our live game productions to the next level. Because Paint is so easy to use, it’s ideal for the quick turnaround environment of a typical game broadcast in which live content must be processed immediately for presentation during a halftime show. In my experience, Paint is second-to-none for producing highquality and high-value graphics quickly and easily, and it’s now an essential component in our IP production workflow.

Erwin Tugadi is manager for pre/post event content for the Pac-12 Networks, based in San Francisco. He may be contacted atETugadi@Pac-12.org.

For additional information, contact ChyronHego at 631-845-2000, or visitwww.chyronhego.com.

MELVILLE, N.Y. – ChyronHego has announced it is supplying Florida-based Waterman Broadcasting with a complete suite of upgrades for BlueNet graphics workflow for the broadcasters main control room. The new workflow features the latest versions of ChryonHego’s CAMIO graphics asset management platform and Mosaic real-time graphics creations and playout systems, all of which are powered by Lyric PRO software.

ChyronHego's BlueNet in Use in Waterman's Control Room

Waterman replaced its previous ChyronHego HyperX2 graphics system with six Mosaic systems and swapped CAMIO servers with CAMIO MX and MX DR servers. The CAMIO servers are fully integrates with Waterman’s AP ENP computer system; Mosaic serves as the primary graphics engine; and Lyric PRO handles content creation and provides 2D/3D text, graphics and animation capabilities.

Waterman Broadcasting operates WBBH and WZVN in Florida.