April 2013. ClassX is an Italian company headquartered near Pisa which has been developing innovative software solutions for 2D/3D graphics for the broadcasting and post-production video sectors for over 20 years.
The vast catalog includes products that span from the creation of animated graphic templates connected to external data sources, up to on air graphics playout with 2D/3D audio/video in real time.
The current significant position within the TV and post production sectors is fruit of a profound knowledge of market needs, combined with a rapid implementation of the suggestions coming from our clients, who carry out an active role this way, almost like partners.
A dynamic, flexible company and sales policy, very sensitive to the current economic trend, furthermore allows proposing very interesting solutions both in terms of costs and functions, where customized features and quality play a vital role.
Another winning point of the ClassX softwares, specialized in Broadcast graphics, is surely represented by the ability to support a great deal of the different video output equipments available on the market today, like the BlackMagic DeckLink, BlueFish, Matrox, Dayang, Aja and the NewTek TriCaster, through the iVGA.
Not by chance, ClassX was noted by the American company NewTek, that on occasion of the recent NAB Show in Las Vegas, announced an important partnership with them.
We highlight that NewTek USA was born with the desire to transform the way professionals create video-television contents on line and how they share them with the world.
This is affirmed by Roberto Musso, EMEA distributor: "In any environment where you want to capture and publish live videos, this company from San Antonio – which boasts many installations in Italy – makes it a concrete possibility to quickly increase growth in public, brands and companies."
Alessandro Messineo, Customer Support and Sales for ClassX states: "What NewTek USA asked us to show at NAB in their areas was our graphics software platform for sports, currently used by Italian national broadcaster RAI for every live competition broadcast across their bouquet of international channels".
The graphics suite for the production and broadcasting of sports programs is greatly appreciated and the list of sports disciplines involved is numerous to date, about a dozen, but it is destined to grow in the course of 2013 up to reaching a total of twenty.
The Sports Graphics package is scalable, composed of different software modules for content creation, management, the graphics section, and the playout; or in other words, it includes both the software for graphics production as well as that for on air playout.
For example, the customer interested in an application for Basketball receives the software module for the management of the match, the module with which to create ready-to-use graphics – which are openly modifiable and customized personally or on commission - and "LiveBoard", the software module for broadcast playout.
ClassX proposes the "Sport Graphics" suite as a complement to the features offered by the NewTek TriCaster, thanks to the integration of the iVGA: a communications protocol that allows transmitting an audio/video source on a LAN/WiFi network from a fixed/mobile device to the TriCaster.
The ClassX applications interface with the latest version of the protocol called AirSend and this makes them compatible with every TriCaster system on the market today and with the over 300 systems currently installed and operational, just in Italy.
The support of this protocol has allowed ClassX to be registered in the prestigious NewTek Developer Network list.
Alessandro Messineo comments: "This is definitely an important and prestigious showcase, above all because we are seen next to the big names of the international broadcasting field in the "Graphics" category.
Actually, it is correct to affirm that this partnership between NewTek and ClassX derives first of all from the fact that the two companies and the relative products have very similar characteristics such as flexibility, quality and very competitive costs."
LINKS
NewTek-developer-network: Graphics Cathegory
http://www.NewTek.com/solutions/NewTek-developer-network/developer-solutions-category?category=1
NewTek-developer-network: Partners List
http://www.NewTek.com/solutions/NewTek-developer-network/all-partner-list
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