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25 May 2017
ChryonHego reveals
timely game-changer:
CAMIO Universe on VPX
While the broadcast industry is
still mostly focused on IP now,
ChryonHego believes that 2017
is “the year of IT”. The industry is
seeing a shift towards the imple-
mentation of all software-based
workflows running on standard IT
infrastructure instead of new in-
vestments in proprietary hardware.
With this important movement,
ChryonHego’s CAMIO Universe on
VPX (Virtual Production Server) is a
timely solution.
“CAMIO Universe is a unified
end-to-end news content creation,
production and playout solution
running on our Virtual Produc-
tion Server, called VPX,” explains
Jerry Burianyk, senior pre-sales
specialist.
“It is a concept that brings all
the functions of a newsroom to a
producer or newscaster. Producers
can schedule an entire show with
virtual sets, augmented reality and
live elements.
In more traditional news pro-
duction, there were only supers
and CGs. Nowadays, camera
shots, story playback and live
elements can be easily scheduled
and built in as part of a news show.
CAMIO brings them all into a single
controllable platform, enabling
a single point of creation, says
Burianyk.
“When we add this to VPX, it es-
sentially allows us to ‘spin up’, as we
put different software applications
onto one platform. So the switcher
today is more like a graphic tool
ChryonHego’s Jerry Burianyk and Dae Yung Choe, Asia-Pacific VP, invite visitors to
booth 4K3-06 to check out CAMIO Universe — a unified end-to-end news content
creation, production and playout solution.
than a traditional vision mixer.
“The system allows the pro-
ducer to treat the different things
as software applications instead of
managing hardware devices.”
Burianyk says virtualising gets
rid of the cost of dedicated single-
purpose hardware. “VPX is a game-
changer because it means the
capability to run live production
workflows in a virtualised server
environment is available to broad-
casters now.”
Specialising in live television,
news and spor ts production,
ChyronHego is offering some of
the industry’s most innovative
solutions. These include the PRIME
2.5, an all-new, high-performance
update of the company’s renowned
PRIME Graphics platform.
PRIME 2.5 is a resolution-
agnostic, software-based solution
that leverages advanced 64-bit
GPU- and CPU-based technologies
for maximum power in rendering
graphics and effects. It can output
multiple channels of graphics and
clips from a single system.
For live 4K sports production,
ChyronHego offers the Paint Tele-
stration and analysis solution and
a new generation of ChyronHego’s
Virtual Placement products for
placing visually compelling virtual
graphics within live broadcasts.
AWS Elemental unveils
cloud-based live
streaming at show
AWS Elemental is an Amazon
Web Services (AWS) company that
combines deep video expertise
with the power and scale of the
cloud to provide nimble, flexible
software-based video processing
and delivery solutions.
“Our customers can harness
the elasticity of the cloud when
needed, on demand and with
pay-as-you-go services,” says Hong
Kong-based Mark Cousins, head
of systems engineering at AWS
Elemental.
“Our solutions allow broad-
cast TV and multi-screen video
to be customised, originated and
monetised at a global scale, giving
customers the ability to quickly,
easily and economically scale and
optimise video operations and the
freedom to focus on what matters
— transforming ideas into compel-
ling content that captivates viewers.”
The four processes involved
in live streaming — ingest, store,
process and deliver — have been
made extremely user-friendly and
cost-effective by AWS Elemental.
“Live video ingest supports
multiple video ingest formats
including RTMP, HLS and RTP or
RTP with FEC for highly reliable
content delivery,” says Cousins.
“We have AWS Direct Connect for
dedicated transfer connection, and
AWS Snowball for large-scale data
transport, as well as the Amazon
S3 Transfer Acceleration for faster
public Internet transfers.”
The company offers three stor-
age devices — the simple Amazon
S3, the Amazon Glacier for long-
term storage and the Amazon
DynamoDB for video indexing
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— for storing video content in the
cloud with reliability, scalability and
security to support both archival
and origination applications.
There are other AWS Elemental
products for processing and deliv-
ery at booth 4B3-01.
At BroadcastAsia2017, the
company is laying great emphasis
on cloud-based live streaming, a
process that the company claims is
ideal for live events, as it employs
the power of the cloud and makes
investment in expensive equip-
ment an unnecessary exercise.
“You use cloud-based live
streaming as you require it,” says
Cousins. “If you have a live event
for five days in a month, you use it
just on those five days. In the old
days, you had to stay invested in
the equipment all 30 days in the
month, but no more!
“And, mind you, this is full
broadcast-quality video; not ama-
teur stuff! The world’s top media
providers are asking for it, and
actually using it.”
AWS Elemental’s Mark Cousins: “Our
solutions allow broadcast TV and
multi-screen video to be customised,
originated and monetised at a global
scale.”