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Tuesday 20. January 2009 - The last few years have seen video, graphics and maps becoming required elements of successful online journalism. The challenge facing any editorial environment is to keep up with this development while adhering to strict cost efficiency requirements.
Not long ago, image editing was regarded a specialist task. Only experts manning the picture desk could be trusted to format images that would render properly. This story is repeating itself, only now its video, graphics and geo-tagging of content that is the special case that needs to be handled by a select few. What happened with images was that we figured out what the basic requirements were and built those into Escenic Content Studio. Now journalists can choose to apply predefined crop masks, add different version of the same picture, while resizing is entirely by Escenic Content Studio.
If editing of stills can be demystified and taken into standard content workflows, why not video as well? The Vizrt Video Hub toolset has been developed to meet newsroom efficiency standards. Escenic has integrated these into Content Studio, integrating multimedia into the mainstream editorial workflow in the process.
Viz Video Hub
Media Asset management in a box.
The era of analog media is coming to an end. Servers replace huge tape shelves and storage labels. Viz Video Hub is Vizrts innovative and cost-effective Media Asset Management solution that allows you to store the complete content of your analog media library digitally.
Viz Video Hub builds on proven Ardendo technology. It allows users to easily access video clips, stills, graphics, and audio clips from a standard PC. Viz Video Hub is so powerful that it can be used as a standalone production unit. At the same time, it is flexible enough to be integrated seamlessly with existing Vizrt graphics solutions.
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Viz Content Pilot
The template graphics solution for jounralists to add live graphics to stories.
Viz Content Pilot is used by broadcasters worldwide, from major TV networks to local TV stations. Because Viz Content Pilot is not limited to broadcast production, it is able to deliver graphics content to all types of graphics displays. Viz Content Pilot can serve as the core content control system for all users that require speed, a consistent look, and a streamlined workflow for their graphics.
Curious Maps
The time-effective solution for producing branded maps and geographical animations.
Viz Curious Maps is the broadcast industrys de facto standard for the creation of branded maps and geographic animations. By extending Viz Curious Maps to a server edition, it can provide real-time, branded map imagery to several clients embedded within Vizrts control applications. Templates created within Viz Curious Maps can be dynamically accessed through the Viz Trio character generator and Viz Content Pilot, as well as Viz Weather, Viz Traffic, and Viz Artist. Users can seamlessly create branded, animated maps and add them to graphic templates or insert them directly into a 3D scene.