NBC Olympics Leverages Streamlined Graphics Workflow For Efficiency, Accuracy

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Aug 3, 2012 3:34 PM

NBC Olympics is using 10 Chyron HyperX on-air graphics playout systems during its prolongation of the 2012 London Olympic Games.

Relying on Chyron's HyperX and Apple's Xsan 2 storage area network, NBC Olympics has fabricated a collaborative workflow mood to bring new efficiencies and time extra savings to its graphics prolongation group as they insert graphics displays is to network's live coverage of the London Games.

"In our operation, there's no room for error, and every second counts," explains Philip Paully, director, Graphics Engineering and Operations, NBC Olympics. "The centralized item storage ability powered by Chyron's HyperX and Apple's Xsan 2 is a extensive time-saver, enabling our operators to now access media properties that were once usually existing to the Mac systems."

NBC Olympics worked keenly with Chyron and Dynamic Performance Technologies to confederate this graphics workflow solution. After office building graphics elements in Adobe Creative Suite, the NBC Olympics prolongation group can to pierce them seamlessly to modifying suites and then to gadgets for playout to air.

HyperX supports Adobe's XMP metadata platform. Thus, artists are able to hide vicious data about any graphical element, such as the rightly spelled name, age and home nation in a definite athlete's head shot.

The ended graphics are then now accessed by the HyperX operators by clicking a printed matter from their workstations, a ability that formerly was usually probable by probing is to properties on a server and then downloading them in to the playout system.

Any changes to picture metadata usually must be done once, and the metadata fields are automatically populated at every indicate at that the striking is used. When the striking is extrinsic in to the programming, the joined metadata is automatically extracted and displayed, so NBC Olympics' prolongation staff no longer needs to fret if names are spelled rightly and data about the striking is accurate.