Unlock Next-Level News Production with Viz Pilot Edge

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Unlock Next-Level News Production
with Viz Pilot Edge

Seamlessly Transition from Viz Pilot News to Viz Pilot Edge

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Futureproof Your News Workflow

As a key player in the broadcast industry, you understand the importance of staying ahead of the curve. You want modern, flexible tools to complement your innovative news production workflow. We rebuilt Viz Pilot Edge in 2024 for newsroom professionals like you. Replacing outdated technologies like VB Script and Active X with more modern TypeScript and Vue.

A modern tool for modern newsrooms

Viz Pilot Edge, Vizrt’s HTML and template-based newsroom graphics creation system, is designed to futureproof your news production workflow and drive unparalleled efficiency and creativity. Give your journalists the power to independently create, manage, and deliver high volumes of top-quality graphics to complement their stories from anywhere, anytime.

5 Reasons You’re Missing Out If You Haven’t Made the Jump to Viz Engine 5.

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Transform Your Newsroom: Faster, Smarter, and More Secure with Viz Pilot Edge

Join us to see all the recent improvements to Viz Pilot Edge and get a step-by-step walkthrough of the migration process.

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Viz Pilot Edge 3 Release Demo

Viz Pilot Edge 3

More Responsive, More Flexible, Up to 3x Faster

Discover the latest advancements and new features built for modern, flexible newsrooms in this on-demand Viz Pilot Edge 3 webinar. This demo session features Ionut ‘Johnny’ Pogacean, Senior Product Manager for Viz Pilot Edge and Bjørn Ullevoldsæter, Product Owner for Viz Pilot Edge.
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A webinar series to answer all your questions

Viz Pilot Edge offers familiar features along with many new and robust functionalities built for modern newsrooms. Our live webinar on 19 November, 2024 will walk you through all the latest updates and what’s on our roadmap. Vizrt’s Migration Lead will explain how we work hand-in-hand with you to help you transition smoothly according to your timeline, and share success stories of newsrooms that have made the switch from Viz Pilot News to Viz Pilot Edge.

No disruptive downtime. No new backend licenses.

Webinar 1

Transform Your Newsroom: Faster, Smarter, and More Secure with Viz Pilot Edge

Tuesday, 19th November 2024
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Webinar 2

Migrating Successfully: What You Need
to Know and How we Assist

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Webinar 3

The Big Move: Migrating Advanced Templates
from Viz Pilot News to Viz Pilot Edge

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[Available to view on-demand]

Key Features

  • A powerful template and browser-based graphics creation tool 
  • Low entry bar to graphics production 
  • Data-driven 2D and 3D graphics
  • Compatible with all major NRCS 
  • Scripting capabilities – using TypeScript 
  • Customizable, responsive layout 
  • Custom HTML   
  • Seamless integration into Vizrt ecosystem

Why is Viz Pilot Edge a gamechanger?

  • Saves costs, uses the same backend: No new backend licenses. No huge downtime replacing equipment. You only need to switch in Viz Pilot Edge and Template Builder.
  • Quick win, staggered migration: Run Viz Pilot Edge in parallel with Viz Pilot News, and migrate according to your timeline, in manageable blocs. 
  • Out with the outdated: Powered by modern technologies, transitioning away from outdated, deprecated technologies like Active X and VB Script to ensure futureproof performance. 
  • New, modern features: Role-based authentication, all-in-one plugin, and much more next generation functionality to come.  
  • Takes the load off your creative team: Designers can instead focus on more advanced graphics, to wow your audience and stand out from competitors. 
  • Always accessible: With brand and show-aligned templates, journalists can singlehandedly create graphics for their stories directly at their workstations, anytime.  
  • Server-side installation: Requires no local installations on individual machines. Upgrades are deployed instantaneously from the server to all workstations. 
  • Speeds up news production: Stories as fast as breaking news. Journalists have full control of their stories, accentuating with relevant graphics, maps and even curated social media posts, ready for playout in seconds.    
  • Usability improvements: Common workflow elements are now ‘productified’ (as features within Viz Pilot Edge), so you no longer need to script for these features. 
  • Help migrating your templates: Many of the templates can be easily rebuilt in Viz Pilot Edge- Template Builder. Or engage Vizrt approved third party experts to help rebuild your more advanced templates.

Ready to learn more about Viz Pilot Edge?

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Here are three helpful video resources designed to guide you step-by-step through the migration from Viz Pilot News to Viz Pilot Edge.

[Webinar #1] Transform Your Newsroom: Faster, Smarter, and More Secure with Viz Pilot Edge

A first-hand view of all the recent improvements to Viz Pilot Edge and guide you step-by-step through the migration process.

[Webinar #2] *Snippet/teaser. For the full video head to the Vizrt Community

Vizrt Customer Success experts share invaluable experiences, success stories, and top tips, and dispel myths during this engaging session.

[Webinar #3] *Snippet/teaser. For the full video head to the Vizrt Community

Fadi Radi, Chief Creative Officer at Blinx shares insights into how Viz Engine 5 plays a pivotal role in bringing Blinx’s visionary approach to life.

Making the jump to Viz Engine 5 is easier than you think!

Here are some questions customers have asked us about Making the Jump to Viz Engine 5:

Yes! Your existing scenes – created in the Classic Pipeline of Viz Engine 3 or Viz Engine 4 –are forward-compatible with the new Viz Engine Renderer. Viz Engine 5 is fully compatible with your Classic or Viz Engine Renderer scenes.
At 150 professionals strong, Customer Success is the second largest team at Vizrt. Whether you need technical support, training, or certification, the objective of every Viz Engine 5 upgrade is to ensure a seamless and successful customer experience.
Viz Engine 5 introduces a long and growing list of innovative features across the entire Vizrt product portfolio. Beginning with Viz Artist 5 and an all-new Scene Tree that benefits users with improved accessibility and navigation, to the seamless integration with Unreal Engine, the Vizrt-exclusive Adaptive Graphics, and the AI-driven Reality Connect, on through to the adoption of the latest generation of NVIDIA GPUs – Viz Engine 5 delivers.  
Vizrt uses advanced AI technologies, including its own Viz AI, within every solution powered by Viz Engine 5. For example, its crucial to incorporate realistic talent reflections and shadow casting within virtual studios and XR sets to establish a convincing connection between real people and virtual worlds. Viz Engine 5’s Reality Connect™ feature manifests these traits by employing AI-based, real-time pose estimation as well as animated textured bone and skin models to enable realistic representations. 
Every day, people spend an average of an hour and a half streaming content on laptops, smartphones, and tablets. That means more of your audience is viewing your news, sports, and entertainment on devices other than large TVs.

Stop creating custom content, including individually produced graphics for lower-thirds, video walls, and virtual sets, in different configurations to meet the requirements of these unique aspect ratios. Adaptive Graphics™, a Viz Engine 5 exclusive, is an automated way to deploy graphics to multiple output formats simultaneously, saving time, repetitive work, and resources.
Every day, people spend an average of an hour and a half streaming content on laptops, smartphones, and tablets. That means more of your audience is viewing your news, sports, and entertainment on devices other than large TVs.

Stop creating custom content, including individually produced graphics for lower-thirds, video walls, and virtual sets, in different configurations to meet the requirements of these unique aspect ratios. Adaptive Graphics™, a Viz Engine 5 exclusive, is an automated way to deploy graphics to multiple output formats simultaneously, saving time, repetitive work, and resources.

Because Viz Engine is the underlying render and compositing engine that powers everything in the Vizrt suite of solutions, upgrading to Viz Engine 5 opens new possibilities whether you have Viz Trio, Viz Virtual Studio, Viz Arc, Viz Multiplay, Viz Artist, and more. With Viz Engine 5, you get the most out of Vizrt’s best-in-class software. 

Technology marches on, and the breakthroughs in Viz Engine 5 are tried and tested to perform in today’s transforming media environment – and serve as the jumping-off point to the next generation of innovation.

This is particularly true with respect to Viz Engine’s industry-leading integration with NVIDIA GPUs, which Vizrt relies upon for rendering graphics and executing visual effects.

Viz Engine 5 leverages the new features and performance of the latest NVIDIA RTX™ 6000 Ada Generation GPU to bring unparalleled levels of rendering performance and quality to 2D graphics, 3D virtual sets, augmented reality graphics, and extended reality presentations.

As Viz Engine 3 nears obsolescence, and with Viz Engine 4 supporting only limited advancements, you need the breakthroughs in Viz Engine 5 to continue to perform in today’s transforming media environment. Take advantage of tighter integrations, AI-based technology and software that lowers the drain on your resources.

The ultimate reason to upgrade? Stay ahead and remain competitive.

5 Reasons You’re Missing Out If You Haven’t Made the Jump to Viz Engine 5.

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