Timeline controls allow precision sequencing of animations, graphics, text, DVE and audio. With Expio, you perform the layout yourself with full control over the entire canvas -- you aren't restricted to pre-defined regions.





On-Board Layering
There are two distinct paths CG vendors take when it comes to layering -- they either allow for it within the CG itself, or they require the purchase of outboard "mixing and layering" hardware to combine the templates. Since its release, the Freedom line has allowed for multiple levels of layering. While lowering your total cost of ownership, this feature allows you to do things like keep a static crawl while other objects change or position a time and temp bug in one layer without having to replicate the fields in all of your other templates.

Freedom Family of Graphics Systems
The Freedom graphics line is a cost-effective high-end display solution for exclusive use with NewsTicker. Free yourself from being at the mercy of a third-party CG manufacturer to provide functionality for your newsroom's most competitive software applications!

For four years, it has been our clients' top choice for tickers, school closings, breaking news displays, and promotional snypes. Using a natively digital engine, it comes in two varities: FreedomSD and FreedomHD. [Compare models]

FreedomSD | The ultimate in standard definition graphics processing, the FreedomSD unleashes the power of dual-Xeon® processing in a 4U form factor. Perfectly configured for master control, it combines an integrated DVE with a completely digital path, balanced and embedded audio processing, VBI bridging, and a hardware bypass. Best of all, it is ready to go HD when you are with its field upgradeable architecture.

FreedomHD | High definition technology may be new but the needs are the same and the FreedomHD packs a powerful punch. Capable of performing an internal or external key at 720p or 1080i, it's the most cost-effective way to get NewsTicker in native HD. The hybrid unit is also software switchable to NTSC, allowing you to buy now for an imminent transition. Suitable downstream of master control, the FreedomHD supports balanced and embedded audio, VBI bridging, and a hardware bypass.

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Expio®
At the heart of the Freedom line is Expio, Newsroom's powerful graphics creation and operation environment. Absolutely unrivalled at its price point by any other CG manufacturer, Expio provides standalone offline template and animation timeline editing. It's packed with features -- features that could cost tens of thousands of dollars on competing systems including many that are exclusive to the Freedom.

Unleash the power of Expio by combining pre-rendered animation with on-the-fly text in separately addressable layers, perfectly synched on a renderless timeline. This powerful compositing engine allows for dynamic snypes and teases where producers or promotions staffers can enter the tease through NewsTicker's intuitive interface and have it rendered perfectly on air.

The Freedom family is not an OEM of a CG manufacturer's lowest-end card where you are the last to get new features. It is a fully functional integrated CG/DVE platform designed specifically for use in tickers, snypes, and specialty newsroom displays.

Key Features
> Broadcast quality digital 10-bit I/O.

> Native support for 720p and 1080i (FreedomHD only).

> Integrated audio delay and sound clip over programming (FreedomSD and FreedomHD only).

> 32-bit graphics and animation support, combined with on-the-fly text rendering.

> Realtime playout of internal animation effects requiring no pre-rendering.

> Multi-layer internal keyer with independent layer control.

> Intuitive interface allowing for powerful template creation without special programming APIs or languages.

> Keyframe-based object timeline control for custom transitions timed perfectly -- ideal for local snypes.

> Integrated 2D or 3D DVE with control of size, aspect ratio, and cropping allows for squeeze ups and L-squeezes.

> Captions pass-thru for proper display of closed captioning without the use of outboard bridging (including during a DVE).

> Can be used as an internal or external keyer.

> Ability to utilize offline creation station with simulated broadcast output window for developing and testing templates against actual NewsTicker runlevels.

> Operator mode allows for more generalized use in live settings.

> Style gallery allows you to save character attributes and then assign them to text fields with one click.

> Support for crawls, cuts, dissolves, and other transition effects.

> Subpixel motion and ease (acceleration/deceleration) for more attractive transitions and higher quality digital video effects.

> Multiple audio effects can play simultaneously at independently trimmable volumes, as objects on a timeline.

> Ability to design and output 16:9 templates in SD for upconverting to HD.

> Scene view allows for proper display of aspect ratio (rectangular pixels) as well as editing in native pixels (square pixels), including proper display of anamorphic 16:9 modes.

> Infinite level undo/redo.

> Hardware bypass (FreedomSD and FreedomHD only).
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