Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 12, 2011…VidiGo B.V. (www.vidigo.tv), a leading developer of smart software products for creating and managing broadcast quality TV, is launching a major upgrade of its Mario Award (NAB 2011) winning product, VidiGo Graphics, at IBC 2011.

Vidigo Graphics enables the use of Flash® for broadcast graphics. The ease-of-use of Flash, the widespread community of Flash developers, and the VidiGo Graphics software is changing the existing complex and costly workflow of TV graphics.  Today, broadcast graphics are a critical part of most television productions. However, adding high-quality graphics to a production is often daunting, in part due to the high cost of entry for most professional graphics systems, as well as a steep learning curve to operate and develop graphics content for these systems. VidiGo Graphics solves these issues and allows users to easily design their own interactive broadcast projects based on Flash, which are then rendered and output in real-time.

In cooperation with Adobe and one of their scaling partners, VidiGo has developed a dedicated Flash Player to get full control over timing. With this new dedicated Flash Player VidiGo will be able to meet the highest standards of the industry.

In this new version, handling slow moving objects, like a crawler or ticker-tape, is made significantly easier.  Previously rendering those objects was handled by VidiGo’s core engine instead of by Flash itself. Now, with VidiGo’s dedicated Flash Player, users are able to render all objects within Flash, which will ease the development process substantially.

Hans Krouwels, CEO of VidiGo, states, “For the first time high end broadcast graphics can now be built on true open standards.  The power of Adobe Creative Suite, in combination with VidiGo Graphics, will change the workflow of professional broadcast graphics forever. Every broadcaster can now tap into the already available creative Flash Community to realize the most advanced graphics at substantial lower costs and in a minimum of time.”