TriVis PLAY-OUT

TriVis Weather Graphix makes 3D and HD a reality in weather content creation and digital signage. It lets viewers experience the real 3D weather as forecast and as if it would happen right around them. TriVis provides cutting-edge computer graphics and the latest in broadcast technology to produce its customers’ very successful weather content. TriVis is delivering highest quality daily on-air internationally for small and large TV stations since 1993. The following options are available to deliver the TriVis weather visualisations to the viewers by the means of TriVis Play-Out:

Multi-Channel Real-Time HD Playout
The TriVis Realtime Playout solution provides a wide range of applications. It offers the real-time processing of up to 4 HD channels of TriVis content with real-time transitions and other visual effects. Live rendering of headlines as well as live movie format conversion are also supported. The result can be played-out simultaneously on 2 different HD SDI channels through the DVS Centaurus II video board. The presenter just short before the broadcast performs the authoring of the weather show with the new Web-based TriVis PlayConfigEditor. This easily accessible Web-front-end for the authoring of dual-channel HD-output allows administering weather shows from remote work places.

One of the possible applications is the tight coupling of the new TriVis Realtime Playout solution with different virtual studio packages. A virtual studio package receives two different TriVis video signals each for example for one screen in the virtual set. Each of these video signals itself is the result of a real-time transition between original content video files. Communication between the virtual studio package and TriVis is handled by GPI trigger signals in both directions and by XML data files, which contain the meta-information necessary to correctly interpret the trigger signals.

Interactive Touchscreen Solution
As an alternative to the TriVis Realtime Playout solution the also available TriVis Touchscreen solution can be installed. This fully interactive real-time operated software allows the presenter to superimpose the weather data above the globe. During the broadcast the presenter can interactively choose what kind of data and what time or animation should be shown to the viewers. Choosing an area on the globe is as easy as just interactively turning the globe and zooming in or out. Of course the presenter can also interactively draw objects onto the data visualisations such as fronts to explain the weather situation. In order to do this, the presenter just picks the right tool from the interactive toolbox. All that is needed for such a set-up is a touch-sensitive display, which is connected via USB and HDMI to a suitable standard Windows PC.

The following two photographs show a user interacting with the TriVis Touchscreen solution in real-time. Fronts are drawn onto a European view and also a global satellite image is rotated so that Asia comes into focus.