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Viz|Engine is an extremely powerful rendering engine and is the core of all Vizrt’s real-time graphical solutions. 2D/3D animated scenes designed in Viz|Artist are rendered in real-time as high-end animations, and the output is SD or HD video. Viz|Engine systems work with all other Vizrt products to provide users with the total solution for producing their graphic content.

Primarily, Viz|Engine is used to render graphics animations for live TV programs, but can be equally applied to post-production, webcasting, and non-broadcast large scale displays.

Viz|Engine has an open control interface allowing users to integrate their proprietary control software. Viz|Engine supports a command language which allows almost all graphic features to be controlled or changed on the fly from external applications. These control possibilities include editing of text, images, materials, 2D and 3D objects, audio, animations, and many other effects.

Viz|Engine’s early adoption of OpenGL makes it one of the few 3D graphics systems in the industry which can run the same graphics content on multiple hardware platform and operating systems. Supported operating systems include Windows XP/2000, Linux, and SGI Irix. This ensures that users can rely on an upgrade path over time without sacrificing existing content. The HD version of Viz|Engine runs on non-proprietary, rack mountable Windows PC with NVIDIA QuadroFX 4400/SDI graphics card, as well as a specialized PC platform from Panasonic.

Viz|Engine systems support up to four live video inputs which can be embedded in any graphics animations or virtual studio sets. Viz|Engine supports scaling of performance by clustering of multiple systems.

Viz|TargaFX

The Viz|Engine on the PC platform can be configured with an optional Targa video board which enhances the Viz|Engine’s capabilities with the following features:

• Real-time video output SD with adjustable frame buffer.
• Two independent video inputs used as background or live video textures.
• Internal linear keying.
• 2D DVE, RGBA Input.
• Supports encoded clips in the following formats: DVCPRO 25Mbit, 50Mbit, and MPEG2.
• Audio: Mixing and routing of embedded audio channels and adjustable audio delay.

Key Features and Benefits

• Extremely powerful rendering engine.
• Runs on Windows XP/2000, Linux, and SGI Irix™ operating systems.
• Supports all Vizrt’s applications.
• 2D and 3D real-time high performance and high quality graphics with up to four live video inputs and video + key out.
• Supports multiple output formats: SD digital video (PAL and NTSC in 4:3 and 16:9 ratios), HD digital video as well as render to disk (AVI and Quicktime).
• High quality full scene anti-aliasing.
• Open interface allows third party applications to easily create and control the graphics.
• Optionally available Viewpoint™ library with thousands of 3D models and ready-to-use objects optimized for real-time rendering.
• Open systems allowing the addition of plug-ins for quick implementation of new graphic effects.
  SDK available.
• Pure OpenGL and OpenML implementation.
• Supports the OpenGL Shading Language for development of shader effects.
• Internal audio processing.
• Optional video board to support up to four live video inputs and up to two compressed video streams.
• Optional plug-in packages include Viz|RealFX, Viz|ImageFX, Viz|TextFX, Viz|SplineFX, and Viz|ShaderFX.