Ignition Social at NAB 2018

SHROPSHIRE, UK ― 29th March 2018 ― Idonix, the data, workflow and graphics specialists will be at NAB this year on the Ross Booth SL3305. We will be showing our Ignition graphics automation system driving Ross XPression, and running Ignition Social with data and sentiment analysis coming directly from Microsoft Azure.

With interesting US mid term elections due this year Ross will be showing their Xpression Tessera multi display real time graphics designer/controller for studio video walls. There will be a touch screen driven US map populated with data, with drill down to specific states and analysis of current social media sentiment powered by Idonix.

Ignition is a graphics authoring and playout system for journalists and producers - perfect for people who aren’t used to operating graphics systems. It provides a fluid and highly intuitive interface that allows users to analyse and search data, stack graphics and play them out live quickly and easily. Our integration with XPression makes this cutting edge real-time motion graphics engine from Ross Video® available to all our clients.

Ignition Social is a new development. In addition to selecting and airing individual social media posts using our powerful querying and moderation tools, you can now include sentiment visualisation across easily defined content sets. Powered by Microsoft Azure’s text analytics platform, we support English, French, Portuguese and Spanish, with many other languages on the roadmap.

Ignition implementations can be quickly built using industry standard tooling and has been in use with BBC News for their election programs for the last 15 years. Idonix takes the pain out of complex data driven graphics projects making it easier for stories to be told without technology getting in the way.

Pete Griffiths, CEO, Idonix, said: “We are glad to be working with Ross Video at a time when data analysis is pertinent to the state of politics across the world: we want to show how you can drive real stories in real time.”
Patrick Twomey, director of XPression product marketing, Ross Video said: “It’s great to work with Idonix again to show how partnerships can augment the value of XPression real time graphics for engaging live story telling, helping our users to get the best from XPression”

Idonix offer a full range of integrated data, workflow and graphics services so come and talk to us at NAB 2018.

Ross Video is Smart Production

Ross powers video productions for billions of global viewers daily with the industry’s widest range of smart production solutions. Ross makes it easy to create compelling news, weather and sports broadcasts, engaging material for sports stadium screens, entertainment shows and rock concerts, educational institutions, legislative assemblies, corporate applications, and inspiring content for houses of worship. Ross solutions have impressed the audiences and marketing partners of NBC Sunday Night Football, Google YouTube Space London and China’s eSports powerhouse VSPN. Ross delivers an unrivalled range of products and services comprising virtual studios, real-time motion graphics, cameras, robotic camera systems, production switchers, video servers, infrastructure and routers, social media management, newsroom systems and mobile live events.

DATA | WORKFLOW | GRAPHICS

Idonix brings together data feeds, fluid workflows and compelling graphics, enabling producers to tell potentially complex stories in an efficient and engaging way. Ignition, their underlying automation software, makes light work of ingesting and aggregating real-time data feeds, providing focussed and intelligent workflows, and driving live and file-based graphics engines. They have been in the business of graphics automation for over 15 years, working in high status areas such as elections and sport.