Visual Research Inc. Exploits the Power of Matrox DSX Developer Products in VisualCG 3D Realtime Broadcast Graphics System
Montreal, Canada, April 1, 2008 - Matrox® Video Products Group today announced that South Korea-based Visual Research Inc. has adopted the Matrox DSX™ platform as the hardware engine for VisualCG 3D, its professional realtime HD/SD 3D character generator with advanced 2D/3D titling and motion graphics effects. VisualCG 3D is used by terrestrial and cable broadcasters and post-production facilities.to create sophisticated televison graphics and titles quickly and easily. MBC, one of the largest commercial broadcasters in South Korea, used VisualCG 3D for the successful HD broadcast of the 17th presidential election in December 2007.
"Thanks to the outstanding performance of VisualCG 3D, we successfully accomplished the live HD broadcast of the 17th presidential election. VisualCG 3D was used as a main CG system for producing graphics and titles for candidate rank prediction, ballot counting, and identification of the president-elect," said Mr. J. W. Koo, video engineer at MBC. "Because VisualCG 3D itself features internal mixing and supports multi-format movie clips, we could go to air without an additional digital disc recorder system."
"We chose the Matrox DSX cards for their multi-format HD/SD codec support in software and their fast rendering compared to other I/O boards," said Charles Kim, president of Visual Research Inc. "In addition, stability is critical in CG systems since failure during a broadcast could be disastrous. The Matrox X.mio cards have been excellent in terms of reliability."
At NAB 2008, Visual Research Inc.'s products will be shown in booth SL7428. The Matrox DSX product line will be demonstrated in booth SL320.
About VisualCG 3D
VisualCG 3D provides the highest quality true 3D titling and motion graphics in real time for professional HD/SD broadcasts. Text and shapes can be transformed into 3D objects with a few simple operations, and displayed with over 200 realtime transition effects. A keyframeable timeline provides a high level of animation customization. VisualCG 3D is able to playback multiple 2D/3D objects such as 3D titles, clocks, and animated logos while outputting full resolution background video clips. In addition, it can import a wide variety of still, animation and movie clip file types including: tga, tif, jpg, gif, psd, ai, X-file (Autodesk Maya and 3ds max), Artbeats, Digital Juice and more.
About Matrox DSX Developer Products
The Matrox DSX product line combines a full range of professional audio and video hardware components with comprehensive Windows XP- and Linux-based Software Development Kits (SDK) that enable OEMs and developers to create a wide variety of cost-effective products and applications including ingest/playout servers, broadcast graphics systems, NLE systems, automation and master control units, multi-layer compositors, and medical media servers. The open-architecture Matrox DSX developer products leverage scalable CPU and GPU power in conjunction with high performance hardware to lead the industry in I/O density, native codec support, file format versatility, and on-board processing capability.
Key features of the Matrox DSX platforms:
- Modular architecture gives developers the flexibility to meet technical and price targets
- Multi-channel HD and SD video/audio I/O support from a single card
- Extensive native codec support in HD and SD including DV, D10 for IMX, HDV, DVCPRO HD, MPEG-2 4:2:2, MPEG-2 4:2:2:4 YUVA, MPEG HD for XDCAM HD, AVC-Intra for P2, and H.264
- Cross platform file format support - MXF, MOV, AVI, MPG, etc.
- Multi-layer on-board HD scaler/compositor
- Professional realtime effects including sub-pixel 2D/3D DVE, color correction, chroma/luma keying, graphics overlay, smooth speed changes, etc.
- Application development support by a team of dedicated, experienced engineers
About MBC
MBC (Munwha Broadcasting Corporation) is an integrated multi-media public service broadcaster with an extensive national radio and television network in South Korea. MBC operates a single terrestrial television channel, three radio channels, and four cable channels with over 1,700 staff. For more information visit www.imbc.com.
About Visual Research Inc.
Visual Research Inc. is a leading software applications development and service company catering to the broadcast industry. Since 1993, VRi has been a leading manufacturer of professional character generators for broadcast and post-production. For more information visit http://www.visualcg.com.
About Matrox
Matrox Video Products Group is a technology and market leader in the field of HD and SD digital video hardware and software for realtime editing, DVD authoring, capture/playout servers, clip/still stores, and CGs. Matrox's Emmy award-winning technology powers a full range of content creation and delivery platforms used by broadcasters, post-production facilities, project studios, corporate communicators, and videographers worldwide. Founded in 1976, Matrox is a privately held company headquartered in Montreal, Canada. For more information visit www.matrox.com/video.
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