Bergen, Norway and San Antonio, Texas—5th March, 2020—The Vizrt Group, parent company of the Vizrt, NewTek and NDI® brands, today announced the launch of VizrTV and NewTekTV. These two “digital-first” communications platforms are designed to deliver key product awareness, innovation, and support messages to help customers and partners better adapt to changing market environments. The new online channels…
Advised by Norwegian regulators after returning from a business trip abroad, I stayed home for 14 days. My employer, Vizrt, is a globally-scaled organization that operates at a local level, so flexibility is in our DNA. However, like any global organization, we have a heightened need to communicate with our people who are located in…
At times of crisis it can often be observed that humans respond with great innovations. Conflicts have given rise to advancements in the fields of medicine, flight, communications and computing, to name but a few. This phenomenon is currently being played out again today, this time in the world of live video production and particularly…
At times of crisis humans respond with great innovations. Conflicts have given rise to advancements in the fields of medicine, flight, communications and computing, to name but a few. This phenomenon currently plays out again today, this time in the world of live video production and particularly in the broadcast space. Remote video production is…
The following is an excerpt of an article by SVG. The inaugural Overwatch League season comes to a close this weekend with the Grand Finals at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, and the Blizzard Entertainment production team is lending it the “Blizzard polish.” With a sold-out crowd at Barclays Center and millions more expected to tune in online and…
The problem with cloud The cloud offers clear and proven benefits for live productions. From the ability to produce content from anywhere in a cost-effective way through to carbon footprint reduction, it’s obvious why so many content creators are turning to the cloud for core and on-demand/peripheral programming. Despite the many benefits, it’s seen as a major…
“Sometimes reality is too complex. Stories give it form.” Vizrt graphics scenes can be made to be incredibly complex – easily containing hundreds of elements including images, text, video, graphics, maps, script, automated data and much more. This is often necessary to tell the complex stories a modern news broadcaster needs to tell in an…
“Virtual Reality is the first step in a grand adventure into the landscape of the imagination.” Do you remember the first time you used a virtual background on a Teams or Zoom call? They felt pretty fresh and exciting, giving us a way to escape (at least virtually) from the cluttered backdrop that went hand-in-hand…
“The term readability doesn’t ask simply can you read it? It asks, do you want to read it.” A picture may speak a thousand words, but when it comes to communicating hard facts with no room for misinterpretation, the written word is still animated and still text on screen via graphics has always been and…
“There are three responses to a piece of design – Yes, No and WOW. Wow is the one to aim for.” Broadcast designers have a tough job. Not only do they need to recreate or represent reality, a message or a story in a simple, engaging and attractive way – they also have to do…
