There's no biz like trade show biz

Peder Drege, EVP Mobile and Online Vizrt, reports directly from Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Watch this video to get a glimpse of the new features of Viz Mobilize, where we demonstrate video distribution to devices like iPad, Android, along with other high resolution display phones.

With the Viz Mobilize server you can take a high quality video signal from your broadcast production workflow and publish this to handheld devices, to an IOS, or to a web TV site. All done in an automated workflow for cross-platform transcoding where Vizrt graphics can be burned into the video.

All the magic of Vizrt comes together in the Viz Virtual set. At IBC we showed a virtual set featuring many inteactive apps directly in the set; the set is itself being a goldmine for content driven production.

The Viz Virtual Set at IBC 2010 shows an interactive sterescopic virtual set that shows off many of the fine features of the Viz Engine. Art director Jonathan Watson from Vizrt Creative Services in New York gives an introduction to the setup.

One of the most important things in a broadcast workflow is to choose the right graphics and decide their timing. With the introduction of ever new phones, pods and pads, streaming video in multiple formats and overlaying graphics in HTML 5 this timing information has become even more crucial.

So much to see. So little time. It's never easy being a visitor at one of the large tradeshows. With new products and technologies at literally every corner you have to set priorities. Which companies and ideas will define the future of broadcasting? What new solutions will change the way you work?

After Vizrt acquired Curious a few years back the map system has had a tremendous development and has been fully integrated into the Vizrt workflow. At IBC the new functions were demoed both through newsroom systems, designer tools and integated examples like the weather touch screen.

At IBC 2010 Vizrt demonstrated the latest features of the new Viz Engine 3.3. Of course, the sterescopic capabilities are the most prominent improvements. But there are also important enhancements concerning video capabilities and integration with other Vizrt products. In other words: Viz Engine is simply getting smarter.

Creating stereoscopic output does not necessarily require a lot of additional hardware. In fact, most Vizrt customers already own most of what is needed to take their program into the third dimension.

Ran Yakir, Head of R&D, gives us a run through of an interactive setup showing Viz Weather and Viz World.

Each year in September more than 1,300 of the world's leading names in broadcasting meet in Amsterdam. And there's a lot that needs to be done before they can even think about presenting their latest products to the 1,000 journalists and almost 50,000 visitors who visit IBC year after year. It doesn't come as a surprise then that the last day before the exhibition is usually the most busy.

Vizrt attended this year Broadcast Asia in Singapore, on June 15th – 18th. Some of our other key attractions this year was a full blown video wall, showing how to engage your audience by displaying high resolution graphics and interactive content.

We also kept Simen, our Online demo artist at the show, very busy at his Escenic Content Studio demo position. Simen demoed our web content management and publishing tool, integrated with the very well known broadcast production tools from Vizrt, for publishing web sites with video, live graphics, and branded maps.

More than 200 vistors, 30 demos and presentations and an evening event of exchanging ideas, made for a very successful event!

Vizrt joined the Wellen+Nöthen roadshow in Germany in June and those who attended experienced a complete 3D production workflow in Munich, Cologne (Hürth) and in Berlin (Babelsberg).

At the Wellen+Nöthen 3D roadshow, a complete 3D workflow was brought to the three German cities using live 3D equipment: from acquisition and ingest, editing and playout to the finished 3D product and its playback!

Event partners: Sony, Quantel, Vizrt, Molden, Infitec

Have a look at our videos of product demos held at the NAB 2010 in Las Vegas.