Verso Live opts for Gold SVG Europe sponsorship

Verso Live has joined SVG Europe as a Gold sponsor.

“Verso Live was started to offer fellow broadcast industry professionals the same solution we ourselves were looking for,” explained Ben Gunkel, business development manager at the company.

“We wanted to find a solution for the challenges we’ve come up against, time and time again, during our team’s 25 years working in the broadcast graphics industry. We wanted to address slow rendering times and poor real-time performance, as well as significant costs and restrictions to the various systems already available.

“In the meantime, we saw the games industry launching world-class 3D systems at a fraction of the cost. An idea was born. Drawing on the exceptional visual graphics capabilities of Unreal Engine, we set out to create a flexible, open system that anyone could use to create high-quality broadcast graphics.”

Verso Live utilises the power of Unreal Engine to offer full control over the playout of broadcast graphics. It can be run locally as a desktop application or hosted in the cloud on virtual machines with AWS of Azure for a native cloud or virtualised production setup.

“Using our own extensive experience, as well as our in-house skills, we knew just what capabilities the system needed to perform in a real-time environment. We knew the system had to be responsive, reliable and visually impressive, while also being easy to learn and use. We set out to create a system that didn’t just meet our own needs, it provided a solution for the industry as a whole,” he continued.

Verso Live is now used on almost 400 sports broadcasts annually, including across top-tier basketball games and golf events.