IBC2023: Chyron to focus on sports to showcase innovations across Prime and Chyron Live

Chyron’s focus on sports solutions at IBC2023 will feature innovations across its product line, most notably within Prime – its software platform supporting CG graphics, video walls, touchscreens, venue control, clips, branding and software-based switching – and within the Chyron Live all-in-one, cloud-native live video production platform.

“Chyron is highly customer-centric, and development is driven by some of the most demanding sports broadcasts on the planet,” said Carol Bettencourt, vice president of marketing at Chyron. “By simplifying essential tasks and streamlining critical workflows, we’re giving operators more flexibility and freedom in crafting stories and experiences that resonate with fans. We look forward to showcasing these innovations at IBC2023.”

With its robust data management and display capabilities across all data formats and sources, including scoreboards, stats providers and tracking technologies, Prime offers enhanced functionality tailored to the requirements of venues and sports broadcast workflows.

The Prime 4.7 release introduced a powerful data table resource that makes it easier for sports networks and leagues to leverage large data sets to tell the story of a sporting event, significantly reducing the time needed to create league tables, team rosters, or dynamic player highlight templates.

Innovations around data continue in the Prime 4.8 release. Because data providers such as Genius Sports and Sportradar have adopted JSON as the data format of choice for their data-connection APIs, JavaScript is becoming the scripting language of choice to parse, evaluate and access data in live graphics. With its brand-new JavaScript Effect & Resource tool, Prime 4.8 gives users an intuitive interface with which to import and edit scripts entirely within the platform — and effortlessly apply them as parameters at the object, scene, project and application level. Accompanying the new JavaScript tools is a host of new settings for scripting sandboxing security.

Prime’s new auto-follow features help designers to create complex graphics that adapt to varying stats, and a new virtual group effect binds separate scene object positions together for a one-time design of table graphics with changing rows and columns. Further enhancements include a date/time count-up mode and tools for determining the overlap of layer masks across back-to-back scenes. For automated productions driven by external updates or by Chyron’s Intelligent Interface (II) protocol, new message ranges in Prime save hours of time by eliminating the need to design hundreds of graphics variations. Instead, designers create a single playout recall range that references a parent scene template.

For playout operators, the Replaceable Panel provides rapid edit access to text, images and style values — and control over external updates and data-bindings. Support for multiple graphic subfolders makes it easy for broadcasters to drive a variety of sports productions from a single project, using identical numeric recalls for playout on every show.

For live production from anywhere, Chyron Live delivers multiviewer touch vision mixing, broadcast-grade animated Chyron graphics, audio control and illustrated replay, all accessible from an HTML browser by a single operator or a distributed team.

Chyron Live 1.5 will make its debut at IBC2023, featuring additional user control over the cloud environment and new sports-specific features. These new capabilities build on the power of Live 1.4, which introduced an AI-based instant replay tool that enhances production crews’ ability to create replay clips from live feeds. When the algorithm watches the camera inputs and recognises an interesting play, the platform generates a replay clip around that point of interest. For greater control and flexibility, users can manually adjust the start point of the AI-generated clip. This tool is especially powerful for productions with a single operator or few staff, who can effortlessly generate broadcast-grade replays while handling their other tasks.

At IBC2023 Chyron will showcase other key products rounding out the company’s offering for sports. Prime Video Walls supports any aspect ratio and pixel count, while Prime Click Effects provides venue control capabilities that make it easy to drive graphics to any in-studio or in-stadium display. Broadcasters, sports teams and leagues can further enhance their storytelling capabilities with Paint illustrated replay, as well as Virtual Placement for on-field virtual markers (down and distance, offsides) or virtual, regionalised advertising on the field, around the pitch, or on virtual billboards.