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.

Key Features

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 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.

Newsroom Integration

Viz Content Pilot easily integrates into the editorial workflow as the templates can be accessed by any major newsroom system. The Newsroom Connect Component is a small, but advanced, graphics editing tool. It enables journalists to add images, text, videos, and maps, and to select the graphics Concept and Variant. It also supports a real-time preview and snapshots. For time-critical situations, the Quick CG command line tool allows the user to create graphics with text on the fly.

Templates with 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.

Linking graphics and video

By enabling Viz Content Pilot with the Viz Media Engine, it is possible to time graphics on top of video directly from the newsroom. Journalists can search for video clips, edit, save them and then add them to the story, either as video or as video in graphics from their desktop PCs in the newsroom. For last-minute editing, video clips, images, and text can also be edited by the Viz Content Pilot operator in the control room.