Viz Engine

Real-time 3D graphics render engine and video server

  • High performance data driven real-time compositor
  • Real-time graphics player and video playout server in one box
  • Up to 8 live inputs, 16 clip players, 16 graphic channels
  • Live ingest and clip record
  • Provides "switcher-less" live production
  • Real-time VS and AR camera tracking processor
  • Format agnostic IP IN and IP OUT
  • Native resolution video wall and electronic board image processor solution
  • Full API, SDK and VDCP controllable
  • Meta-graphics workflow
  • Built in content management

Now available in Viz Engine 3.9 release

  • Photorealism
    • Global illumination
    • Epic Unreal Engine 4 integration
  • Reduced in-to-out delay down to 2 frames (in low latency/fast texture mode and in 1080i)
  • WebRTC streaming of any IN or composited OUT Channel for browser-based preview
  • Shared node architecture to route a signal to multiple services (such as Channel Recorder or WebRTC preview)
  • In/Out capabilities in a Tricaster NDI network
  • UHD Support for Virtual Sets
  • Channel Recorder featuring input signal auto sensing and loop recordings
  • Instant clip playback with improved playlist handling and playback of loop recorded material
  • VR/360 graphics and video: Support for a wider range of projections (360deg.) and lens distortions (radial)
  • SMPTE ST 2022-07 support (for 2022-06)
  • Windows 10 support

One Viz Engine, many uses

  • Real time renderer for virtual studios and immersive graphics
  • Video playout server
  • Photoreal rendering
  • Ingest recording
  • Low latency real-time compositor with DVE functionality
  • Channel in a box
  • Video wall
  • VOD generator
  • Clip maker and frame server in the cloud
  • Virtual reality and 360 experience
  • Zero delay downstream keyer

Real time renderer for virtual studios and immersive graphics

  • Live video in through SDI and IP
  • Build in chroma keyer and color correction
  • Co-cyc and holdout matte
  • Immersive graphics over uninterrupted live video
  • Photorealistic rendering
  • Depth of field and lens distortion
  • Talent reflection
  • Interactivity

Video playout server

  • Output through SDI and IP (SMPTE 2110, ASPEN, TR-01)
  • 4 and more individual channels
  • Controlled by 3rd party through VDCP
  • Controlled from Vizrt applications
  • Can be fully automated /remote controlled
  • GPU(s) can be shared between channels
  • Feed screens in studio
  • Playout out bumpers and openers
  • Playout of complete packages
  • Leverage existing investment
  • Tight integration with Viz One
  • Certified centralized storage available

Photoreal rendering

  • A suite of plugins to provide additional photorealistic rendering to the Viz Engine
  • An advanced photorealistic graphics workflow for the designer and journalist
  • Photorealistic 3D real-time graphics to the day-to-day live production for sports and news organizations
  • Template-based workflow

Ingest recording

  • Independent process for each channel
  • Input through SDI and IP (SMPTE 2022-6, ASPEN, TR-01)
  • 4 and more individual channels
  • Controlled through Media Sequencer Engine or Viz Dart
  • Proxy generation on the fly or offloaded
  • Hi res and proxy ingest to Viz One

Low latency real time compositor with DVE functionality

  • Built in 2D DVE functionality on dedicated hardware or CPU
  • Available for SDI, clips and IP streams
  • Guaranteed uninterrupted pass through for 2D DVE
  • 3D DVE through GPU
  • 4 frames for both 2D and 3D DVE functionality
  • Embedded and AES audio
  • Dolby-E support
  • Volume adjust on all input channels

Channel in a box

  • Media playback with branding capabilities
  • Full integration with Viz Multichannel, or other automation, for scheduling
  • Multiple streams from one box
  • Frame accurate triggering
  • Promo playback from the same device
  • Back-to-back playout of clips
  • Mix effects on each playback channel

PC based control room

Automated broadcast control

  • Video playback and graphics in 1 box
  • Integrated video switching
  • Integrated Viz Engine video & graphics playout
  • Up to 8 HD-SDI inputs
  • Up to 16 clip channels
  • Up to 4 IP streams
  • Media preview in Viz Opus UI
  • Sophisticated failover
  • Clean and program output
  • Easy to extend
  • Transition effects

Video wall engine

  • Up to 16k by 16k total resolution from one box
  • Up to 16 displayport or DVI outputs
  • Fully synchronized to house sync
  • Supports monitors in landscape, portrait or arbitrary rotation at same time
  • Scan intensity adjustable through Viz Multiplay
  • Single engine solution preferred, multiple engines in sync supported

Video On Demand generator

  • Real time or near real time generation of VOD content
  • Multiple output resolutions at the same time
  • Multiple looks at the same time
  • Fully integrated with Viz One
  • Coder as compositor with Viz Engine in the cloud

Clip maker and frame server in the cloud

  • Viz Engine runs on Amazon and Softlayer with Azure in preparation
  • Post rendering of clips with audio for AVI container
  • Frame server for VOD, online or journalist preview

Virtual reality and 360 experience

  • Wider range of supported lens deformation like radial and 360 degree
  • Easy insertion of graphics in 360 video
  • Clip playback with timecode distribution and tracking data allowing AR/VR design on recorded material

Zero delay downstream keyer

  • Graphics superimposed over full screen live video
  • No delay introduced
  • SDI only

Other technical features

  • Video inputs
    • Up to 8 HD input channels
    • 1 UHD Input channel
  • Video outputs
    • UHD, 2K, 3G, HD, SD, 3D stereoscopic, VGA and IP output
    • Up to 4 HD output channels with key
    • 1 UHD output channel with key
  • Codecs
    • XDCam HD
    • DVCPro
    • MPEG 2 I-Frame
    • ProRes
    • DNxHD
    • AVC-Intra
  • Media Storage
    • SAN support
    • Viz One with cloud storage support
    • Graphics Hub with cloud storage support
  • Audio
    • 16 AES / embedded audio channels
    • Dolby-E decoding/encoding
  • Closed-caption
    • VANC and HANC support

Videos

The Washington Post

Al Arabiya

Super Bowl LI on Fox; powered by Vizrt