Channel Graphics Solutions

Improving your channel graphics system is one of the most cost effective ways to update your channel’s image and increase viewership.  Don’t push viewers away by serving up tired templates or poor quality graphics when you can display high quality images, text and 3D objects that equal call letter quality without the call letter price tag.Synergy Broadcast offers three options for improving your channel graphics:

• BugCrawler delivers the basics…overlay bugs, logos, station ID’s and TV ratings plus multiple crawls and scrolls that can run independent of each other.
  • 8 Layers of graphics, text and photos
  • Lower third oriented projects
  • “you are watching”
  • “what’s up next”
  • 3D cube, pyramid and sphere
  • Downstream only
• Informa provides the same features as BugCrawler but adds additional capabilities that include:
  • 20 Layers of graphics, text or photos
  • Full screen capability
  • Projects with complex layouts
  • Row and Column matrix solutions
  • Dynamic data insertion
  • “you are watching”
  • “what’s up next”
  • Electronic Program Guide
  • Insert video in a window
  • Upstream or downstream
• FireBird includes all the features included in BugCrawler and Informa and adds Digital Server capability to mix video with graphics using either full screen or video in a window.
  • Back-to-back playback of MPEG2, DV or Windows Media
  • Back-to-back playback of graphics projects
  • Dynamic data insertion
  • Deinterlaced video for HD support
  • DVB-ASI overlay source
  • 720p and 1080i

Our Create software is a powerful software application designed to provide graphic compositing, layout and timeline based animation for all three products.  Create provides simple “one click” publishing to multiple BugCrawler, Informa and FireBird units.  Use our VLM software to control specific projects for playback just as you schedule video programming.

InformaWeb software gives you the ability to delegate project managment by providing other departments with web access to update their own projects.  You can provide direct access for publishing or require “authorization” before publishing to add an extra layer of quality control.  InformaWeb saves you money by moving the responsibility of project updates to other users thus making your staff more productive.

For more information on BugCrawler, Informa or FireBird follow their respective links or call us at 800-601-6991 to ask us a question.