Chyron and Grass Valley Group Integrate Products to Facilitate News Editing Process; Chyron Titling Software and Lyric Integrated With Grass Valley NewsEdit System.Business Editors MELVILLE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 22, 2001 Chyron Corporation Chyron Corporation is a Melville, NY based company founded in 1966. The company develops and manufactures on screen graphics solutions for the broadcast industry. In the United States the graphics (e.g. (OTC OTC See: Over-the-counter. OTC See over-the-counter market (OTC). BB: CYRO), a leading provider of broadcast technology, today announced the integration of both its titling module and its advanced Lyric graphics content creation and playout software with the Grass Valley Group's NewsEdit(TM) system. This integration will speed the titling and effects process for editors and increase on-air accuracy. "We are very pleased to be working with the Grass Valley Group," commented Roger Henderson, President and Chief Executive Officer of Chyron Chyron may refer to:
Additionally, editors can easily create titles and other graphics through the easy-to-use Chyron titling module available in the NewsEdit system, or use the more advanced Lyric editing package--all through the NewsEdit interface. This interface changes automatically, depending on the mode in which an editor is working, to display only the tools and information the editor needs. "By putting control of titling and effects into the news edit bay through the integration of the NewsEdit nonlinear editing See nonlinear video editing. system and the Chyron graphics software, the Grass Valley Group and Chyron are offering a new level of speed, accuracy, and polish for stations' on-air look," said Mike Cronk Verb 1. cronk - utter a hoarse sound, like a raven croak let loose, let out, utter, emit - express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words); "She let out a big heavy sigh"; "He uttered strange sounds that nobody could understand" 2. , vice president of marketing for the Grass Valley Group. About the Products Based on Chyron's three decades of experience in character generation, the award winning Lyric graphics package is the next step forward for on-air content creation and playout. Distributed workgroup support means material may be created on any Windows(TM) NT or 2000 OpenGL PC and networked to an iNFiNiT!, Duet, Aprisa, Grass Valley Group NewsEdit system, or other compliant graphics device. Lyric is resolution independent (525/625, 4:3, 16:9) and supports many file formats including Quantel(TM), TrueType, Targa, TIF TIF Tagged Image File (file name extension) TIF Tax Increment Financing TIF Temporary Internet Files TIF Transport Innovation Fund (UK) TIF Telecommunications Infrastructure Fund , etc. When content is created for Chyron's Duet(TM) SD platform, available features and options include 3D animation, clip player, dual channel squeezeback, and a special iNFiNiT! style keyboard. In support of the growing interactive television market, Lyric ITV (1) See interactive TV. (2) (iTV) The code name for Apple's video media hub (see Apple TV). can be used to create content for a variety of set top box platforms, with support for HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. , JavaScript, XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. , ATVEF (Advanced Television Enhancement Forum) A consortium of broadcast, cable and computer companies founded in 1998 that developed the ATVEF Enhanced Content Specification, an HTML and JavaScript-based format for adding content to interactive TV. transports A and B, and more. Offering end-to-end support of DV/DVCPRO and MPEG-based news production, the Grass Valley Digital News Production solution is built for speed and workflow efficiency. It encompasses the entire news production process--from ingest in·gest tr.v. in·gest·ed, in·gest·ing, in·gests 1. To take into the body by the mouth for digestion or absorption. See Synonyms at eat. 2. of feeds, triage triage Division of patients for priority of care, usually into three categories: those who will not survive even with treatment; those who will survive without treatment; and those whose survival depends on treatment. of the media, third-party desktop browsing, creation of an edited sequence, high-resolution finished editing, playout under control of a rundown, and access to real-time, shared storage. The vanguard of the solution is the Grass Valley Digital News Production Workgroup, which includes the FeedClip(TM) interactive feed capture system, NewsEdit nonlinear editing system, and NewsQ(TM) manual playback application. These PC-based systems all feature native MPEG (Moving Pictures Experts Group) An ISO/ITU standard for compressing digital video. Pronounced "em-peg," it is the universal standard for digital terrestrial, cable and satellite TV, DVDs and digital video recorders (DVRs). and DV/DVCPRO support at up to 50 mb/s. By eliminating pre-digitizing in tape to disk editing, the NewsEdit system is virtually twice as fast as other nonlinear editing systems. It is the industry's only truly open, PC-based editing system designed from the ground up to replace the record deck in cuts-only editing bays. Unlike most other nonlinear editing systems, the NewsEdit system enables editors to view edits as they are made--just like a machine-to-machine edit bay. An edit does not have to be replayed just to be sure it's right. About Chyron Corporation Serving the television industry for three decades, Chyron Corporation (OTC BB: CYRO) has established itself as a leading innovator in the development of television graphics and distribution systems, including products to meet the demands of digital and interactive television. Chyron provides a broad range of leading-edge hardware and software products, including graphics platforms, paint and animation systems, character generators, signal distribution systems, master control switchers, broadcast automation and media management. For more information about Chyron products and services, please visit the company website at www.chyron.com. Certain of these statements contained in this press release may be deemed forward-looking statements. Such statements, and other matters addressed in this press release, involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from these statements and matters are the risks and other factors detailed, from time to time, in the Company's reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including, but not limited to, the Company's Annual Reports on Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. and its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q Form 10-Q See 10-Q. . All trademarks are the property of their respective owners. About the Grass Valley Group The Grass Valley Group knows more about high-quality video than anybody else--especially as video goes digital. The Internet. Digital cinema. Data-enhanced broadcasting. Interactive television. It's a world of Digicasting--one that demands Media Without Bounds(TM) solutions. Whether online or on the air, the Emmy(R) award-winning Grass Valley Group, a privately held digital media leader, has the hardware, software, and new media technologies to get content wherever it needs to go. Grass Valley Group is a registered trademark and NewsEdit, FeedClip, NewsQ, and Media Without Bounds are trademarks of Grass Valley Group Inc. All other trade names referenced are the service marks, trademarks, or registered trademarks of their respective companies. For the latest Grass Valley Group product information visit www.grassvalleygroup.com. |
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