MELVILLE, N.Y.—Chyron today unveiled PRIME 5.4, the latest release of its unified platform for graphics, playout and live production.

“Broadcasters need tools that fit naturally across editorial, production, and engineering workflows,” Chris Amodei, platform product manager for PRIME at Chyron, said. “PRIME 5.4 gives teams more choice in how they prepare, test and deliver content, while making everyday operation simpler and more dependable.”

The new release brings PRIME into more newsroom workflows, expands deployment choices and adds practical enhancements for design, playout and system validation, Chyron said.

PRIME 5.4 offers support for simple PRIME scenes in Axis News, new SDI hardware options, audio clip playout, more precise color-channel control and a watermarked online edition for preproduction testing.

The latest release brings the PRIME template experience to more newsroom users by extending the templates into AXIS News. Doing so enables broadcasters to move guided graphics workflows further upstream into editorial production. Newsroom teams now have a more direct connection to PRIME-driven graphics creation, Chyron said, making it easier to prepare content within the systems they already use every day.

The expansion throughout newsrooms also creates a more consistent graphics workflow across teams. It helps users work within guided templates, reducing reliance on older processes while protecting brand consistency and the approved on-air look.

The release also simplifies audio playout and adds a range of usability enhancements. These updates are designed to reduce friction in routine tasks while helping teams work more smoothly and confidently in fast-moving production environments.

PRIME 5.4 makes audio easier to prepare and operate by automatically creating PRIME audio clip files when WAV files are imported, Chyron said. Operators can then drag and drop audio directly onto Playout output channels and control files using a workflow similar to video, giving production teams a faster, more consistent way to manage audio during live operations.

PRIME 5.4 also supports HSL and RGBA Color Channel Property Bindings, enabling designers to read and write individual color channel values directly in Logic, Conditions and the Expressions/Bindings panel. The new support makes it easier to drive precise color changes at runtime without replacing an entire color value, giving designers more granular control and enabling more flexible, efficient template and scene behavior, Chyron said.

To help users prepare new deployments more effectively, PRIME now supports production validation before go-live through the PRIME Online Watermarked Edition. This fully functional edition provides maximum I/O capabilities in a production-like environment intended for testing and validation.

More information is available on the Chyron website.

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, 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.

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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.