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  • Zee News selects VertigoXmedia for Graphics Automation, Playout, Design Services

    Zee News selects VertigoXmedia for Graphics Automation, Playout, Design Services

    MUMBAI: Zee News has upgraded its newsroom with two VertigoXmedia products, the Xmedia Suite for graphics automation and a VertigoCG unit, to render and play out the graphics. Vertigo’s Creative Services team also will take an active role in the installation by redesigning Zee News’ on-air look.

    “We considered several graphics automation systems currently on the market and found that Vertigo provided us with the best solution for our application,” said Zee Network’s director, news group, Laxmi Goel. “With its template-based approach to graphics automation, the Xmedia Suite is exactly what we need to achieve greater levels of efficiency and consistency in our unique station branding. Upgrading this branding with the help of Vertigo’s design team will help underscore our role as one of the most popular brands in India.”

    Vertigo’s Xmedia Suite provides Zee News with a set of tools for automatically creating, managing, and playing out real-time, dynamic broadcast graphics. It acts as a centralized asset management system, storing and managing all digital assets as well as real-time data feeds from virtually any source. The Zee News staff can design new templates with simple drag-and-drop operations, linking them to live data feeds so that the system automatically generates up-to-date graphics, states an official release.

    The VertigoCG installed at the Zee News facility is a low-cost, full-featured graphics system that provides performance levels rivaling that of much more expensive character generators and graphics platforms. Used in conjunction with other products in the Xmedia Suite, the VertigoCG provides master control and production graphics as well as video playout capabilities for a wide range of advanced real-time broadcast applications.

    It combines broadcast-quality video hardware with a real-time software rendering system, an easy-to-use authoring environment, and a flexible on-air control interface.

    Vertigo’s Creative Services team has created informational graphic designs in the most demanding television broadcast environments, including high-profile election campaigns and major sporting events. World-renowned for its expertise in executing design concepts, the Creative Services team swept the News, Out-of-House, Informational Graphics category of the 2005 BDA North America Design Awards, the release adds.

  • Malayalam channel Amrita TV gets graphics automation support from VertigoXmedia

    MUMBAI: VertigoXmedia, a US-based provider of broadcast graphics software and hardware, has added Malayalam channel Amrita TV to its clientele. The channel is using VertigoXmedia’s Xmedia Suite to drive an array of data-rich graphics for its daily programming.

    Launched in April 2005, Amrita’s program line-up includes daily news segments that feature an on-air crawl with a news ticker, bug, and clock driven by smart Xmedia Suite graphic templates and rendered with Orad’s graphics systems.

    Vertigo’s Xmedia Suite is a set of tools for automatically creating, managing, and playing out real-time, dynamic broadcast graphics. It acts as a centralized asset management system, storing and managing all digital assets as well as real-time data feeds from virtually any source. Templates can be designed with simple drag-and-drop operations, and by linking them to the data feeds, the system automatically generates graphics, states an official release.

    The only open-standard solution of its kind, the Xmedia Suite is capable of cross-platform publishing and can be used with any standard character generator as well as the company’s own VertigoXG system, the release adds.

    “Amrita TV is an important new station serving an extremely large viewership, and we are very excited that they have chosen the Xmedia Suite to streamline graphics creation and drive newsroom automation,” said VertigoXmedia President and CEO David Wilkins.

    “We’re committed to providing top-notch customer service to Amrita and other stations in the Middle East and southern Asia. Our new office in Dubai — headed by Raed al Tikriti — expands our presence and allows us to better serve our customers in the region.”

    Amrita TV features distinctive programs that cater to all age groups of society. The lineup includes made-for-TV movies, serial programs, dance and music shows, talk shows, and children’s programs, in addition to news segments. The station’s newsgathering network is dedicated to providing unbiased reports of events in regional, national, and international politics, business, sports, current affairs, arts and culture, health, science, and weather.