Dalet Updates CubeNG News Graphics Platform

Dalet, a technology and service provider for media-rich organizations, has introduced key updates to its Dalet Cube^NG platform, a graphics solution for news workflows. Fully integrated across Dalet Unified News Operations, Dalet Cube^NG leverages the Brainstorm real-time graphics engine to deliver 2D and 3D branding as well as engaging visual storytelling across broadcast, social and digital channels.

The scalable, enterprise-level graphics solution is used by leading broadcasters including Euronews, Mediaset and Teleticino, and now features customizable work spaces that allow users to manipulate graphics in real time during a live show. The update also adds support for working across multiple sites to allow broadcasters to create distributed graphics workflows across all their centers of operation.

All Dalet Cube^NG capabilities, including new features announced today, are available both on-premises and in the cloud:

• New customizable button boards:Users can customize their playout workspace with curated graphic templates that can be triggered on the fly. This allows operators to interact with the live graphics to visually tell more complex stories, keeping audiences informed and engaged.
• Computer graphics (CG) items can now have a shortcut ID:The new Dalet Cube^NG quickplay shortcut lets users quickly trigger the playout of a CG.
• Trigger advanced interaction with graphics:Users can animate graphics like bar charts to show changes in election results over time or zoom in on a map to show exactly where a pandemic has spread. This visually summarizes detailed data and unknown reference points to simplify stories and keep audiences informed.

The solution also introduces new capabilities that enable better collaboration across multi-sites, multi-studios and remote productions with under-the-hood file-based optimizations that ensure scalability and redundancy. Broadcasters can centralize graphics playlists for multiple playout locations. Each graphics playlist can be configured to play in one specific studio or across several. New APIs allow broadcasters to automate the creation of CG playlists across the enterprise.