Ross Video and Video Design Software Work Together to Solidify SportsNet New York’s Gameday Tickers

Tuesday, July 7, 2015 [Iroquois, Ontario, Canada] – Ross Video and Video Design Software (VDS) partnered up to provide SportsNet New York (SNY) with their game day tickers. SNY designed a new look for their ticker as part of a new graphics package to be rolled out at the start of the 2015 Mets baseball season. Due to the complexity of the graphics, SNY required a new graphics system with greater rendering horsepower than their current system.

By choosing Ross Video XPression for their new graphics system, SNY invested in a graphics system that can be easily used with their current GameTrak ticker systems from VDS. Larry Mincer from VDS, said “the XPression suite provides the content creation tools needed to implement advanced projects such as the ticker design envisioned by SNY. XPression’s BlueBox rendering engines provide ample horsepower for supporting complex animations and transitions. XPression is also a modern graphics system that provides greater flexibility for future creative changes as SNY identifies new requirements.”

GameTrak is a turnkey system for advanced sports ticker operations. Components provided with GameTrak include back-end STATS Inc. data parsing and SQL databases; user interfaces for ticker data entry, playlist creation and scheduling; and master control applications for on-air ticker playout under station automation control. For the GameTrak Ticker installed by VDS at SNY, on-air graphics are implemented in XPression Studio, while all the on-air graphics are generated by XPression BlueBox.

“XPression generates our lower third ticker graphics, and tickers are a critical part of the overall branding of SNY, and generally used over twelve hours a day, seven days a week,” says Richard Amsinger, creative Director for SNY. “In addition, the ticker systems are used to display scheduled sponsor logos – which generate revenue for SNY.”

“XPression is ideal for data-intensive applications like tickers,” says Brian Olson, Director of Marketing Product Management for XPression at Ross Video. “We are really excited to be involved with VDS and SNY on this project. Keeping fans up-to-date with the latest scores and statistics is critical to the viewing experience and GameTrak with XPression delivers, while creating new revenue possibilities for SNY.”

About VDS
VDS products offer automated control of broadcast television systems, with an emphasis on synchronized streaming and social media as well as graphics-related operations and internet-to-video and video-to-internet systems.

VDS’s content creation toolset includes imaging/FX and media import/export plug-ins for editing/compositing systems.

For more information, please visit http://videodesignsoftware.com

About Ross Video
Passionate about live production, Ross Video designs, manufactures and delivers dependable technology and services that power exceptional live video productions seen by billions of viewers around the world every day. Ross Video’s goal is to make it easy for customers to create compelling news, weather and sports broadcasts, engaging material for sports stadium screens, legislative assemblies, entertainment shows and rock concerts, and inspiring content for houses of worship.

Relentlessly innovating, Ross Video delivers the world’s widest range of products and services for augmented reality and virtual sets, mobile live-event solutions, real-time motion graphics, robotic camera systems, social-media management, production switchers, routers, infrastructure products, video servers, newsroom systems, terminal equipment and more.

Ross products and services are designed to offer the best system integration and unmatched customer choice by both working together seamlessly and integrating tightly with third-party solutions.

Ross Video has offices around the world, and provides outstanding, free-for-life telephone support staffed by technical experts 24 hours a day, 365 days a year—even for products bought on eBay. Ross employees are authorized to rent helicopters when necessary.

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Ross Video Media Contact:
Sara Bell
Media Relations Coordinator
Tel: +1 613-652-3020
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Email: sbell@rossvideo.com
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VDS Contact:
Larry Mincer
631-249-4399
larry@videodesignsoftware.com