OEM Partners
RT Software has a long history of providing robust integrations for our partners. We offer graphics technology that adds significant extra value to our partners’ existing product ranges.
You’ll find the RT Software graphics technology in a wide range of products including:
- Vision Mixers/ Switchers
- Playout Channel Branding
- Replay Servers
- NLE editors
If you are a technology provider interested in building a new integration with our graphics technology please take a look at our separate OEM Technology page.
Graphics for DBi
RT Software is proud to provide graphics technology to support Digital Broadcast’s media workflow products.
- MediaFire
- NewsBank
Graphics Integration for Grass Valley
RT Software has a long and successful relationship with Grass Valley. The mutual trust and understanding has been built up over many years working and supporting each other’s opportunities and ultimately led to us being asked to be a founding member of the GV Technology Alliance.
Grass Valley has an enviable product range, and when partnered with RT Software’s highly regarded graphics technology, together we can offer a complete set of solutions for every broadcaster’s workflows.
As long standing partners of GV for 15 years, we are pleased to be able to continue offering our Swift graphics as part of the AMPP universe.
Existing customers now have an easy migration path for legacy GV products such as ICE. Any existing investment in Swift graphics training for ICE playout is retained when moving to GV AMPP Playout.
Whether you are an existing or a new customer, talk to us about how we can support you on AMPP with industry leading broadcast graphics.
Our GV AMPP solution.
Swift Edit (editing package) and Swift Live (live gallery operator’s interface) are both web based, running in a Chrome browser. These can be easily deployed in any location that is convenient for the users. This can include the user’s AMPP browser.
Swift supports graphics previewing high quality proxy video streams, served from our DataServer which can be deployed locally or remotely in public cloud such as AWS.
Our Swift Engine render engines support all video broadcast standards and have been deployed in tier1 broadcast environments for many years, with proven reliability.
Swift Engine supports SDI, NDI, ST2110. Talk to us for the latest on ongoing developments for other formats.
Robust management of assets and graphics projects is handled by our MediaWatcher and Repository tools which ensure the latest versions of projects and current data feeds are used by the renderers.
Link to virtualisation / Cloud details
Our graphics technology is available either as an internal component within GV’s integrated playout devices, or as a standalone render engine to be controlled by traditional playout automation. The majority of playout today are for integrated playout solutions. However there is still an occasional need for independent Swift Engine renderers where specific resolutions or frame rates may not available in the integrated playout product itself.
In practice most graphics used for channel branding are 2 dimensional. To ensure there are cost savings wherever possible, we offer our integration as either an 2D or 3D option. This means the graphics editor costs can also be kept low and you will only require Swift CG for 2D, or Swift CG+ for 3D.
Swift Graphics for Grass Valley Switchers
Grass Valley can provide Swift for Switchers as a graphics option for its switcher solutions.
Swift for Switchers has been designed to make producing graphics quick and easy. Now available from GV as a low cost annual software subscription for Kula, Kahuna and Masterpiece it is the ideal route to adding graphics overlays to your live productions.
GV partners and customers will find everything they need to start producing incredible on air graphics here on this page. Including:
- Software downloads
- Evaluation and Annual
- Subscription licences
- Sample Swift CG graphics project
- Access to training materials
- Specifications for required graphics laptop or workstation hardware (not included with software subscription)
Get to work!
Fast track to productivity with the sample Swift CG graphics project using the download link below. It will be useful to cross reference this in our training material and users familiar with CG systems in general will immediately get a feel for how graphic templates are constructed.
Combine this with our on line training material and you will soon be creating sophisticated, high quality graphics with powerful capabilities as used by major broadcasters around the world.
Capable of delivering all types of broadcast graphics:
- Name straps and supers
- Tables and charts
- Bugs and logos
How it Works
Graphic templates created on our Swift for Switchers software – typically installed on a graphics laptop – can be modified or populated with user content close to air and then rendered as a finished asset in the form of a compatible image sequence file.
- The finished file is transferred over a network connection to the switcher’s internal clip store, which can then be assigned to a button on the switcher’s panel.
- Revise the graphics templates on the Swift CG system as often as required.
Downloads
Go to our Software Downloads area to access the software. Just look for the SWIFT FOR SWITCHERS (GV) DOWNLOAD section.
Software Downloads
Future Expansion
All of RT Software’s broadcast graphics products feature a modular render engine. This means they can be upgraded to provide whatever broadcast output standard is required, so the basic file based Swift for Switchers can be upgraded to provide live baseband SDI or ST2110 output up to and including HDR UHD. The full range of RT Software products encompasses on screen overlays, full screen graphics, virtual studios & AR, video walls and sports analysis / telestration.
Should you require either additional Swift for Switcher licences or to evaluate any of our other products please contact sales@rtsw.co.uk.
Rio’s high-end post production workflows can be further enhanced by adding the Swift Advanced Graphics option. Either 2D or full 3D graphics can be created in our offline Swift CG /CG+ editor, then pushed to the Rio system where our plugin allows the graphic items to be added to the timeline and adjusted at will. Once the edit is completed, the finished movie is rendered out to file as normal.
Use our intuitive Tactic range of sports analysis and telestration products together with your GV Replay system. We work directly with the clips being recorded on your replay server and add the extra drama and excitement with graphics to highlight players movements and close calls. Record the finished clip back to the server, and play to air.
Sports Replay Graphics for Newtek 3Play
RT Software has been a long time supporter of NDI and is a member of the NDI Developer Network. All our Swift broadcast graphics systems come with NDI as standard, making Swift a natural choice for any NDI based solution.
Tactic is a natural partner for a Newtek replay server, and offers best in class telestration controls and analysis graphics to highlight the action of any live sports event.
We work directly with the clips being recorded on your 3Play server and add the extra graphics needed to highlight players movements and close calls. Record the finished clip back to the server, and play to air.
Supporting resources:
Our main Tactic pages explain all the detail of the products with a range of supporting video resources to share with your customers.
Software is available on our Software Downloads page, with useful demo projects and instructions.
All Newtek sales offices and its network of dealers, resellers and SIs have access to the products at a discounted rate direct from RT Software. Contact us for any support you may need.
Swift Graphics for Pebble
Our graphics technology is now an option alongside Pebble’s other internal components of their Integrated Channel device.
Most Pebble customers will be interested in using Swift as a component within their Integrated Channel. But should there be a requirement for a standalone graphics engine, this is also an option and can be controlled from Pebble’s Playout Automation product as an independent device.
To ensure there are cost savings wherever possible, we offer our integration as either a 2D or 3D option. This means graphics editor costs can also be kept low as you will only require Swift CG for 2D, or Swift CG+ for 3D.
