Xmedia Suite news - News graphics automation

Using Xmedia Suite for exciting, fast-to air news graphics

Xmedia Suite has a proven track record for highly productive generation of exciting news graphics. It streamlines the preparation of typical newsroom story graphics by journalists from within their NRCS, as well as special graphics for major sporting events and elections. The applications are also designed for rich, data-driven graphics, such as business and sporting news.

TEMPLATE-BASED GRAPHICS PREPARED BY JOURNALISTS FROM NRCS

Presenter intro graphic

• Highly animated, template-based graphic for introducing the news presenter with strong channel branding
• Rapid preparation from within NRCS

Multi-studio hook-up graphic

• Dual, picture-in-picture graphic for studio links
• Animated background clip
• Rapid preparation from pre-prepared news template

Breaking news overlay

• Overlay graphic with breaking news
• Graphic is put on-air rapidly using templates from NRCS but with highly polished channel branding

Engaging "Coming up next" graphics

• Highly animated, template-based graphic for introducing the news presenter with strong channel branding
• Adaptable graphics workflow tools can accommodate multiple styles of working with different levels of process automation

Sophisticated election graphics

• 3D animated background
• Election data drives character generation and associated images
• Dynamically updated text

Data-driven business news graphics

• Fully automated, template-based animated business news graphics with dynamically updated text
• Templates offer real-time responses to live data from multiple sources
• Interfacing to multiple proprietary data feeds

Weather outlook graphic

• Highly automated graphic playout, using data-interfacing to proprietary weather feeds
• Fully animated background and weather graphics
• Real-time updating of data

Sports results graphic

• Real-time updating of sports results graphic using templates fed by sporting data feeds
• 3D graphics elements add excitement to graphic

Overview: lower cost, higher quality news graphics

Miranda’s news graphics offering is unlike any other, with a unique combination of productivity enhancing, news graphics automation; high performance 3D and 2D/ 2.5D graphics processors; and supportive creative/technical services. Together, they allow news facilities to output dazzling graphics, with unprecedented efficiency.

Productivity enhancing news graphics automation

The Xmedia Suite news graphics automation boosts productivity and reduces costs by streamlining graphics work order management and asset management, as well as graphics preparation and playout. MOS compliant and graphics platform independent, it’s ideal for rich, data-driven graphics, such as business and sporting news, as well as for the rapid creation by journalists of typical newsroom story graphics from within the NRCS.

Centralized and distributed operation

The Xmedia Suite system is designed for highly centralized graphics production and more traditional distributed operations, or a combination of the two approaches. In a centralized configuration, the automation is readily configured for hub and spoke operation, with a graphics team at the hub generating templates for multiple regional news teams. By having highly skilled graphics personnel located at a hub, significant cost savings can be archieved. The look and feel of all graphics can also controlled effectively.

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Sophisticated, dynamic or pre-rendered graphics

Stations are able to choose a graphics workflow that best suites their requirements, whether this involves dynamic rendering or simpler pre-rendering. In both cases, the Miranda automation and graphics processors enable the output of the most exciting news graphics.

Effective NRCS integration

The Xnews module embeds within a NRCS and allows journalists to quickly create high quality graphics using pre-prepared templates and image libraries. This can be done directly from their familiar desktop environment, in just a fraction of the time it takes to create original graphics. The net result is an ability to get news graphics on-air faster, without compromising visual impact or channel branding.

Simplified data interfacing

Xmedia Suite is ideal for elegantly managing data-driven graphics for business
news, sports results, school closings and weather information. The applications provide data-interfacing to standard news feeds from AP, Reuters, and SportsTicker, as well as other sources of real-time information like the web. Powerful tools automate both the acquisition of the news data, and the linking of the data to graphics templates. The system is ideal for even the most demanding data interfacing for election graphics.

Higher consistency, improved creativity

By offering improved productivity, the news graphics automation allows graphics operators to focus less of their energy and time on boring and repetitive tasks; instead they can focus their energy into their core creative skills. Naturally, this encourages the development of more exciting news graphics.

High performance processors

A choice of high performance processors are available for 3D, 2.5D and 2D graphics output. Miranda’s X-3D system offers the highest quality, 3D graphics authoring and playout for the most demanding HD/SD news graphics. The processor uses the latest GPU technology to achieve unsurpassed performance and quality, using real-time rendering and advanced animation effects. The Vertigo XG offers high quality 2.5D/2D graphics playout.