VisualCG 3D HD/SD
VisualCG 3D is a professional, real-time HD/SD 3D character generator with advanced 2D/3D titling and motion graphics effects for creating sophisticated TV graphics titles quickly and easily.
Text and shapes can be fully modified to 3D text with a few simple operations, and displayed with over 200 real-time transition effects. Keyframe object and timeline animation control provides extensive multi-channel control over the display of all graphic elements. This allows you to keep logos, tickers and advertisements on-air while changing the topic slate or animations.
The easy-to-us interface will have your staff producing the latest graphics looks in minutes. All the design and display tools to create today's stunning 3D animation graphics are included: a character generator, timeline based multi-channel sequencer, VRi true real-time animation technology, frame grab and feature rich 3D animation and visual effects tools.


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True 3D Texts and Shapes
With VisualCG 3D, texts and shapes are easily turned into the eye-catching 3D in the shortest possible time. It only takes a few of mouse clicks to access many convenient features such as extrude, bevel and lighting control. |
Real-time 2D/3D Transition Effects
VisualCG 3D is a powerful, productive CG software which is capable of creating spectacular transition effects. There are over 200 ready-to-use 3D transition effects templates such as wipe, push, DVE, curl, particles, ripple, organic, distortion, blink and mask. |
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Advanced Keyframe Control
VisualCG 3D provides a high level of customizable keyframe motion effects to deliver render-free motion graphics. This breakthrough keyframe control enables broadcasters to create multilayer animations consisting of text, images and graphic objects. |
Multi-Channel Display
VisualCG 3D playbacks multiple 2D/3D objects such as 3D titling, clocks and animated logos while outputting full resolution background video clips in real-time. |
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Cross Platform Capability
VisualCG 3D is not affected by product changes of specific and specialize video graphic hardware vendors. VisualCG 3D can operate on Matrox X.mio, Matrox DSX LE and AJA Video LH. |
Key Features |
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| VRi real-time OpenGL/Direct X 3D graphics real-time rendering technology |
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| On-air updates: Edit or add new templates while on-air for last minutes changes |
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| Import a wide variety of still, animation and movie clip file types, including: tga, tif, jpg, gif, psd, ai, X-file (Autodesk Maya nad 3ds Max) Artbeats, Digital Juice and others |
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| Ingest clips and playback MPEG-2, MPEG-2 + Alpha, AVI and H.264 Quicktime .mov file |
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| Advanced real-time multi-layer keyframe animation |
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| Over 200 real-time 3D transition effects such as wipe, push, DVE, curl, particles, ripple, organic, distortion, blink and mask |
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| 3D transitions applied to a single page or multiple layers |
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| Unlimited multi-channel display of independent objects - digital clocks, crawls, time, logos and other elements |
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| HD/SD switchable in software (Does not require system reboot) |
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| 4:3 / 16:9 auto conversion |
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| Easy-to-use interface |
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| Full Unicode true type font support such as Hindi, Arabic, Thai, Japanese, Chinese, English and more |
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| Cost-effective analog preview channel [Option] |
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| ODBC database link allows numbers and texts to on an on-air CG page to be connected directly an external database such as MS Excel for automatic update of the CG pages [Option] |
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| VisualCG 3D TCP/IP based automation protocol. Allows load, modify and play remotely VisualCG 3D template pages [Option] |
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| MOS integration with newsroom systems [Option] |
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| Fail-Safe By-Pass |
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| AES/EBU Audio I/O Channels |
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* Features may vary on hardware selection.
VRi CG Software Feature Comparisons
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VisualCG 3D HD |
VisualCG 3D SD |
VisualCG 3D LE HD |
VisualCG 3D LE SD |
| HD Broadcasts |
O |
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O |
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| SD Broadcasts |
O |
O |
O |
O |
| 3D Text/Object |
O |
O |
O |
O |
Real-time 3D
Transition effects |
O |
O |
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| Real-time keyframe animation |
O |
O |
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| Real-time sequenced TGA playback |
O |
O |
O |
O |
| Clip Playback |
O |
O |
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Specifications
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HD |
SD |
| Resolution |
1080p at 23.98 fps
1080i at 29.97 fps
1080p at 25 fps
1080i at 25 fps
1080p at 24 fps
720p at 59.94 |
525p at 23.98 fps
525i at 29.97 fps
625i at 25 fps |
| Video Input |
1 x HD-SDI, BNC |
1 x SDI, BNC |
| Video Output |
1 x HD-SDI/SDI(Fill), BNC
1 x HD-SDI/SDI(Key), BNC |
1 x SDI (Fill), BNC
1 x SDI (Key), BNC |
| Genlock |
Analog blackburst reference (tri-level), SDI |
Analog blackburst reference (bi-level), SDI |
| CPU |
Dual-core AMD Opteron Processors |
Intel Core2Duo Processor |
| RAM |
4 GB |
2 GB |
| Storage |
1 x 73GB, 2 x 146GB, 15k rpm SAS HDD |
1 x 160GB, 2 x 250GB, 7.2k rpm SATA2 HDD |
| GPU |
NVIDIA GeForce 9800GTX 512MB or higher |
NVIDIA GeForce 9800GT 512MB or higher |
| Power |
1050 W |
460 W |
* Specification may vary on hardware selection.
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