Add playout automation software to your TV broadcast setup with this XPlayout Television Playout Automation Software license from Axel Technology. The downloadable software features all the tools you need for playing just about any video file format for a television broadcast, including MPG, VOB, WMV, QuickTime, H.264, DV, HDV, and more. The software features a variety of scheduling tools, logo generator, and automation control of switchers, serial devices, and GPIs. It features tools including XTrimmer, XScheduler, XRouter, XRemote, XEmergency as part of the overall XTV Suite television automation software.

Key Features

• Virtually any video and file format compatibility
• Automatic upscale, downscale, framerate adaptation and aspect ratio correction
• CG overlay
• Key output on SDI with 32 bits Quicktime Anim, Quicktime ProRes 4:4:4:4, bitmap sequence
• As run logs
• Log files
• VGA compatibility mode for old VGA cards
• Separate audio track file management
• Remote control of Blackmagic Design ATEM and NewTek TriCaster
• MarkIn and MarkOut management (triggering)
• Frame accurate loops REC while PLAY (for specific formats) with endless MarkOut
• Real-time Vertical and Horizontal Crop
• Real-time field swap: top/bottom progressive
• Real-time aspect ratio correction mode: Letterbox, no letterbox, stretch
• Detailed info on playlist, preview and output status
• AGC – Automatic Gain Control
• Automatic switch on backup path in case of main path failure
• Automatic play from preferred path if same media copy is available
• Status file and thumbnail update of main output
• Autofill from folder when ahead of time or end of playlist
• Automatic load of playlist according to file syntax
• Emergency file with hotkeys, also with numeric keyboard
• Automatic load of last playlist at start-up
• Routing switcher remote control : Blackmagic Design ATEM and Videohub, NewTek TriCaster, any RS-232 or RS-422 routing switcher or master control
• VCR automation UVW, VP9xxx and/or RS422 SONY
• Cart machine control: PROMATIC, DIGICART
• Fast CG for emergencies: clock, text, and crawl
• Automatic CG according to file gender or user custom types
• Remote control of external CG
• Integrated master and slave workflow
• From 5 seconds to 1 day delay for SDI/NDI sources as time shifting
• Subtitle rendering for SRT files
• Advanced CG with clocks, tickers, rolls, crawls, bitmap animations, any video file format
• 2D squeezeback with advanced backround graphics layer
• All CG graphics as secondary events
• GPI in/out
• Automatic skip/cut if schedule is late
• Exact time management in cut/wait for end of current event
• CG composing tool for template creation
• Non-intrusive sub clip creation for advertisement insertion
• Crossfade/effects between files
• Traffic scheduling tool
• Quality control tool with SDI/NDI output, metadata insertion, and loudness control
• Automatic media copy tool from NAS to local hard disk (optional)
• Automatic music playlist creator (optional)

Specs

• Supported video cards: Blackmagic Design DeckLink and Intensity, AJA Corvid, Bluefish
• Resolutions: SD, HD, 2K, 4K (depending on AV card)
• Simultaneous NDI output
• Simultaneous WebRTC output
• Preview output on SDI
• Up to 16 audio channels
• Timecode rp188
• Virtual device emulation for use as capture device in third-party software
• Split CG layer on separate SDI or NDI in Key and Fill
• SDI or NDI inputs for LIVE sources in AV bypass

GUI

• Full screen GUI optimized for 1920 x 1080 monitor
• Channel alias
• Preview framerate adjust for RDP optimization
• CC preview
• Drag and drop of multiple files
• Single clip position duration and position display
• Total playlist duration and remain display
• First frame positioning
• Dual graphical or grid style playlist GUI
• Drag and drop to GUI
• OSD VU meters and waveform
• Real-time video preview
• GUI lock with password
• Customer Logo on main screen
• Colors according to file gender or status