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Creating greatonline experiencesOnline & MobileThe Vizrt online suite facilitates multimediaproduction and multichannel contentdistribution. It provides a single dynamicproduction pipeline for video, maps, graphics,text and images that allows content tobe published both to the web and to mobileand tablet devices.Our most important clients includeAftonbladet, The Sun, The Independent,The Hindu, Trinity Mirror plc, De Telegraaf,Berliner Morgenpost, Impresa, n-tv.de, TheGlobe and Mail, and YLE.The core of the Vizrt online suite isEscenic Content Engine. It is a high-performance,feature-rich web publishing platformthat powers many of the world’s mostsuccessful websites for news and entertainmentwebsites. Escenic Content Studioprovides an efficient desktop environmentfor managing text, images, video, graphics,maps, tags, time-controlled content,and supports an open, continuous editorialworkflow for digital publishing.When the Vizrt online suite is integratedwith Vizrt’s graphics and media assetmanagement solutions, web journalists caneasily add videos, maps, still and 3D graphicsto stories published across differentplatforms.Escenic Content Engine is designed forhigh volume and high traffic content management.With a highly efficient multi-levelcaching technology, the system provides aresponsive application for web editors, andalso ensures that end users experience afast website. Escenic Content Engine offersnear-linear scaling and installations rangefrom single-server installations to advancedmulti-server setups with internal and externalload-balancing, redundancy, distributedmemory caches and content deliverynetworks.Ready-made building blocks. Websitesare built with the Widget Frameworkcomponent, a modular widget system forCOMMUNITIESViz CommunityExpansion providesthe toolkit forbuilding tailor-madeonline communitiesimplementing websites. Users can create complex layouts by meansof simple drag-and-drop operations. It provides users with readymadebuilding blocks for setting up web sites and it is a fast andflexible way to construct sites using pre configured functionality.The Widget Framework allows users to change websites without theneed for coding and subsequent debugging.The Widget Framework can be used as a development frameworkand is way of managing a code base for multiple publications in oneenvironment. It can be customized and extended to fit customer’sneeds and introduces a new way of working with templates. Insteadof hard-coding new features into the page logic, all configurationsare done using widget content types together with groups andconfiguration sections. This means that websites can easily be controlleddirectly from the Escenic Content Studio web publishing tool.Mobile Internet Publishing. Together with the Escenic ContentEngine, the Viz Mobile Expansion provides publishers with acomplete cross-channel content management system for web andmobile. From within the Escenic Content Engine’s editorial desktoptool, Escenic Content Studio, users can publish mobile Internetcontent at the same time as publishing to the web – saving considerabletime and effort. This is done by simply drag-and-drop operations.All the device adaptation is automatically carried out in thebackground. Content and layout are optimized and formatted tosupport the full capabilities of each individual mobile or handhelddevices such as mobile phones, iPads, Kindles, and so on.The Mobile Expansion’s automatic detection of more than 1,800mobile devices ensures that all users get the best user experience.Content is automatically adapted based on the device’s capabilities,such as physical screen size and resolution, touchscreen and keyboard,supported image and video formats, CSS and HTML levels,JavaScript and AJAX support.Building online communities. Viz Community Expansion is asolution for running large, full-featured, high-volume communitysites. It allows users to publish pictures and images, connect withfriends and join groups. It provides everything needed to create aliving online community and connect your site to Facebook andTwitter.Branded video content. With Vizrt’s web editing tools, users cansearch for a video clip, open the video in a video timeline editor andadd graphics. Elements can be added as logos, as a score line, asa title, or as any other graphical 3D element. The Viz Content Pilotintegration ensures users can insert the graphics without leavingthe Escenic Content Studio environment. The timeline editor letsyou choose between different predefined templates. The user thenadds metadata, previews the video withincluded graphics and publishes the articlewith branded video content from within thesame user interface. The graphics can bedesigned to adapt to each platformand device.An integrated solution for managingvideo assets. Escenic Content Engine alsointegrates with Viz Media Engine, Vizrt’smedia asset management system – allowingonline journalists to access video clips,stills, graphics, and audio files from withinEscenic Content Studio and publish themalong with a story. Video clips can easilybe edited using built in non-linear editingapplications before being made available forpublishing on the web. Read more about VizMedia Engine on p.90.Adding video and graphics to theweb publishing workflow. Integrationbetween Vizrt’s online suite and Viz ContentPilot enables web editors using EscenicContent Studio to easily add a graphicalelement to a story, as a video, a stillimage, or a 3D graphics. The use of templatesallows editorial staff to enter data,images and videos into predefined graphicanimations and to preview the end resultinstantaneously.Uploading content from mobilephones. When transferring a video file orhigh-resolution pictures from Viz Reporter,the journalist can select which sectionof a web page the content should be sentto. Content created with Viz Reporter isinstantly available in Escenic ContentStudio, along with its entire multichanneland cross-platform publishing capabilities.Add a local map to your story. EscenicContent Engine integrates with Viz World,the broadcast industry’s de facto standardfor the creation of branded maps andgeographic animations. Users can createbranded, animated maps and insert themdirectly into a web page.Powerful presentation layer.Escenic Content Engine separates contentand presentation. This makes it possible touse the same content across multiple websitesand channels, always providing thebest presentation and user experience. Byusing JSP and JSTL libraries combined withthe Widget Framework, website developerscan focus on the user experience, creatingexciting websites in a matter of days.Now it’s even easier to desk your frontpage and sub sites. Turn the page to readabout in-page editing »In order to remain in complete controlof online presence, the journalist has a set of toolsaccessible right from his laptop.Escenic Content Engine Key Features• Architecture designed for multi-channeland cross-publishing• In page editing of web sites• Open architecture with Java and REST• Mobile adaptation and device detectionAPIs• Effective, responsive and customizableworkspace for web publishing• Drag and drop images, videos, text,articles, etc.• Upload video and images directly intoEscenic Content Studio• Add images, videos, and 3D elements toa web article with the integrated online,graphics and media asset managementsolution• Insert graphics to videos as part of yourvideo publishing workflow• Add branded maps to your web articles aspart of the editorial workflow• Extensive JSP tag library for efficient websitedevelopment• Powerful and flexible presentation layer• Full-featured high performance and scalablecontent repository solution• Live monitoring of both internal and externaldata, with a built-in RSS reader• Create complex web layouts with simpledrag-and-drop operations• Tag support and taxonomyThe Vizrt Catalogue 2011 79