![]() ![]() (Our graphics tools) will be used with a high-level of interactivity where they'll use touch screens and things like that to move around on the graphics."Īnd speaking of touch screens, "There's also something pretty cool coming out now, which we're going to showcase at the NAB," Jakobsen revealed, "It's a multi-touch table. ![]() You'll see examples of this when it comes to the Final Four in March Madness where you have the brackets. So, if you look at the end, for instance, they show the video of all the results using interactive graphics with tools from us. elections, which we're particularly proud of, where all of the networks, excluding NBC, were using our tools for all of the graphics on air. ![]() In most of the cases where you have high-profile graphics coverage, they tend to use our tools. It's the same thing with elections by the way. "Where you've got high-end sports coverage, it's very likely you'll find our systems doing (the graphics). "Everything from the most important soccer leagues to cricket, most of the live graphics on ESPN to the Olympics." Although Jakobsen couldn't go into details, he expects VizRT to have a very high rate of participation in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Just how extensive is their sports coverage? "Globally more or less every important sporting event," suggests VizRT's cto Petter Ole Jakobsen. Using a powerful renderer to create an effective set, which allows for a number of live video windows, has helped to make VizRT software the industry standard for live sports graphics around the world. By adopting this off-the-shelf approach, sports producers need only concern themselves with the overall design and production of the templates, developed by the customer's own designers, without the need for a tailor-made interface for every sport. Increasingly Viz|Trio is becoming the standard user interface for graphics operators. The NFL Network also purchased several VizRT HD graphics systems for broadcasts from its LA studio in the week leading up to the Super Bowl. Users can stack arbitrary pages and automatically create seamless transitions, using just one video output channel. The plug-in also features VizRT's "Look Ahead" transition logic. They make it, save it and production can view it immediately." Given the fast-paced nature of live sports, the nimble nature of the system adds value for broadcasters. "Viz|Trio allows editors to create HD graphics on the fly. "In addition to streamlining workflow, our HD NLE plug-in shortens production time for editors to have highlights ready for halftime shows," explains Isaac Hersly, president, VizRT Americas. With the NLE plug-in, graphics templates - from a Viz|Trio system with all standard Viz|Trio controls and features, which allow the user to change text, images, 3D objects, scaling and positioning - can be used within an NLE system without modification. Headquartered in Bergen, Norway, VizRT doesn't necessarily design the graphics but instead provides the graphic tools, namely the engines and software, for the production and design companies.įor Super Bowl XLI, CBS Sports deployed VizRT's HD nonlinear editing (NLE) plug-in for its Viz|Trio CG system during the live broadcast. This would be VizRT, a leading provider of realtime 2D and 3D broadcast graphics. So who are the major players in sports graphics? One has to look no further than CBS' recent telecast of Super Bowl XLI, where one of the stars was not on the field but in the telecast booth. Hopefully, that should silence the media critics who have been yelling, "Foul!" VizRT: Leading the Way With Graphics Tools He told me that according to all of their marketing surveys the fans loved the graphics. ![]() I asked Larry if he thought that the increasing use of graphics might lead to too much clutter. Aside from obvious quality issues such as color, upgraded cameras and positioning, and, of course, editing, the one striking difference between not only the black and white era but even a decade ago and today is the proliferation of 2D and 3D graphics. One of the keynote speakers, Larry Jones, coo of Fox Sports, presented a video of how a baseball game between the Dodgers and Cubs would have evolved over the years from the birth of TV broadcasting circa 1938 up to the present day. Recently I attended a sports business seminar at USC. If you have the QuickTime plug-in you can view Troika Design Group's motion graphics work in The FSN Final Score and NBC Sunday Night Football. ![]()
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