September 2012
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Around 60% of the News24 screen is made up of graphics
“Channel Box is for the channel branding, while LEX is the studio Graphics Generator,” explains Viktor Tatai, regional sales manager at Chyron. “They also can operate as a backup of each other.” He says that by adding
Chyron’s Channel Box 2 and LEX 3.1, News24 has taken a significant step in simplifying workflows and accelerating delivery of complex news content. “The Channel Box data fields
are filled through xls sheets and txt files which are produced by the journalists, enabling the screens to be updated automatically. All of the active fields are data driven from data sources like xls or txt, XMP driven from a picture bank or Intelligent Interface driven from the VSN. LEX is more of a
use the resources to produce unbelievably complex graphics. The News24 screen is built up in a creative way — but without glitches or freezing.” When it comes to handling on-
air transitions, Chyron’s Conditional Transitions technology is employed. Here, every page of graphics has an embedded intelligence that allows all the elements — for example, top line, second line, bottom line — to interact with each other according to predetermined parameters. No matter how the playout is controlled — whether through the inbuilt Sequencer of Channel Box 2, the Playlist of LEX 3.1 or manually, Conditional Transitions technology makes the transition that has been specified. Even if last minute changes in the run down were made, the
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A news programme in production at the News24 studio in Tirana
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“With a single computer, we can now perform the job that three separate systems and three different software licenses were doing before” Arianit Filopati, News24
manual CG, allowing fast reaction to last minute changes. But it allows the display of multiple elements at the same time, plus various data sources just like Channel Box.”
Multi-layers
Alongside the Albania language broadcast, news crawls are also displayed in English for an international audience. Channel Box uses a graphics-processing unit (GPU) render to enable multiple layers of graphics to be displayed. From one single Channel Box, the News24 team is able to generate and playout 13 different graphical components, including text, crawls, video DVE, animated logos, hour and date, and various clips in support of the current news topic. Tatai states that whatever
the hardware is capable of rendering, it can be put on air. “The software has no limitation like layers. Each element of the onscreen display may require different resources of the system, but that doesn’t present a problem. For example, a movie clip needs disk performance and Central Processing Unit power, a background texture requires GPU, a visual effect uses the built in DVE and so on. There are so many resources inside the system that every layout can be built up in multiple ways. A careful designer knows how to
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appropriate transitions would be applied, no matter how many elements are on the screen at the same time. Filopati says that he is very pleased with the results that have been achieved. “With a
and delivery of news to air, and since our journalists are spending much less time on graphics presentations, they can focus on their real work of gathering and delivering the news.”
He continues, “From September News24 transmits in full HD, and the plan is also to broadcast via cell phones and tablets, such as Android and Apple. To complement the latest and best technology we have adopted, we are working on constructing new and multifunctional studios to produce different programme formats. However, we are keeping the detailed plans to ourselves for the time being!”
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