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www.inbroadcast.com | Vol: 11 - Issue 9 | September 2021
InStudio
Take your Live Events and
Presentations to the Next Level
F
rom broadcasters to YouTubers,
corporations or houses of worship,
content providers are looking for tools
that allow them to create live virtual
content with enough quality to fulfil
their audience's expectations.
Meeting those expectations is
Edison PRO, an affordable and easyto-use
high-end presentation tool
that allows broadcasters to transform
any live presentation or studio show
into a fully immersive experience.
Designed from the ground up to be
easy to use for those with little or
no previous experience in graphics,
video or 3D object creation, Edison
PRO is template-based for speedy
deployment. This allows broadcasters,
as well as the corporate sector,
live events, and more, to produce
compelling content quickly and easily
with real-time 3D graphics and other
visual aids surrounding a live action
presenter.
Perhaps even more usefully, all
that is required as a starting point is
something as simple as a PowerPoint
or a PDF file, allowing content creators
to re-use already generated assets in
exciting new ways.
In essence we are creating a
broadcast show outside of the
broadcast environment.
The user
creates a virtual scenario to place the
presenter in, adds rich media to help
with the presentation of the topic,
and streams the resulting content.
To facilitate this, Edison PRO comes
with a free library of downloadable
assets such as stands, tables, displays,
pointers, slides, or even complete
editable projects. So, a green screen
and a camera are mandatory, as well
as lights to properly illuminate the
scene.
It is up to the users, their
requirements, and available resources
to define the gear. Cameras can be USB
webcams or HDMI vlogger cameras,
the green screen can be a removable
backdrop or a large cyclorama, and
the lights can be from YouTuber miniLEDs
to professional panels. Edison
PRO features an internal chroma keyer
to ensure proper integration of the
presented shot on the green screen.
The benefits are huge. It uses dragand-drop
operation, and ships with
a library
of
pre-defined
templates,
scenes, furniture, pointers, screens,
and other objects to populate scenes.
Interactive templates allowing users
to quickly build out quizzes and polls
help to further customise an event.
Crucially, it is also fully compatible
with Unreal Engine, the leading realtime
3D graphics engine on the market
today, allowing Unreal's photorealistic
scenes to be used as compelling
backgrounds. And the optional Edison
UC (Edison Unreal Control) plugin
allows for controlling and editing the
blueprints, objects, and properties of
the UE scene directly from Edison's
own, user-friendly interface.
Effective and high-quality AR can
be complicated and can be expensive.
With Edison PRO it is neither, giving
broadcasters and content providers
the confidence to deploy it in an everwidening
variety of use cases.
Televisão de Moçambique goes on-air
with Shotoku SmartPeds
S
hotoku, the well-established
leader in manual and robotic
camera support and virtual reality
tracking,
has
announced
that
Televisão de Moçambique (Television
of Mozambique)
with a robotically controlled camera
configuration
comprised
of
the
Company's VR-enabled flagship
SmartPed robotic pedestals and an
expandable 8-channel TR-XT control
system.
a
" Televisão de Moçambique is
perfect
example
of Shotoku's
worldwide reach and capabilities, "
said James Eddershaw, Managing
Director of Shotoku, Ltd. pictured. " The
equipment was manufactured in the
UK, but the project was managed
and installed remotely through
Shotoku China with the help
of the engineering staff at the
station in Mozambique. It was a
complicated, multi-national, transcontinental
effort that was
accomplished flawlessly. "
has gone on-air
Televisão de Moçambique is
the national
public
broadcaster
of Mozambique. The forty-yearold
network's upgrade to robotics
marked a milestone that garnered the
attention of the country's President,
Filipe Nyusi, who attended the launch
at studio headquarters in the capital
city of Maputo.
Televisão de Moçambique installed
two of Shotoku's fully robotic
SmartPedVR XY pedestals. Based
on the Company's widely popular
SmartPed, SmartPedVR incorporates
Shotoku's well-proven and highly
accurate built-in VR tracking
capabilities allowing it to be used in
VR/AR environments that address
creative
and commercial
demands with a cost-efficient
and high-performance
solution.
The addition of VR tracking
provides allows the
broadcaster to take
advantage of fully
3D
position
information,
including
orientation, and is provided in remote
or local operations
with seamless
switching between modes and with no
need to re-reference.
The pedestals are controlled by
Shotoku's TR-XT-8 control system
designed to match the needs of any
size production and scale easily to
accommodate future expansion. The
TR-XT is so simple to configure that the
entire process was managed remotely
from China.
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