Broadcast Graphics Editor and CG

Swift CG is our easy to use broadcast graphics editor and CG that produces superb on air branding. It allows designers to take their creative ideas and deliver them as graphic templates for all types of real time video productions. Swift CG is built to deliver results quickly and ensure your teams meet their tight broadcast deadlines for on air graphics and channel branding.

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Use Swift CG to deliver stunning graphics for programs and live events to wow your audience.

Take those graphics templates and deploy them across your news, sports and channel branding environments where our Swift Engine renders in real time. Those sophisticated real time graphics are simultaneously populated with data sources whilst still allowing live operators to interact with the graphics so you can deliver engaging content to your viewers.

Swift CG’s comprehensive feature set and ability to scale to any size of operation means it is used every day by tier 1 broadcasters around the world, yet we remain one of the most competitively priced solutions on the market.

Playout Interface

Data Feeds

Ticker

FEATURES & BENEFITS SYSTEM DIAGRAM (SINGLE) SYSTEM DIAGRAM (FULL SYSTEM) Hardware Comparison

Description	Swift CG	Swift CG+
Full 3D template authoring
Full 2D pixel aligned template authoring
Import and compose templates in the editor	Simplified workflow, common solutions are set up automatically	Powerful control, with some manual setup
Output setup	Single camera setup to work with Pixel Units. Artists will find it similar to Photoshop.	Full control over the camera output settings, with support for rendering through multiple camera nodes
Assets types	Interface optimsied for 2D, such as images and fonts.	Multiple browsers for various data-types such as 3D models, shaders and more
Management: undo/redo, performance analysis, debug, project cleanup
Create house Styles by linking font colours and effects to ensure brand consistency.
Includes in built preview window plus option to render at broadcast quality.
Graphics nodes available in the edit screen	Audio, alpha, clip plane, clock, roller, text, ticker, transform, video preview.	CG+ also includes Billboard, Camera, cloth, depth sort, dynamic geometry, dynamic texture, effect, extruder, lens flare, light, Matrix, mirror, particle system, particle collider, reference, rigid body system, rootnode, skybox, state overide, shader, shadow, sort, trajectory, texture override, VFC, warp, Z-depth, project.

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Scaling the Renderers

Our modular approach to graphics systems can scale to any size of system, take a look at our Swift Engine page to find out more.

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Supported Video Formats

Everything from SD, HD to UHD HDR and from SDI, NDI to ST2110 uncompressed IP.

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Supported File Formats

Supported picture, video and audio file formats plus additional Swift CG specifications.

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Z-axis view.
Perspective scene camera.
Pixel aligned scene camera
Billboarding Node to always face the camera

Use the Sort Node to take control of depth sorting.
Clipping Planes to cut and slice into your designs for wipes and other effects. Adjust the falloff of the wipe by softening the edges.	Limited – Soft Edges Not Available
Alpha Node controls the transparency of objects, making it fast and easy to create fade effects.
Matte Masking allows bitmaps and videos to hide or reveal your graphics, allowing for highly flexible effects.	Integrated in Workflow	Manual Setup Required

Current system as a time source, with support for offsets.
Clock format configurable for all popular layouts.
Countdowns, and elapsed times.
Tie events and tasks to times.
Tickers can incorporate any data sources
Tickers can be horizontal or vertical format and supports static or dynamic images.

Extruded geometry using drawn edges or a custom mesh
Custom geometries can be imported from any software supporting FBX or OBJ file. Models can be dragged and dropped into the scene.
The Dynamic Geometry Node allows you to create and adjust geometry interactively in the editor.	2D Shapes Only
Native primitive support	2d primitives include squares, triangles, ellipses and circles	Also cubes, spheres, etc
Tables and charts

Skinning lets you bring in your animated skeletal meshes, such as characters, ready to render.
Timeline with comprehensive control over start/stop/duration of animations and easy cut/copy paste
Curves to create ease-ins and outs, or set looping.
'Animate everything' is a key advantage of our editors.
Transitions can be applied across different layers with logic functions.
Scenes are built of independent layers that can be individually reordered.
Keyframe animation of objects and ability to set ease in /outs. Advanced controls include bi-cubic spline, ramp, cyclic or step animators that can repeat or be dynamic.

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Broadcast Graphics Editor and CG

Compare Swift CG and Swift CG+ Feature Set

Cameras

Physics

Transparency and Masking

Clocks and Tickers

Geometry and Shapes

Animation and Layers

Shading and Effects

Video

Audio

Images

Data and Functionality

Graphics Playout

Text and Fonts

Miscellaneous

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Scaling the Renderers

Supported Video Formats

Supported File Formats

Lighting support includes point lights, spotlights and directional lights.
Apply post processing effects specifically where needed.
Custom shaders, PBR support along with imports of custom CGFX shaders all accessible through the GUI.
Effects Node accessed in real time to control effects such as Lens Flares, Fog and Shadows.
Shader editor lets you bring images, video and colour to your graphics with our powerful shader editor	Simplified
Texture maps with multi channel support for colour, alpha, specular and environment reflection maps. HDR also supported.
Per pixel lighting at the shader level.

Range of input & output formats. Refer to the Supported Video Formats section for full details.
DVE effects via the Video Screen Node for squeeze backs and other effects on the live Video-In.	3D	2D
Playback of imported video clips in popular broadcast formats. Refer to the Supported File Formats section for full details.
Rendered at correct field and frame rates and anti-aliased.

Embedded audio Up to 16 channels of animatable, mixable audio.
Audio files in a range of formats. See Supported File Formats section for full details.

Image wrapping controls manage how the texture is mapped to the surface with camera projections, tiling and more
Texture formats such as 2D textures (common), 3D, cubemap and more.	2D
Image formats supported. See Supported File Formats section.
Scale size and mip mapping level

Data can be entered manually close to airtime; by an operator; auto retrieved from databases; or provided by external feeds.
Solve complex graphic scenarios with User Code Ruby scripts.
Links Node allows data links to dynamically share data across graphic elements.
Database are supported as data sources in our input system which are able to drive complex graphics requiring large data sets.
Duplicates Node significantly reduces the time needed to create repetitive graphics. It can use data to limit items and animation delays to create stunning effects.
Data sources include MOS and other external systems. Sources can be queried and database support includes SQL builder and editor

Playout interface included to test graphics or use as a stand alone system.
Graphics Layers and Transitions allows multiple graphics to utilize layers and transitions to hide or remove graphics from the scene and bring them back again when required.

Text formatting includes Scaling, controlling line word and character offsets and more. Options for “shrink to fit and automatically wrapping.
Tools include: x/y size, alignment, spacing and autowrap.
Styles include underline, bold, drop shadow, shading, lighting ad textures.
Extruded, and dynamically warped fonts
Import custom fonts
Character animation supports individual characters of text being faded or snapped into place in sequence
Multi-language/ Unicode support. Left to right / Right to left. Non-Roman alphabet support including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Cyrillic.

Render to texture node to simulate 3D effects on 2D surfaces or create portals and other amazing effects.
Mirror Node lets you create a mirror image of your scene to easily create reflections or for symmetrical scenes.
Select Node to enable/disable entire branches in the Scene Graph. Loop through geometry to create flipbook animations.
Trajectory Node to move objects along paths.
Plugins allows us to deliver any missing functionality you may require. Speak to us!
.FBX data exchange to import mesh, materials, animations, lighting and scene hierarchy
NVIDIA CG2.0 Custom Shader framework supported and fully controllable.
Library objects - save as a single unit and reuse to save time.