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Using Cinegy Software Concept

Cinegy clients often wonder how to build an efficient and cost-effective infrastructure to meet their broadcasting needs. As a rule, it is a task for system integrators, but we made an attempt to describe a basic concept of using the Cinegy software on the same machine.

What's New in Cinegy Multiviewer 15

I bet many of you have seen that we have released our new and shiny 8K-capable Cinegy Multiviewer 15. This release was much anticipated and some of you are already enjoying the new features of Multiviewer 15 you’ve been waiting for in production. It goes without saying that the new Multiviewer has a great many bugfixes, performance optimizations and compatibility enhancements to run reliably on the latest Microsoft operating systems as well as embracing the latest and greatest technologies and protocols widely used in the industry.

How to Get the Best out of Cinegy Helpdesk

The basic Cinegy support procedures and workflow are described in this post. Recommendations on achieving a smooth and efficient support process and cooperation are provided throughout.

Automated Dynamic Graphics Using External Datasource with Cinegy Air / Playout

Introduction A frequent requirement of customers is to use dynamic elements inside on-screen graphics. At Cinegy, we use the Cinegy Title engine to render real-time graphics elements for compositing into the output from the Cinegy Playout engine. This engine has a lot of powerful features - as well as being a real-time optimized graphics system, it also supports binding of elements within a graphics scene to imported variables. Customers can update variables within the Cinegy Air or Cinegy CG operator panels, allowing injection and updating of elements on-the-fly - for example, to caption the name of a person appearing on-screen, or to provide some values for a weather forecast graphic.

What's New in Cinegy Convert 12

Cinegy is happy to present the next major release of Cinegy Convert family - Cinegy Convert v12. It inherits key technology of Cinegy Convert v11, while proposing a bundle of new useful features and more important fixes and improvements. What’s New in Cinegy Convert v12 The advantages of new features and functions can be appreciated in the following areas of Cinegy Convert v12: 8K formats support for both input and output

What's New in Cinegy Capture 14

Cinegy Capture v14 is the next major release of the Cinegy Capture family, featuring a bundle of new useful features as well as important fixes and enhancements. Don’t just take our word for it - Cinegy Capture v14 was honored with a Best of Show award at IBC2019. What’s New in Cinegy Capture v14 Version 14 builds on the 10-year history of Cinegy Capture, adding some new features that we would like to draw your attention toward.

Benefits And Drawbacks of Virtualization

This post is a slightly amended version of the presentation that we gave at the Studiotech Poland IT day in Warsaw on May, 30. The intention of this post is to provide some general information about virtualization and share our experiences with the cloud technologies involved.

In a dynamically growing business environment, many broadcasting companies face a number of challenges. Virtualization helps to optimize business processes for a lot of companies, whose management prefers to exercise more control over the situation and business development. Even small businesses can use virtualization to lower transaction costs and increase application availability.

Cinegy Air 14 - What’s New

Introduction Cinegy Air 14 has been released and is ready for evaluation, go-live testing and production use! We’ve added a fantastic number of enhancements since v12, and I am happy to recommend that people start using this version of the product – although, of course, mission critical workloads should follow suitable deployment plans in case of any problems. I’m proud of the team that has worked so hard on version 14, and I can honestly say this release has again set a new bar in quality and stability for a ‘point zero’ version.

Cinegy / Cavena Installation and Architecture Recommendations

Introduction Starting with Cinegy Air v.11 direct integration is available between Cinegy Playout and the Cavena Subtitling platform. This takes the form of a plug-in, hosted by the Cinegy Event Manager service, which provides relevant interoperability between the Cinegy Playout engine and Cavena Subtitle Control software. This post outlines how to configure the Cavena solution, and how to arrange the relevant software components as aligned to various user requirements for density and availability.

Cinegy Air 12 - What’s New

Introduction Cinegy Air 12 marks a new milestone for a product now over a decade in the market, and the first major release update to the product since August 2016. The build contains a great many internal changes and performance optimizations, making the Cinegy Air 12 Playout engine the most efficient and powerful platform yet released by Cinegy. This document outlines some of the key new features that customers and partners will be interested in understanding are coming in the v12 release.