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PRIME Platform

Software Based Platform
At the heart of PRIME lies a versatile platform, crafted to empower your production workflow with a suite of software modules. Whether your needs encompass a fundamental production toolkit – including a 2ME switcher, dynamic graphics, seamless clip playout, and rich audio mixing – or extend to more specialized demands like branding, interactive touchscreens, augmented reality video walls, display processing, and comprehensive venue management, PRIME is designed to adapt. Tailor your PRIME setup with precisely the modules your production demands for a solution that's as scalable as it is flexible. Take control of your production, whether manually or through the streamlined efficiency of PRIME Commander automation.

Broadcast-Grade
PRIME acts as a bridge, seamlessly connecting your existing workflows to the next generation of live content creation and distribution, with comprehensive support for all key video standards and formats. It allows you to mix and match SDI, IP, NDI, and H264 or H265 streaming signals, ensuring your content is captured and delivered flawlessly across every channel. Moreover, PRIME enables you to broadcast in your preferred formats, including SD, HD, UHD-4K, and both SDR and HDR, offering unparalleled flexibility in how your content is presented.

Environment-Agnostic (powered by AWS)
PRIME's innovative cloud-based software design offers unprecedented flexibility in how resources are deployed and managed. Seamlessly integrate PRIME into your control rooms using off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware, bespoke IT solutions, or through virtualization. Alternatively, embrace the future of live production with PRIME operating in the cloud, leveraging either public (AWS) or private cloud solutions. This adaptability makes the PRIME Platform a perfect fit for your organization's unique approach to content creation, storage, and dissemination.

Open Ecosystem Flexibility
PRIME seamlessly integrates with a wide range of devices from leading industry manufacturers, ensuring it molds perfectly to your existing setup and workflow preferences, be they automated or manually controlled. Compatibility is key, and PRIME supports an extensive list of protocols including but not limited to Chyron Intelligent Interface, AMP, EAS, PBus, VDCP, Ross Talk, XML, and Oxtel, offering unparalleled adaptability and ease of integration.

PRIME VSAR

PRIME Design Simplicity
With Unreal 4.26, artists and designers gain access to groundbreaking features designed to bring character realism to unprecedented levels. These features include advanced strand-based hair rendering and sophisticated animation sequencing capabilities. Let your imagination run wild as you craft immersive Unreal environments unlike any before. The inclusion of PRIME VSAR's state-of-the-art design toolkit accelerates the development of essential broadcast components, transforming what was once a complex process of managing AR scene operations into a streamlined workflow of easily adjustable scene assets.

Unreal Virtual Production
Whether your production requires tracking capabilities or operates in a trackless environment, PRIME VSAR equips you with every tool necessary for executing professional-level virtual productions. Operating directly from the host machine, the Cesium tracking processor eliminates the need for extra hardware while supporting the full spectrum of standard tracking protocols in the industry. For those venturing into trackless production, the intuitive Mercury Panel offers a web-accessible, visually engaging interface, making virtual camera control effortlessly manageable.

Robust Rendering Engine
Unreal’s Movie Render Queue elevates scene quality to new heights, boasting exceptional anti-aliasing, motion blur, and unparalleled resolution. With version 4.26, it empowers designers by providing enhanced control over the render pass elements, facilitating seamless integration with downstream post-production workflows.

Embrace the versatility of PRIME VSAR, which seamlessly supports dual-camera setups on a single engine. This feature not only extends SDI connectivity but also embraces HD, 4K-UHD formats, and HDR video capabilities. To ensure you never miss a detail in your production, PRIME VSAR allows for the allocation of an engine dedicated to delivering real-time SDI previews, guaranteeing a flawless monitoring experience for every scene rendered.

CAMIO

Integrates with All Major Newsroom Systems
Journalists and producers are seamlessly integrated into their NRCS environment, enabling them to effortlessly search for, select, or request graphics, seamlessly incorporating them into their story rundowns through intuitive drag-and-drop capabilities. Compatibility is widespread, encompassing Octopus, iNews, ENPS, Dalet, Open Media, and Inception, while native plugins for leading editing software like Adobe Premiere, Avid Media Composer, and Grass Valley EDIUS enhance the CAMIO Interface. This enables both designers and non-linear editors to effortlessly integrate high-quality, brand-consistent animated graphics straight into their story timelines.

Flexible Architecture
CAMIO is tailor-made to align perfectly with both your production and business goals, granting you the unparalleled flexibility to harness virtualization through a comprehensive selection of deployment options - be it On-Premise, Cloud-based, or a Hybrid approach. No matter if your financial strategy leans towards CAPEX or OPEX, CAMIO stands out by slashing costs and amplifying efficiency. It achieves this through scalable solutions that are designed to boost productivity to new heights.

Leverage PRIME Graphics

Re-skinning with CAMIO offers an unprecedented level of flexibility and control over your production graphics, making it effortless to alter the visual aesthetics of templates or entire rundowns with just a few clicks from within the NRCS MOS plugin. This powerful feature empowers your team to swiftly adapt to changing brand guidelines, seasonal themes, or specific event styles without the need for extensive redesigns or time-consuming manual adjustments.

But the innovation doesn't stop there. CAMIO's integration with AXIS takes your production capabilities to the next level. This sophisticated platform acts as your central hub for advanced work order management, enabling efficient tracking and fulfillment of graphic requests across your team.

Adaptable to Hub & Spoke Distribution
Perfect for teams spread across different locations, CAMIO's efficient "design once, distribute everywhere" strategy guarantees that updates to templates or assets from a central creative hub are seamlessly synced across all connected remote stations or production groups, ensuring consistency and collaboration.

AXIS

Images, Maps, Charts, and Quotes
Unleash your creativity with ease and craft bespoke graphics that truly stand out. Our robust suite of modules is designed to cater to your every need, spanning from topical news images that capture the essence of current events, to high-resolution maps that bring geographic details to life. Dive into the world of 3D charts that make data visualization a breeze, and incorporate financial quotes to bring an authoritative edge to your presentations. All of these are rendered with precision in the cloud, ensuring that your creations are of the highest quality.

Collaborative Order Management
Efficiently coordinate and oversee the flow of graphic design requests and secure approvals across your entire organization with unparalleled ease. Our dynamic system is engineered to streamline the process of graphic order management, ensuring every team member, from designers to marketing specialists, is perfectly synchronized. This not only accelerates the production timeline but also significantly enhances collaboration and communication within your team. With our solution, you can effortlessly assign tasks, track progress, and receive timely approvals, all within a unified platform.

Direct Access to Image Providers
As an AXIS subscriber, you're granted exclusive entry into a world brimming with high-quality, compelling visuals thanks to our partnership with leading image providers, AP Graphics Bank and Getty Images. This privileged access allows you to effortlessly sift through a treasure trove of topical and breaking news graphics, ensuring your projects stay current and visually striking. Whether you're crafting a news segment, developing an engaging presentation, or enhancing your digital content, these resources are at your fingertips for use in AXIS News.

Tight NRCS and NLE Integration
Streamline your team's workflows with our cutting-edge technology that seamlessly integrates with all major newsroom systems and the industry's leading Non-Linear Editing systems (NLEs). This powerful synergy provides you with unparalleled access to your comprehensive library of assets, ensuring you can retrieve and utilize any piece of content in real-time, from any location. This integration not only simplifies the content creation process but also significantly boosts productivity by enabling smooth, efficient transitions between different stages of production.

NewsTicker

Easy Access, Easy Control
NewsTicker streamlines your workflow with its intuitive HTML5 web interface. Tailor-made permissions ensure each team member has precisely the right level of access and control. Plus, our user-centric playlist management system guarantees smooth and dependable broadcasts every time.

Flexible Flow and Dual Language
Our state-of-the-art engine delivers sophisticated flow management effortlessly, without the need for any scripting. A single NewsTicker system can power several unique displays at the same time, each with its own distinct branding. Moreover, NewsTicker enhances data management efficiency by supporting bilingual content within a single element, making it easier than ever to cater to diverse audiences.

Generate More Revenue
Leverage dynamic controls to seamlessly rotate sponsor logos and tags, transforming your data streams into profitable assets that boost your ROI. From weather updates and school closures to election insights and sports outcomes, every piece of content presents an opportunity for sponsorship. Plus, with precise "as-run" logs, you can guarantee accurate billing for your sponsors, ensuring a transparent and trustworthy partnership.

Rock Solid Support
Your audience relies on you for crucial, real-time updates on severe weather conditions, urgent news developments, and more. Our system's remote monitoring feature instantaneously notifies our support crew about any technical difficulties, ensuring seamless operation. Additionally, an automated remote backup system to Chyron’s secure data centers offers unwavering protection for every NewsTicker client.

Chyron Weather

Fluid Real-Time Weather Forecasting
Elevate your weather forecasts to an art form with our intuitive scene-by-scene playlist interface, offering unparalleled flexibility in how you craft and present your on-air weather narratives. Effortlessly blend dynamic map visuals with immersive 3D global analysis to enrich your storytelling. Plus, personalize your broadcasts with unique illustrations and key highlights, all made possible through the innovative timeline-based editor of Chyron Weather.

Simple Design, True-to-Data Visualization
Unlock the power to craft meteorological visualizations with an authoring tool that breaks the barriers of graphic design and data fusion. Tailor maps and weather elements to your vision, fine-tune data sets to align with your storytelling, and link data to any visual property essential for depicting the weather to your viewers. When it comes to extraordinary weather phenomena, Chyron Weather transforms forecasts into vivid 3D scenarios, complete with authentic elevation contours and detailed textures.

Data Provider Agnostic
Combine a variety of data sources—ranging from point data and satellite/radar imagery to GRIB file meteorological insights—to craft the perfect narrative for your audience. Chyron Weather streamlines the process of data integration and simplifies complex workflows through intuitive drag-and-drop interfaces and powerful scripting tools, allowing you to convert various data APIs and unconventional data types into visually compelling stories tailored to your needs.

Scalable System Architecture
Whether you're broadcasting a weekly program using a straightforward single-server setup or delivering simultaneous, top-tier forecasts with a network of multiple engines, Chyron Weather seamlessly adapts. It's designed for efficiency and versatility, with deployment options that include robust on-premises hardware, flexible cloud-based solutions, and advanced virtualized environments. Effortlessly manage live broadcasts across a variety of screens and venues, and tackle extensive rendering tasks for digital and social media platforms with a coordinated workflow that leverages a broad array of client servers.