Key Updates Boost Capabilities Of Dalet CubeNG

A host of new features have been announced for Dalet's CubeNG platform, the powerful graphics solution for modern news workflows.

Fully integrated across Dalet Unified News Operations, Dalet CubeNG leverages the Brainstorm real-time graphics engine to deliver rich 2D and 3D branding as well as engaging visual storytelling across broadcast, social and digital channels.

The scalable, enterprise-level graphics solution is used by leading broadcasters including Euronews, Mediaset and Teleticino, and now features customisable work spaces that allow users to manipulate graphics in real time during a live show. The update also adds support for working across multiple sites to allow broadcasters to create distributed graphics workflows across all their centres of operation.

Dalet CubeNG features new customisable button boards, enabling users to customise their playout workspace with curated graphic templates that can be triggered on the fly. This also allows operators to interact with the live graphics to visually tell more complex stories, keeping audiences informed and engaged.

Computer graphics (CG) items can now have a shortcut ID, while trigger advanced interaction with graphics means user can animate graphics like bar charts to visually summarise detailed data and unknown reference points to simplify stories and keep audiences informed.

All Dalet CubeNG capabilities are available both on-premises and in the cloud.

"Audiences depend on graphics to absorb key points of complex events such as pandemic data, elections or sports statistics. However, often you cannot script these stories in advance," said Jérémy Krein, Product Manager, Dalet CubeNG. "Our latest release of Dalet CubeNG brings users time-saving tools to enhance unscripted live news with compelling graphics elements. Users can animate charts, maps and other elements on the fly, enhancing the overall news commentary. This type of interaction with graphics provides audiences with even more valuable information, thus engaging them at a deeper level."

The solution also introduces new capabilities that enable better collaboration across multi-sites, multi-studios and remote productions with under-the-hood file-based optimisations that ensure scalability and redundancy. Broadcasters can centralise graphics playlists for multiple playout locations. Each graphics playlist can be configured to play in one specific studio or across several. New APIs allow broadcasters to automate the creation of CG playlists across the enterprise.

Jérémy concluded: "A strategic component for this release was the support for enterprise operations. Some of our customers have more than 20 locations, so rather than looking to deploy in each separate location, a centralised solution made much more business sense. Dalet CubeNG gives news operators more control over their brand and visuals while simplifying the delivery on a highly scalable platform. We revamped Dalet CubeNG with a brand-new engine just over a year ago, bringing great business success."

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