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Engine features
The Ventuz render engine is fast, powerful and reliable. See more on the right.
Materials and Lighting
- Physically based material system
- HDR Rendering
- Normal maps, diffuse maps, displacement maps, specular and roughness maps supported
- Point, spot and directional lights
- Realtime Shadows
- Realtime Environment Maps
- Reflections
- Refractions
- Support for Substance (SBSAR) materials
Compositing
- Industry Standard Blending Modes
- 2D Layer compositing
- 3D World compositing
- Real-Time Image Post effects like blur, glare, edge detection, distortion and much more
- Camera effects like Depth of field, tone mapping, bloom, lens flares and more
- 2D / 3D Masks and color difference keying
- Color Grading
Multi-Screen and Multi-Machine Setups
Particles
- Highly Modular Particle System
- Easy to setup Picture, Video, Geometry and Audio Inputs
- Create fully Interactive Particles
- Mass Data Visualization in Real-Time
Unreal Engine to Engine Integration
Data inputs and outputs
Ventuz offers realtime connectivity to data inputs and outputs of all types, sizes and formats.
Video I/O
- SDI (SD, HD, 3G, 6G, 12G) input and output
- Deltacast, AJA, Blackmagic-Design, Datapath
- DVI, HDMI, DP input and output
- NDI input and output
- Shared Surface, VIO, Spout
- Encoded Stream Output
- Windows Media Foundation Input Devices commonly used for Webcams
Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Virtual Studio
- Supported VR Devices:
HTC Vive
Oculus Rift
Windows Mixed Reality Devices (e.g. Samsung Odyssey) - Support for the following Camera Tracking Systems:
Mo-Sys
NCam
Stype
TrackMen - Image Based Lighting Engine for easy to replicate in-studio lighting
Interaction
- Native support for TUIO, Windows Touch, Keyboard, Mouse and Tablet inputs
- Create gestural and multi-person interactions without coding
- Fully interactive Webbrowser
Networking & Control
- OSC input and output
- DMX, Art-Net /sACN input and output
- MIDI input and output
- LTC Timecode
- Serial
- Keyboard and Mouse inputs
- Camera Tracking
- GPI inputs
- Remoting API’s (C#, HTTP)
Data Integration
- Excel Sheets
- XML, XPath and XSLT
- JSON
- Text Files
- Databases (MSSQL, Oracle, MySQL, OleDB …)
- RSS/RDF Feeds
- DMX Input/Output (Art-Net, sACN)
- OSC Input/Output
- Serial Text Input
- MIDI Input/Output
- Extensible through the use of .NET C#/Visual Basic Scripts and 3rd Party Libraries
Supported formats
Ventuz ensures flexibility by supporting as many standard file formats as possible.
Live Video SDI
- NTSC, PAL
- 720p
- 1080p, 1080i
- 2160p
- 4k DCI
- check our user manual for more detailed information
Video Playback
- Containers: avi, asf, mpg, wmv, mov, mkv, mp4, mpeg, ogg, webm, mxf, etc.
- Codecs: h264, huffyuv, NotchLC, vp8, Hap /Q, A, and QA), qtrle, lagarith, mpg1/2, DNxHD/DNxHR, etc.
- check our user manual for more detailed information
Audio
- Containers: acc, flac, mp3, opus, wav, cda, mka, ac3, m4a, etc.
- Codecs: aac, mp3, flac, wmav2, wmapro, etc.
- check our user manual for more detailed information
Geometry
Tools features
Ventuz makes your life easier by providing workflows and pipelines to your favorite programs and tools.
Designing Tools
- Fully customizable, Persona-Based Window Layout
- Create simple or highly advanced logic networks with a modular node-based system, without a single line of code
- What You See Is What You Get Editor: The results of your changes are visible in the very moment you make them
- Easily capsule and re-use single purpose components of your logic
Logic & Scripting
- .NET C#/Visual Basic Scripts to extend the existing functionality or integrate 3rd party libraries
- HLSL support to create unique effects
Broadcast Workflows
- Template-Based workflow for real-time on-air graphics based on Ventuz sophisticated animation system
- Newsroom Integrations with the most common Systems: Octopus, ESPN, iNews, OpenMedia
- Single-point of control solutions for easily operable full-studio setups
- Freely combine interactions with the control room, in-studio devices (e.g. touch screens) and real-time data
Geometry Workflows
- Generic Built-In Geometries
- Live-Link to Cinema4D for direct feedback of changes made to the model
- Supports import of Geometry, SRT Animations, Mesh Animations/Sequences, Skeletal Meshes and Animations, Materials and Textures, Cameras
Animation Workflows
- Sophisticated Linear Keyframe Animation Tool
- Two views for Linear Animations: Timeline View enables easy editing of timings
Curve View enables easy editing of value interpolations - Flexible Interpolation options like Jump, Linear, Bézier Curves, Oscillation or Elastic
- State Logic System for easy integration of non-linear animations into interactive or event-driven presentations
- Teach-In animations from your changes to the animated objects
- Nested animations for easy replication of similar partial animations
UI Workflows
- Fast and easy UI creation with a modular node-based system
- Nodes for Image, Video and Geometry Rendering
- 2D Compositing for effects and blending
- Full support of Ventuz 3D Engine to create more complex interaction
SYSTEM requirements
| MINIMUM: | RECOMMENDED: | |
| OS: | Windows 7 SP1, 8.1 (64bit) | Windows 10 (64bit) |
| GPU: | Nvidia Quadro K2000 or higher | Nvidia Quadro P6000 or later |
| Nvidia GeForce GTX 600 series or higher | AMD WX 7100 or later | |
| AMD Radeon HD 7000 series or higher | ||
| AMD FirePro Wx000 series or higher | ||
| Intel HD 5000 (Haswell) or higher | ||
