The weather forcast is an integral part of almost every news show worldwide. To provide our customers with the possibility to create unique weather shows, Vizrt has created a solution that combines support for templates with live weather data and 3D real-time graphics.

The Vizrt weather solution offers countless, customizable visualization possibilities. Graphics and animation are driven by the weather data and can easily be controlled, switched and manipulated.

To integrate the solution with existing brandings and to streamline the workflow, it fully supports the use of templates. Meteorologists, weather presenters and graphics designers can use pre-defined templates to focus on the weather situation and present it in the best possible way without having to think about the consistency of the channel branding. The template-based approach is perfectly suited for cross-platform distribution: Weather playlists can be turned into a set of web-ready videos and interactive web-graphics.

The weather information can come both from Vizrt’s own partners or from third-party providers. With a weather data resolution of less than 1km, providing accurate local forecasts for use in transportation control and large outdoor sports events is no longer a problem.

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Viz Weather

Viz Weather is a complete 3D real-time weather solution. It features a broad range of advanced visualization possibilities in both HD and SD. Viz Weather integrates with a broad range of weather-data providers and can trigger graphics and animations automatically. An intuitive GUI allows to easily controll, switch, and manipulate the data. The solution is fully integrated with Viz Curious Maps for creation of branded high-quality maps.

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Viz Engine

Viz Engine, one of today’s most powerful rendering engines, is now even more capable in its updated version. Like its predecessor, Viz Engine 3 renders animated 2D and 3D scenes in real-time, producing high-end animations and outputting them in SD and HD video. Additionally, the new Viz Engine 3 has been expanded to provide an even more flexible set of tools than before, integrating with all other Vizrt products, and offering broadcasters an ideal creative run-time environment.

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Viz Artist

Viz Artist 3 is a complete redevelopment of Vizrt’s successful graphics tool. The application is now even more versatile, having an unmatched feature set that is perfectly suited to build complete virtual sets and complex 3D animations. Maps and even videos are now fully supported throughout the workflow. The application also facilitates everyday tasks such as building geometry and creating fonts for lower third graphics.

Take a look at some of the features that make Viz Artist 3 the one tool for all your design needs. It allows you to create graphics for all the other Vizrt products. It supports 2D and 3D real-time animations in both SD and HD, as well as export to the Internet. An enhanced user interface gives direct access to its new functionality and makes working with Viz Artist easier and more effective than ever before.

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Key Features and Benefits:

  • Real-time data insertion directly from the data provider
  • State-of-the-art 3D HD/SD graphics & animations
  • Weather data can be used in tickers, virtual sets, weather presentations, etc
  • Support for Viz Curious Maps
  • All graphics, such as 3D maps, isobars, radar maps, temperatures, wind speeds and direction, are displayed in real-time
  • Template based system that demands very little manpower
  • Creation and manipulation of the show sequence from within Viz Weather
  • Preview of weather graphics is instantly available within the user interface
  • A standalone, low-cost weather playout application for manual or automatic playout

Key Features and Benefits:

  • Extremely powerful rendering engine
  • 2D and 3D real-time high-quality graphics
  • Supports SD and HD digital video, as well as AVI and Quicktime
  • High-quality full scene anti-aliasing
  • Powerful Plug-in API available
  • Pure OpenGL implementation
  • Full support of OpenGL Shader Language enables
  • Timeline-based audio playback
  • Optional video board for live video inputs and clip playback
  • Optional plug-in packages

Key Features and Benefits:

  • Real-time 3D modelling and animation tool
  • Support for maps and video
  • Hardware 2D DVE as well as software 3D DVE
  • Advanced font style handling
  • Full support for undo/redo functionality
  • Integration with asset management database
  • Software Development Kit available