Character Generators (CG) are one of the most important elements in today's broadcasting industry. They have developed from displaying simple text on the screen to powerful general-purpose tools that cover a wide spectrum of purposes.
Vizrt has created a solution that goes far beyond the capabilities of common character generators. The Vizrt CG solution offers a feature-rich 3D design system for the creation of true 3D graphics and animations. In addition, the solution offers advanced graphical and operational possibilities: it can connect to multiple newsroom systems, switch graphics seamlessly, and use multiple clients to controll a single output channel.
The Vizrt CG solution is open for integration with other systems. In addition to integrating with other Vizrt products, the solution supports major newsroom systems, automation systems, general purpose interfaces and non-linear editing systems by Avid, Quantel, and Apple. It easily blends into the editorial workflow as well. Templates can be accessed through any major newsroom system using Viz Content Pilot’s Newsroom Connect Component and the Quick CG tool. Both tools enable journalists to have full control over the look and feel of their story.
On the graphics side the solution is equally impressive. Vizrt's Look-Ahead Transition Logic ensures that the system automatically performs optimal transitions between existing and new graphics elements. Graphics elements intended to be on the screen at the same time are put in different logical layers, which makes it possible to put different combinations of graphics on air and still control them independently of each other. The Vizrt CG solution also supports the new Visual Data Tools (VDT) plug-ins for showing information as bars, graphs, lines, pies, scatters or stocks.
