Morpho

Morpho Product Information

Morpho is a real time, 3D, character generator offering uncompromised creation and playout capabilities from a single user interface

Morpho focuses on bringing ideas and designs to air easily and affordably. Powerful 3D real-time graphics rendering, smart graphic design tools and flexible playout capabilities are all packed together offering an efficient and easy workflow.  
 

Creation
 

Morpho employs a page based architecture that offers an easy and flexible way to create even the most complex 3D look.

Building a Morpho page is simply done by combining Morpho primitives, two live video inputs in HD or SD, video clips, Photoshop™ layers or 3D Collada files into the layer’s structure. The user can even drag and drop images and RSS feeds directly from their Internet browser to the design window. Through the easy to understand positioning, rotating and scaling tools, the elements can be laid out exactly the way the design requires.

With Morpho, multiple videos clips in formats such as Avi, Mpeg, Mp4, QuickTime™, and Windows Media, can be played back as an integral part of the graphic scene. The video clips are mapped to any object in the scene, allowing the creation of attractive 3D and 2D DVE effects.

Morpho’s fully featured Unicode compliant character generator makes it very easy to set up any type of decorated 2D and 3D text, tables, crawls and rolls. The integrated spell checker helps the user ensure that graphics are not sent to air with typos.

Morpho offers a variety of ticker functionalities such as linking directly to an RSS feed and a fully featured business ticker option.

Through intuitive wizards, the user can easily link graphics to data from any type of data source. It is also possible to define event based actions, which provides the ability to display different pages based on data from the database.

Z-ordering and light positioning are very complex tasks in 3D which Morpho has made extremely easy by introducing concepts from products like MS PowerPoint™ that enable setting up powerful 3D designs a much easier task.

Morpho has a smooth and efficient effects creation process. For each item in a page the user can easily set up individually timed in and out effects. Morpho offers a vast variety of pre-defined customizable effects.

Playout 
 

Playout can be performed by organizing items in a playlist, or using the playout controller panel for easy access to graphics in a random order. Each graphic item can be assigned to a different layer, allowing the playout of up to 7 different graphic items simultaneously. For example, it is possible to manage a logo layer separately from an underlying ticker layer, which could be on top of a lower 3rd or full screen graphic.

Last minute changes to texts or other elements can be performed while on air, providing the flexibility required for today’s production needs.

Morpho integrates with newsroom systems using MOS protocol, ensuring proper usability in news environments.

Morpho can be controlled by automation systems through industry standard protocols like CII and VDCP.

Morpho offers the user the ability to subtitle both live and via time code based subtitle files in industry standard formats. Morpho offers frame accurate playback of subtitles ensuring authenticity.

Work in your own language
 

Morpho is available in a variety of languages such as English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, German, Japanese, and Chinese. Additional languages can be easily added. Morpho is based on a 100% Unicode compliant architecture and therefore allows you to work in almost all written languages.
 

New training concept

Morpho offers a new type easy–to-follow, yet detailed online tutorial conducted by an on-screen guide, providing a clear overview of all the tools and actions that are available.

Upgrade path
 

The Morpho enables an easy upgrade path to Orad’s high end solutions. All the graphic elements designed in the Morpho can be exported to a format supported by Orad’s Maestro and 3DPlay controllers, so graphic content can be reused.
New powerful graphics engine with low cost of ownership
Morpho’s new turnkey ready hardware platform is based on cutting edge technology from leading vendors. Its 2RU chassis is much more than just a PC in box. It is built to meet the requirements of today’s graphic designers and operators. The box is available in a SD-only as well as a SD/HD switchable version supporting all SD and HD formats.

Morpho is available on 2 different hardware configurations: single channel, packed on a single 2U box and dual channel (preview/program).