This year at IBC, Chyron celebrates its 60th anniversary in live broadcast production. Chyron’s IBC booth, 7.A23, is designed to help customers explore efficient workflows and emerging technologies. Visitors to the Chyron booth can see products in action and are also encouraged to discuss their goals and questions concerning modernisation.
Growing steadily since the invention of the modern live graphics system, Chyron’s solutions include an array of visual storytelling technologies, including graphics, video walls, virtual sets, weather presentations, newsroom integration, sports analysis and venue control.
At the Core: Powerful Graphics, Modern Innovations
At the heart of the Chyron booth, visitors can explore PRIME, the modern platform that supports broadcast graphics, video walls, touchscreens and branding. With its powerful data integration capabilities and highly configurable playout panels, PRIME is an integral part of news and sports broadcast workflows for broadcasters of all sizes around the world.
At this year’s IBC, Chyron will demonstrate advances in HTML, AI and cloud production for more efficient, higher-quality production.
Developed for the needs of real broadcast operations, PRIME’s HTML functionality offers users a practical path to adopting HTML input, native creation in HTML and HTML output, all without abandoning their existing PRIME skills, content investments and workflows, including newsroom and MOS workflows.
PRIME’s HTML option is ideal for customers concerned about security, data control or cloud dependence.
Information will also be available about PRIME Translate, an AI-driven project supported by NVIDIA that offers broadcasters the ability to translate content into multiple languages. Users may choose to translate voice, facial movements, PRIME graphics text or any combination of these.
As more productions move out of the truck or the bricks-and-mortar control room, Chyron customers are adopting cloud and hybrid workflows across the Chyron portfolio.
At the same time, Chyron LIVE, the cloud-native platform for graphics, vision mixing, illustrated replay and commentary, continues to expand in response to customer needs. LIVE’s latest advances include integration with Haivision StreamHub for managing remote video contributions, SCTE-35 ad insertion to monetise live streams, and a set of switcher, shortcut and replay improvements designed to give operators tighter control during live broadcasts.
To enhance LIVE’s effectiveness, users can purchase and deploy LIVE on demand directly from the AWS Marketplace and use their AWS credits.
Virtual Sets, Augmented and Extended Reality
This year’s Chyron IBC booth features an extensive demonstration area for virtual sets, augmented reality and extended reality, with both a green-screen area and an LED wall.
Visitors can see examples of sets used by Chyron enterprise clients, learn about recent new features in VSAR, Chyron’s virtual sets and augmented reality platform, and receive an overview of how these important visual storytelling tools can be integrated easily into rundown-driven workflows through Chyron CAMIO.
A preview of the VSAR integration with Unreal Engine’s native Motion Design plugin within the core Chyron newsroom workflow, CAMIO, will also be shown. Replicating PRIME’s template-to-playout model, broadcasters can use Unreal’s real-time 2D and 3D graphics engine natively within Chyron’s existing production ecosystem.
For virtual sets imported into VSAR, the new VSAR Controller serves as a centralised control plane, managing all bidirectional communication between the CAMIO Endpoint and VSAR instances.
Built on a low-latency, gRPC-based communication protocol, this service can manage multi-instance cluster-pool orchestration, template tracking during preview and playout phases, and dynamic role mapping.
Operators can also configure and launch VSAR instances remotely, trigger monitoring mechanisms and optimise resource management.
Broadcast News
Chyron CAMIO continues to set the standard for integrating all aspects of visual storytelling – graphics, clips, video walls, virtual and augmented reality, and weather segments – into the newsroom computer system-driven rundown.
At this year’s IBC, visitors can see new features that offer a high degree of design flexibility within the newsroom computer system workstation through the CAMIO LUCI plugin, comparable with what is available to live graphics operators in the PRIME playout interface.
At the show, Chyron will reveal new AI-driven efficiencies for supporting journalistic content with graphics, including images and text.
Offering flexible workflows and easy imagery creation, including maps, financial data, charts and composite images, AXIS can integrate tightly with CAMIO and strengthen the CAMIO workflow, ensuring that all visual storytelling requirements can be met within the workflow.
AXIS can now use the same graphics templates accessible from CAMIO as guidelines to ensure alignment with the template. Conversely, AXIS assets can be played from the rundown without being added to a template and may even be incorporated into a virtual set.
The emphasis on connected workflows continues with Chyron Weather. Presenters can now use the tools with which they are already familiar to trigger elements in a virtual environment.
Chyron Weather includes additional data integrations, including Climate Data Operators, along with new data-validation functionality.
Broadcast Sports
The theme of efficiency also extends to innovations across Chyron’s sports analysis portfolio, enabling more engaging fan content to be created more quickly.
Chyron’s ZXY Tracking now includes automated PTZ camera control using positional tracking data. Existing PTZ cameras can be updated with a virtual camera operator that receives centimetre-accurate positional data and translates it into camera controls.
This enables automatic tracking of any subject equipped with a ZXY tracking device, as well as control of pan, tilt and zoom.
PAINT, Chyron’s integrated replay and telestration platform, includes six-camera HD recording, angle selection, analysis, branding and playout, all managed from a single system.
It will be shown at IBC with new AI-enabled features, including Cam Warp, which provides AI-rendered flight transitions between camera angles for smoother and more visually engaging multi-camera analysis, and Player CutOut, which provides AI-assisted player detection and masking, including for partially obscured players.
IBC visitors can gain a practical understanding of how PAINT supports richer analysis, faster live-production workflows and more engaging on-air sports storytelling.
VP, Chyron’s virtual placement solution for field markings, such as football offside lines, and the virtual placement of advertisements within live video – on the field, around the pitch or on buildings – continues the themes of efficiency and integrated workflows.
Automatic Calibration Line Detection removes most of the manual line-marking work required during calibration. Initial testing shows approximately 95 per cent line-detection accuracy, reducing the overall calibration process from about 30 minutes to approximately five minutes.
This enables faster setup, reduces operator workload and helps productions get on air more quickly.
Additionally, a more integrated graphics workflow that places PRIME within Virtual Placement reduces application handovers and additional hardware requirements while expanding creative options for animated and data-driven graphics.
In addition to live broadcast workflows, PRIME Click Effects, Chyron’s venue display control solution, will also be shown at IBC.
Visitors will be able to see recent examples of Click Effects in action at major live sporting events as the single point of control for all of a venue’s LED displays, driving fan engagement and sponsor monetisation.
Consultative Approach
Every visitor to the Chyron booth is encouraged not only to see product demonstrations but also to engage with the Chyron team in consultative discussions.
Chyron product roadmaps are the direct result of working with customers and supporting them in creating an actionable technology plan that is suitable for the present and the future.
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