Singapore’s MediaCorp installs SE Asia’ss first studio automation solution from Vizrt

MediaCorp, a leading Singapore media company, is moving to a brand new broadcast and production campus which will include two news production studios. These facilities will be powered and fully automated through technology from Vizrt.

MediaCorp’s new Viz Mosart systems are the first Viz Mosart solutions to be deployed in South East Asia. They’ll serve as the perfect complement to the other Vizrt production products currently used in MediaCorp’s existing facilities including the Viz Engine real-time compositing engine and Viz Pilot template-based graphics system. The Viz Mosart software solution has been optimised to control each individual piece of control room technology directly to ensure a seamless and hassle-free production workflow.

As part of the move to its new facility, MediaCorp has also upgraded much of its existing Vizrt production graphics platforms. The design and the implementation of the new technology and production systems is being supervised and executed by local systems integrator Qvest Media Pte.

Norraine Yusof, senior vice president, campus technology development at MediaCorp, said the choice to use Viz Mosart was to enable the full automation of the two new production control rooms and news studios on the new campus: “Moving to our new facilities is a major milestone for MediaCorp and we wanted to integrate the best-of-breed technology to make it a success. There’s continuity with Vizrt which has been a long-time technology partner and we know its solutions are the best choice for us as we undergo the next big step for the company.”

Viz Mosart will be integrated into the new facility’s Vizrt graphics systems, which is comprised of an Octopus newsroom computer system, Snell Kahuna vision mixers, EVS playout servers, and twinned Shotoku robotic camera pedestals on the studio floor.

MediaCorp already has an extensive range of Vizrt equipment including Viz Pilot, which will be integrated to the Octopus NRCS. It also has dedicated workstations running Viz Artist, Viz World, the Vizrt Social TV solution and Viz Ticker.

MediaCorp has also purchased two Viz Virtual Studio systems and a touchscreen system. There were used during its news coverage of the recent 28th South Asian Games held in Singapore earlier this year. These systems will be integrated into the new MediaCorp studios allowing producers to experiment with new studio environments and creative graphics applications.