Chyron announced updates to Virtual Placement with new tools and enhancements tailored to American football broadcasts.
MELVILLE, N.Y. – November 21, 2024
Virtual Placement 7.7 is designed to elevate the game-day viewing experience with dynamic and automated graphics. From field goal targeting to updated red zone features, this release provides broadcasters and venue operators with tools to enrich storytelling and deliver visual clarity for an engaging audience experience.
Chyron Virtual Placement 7.7: Advanced Field Graphics Tools for Enhanced American Football Broadcasts
This latest version of Virtual Placement now offers the Field Goal Target tool, allowing broadcasters to showcase precise, team-specific target lines. By storing predefined field goal ranges for home and away teams, this tool provides accurate placement and highlights each team’s field goal range. The Red Zone tool has also been enhanced with a new outline option, with customizable textures, colors, sizes, and opacities for visually compelling highlights of the 20-yard zone. Tailored with the NFL’s new kickoff rule in mind, this feature optimizes the display for the “landing zone,” providing a fresh approach to field graphics. These updates boost audience engagement and allow broadcasters to adapt visuals to specific team branding or broadcast themes.
Chyron Virtual Placement 7.7: Enhanced Down and Distance Module for Precise Football Broadcasts
The Down and Distance module has been upgraded to improve in-game flexibility and precision. New options enable automation of play clock presentation, such as changing the color based on time remaining and animating the clock on and off-air at specific time points. The expanded settings menu offers quick access to down and scrimmage information, allowing operators to make swift adjustments during gameplay. Additionally, the automatic midfield switching feature streamlines transitions as teams cross the 50-yard line, effortlessly adjusting the orientation to save time and eliminate errors.
Field Goal Target Tool: Predefined team-specific target lines for precise placement
“Virtual Placement 7.7 continues our mission to deliver unparalleled storytelling tools for sports broadcasters,” said Andreas Olsson, Product Manager for Virtual Placement. “By introducing features like the Field Goal Target Tool and automating critical aspects of game-day coverage, we empower broadcasters to focus on the game while captivating the audience.”
Enhanced Red Zone Features: Customizable textures and visuals for the 20-yard zone
Virtual Placement 7.7 exemplifies Chyron’s commitment to delivering cutting-edge solutions that enhance the storytelling power of live sports broadcasts. From creating immersive team-specific graphics to simplifying operations for broadcasters, this update sets the standard for American Football game-day coverage.
Upgraded Down and Distance Module: Automated play clock management and midfield switching for streamlined transitions
About Chyron
Founded in 1966, Chyron is a digital titling and graphics company focused on broadcast. Today, Chyron offers a portfolio of software for live production professionals. The PRIME Platform encompasses CG graphics, production switching, touchscreen, video walls, venue control and more. A diverse range of storytelling tools, including Paint for illustrated replay, Virtual Placement for virtual field markers for sports, and NewsTicker for ticker data management and display, as well as other offerings, round out the Chyron product portfolio. The award-winning Chyron LIVE brings many of these functionalities into a single cloud-based interface. Chyron is used by many of the biggest names in broadcast and Chyron products are increasingly deployed to empower OTA and OTT workflows.
Chyron is a brand of ChyronHego, headquartered in New York with operations in 11 countries. Privately held, and thus free from the volatility of short-term shareholder expectations, ChyronHego’s majority shareholder is Apollo Management, a leader in the growth of top technology companies.
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