Ease Of Use
Created with the designer in mind, XPression applies today's best practices for usability and UX design. XPression features clean user interfaces, logical menusand controls that are based on other common creation tools designers use every day. This shortens the learning curve and gets your artists up and running with XPression, creating compelling content in no time.
Real-Time, All The Time
XPression is a true real-time motion graphics render engine with no lag between keyboard entry and system operation. Unlike other systems which depend on constant disk access and seek times on the drive, XPression uses intelligent caching to provide real-time access to content.
Designer Friendly
XPression was developed with designer use cases and best practices top of mind. XPression's clean user interfaces, logical menus, and controls are based on other widely deployed creation tools, shortening any learning curve. With XPression, you're able to handle all the traditional graphics tasks, as well as more demanding workflow such as virtual sets and augmented graphics from the same core interface with no retraining.
Software Defined
XPression software editions now define the channel configurations. With 8 Video I/O ports on the 2RU HDSDI system, select the edition which is right for you. Users can assign video I/O ports as active video inputs, video or key outputs and hardware preview outputs.
Flexible
Choose between HD-SDI, 12G or IP-based video configurations, and have the confidence that the 4RU XPression engines will scale with the needs of your facility. Increase the channel capacity by upgrading the XPression Software edition.
Open Hardware
XPression supports multiple broadcast video I/O formats and hardware from a wide selction of I/O card vendors. Rendering is done in the GPU, which allows XPression to work with various hardware vendor solutions, rather than just one. XPression supports I/O hardware from Matrox, AJA, Blackmagic Design, and Bluefish444 to name a few. NDIT is even supported on Studio and BlueBox.