TelVue is pleased to announce the availability of HyperCaster™ 8.10, which features YouTube Broadcasts integration (BETA), new Open, In-Room, and Web caption modes for further accessibility, and enhanced Ad Break Rules that also support automatic program Bumpers.
YouTube Broadcasts Integration (BETA)
YouTube Broadcasts Integration (BETA) automates streaming designated scheduled programs to YouTube Live without having to use the YouTube interface. The HyperCaster will automatically create corresponding YouTube Broadcast events in advance based on your desired template, dynamically manage stream keys, start and stop streaming the program to YouTube, and add to appropriate playlists. Coupled with the YouTube Export feature, you get time-saving, end-to-end YouTube automation for Live and Files!
HyperCaster Automatically Creates and Streams to YouTube Broadcast Events
Open, In-Room, Web Captions
HyperCaster Accessibility has been expanded with additional caption modes: Open, In-Room, and Web Captions. All modes integrate seamlessly with your HyperCaster and SmartCaption, no additional hardware or services required.
Web Captions allow meeting participants to follow the primary or secondary caption languages on their mobile phones and web browsers. This adds another dimension of accessibility without requiring large monitors, or when monitors may not be visible to everyone. The easy-to-use and accessibility-friendly Web Caption viewer supports scrolling, pause and resume, selecting available languages, keyboard shortcuts, dark mode, font size, branding with your logo, and secure public viewing access.
Example Web Captions (English and Spanish, different moments in live event)
In-Room Captions are great for events, including Government Meetings, to display live captions on large monitors as full-screen text. You can easily customize the text size and justification, as well as text, background, highlight colors, and a banner image for branding.
Example In-Room Captions (English and Spanish, different moments in live event)
Open Captions burn-in the live captions directly into the video for applications where captions should always be on no matter what. Open Captions are perfect for meeting and overflow rooms where you may want to display primary and secondary language captions (such as English and Spanish) on monitors for in-room accessibility. You can configure the Open Captioning positioning, language selection, and text & background styling.
Example Open Captions (English and Spanish, different moments in live event)
HyperCaster Open, In-Room, and Web Captions work directly with SmartCaption Live with Translation, or sidecar captions, no additional hardware required. You can enable the caption modes on one or more available SDI, Streaming, Transport, or NDI outputs.
Enhanced Ad Break Rules with Bumpers
HyperCaster Ad Break Rules adds more flexibility for custom break timing and program and break bumpers. Program bumpers are great for promos and sponsorships that you want to automatically play at the start and end of an entire program. In contrast, break bumpers are great for promos and sponsorships that you want to play at the start and end of each break automatically. The Ad Break Rules allow you to designate which programs automatically get bumpers, and which playlists to use to fill the bumper spots. Save time scheduling while expanding promo and sponsorship opportunities with more rule-based automation.
Automatic Program Bumpers via Flexible Ad Break Rules
Full HyperCaster version 8.10 and the previous 8.9 release details can be found in the HyperCaster release notes.