We’ve dropped another update, this time for volleyball support. This volleyball interface and graphics package is fairly basic and not where we intend to leave it, but it’s straightforward and easy for the fast pace that comes with volleyball.
This update can be obtained through the SuiteCG License Manager screen. As always, updates can be performed within the License Manager even without a license.
Revised graphics project for American Football to automate down and distance and Ballspot animations, per the user’s choice, when distance or ballspot values change.
We’ve released a minor update that includes a new graphics project for American Football that automatically displays Down and Distance, as well as Ballspot, per the end-user’s option. For more details watch the included tutorial video.
This update is available through the License Manager screen of any existing installation of SuiteCG, regardless of the presence of a product license.
Our office will be closed for vacation the week of August 12, 2019. We will respond to any inquires when we return. Thank you for your understanding.
SuiteCG is thrilled to announce the release of version 0.6.35, which adds the long-awaited, much-anticipated, highly-deliberated Team Rosters feature! Included in this new release are the following:
Team Rosters has been planned from the beginning as a key feature of SuiteCG MultiSport Scoreboard, and we’re excited to get it out the door in time for fall sports. Player selection is a breeze. With three clicks (and in about that many seconds) from the user interface you can have a player’s headshots and bio up on the screen. Click to open the roster, click to select the player from large buttons with the players name, uniform, position, a headshot, and then a click in Graphics Control to animate the headshot element.
In addition to this new release, we’ve also added new tutorial videos to the Knowledge Base, including:
Player headshots are currently supported only in American Football and Baseball/Softball. Other sports will see added capabilities soon.
Download SuiteCG for free evaluation. Data outputs are scrambled unless the MultiSport Scoreboard Module is licensed.
File will download as a .zip.
Were getting close to a new release that includes support for Team Rosters and player headshots. Stay tuned for updates! We will include this awesome sample roster file so you can play around with it and get familiar with the new tool.
The NDI protocol by Newtek is a pretty amazing thing, but before NDI there was AirSend. You could think of AirSend as the older brother to NDI and it was used almost exclusively for Newtek products. Most people used it for getting graphics, with transparency, from their graphics system, such as LiveText.
When NDI came around, Newtek provided updates for AirSend transmitters to become NDI-enabled but unfortunately they never really provided a means for ALL older Tricasters to get updated to receive NDI. Some Tricasters were able to get updated to software that supported NDI, but some models didn’t have the right hardware and were unable to board the NDI train. And unfortunately, NewTek never provided a means of converting NDI to Airsend.
I approached Martin Kay with ZEN Computer Services in the UK about this predicament and have spent the last few weeks working with him to test the addition of AirSend conversion to his ZEN RTx re-transmitter application. While NDI is certainly a better technology than AirSend, there are still plenty of schools and non-profits that are using the older Tricasters and can’t take advantage of NDI and simply don’t have the funds to upgrade. Now they will have that ability at no cost thanks to ZEN RTx. ZEN RTX will work with any NDI source, not just SuiteCG.
Here is a quick look at the conversion in action.
A few caveats:
1. The AirSend conversion does not convert audio. All video sources will have audio stripped from them.
2. As shown in the video, the conversion does add some latency. This will probably vary based on system specs, but in this video the latecy looked to be about .2 seconds.
3. An unknown error prevents running the application on Windows 7. This may or may not be fixed given the trend toward NDI-enabled Tricasters and Windows 10 operating systems.
Anyone interested in trying this out can download RTx, as well as some other interesting NDI utilities, from http://www.zenvideo.co.uk/ndi.htm Martin does a lot of audiovisual/broadcasting services so if you’re in the UK, I recommend him for any equipment needs you might have.
A HUGE thanks to Martin Kay of ZEN Computer Services for working with me on this and providing a means for unlocking NDI for Tricaster users who until now have been locked out of NDI.
While work continues on the team rosters and player selection features, we have also been working on some tools to help expedite the creation of new sport user interfaces.
In testing that tool, and with feedback from MultiSport Scoreboard users, we have pushed out a new update with much-improved controls for Baseball/Softball. Take a look!
This version is available to download now from the website or through the SuiteCG License Manager screen.
Revised baseball/softball user interface and template. This update renders old saved baseball templates and saved sessions incompatible with the new user interface.