Independent content creation

Viz Content Pilot offers the optimal environment to create, manage, and deliver high volumes of top-quality content. It supports live and taped news, sports, election, and other broadcast productions.

By using a variety of template forms, the editorial staff can enter new data, images or videos in pre-defined graphic animations, and preview the result instantaneously. Therefore, day-to-day content creation can be totally independent from the design department.

Playlist management

Updating and playing out a playlist can be achieved automatically or manually. Viz Content Pilot includes a powerful multi-user playlist with real-time updates allowing multiple producers to update the playlist simultaneously.

The playlist can also be automatically synchronized with a variety of applications, such as newsroom systems or Viz Trio.

Viz Content Pilot includes full support for the revolutionary Look-Ahead Transition Logic™. Transitions between graphics are triggered automatically using a single video output channel. This enables seamless and automatic transitions between multiple layers of graphics.

Concepts and Variants

Viz Content Pilot supports Concept and Variant enabled playlists. Concepts can be understood as branding styles, and are used to define the theme of a playlist. For example, ‘Music’ or ‘Sports’ or the ‘Six O’Clock News’ versus the ‘Nine O’Clock News’.

To further enhance the usability of Concepts, Viz Content Pilot also supports Variants of graphics. These allow the producer to switch Variants of a scene on the fly, even right before the graphics are aired.

Templates as custom applications

Template designers can create small applications, using drag-and-drop operations, scripts, and macro commands. These applications can access and process external data, trigger any kind of custom logic, and update the Viz Media Sequencer. With good usability design, designers can create templates that exactly fit the needs of journalists. Templates can be used to create custom-made applications that control Viz Content Pilot’s features.

Media Asset Management

Viz Object Store provides a shared database of video clips and stills, which can be accessed from all Vizrt applications at any stage of the production process. By enabling Viz Content Pilot with Viz Link, and combining it with Vizrt’s own Media Asset Management system (Viz Ardome and Viz Video Hub), it is now possible to add video to graphics. Using Viz EasyCut or Viz PreCut, journalists can edit video clips, save them back to Viz Video Hub, then add them to the story, either as video or as video in graphics. For last-minute editing, video clips, images, and text can also be edited by the Viz Content Pilot operator.

Viz Link enabled

The Viz Link enabled workflow empowers journalists when creating a story. It allows them to add graphics templates to their stories and fill out these templates with video files from the Viz Video Hub. Graphic designers can pre-define different templates in Viz Artist and the journalist can then choose between the available layouts before adding them to a story; without ever leaving the familiar newsroom system. Headlines and additional text can also be added to the template and the combined video and graphics can instantly be previewed inside the ActiveX.