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Avid Bolsters Broadcast Graphics Software with New Design Tools, Time-Saving Features (MESA)
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Avid today announced the release of a new version of Avid 4Designer® next-generation graphics authoring software. As part of Avid’s commitment to providing the most comprehensive media creation tools and workflow solutions, the new version of 4Designer enriches the artist’s toolset with new graphics features and workflow improvements, enabling users to create captivating real-time graphics more quickly and efficiently than ever before.
Integrated with the MediaCentral® Platform—the industry’s most open, tightly integrated and efficient media platform—4Designer is the core application used to create graphics for Avid’s entire production environment, including on-air graphics, virtual studios, channel branding, sports enhancements, video walls, and interactivity.
The new version gives Avid’s community of leading graphic designers new design tools and timesaving features for creating stunning real-time graphics for news, sports and other broadcast productions with unprecedented creative power and speed.
Innovations in the new version of 4Designer include:
-4Designer can now render scenes to a variety of broadcast video standards including DNxHD, MPEG2 and XDCAM, as well as image sequences in PNG / TGA and JPEG. Allowing artists to send their designs for production approval helps improve their turnaround time for new graphic content.
-The extended Adobe Photoshop importer now supports separate text and vector layers, giving artists the ability utilize more pre-production content in their workflow, while preserving the stations brand identity.
-The ability to quickly and easily create and customize high-quality bar charts using a wide range of pre-made elements. With these editable elements, users can quickly update charts as data or needs change.
-A wide range of user-requested features, improvements, and fixes that enable users to create real-time graphics faster and more easily.
