ChyronHego Prepares For NAB 2015

ChyronHego is bringing new innovations across broadcast graphics to this year's NAB show in Las Vegas.

Headlining the company's technology at the show is Lyric64, the all-new 64-bit re-architected version of ChyronHego's graphics flagship product, Lyric, running in 2K, 4K, and beyond.

Lyric64 offers a single solution for graphics creation and playout, including point-and-click access to data using ChyronHego's Advanced Data Object technology. Lyric64 is resolution-agnostic with full support for authoring and playout in nonstandard aspect ratios and resolutions of 4K and beyond. At the show, ChyronHego will showcase Lyric64 in a 4K environment and in an advanced video wall application displaying resolutions far beyond 4K.

Virtual Placement from ChyronHego turns the art of placing virtual graphics within live video into a quick process. Virtual Placement can be used in many different live broadcast scenarios, from augmenting physical studio sets with virtual objects or live broadcast graphics and video feeds to enhancing much larger scenes such as sports arenas, race tracks, or landscapes.

At NAB, ChyronHego will showcase the latest release of Virtual Placement, which features the all-new Scene Tracking engine that allows for sensorless real-time and true 3D camera tracking in almost any environment. Scene Tracking is specifically targeted at live sports production. In addition, Virtual Placement now enables deployment of virtual graphics using Steadicams and jibs. ChyronHego will demonstrate this capability in an integration of Virtual Placement with the StypeGRIP augmented reality solution for Stanton Jimmy Jibs USA.

ChyronHego's Paint product family offers production analysis and telestration tools designed for the needs of sports broadcasters. Within a game, dozens of telestrated clips can be created live or stored at the ready for near-live replays or post-match analysis. At NAB, ChyronHego will release a new version of Paint that includes support for 4K productions, enabling broadcasters to introduce and telestrate a 4K stream in an HD broadcast without any loss of resolution.ChyronHego is also launching an all-new version of Paint for Mac® platforms. And, for the first time at NAB, the company will showcase Paint Live, a solution targeting live OB productions with the ability to telestrate fill and key output.

As a stand-alone system within a broadcasting operation or as a production tool in an integrated 24/7 newsroom environment, Metacast provides users with a graphics toolset for weather-driven news stories. At the NAB 2015, ChyronHego will showcase a new version of Metacast with performance and usability enhancements to further streamline weather workflows.

Metacast® Media Maker, a new template-based version of ChyronHego's Metacast professional weather graphics solution, will make its debut at the 2015 NAB Show. Metacast Media Maker delivers all of the robust rendering and output capabilities of the full Metacast solution in a set of pre-defined templates that connect to multiple live-weather data inputs. Users can render constantly updated weather clips that can be delivered live into a ChyronHego BlueNet graphics workflow, an internal MAM, or any other file-based workflow.

SHOUT is ChyronHego's social media application that works with any of the company's graphics systems. With SHOUT, broadcasters can create an online community and create buzz around the broadcast by airing social media conversations from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Mass Relevance, YouTube, and RSS feeds.

At NAB, ChyronHego will introduce SHOUT Metrics, a new extension for SHOUT that provides data analysis on social media data – for instance, the number of Tweets per second during a specific news segment. In addition, SHOUT Interactive will be introduced. ChyronHego's social media touch screen application now enables display of content created with SHOUT and SHOUT Metrics and also provides support for Instagram feeds.

"At this year's NAB Show, we'll show why ChyronHego remains on the leading edge of today's most advanced graphics production workflows," said Johan Apel, President and CEO, ChyronHego. "Front and center is Lyric64, a significantly re-engineered version of the world-renowned Lyric graphics tool. With Lyric64, we've taken everything that's great about Lyric and re-built it in the 64-bit environment, a large development effort that has resulted in a new foundation for Lyric to evolve along with our customers' ever-challenging graphics requirements."

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