NAB 2023: New Matchpad Module in Chyron Live 1.3 accelerates graphics playout for live football
Version 1.3 of the Chyron Live cloud-native live production platform will be making its debut at the 2023 NAB Show. It will feature updates including a Matchpad module that empowers virtually any user to manage dynamic motion graphics for live sports production. This first implementation of Matchpad in Live 1.3 focuses on football, but the technology provides a foundation for simplified graphics control interfaces for a variety of sports in future Live releases.
“Chyron Live is a major production value jump compared to the all-in-one production systems users may previously have been using, and Matchpad allows them to move into live operation with exciting motion graphics without the need for any prior graphic playout knowledge,” said Kristy Weir, product manager at Chyron. “Using Matchpad for a live soccer game, a Live 1.3 operator can get started with a multi-layered scene that can dynamically highlight sponsors and important game information throughout the match, representing a huge visual upgrade. We look forward to showcasing this new technology at NAB Show, as it’s an exciting development in making high-end production accessible to organisations across all tiers of sport.”
The Chyron Live production platform gives users an all-in-one interface for mixing live video and audio sources (including commentary feed), combining footage with broadcast-grade graphical overlays, creating multi-cam replay clips from live feeds, and enhancing coverage with 3D telestration analysis. Live’s design philosophy is to make any role in a sports production easy to master. Matchpad is another example, providing a set of professional graphics scenes that a user with no broadcast experience can expertly control during a live show.
Prior to a game, users enter team and player information and branding elements into a simple configuration spreadsheet. During the game, this spreadsheet will automatically populate the event’s graphic design template. As a play unfolds, a visually intuitive control panel provides straightforward controls for highlighting important game elements — goals, yellow/red flags, lineups, substitutions, and more — and push-button commands for bringing in sponsor graphics during key game moments.
In addition to Matchpad, Chyron Live 1.3 features updates that enhance streaming capabilities, improve configuration settings and increase user control. The new SRT Caller Output allows users to send the live production output to a specific device for playout, ensuring it smoothly traverses the IT firewall network through a trusted IP and port address. A new input/output configuration provides more information about essential settings for different streaming connections, as well as advanced settings to optimise redundancy, bitrate and CIDR parameters. The configuration interface now also provides an active preview of each input to facilitate the initial connection setup.