Key features and benefits

• IMPROVED PRODUCTIVITY
  • Xmedia Suite uses advanced graphics templates to speed the preparation of automated, data-driven news graphics, as well as simpler news story graphics created by journalists from within their familiar NRCS.
  
   
• GREATER CREATIVITY
  • By increasing graphics automation and reducing repetitive tasks, Xmedia Suite enables graphics personnel to spend more time on the more rewarding and creative aspects of their work.
  
   
• MORE CONSISTENCY
  • Automation can reduce the scope for operator errors, and also allows more time for quality checking.
  
   
• FULL MOS INTEGRATION
  • Xmedia Suite is MOS compliant for full integration with newsrooms systems. It can offer automatic graphics updates to address changes to the rundown, driven by the newsroom system without any operator intervention.
  
   
• CENTRALIZED ARCHIVE
  • The Xmedia Server allows all branding assets to be ingested once, centrally archived and automatically moved to the right graphics device using rule-based publishing
  
   
• SIMPLIFYING DATA-DRIVEN GRAPHICS
  • Xmedia Suite offers powerful interfacing tools for data-driven graphics, which simplify even the most intensive business and election graphics.

XMEDIA SUITE MODULES FOR BRANDING & PROMOS

Vertigo Xplorer: asset management

• Xplorer is a media management interface for managing content on an Xmedia Server and on graphics processors
• Used for ingest of content from external storage devices, and offers file import conversion
• Xplorer offers viewing, moving, and deletion of content on an Xmedia Server and on individual processors

Vertigo Work order management

• Module for managing graphics requests is highly adaptable to match different workflows
• Work order status updated in playlist
• New graphic is automatically published

Vertigo XVentuz: 3D graphics creation

• Sophisticated animation effects using 3D primitives and imported objects
• Full range of textures, material mappings, shading and 3D lighting effects are available
• Dynamic motions using motion manipulators add realism to animations
• Conventional linear animation editing mode and comprehensive non-linear state based animation model

Vertigo Xstudio: template authoring

• Xstudio is a drag-and-drop authoring system for creating and previewing television graphics
• Allows design of elaborate templates with advanced timeline features
• During template creation, Xstudio automatically produces an associated soft control panel plus data forms for business logic and data source reading

Vertigo Xnews: NRCS graphics plug-in

• Xnews is a MOS-compliant Newsroom Control System (NRCS) plug-in which offers a high level of control over graphics content to journalists
• By using Xnews, journalists can access pre-prepared graphics templates and image libraries from their NRCS to create story graphics, in just a fraction of the time it would take to create original graphics
• Xnews is supported by AP ENPS, Avid iNews, Dalet and Omnibus, and is available as a web client

Vertigo Xplay: media event sequencer

• The Xplay media event sequencer drives the playout of complex graphics sequences, and offers a graphics preview capability
• The NRCS sends the rundown to Xplay using the MOS protocol
• Xplay recalls graphics pages, and drives dynamic news sequences, with live data mapped to the appropriate graphic template fields