Think Blue Highlights of 2012

From Thinking Blue around the globe at major industry events, to launching innovative products, to major client installations worldwide, to receiving key accolades from top industry publications — and everything in between — Chyron has had an exciting year and is pleased to share with you some of the highlights along the way.

January: Raycom is Thinking Blue! Dave Folsom, Raycom Media’s VP and CTO, is featured in Broadcast Engineering discussing the adoption of the Chyron BlueNet workflow across 31 of their news-producing stations.

February: Broadcasters everywhere bring social media commentary into their live broadcasts for the first time with SHOUT, our new easy-to-use social media editor debuted by TNT and TBS for the SAG Awards Coverage.

March: March product madness is in effect! Introducing the all-new MediaMaker, a turnkey graphics rendering solution for file-based workflows; ENGAGE, a second screen and social TV platform; and Shotbox for Lyric, an app that brings intuitive live graphics playout control to the iPad®

April: The Chyron booth is buzzing at yet another successful NAB show! Chyron ENGAGE is all the rage and earns a TV Technology STAR (Superior Technology Award Recipient) Award.

May: Great new graphics for the win! Chyron Creative Services and Phase 3 Productions — a TV, film, and multimedia production company based in Kingston, Jamaica — team up in overhauling TV broadcasts for the country’s Red Stripe Premier League (RSPL).

June: Roll out the red carpet! UK-based graphics company and a longtime Chyron client, MOOV Ltd, brings graphics fit for a queen to air using Chyron HyperX³ on-air graphics systems for the Diamond Jubilee honoring Queen Elizabeth.

July: Olympic fever is in the air! Chyron is chosen to provide 10 HyperX³·¹ on-air graphics playout systems to NBC Olympics during its production of the 2012 London Olympic Games, July 27-August 12, 2012.

August: Welcome HyperXLP, the newest member of the HyperX family. Ideal for live news, sports, and OB productions, HyperXLP is a dual-channel-capable broadcast graphics platform that sets a new standard for performance in a compact 1-RU design.

September: Chyron shines brightly (along with the sun for a change!) at IBC2012. Making its debut and winninga TV Technology Europe STAR (Superior Technology Award Recipient) Award, the all-new ChyronIP graphics system for NewTek’s TriCaster is a big hit!

October: ChyronIP travels abroad! Dubai-based MediaCast — a premier distributor of professional audio/video solutions ranging from broadcast, live-to-post, and on demand — signs on as the newest ChyronIP distributor in the Middle East.

November: Chyron’s own, Todd Martin, participates in a panel discussion titled, “Entertainment in the CLOUD,”at the Cloud Computing West business strategy summit in Santa Monica, CA on Nov. 8.

December: Chyron SHOUT just got a whole lot louder! Introducing SHOUT 2.5, the latest version of our easy-to-use social media editor, now boasting the ability to display images within social media messages and much more. Click here to find out how to get your free 30-day trial.

Mexico’s PCTV Deploys Chyron’s BlueNet™ Workflow and SHOUT 2.0 Social Media Editor

Implementation to Bring Dynamic Graphics and Social Media to Live Broadcasts

MELVILLE, N.Y. — Sept. 26, 2012 — Chyron today announced that cable operator PCTV is installing four HyperX³·¹ on-air graphics systems at its teleport and main studio in Mexico City to bring a state-of-the-art BlueNet™ graphics workflow into its live sports and entertainment production environment. The Chyron systems will support daily graphics production and playout, as well as production of high-profile sports events held in Mexico and around the world. PCTV will leverage Chyron’s new SHOUT 2.0 Social Media Editor to bring social media conversations to air quickly and easily.

“We began our transition to digital television three years ago, and the installation of the HyperX³·¹ systems will enable us to take another significant step forward in distinguishing our broadcasts with a modern look,” said Jorge Etienne, engineering director at PCTV. “With our new HyperX³·¹ systems, we will be able to speed up our workflows and realize a better ROI. While the creative solutions and possibilities enabled by Chyron’s Lyric PRO software will add value to our channel and the PCTV brand, SHOUT’s integration of social media elements into the Chyron graphics workflow brings exciting new capabilities to our operations and will enable us to deliver high-quality interactive live broadcasts.”

PCTV’s custom-tailored BlueNet workflow includes the HyperX³·¹, Chyron’s flagship on-air graphics system ideal for live sports channels, news stations, and outside broadcast productions. This extremely fast, powerful, and easy-to-use platform features seamless creation-to-playout capabilities and real-time 2D/3D animation. Chyron’s award-winning Lyric™ PRO graphics creation software is a standard feature of HyperX³·¹ that will enable the graphics department at PCTV to take graphics from concept to air quickly. PCTV also will use the SHOUT application to monitor and route social media conversations to its HyperX³·¹ graphics systems for playout.

“Chyron is a very well-recognized and highly respected company in Mexico, and in our evaluation, the company’s HyperX³·¹ proved by far to be the most reliable and best locally supported brand — the best on the market right now,” said David Palma, director of operations at PCTV. “The HyperX³·¹ meets our requirements by enabling a strong, interoperable, and collaborative workflow that is fully integrated with our news center, and by providing compatibility with third-party software without rendering. As a result, we expect to achieve a better on-air look that helps to strengthen our relationships with sponsors and drive viewer ratings even higher.”

“Chyron’s powerful BlueNet workflow and SHOUT Social Media Editor are enriching live entertainment and sports events throughout Latin America, providing broadcasters and cable operators such as PCTV with a new level of flexibility and creativity in taking high-quality broadcast graphics and social media commentary to air,” said Aldo Campisi, vice president, Latin America, at Chyron. “Along with a new office in Mexico, this key relationship is symbolic of Chyron’s rapidly growing presence within the region, and we are delighted to be PCTV’s chosen graphics playout and second-screen solution provider.”

Further information about BlueNet, HyperX³·¹, SHOUT, and other Chyron products is available at http://www.chyron.com.

Chyron to Provide 10 HyperX³•¹ Graphics Systems for NBC Olympics’ Coverage of the London 2012 Olympic Games

NEW YORK — Chyron will provide 10 HyperX³•¹ on-air graphics playout systems to NBC Olympics during its production of the 2012 London Olympic Games, July 27-August 12, 2012. The announcement was made today by Philip Paully, Director, Graphics Engineering and Operations, NBC Olympics, and Peter Morrone, Senior Vice President, Product Engineering, Chyron.

“In our operation, there’s no room for error, and every second counts. The centralized asset storage capability powered by Chyron’s HyperX³•¹ and Apple®’s Xsan 2 is a tremendous time-saver, enabling our operators to instantly access media assets that were once only available to the Mac® systems,” Paully said.

Relying on Chyron’s HyperX³•¹ and Apple’s Xsan 2 storage area network, this collaborative workflow environment promises to bring powerful new efficiencies and time savings to the NBC Olympics’ graphics production team as they insert graphics displays for the network’s live coverage of the London Games.

NBC Olympics worked closely with Chyron and Dynamic Performance Technologies to integrate this powerful graphics workflow solution. After building graphics elements in Adobe® Creative Suite®, the NBC Olympics production team is able to move them seamlessly to editing suites and then to devices for playout to air. Since HyperX³•¹ supports Adobe’s XMP metadata platform, artists are able to embed critical information about each graphical element, for instance,  the correctly spelled name, age, and home country embedded in a specific athlete’s head shot.

The finished graphics can then be instantly accessed by the HyperX³•¹ operators by clicking a folder from their workstations, a capability that previously was only possible by searching for the assets on a server and then downloading them into the playout system. Any changes to image metadata need only be made once, and the metadata fields are automatically populated at every point at which the graphic will be used. When the graphic is inserted into the programming, the accompanying metadata is automatically extracted and displayed, so NBC Olympics’ production staff no longer needs to worry if names are spelled correctly and information about the graphic is accurate.

“This summer’s London Olympic Games promise to be a record-breaker, with more than 3,500 hours of broadcast content over a 19-day period from more than a dozen different sports venues. Since much of this programming will be produced live, accuracy and efficiency is critical to success,” Morrone said. “We are honored to provide NBC Olympics with state-of-the-art HyperX³•¹ graphics playout systems integrated with Adobe’s XMP and Apple’s Xsan 2 for their production of the London Olympics.”

TV Galicia Chooses Chyron HyperX³•¹ On-Air Graphics Systems for Major HD Studio Upgrade

HyperX³·¹ Integrates Smoothly With Existing Chyron Graphics Environment to Bring New Levels of Graphics Sophistication to Programming

LONDON — June 20, 2012 — Chyron today announced that Televisión de Galicia (TVG), Spain’s only Galician-language broadcaster, has installed two of the company’s HyperX³·¹ on-air graphics systems as part of a major HD studio upgrade at its central broadcasting facility in Santiago de Compostela.

“As a committed Chyron customer for many years, we rely on several key Chyron solutions in both our studios and OB trucks for news and sports production, as well as other types of daily programming. Therefore, when it came time to upgrade our graphics capabilities, HyperX³·¹ was the natural choice,” said Antonio Posse, technical and engineering manager, TVG. “Instant compatibility with the rest of our environment, plus the support and technical expertise from Clearcom, Chyron’s channel partner here in Spain, were key reasons in our decision.”

The Chyron HyperX³·¹ systems have been installed to provide presentation graphics for news and daytime programming in TVG’s newly refitted Studio 1 and Studio 2, which now have full HD production capabilities. Chyron’s CAMIO graphics asset management server integrates the two HyperX³·¹ systems with TVG’s installation of the AP NRCS news production system.

The latest release of Chyron’s flagship on-air graphics system, HyperX³·¹ is ideal for live sports channels, news stations, and outside broadcast productions. The extremely fast, powerful, and easy-to-use HyperX³·¹platform features seamless creation-to-playout capabilities and real-time 2D/3D animation. A major selling point for TVG was Chyron’s award-winning Lyric™ PRO 8 advanced graphics creation and playout software, a standard feature of HyperX³·¹.

“By completing the first installation of HyperX³·¹ in Spain, TVG is a prime example of how Chyron’s award-winning graphics technology can accelerate workflows and enable broadcasters to take even the most complex graphics presentations to air quickly and efficiently,” said Paul Glasgow, vice president of EMEA sales at Chyron. “With HyperX³·¹, TVG is able to take its on-air graphics to a new level with features such as tickers, clocks, and graphics with conditional transitions. And, with the easy-to-use Lyric PRO software, engineers can create complex animations in a fraction of the time previously required.”

Visit Chyron at BVE 2012

Chyron BVE Product Preview

Stand E14

Speaking Event at BVE 2012:
Chyron’s Paul Glasgow, vice president of EMEA sales, and Todd Martin, senior vice president, Strategic Solutions Group, will present “Cloud 2.0” during BVE’s newest seminar entitled “Demystifying the Cloud.” This one-day event on Wednesday, Feb. 15, will feature six different sessions examining today’s cloud-based technologies. Scheduled for 12 p.m., the Chyron presentation will address today’s popular cloud-based technologies in use across the broadcast and post-production communities. Specifically, the session will examine how today’s cloud-based graphics creation platforms can be integrated with leading editing and publishing programs — such as Apple® Final Cut Pro®, Adobe® Premiere® Pro, Adobe Photoshop®, and ENPS publishing software — to achieve more efficient broadcast productions.

Chyron Products at BVE 2012:

BlueNet™ Graphics Creation and Playout System
This year at BVE 2012, Chyron will demonstrate BlueNet™, a comprehensive solution that fully addresses broadcasters’ requirements for streamlined end-to-end graphics workflows. BlueNet leverages Chyron’s acclaimed suite of graphics tools for ordering and graphics asset management, collaborative graphics creation, and real-time playout. Integration with Axis World Graphics, Chyron’s cutting-edge cloud-based services offering, extends the power of BlueNet workflows to speed even the most sophisticated graphics to air.

BlueNet minimizes the cycle time from creation to air, ensuring very fast news and sports workflows. Order management tools allow producer-driven content to move smoothly into a rundown, and management tools and easily accessible templates enable instant and efficient collaboration in preparing graphics.

Channel Box² Branding and Promo System
Chyron also will showcase its newly enhanced Channel Box². Channel Box² is a next-generation channel branding system that features 2D/3D design with a complete data acquisition toolset for all branding applications. Built on Chyron’s Lyric technology, Channel Box² allows users to access any data — RSS feeds, traffic, financial, weather, elections, tickers, promos, snipes, and more — and publish it on-air anywhere, anytime.

New Channel Box² software (v. 4.5) introduces a playlist sequencer that allows single traffic log events to play out multiple Channel Box² scenes. By automating these processes and reducing the operator workload, the Channel Box² streamlines the workflow and saves the broadcaster valuable time in creating quality broadcast graphics.

Axis World Graphics
Axis World Graphics is the world’s only cloud-based graphics creation system designed specifically for broadcasters. Axis World Graphics simplifies, streamlines, and facilitates the graphics creation process, enabling artists, reporters, production assistants, and news producers to create broadcast-quality graphics using their own graphics package. Combining award-winning technology and functionality, proven integration, and point-and-click customization, Axis World Graphics allows users to create templates in Chyron’s award-winning Lyric PRO 8 software, further streamlining integration within the broadcaster’s existing workflow or within Chyron’s BlueNet™ workflow.

Several new features have recently been introduced to the system, including fully integrated electronic order management, asset management, and integration with Final Cut Pro® video editing, all of which are designed for ease of use and maximum workflow efficiency. Axis World Graphics empowers broadcast production staff to access prebuilt templates that they can leverage for quick creation of graphics for multiple outlets, including websites, mobile devices, and print publications. Graphics creation that once took hours now takes minutes, saving time and money and enabling artists to concentrate on high-end design. The result is a fast return on investment, followed by substantial savings in operations.

HyperX^3.1 On-Air Graphics System
The new HyperX^3.1 will also be displayed at BVE 2012. This new release of Chyron’s flagship on-air graphics system supports even faster real-time rendering, in turn enabling broadcasters to take even more 3D graphics and animations to air quickly. Like its predecessor, the HyperX^3.1 is ideal for demanding environments like live sports, news stations, and outside broadcast productions. This extremely fast, powerful, and easy-to-use platform features seamless creation-to-playout capability and real-time 2D/3D animation, and the system is 3D stereoscopic-ready.

The turnkey HyperX^3.1 is scalable to two independent channels and incorporates optional DVEs, clips, and Chyron’s award-winning Lyric PRO 8 advanced creation and playout software.

Chyron 2011 Demo Reel

Witness just how far you could push your graphics: fully integrated solutions providing all your graphic requirements from online to channel branding, proving why Chyron is the innovative leader in the graphics field.