NAB Product News
Vizrt Quattro offers graphics/video breakthrough
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Apr 10, 2008 - 10:50:16 AM

Booth: SL4805

Graphics professionals will now be able to bridge graphics and video workflows via Vizrt Quattro, a new character generator that enables an operator to create fully animated graphics containing multiple videos from a single desktop interface.

Viz Quattro was developed as an extension to Vizrt’s Viz Content Pilot content management and Viz Trio character generator to access Vizrt’s media asset management.

“With Viz Quattro, our users now have access to a station’s entire video database from one desktop,” says Chief Technology Officer Petter Ole Jakobsen. “They no longer need to go to other workstations to perform different tasks.”

Viz Quattro fully integrates with Vizrt’s media-asset-management technology, which allows the user to search all of a station’s media files from one desktop. Viz Quattro can interface with an initial storage space for up to 40 hours of DV25 video and 100,000 still images. Viz Video Hub 40 can be upgraded to the Viz Video Hub plug-and-play media-asset-management system, allowing storage capacity of up to 2,000 hours of DV25 video. Besides DV25, Viz Video Hub also supports DVCPRO, DV50, IMX30, IMX50, and HD DV100 formats.

Also new this year is the latest version of Viz Curious Maps, template-based software that enables users to create branded maps and geographic animations. The new system has improved connectivity between programs through the Viz Curious Maps server. A significant enhancement to Viz Curious Maps Clients is in the labeling feature: labels that are too close together on a map can be separated but still point to the correct location. Templates can also be designed using Viz Curious Maps Clients to automatically show the terrain of a particular area.

NAB attendees looking for media asset management will want to check out the new version of Viz Ardome, the core software module in the industry-leading Vizrt media-asset-management system. Version 4.6 of Viz Ardome offers increased HD support. It is also fully integrated with all major newsroom computer systems, such as Avid’s iNEWS, Associated Press’ ENPS, Avstar, and QNews. The software enables users to produce an audit trail, a series of records of computer events to monitor system activity.

“Because it allows multiple users to edit and access the same source material from multiple PCs over a Web interface,” says Isak Jonsson, head of Research and Development for Vizrt, “Viz Ardome offers increased productivity and cost savings over competitive solutions.”