The Wyvern platform
Every part of Wyvern supports practical live operation: prepare quickly, control the complete picture and make changes as the show runs. Explore the tools behind the single-operator workflow.
01 / Profiles & live switching
Build your production as reusable profiles, then preview and switch between them inside Wyvern’s live broadcast engine.
A profile is a shot template that stores your scene settings, including exposure and colour grading, together with composition layers and the production you have built. Different profiles can recall different production setups, tracked cameras and complete looks.
Click a profile to see its camera angle, scene and complete composition on the Preview (PVW) monitor. Check the next picture while Programme stays on air.
Double-click a profile to take its complete composition straight to Programme with an instant hard cut inside the same running engine.
Bring up to five HD camera inputs into one hardware system and switch them into one live programme. Keeping composition and switching on one engine reduces computers, connections and operating complexity, helping lower hardware costs and simplify production.
02 / Control & deployment
Install your Wyvern engines in the rack or machine room. Reach them through a web browser on a phone, tablet, laptop or desktop—wherever you have access to the production network.
Keep rendering on the Wyvern servers in your rack or machine room. Access their controls from other rooms and connected devices across the production network.
Open the web-based control interface on a compatible device and connect to the engine you need. Prepare, operate and monitor the production wherever your device can reach the production network.
Access macros, recall shot profiles, preview the next view and use the live switcher from a connected newsroom desk. Keep the show controls where your team works.
Access Wyvern from the graphics room to edit text, colours, images, media and prepared looks. Prepare content for the upcoming show while the engine stays in its installed location.
Reach the interface during the production to edit graphics, update content and prepare the next look. Add and use those graphics on air from the same web-based workflow.
List all your projects and virtual sets in one place. Select and launch any project or set, and switch between them from the web interface.
Transfer supported show data while retaining machine-specific hardware settings.
Connect supported commands and state to custom panels and production automation through HTTP/JSON.
Use the Wyvern interface in any language you want. All languages are supported, so your team can work in its preferred language.
03 / Keying & image
Key live camera media inside Wyvern, with AI-assisted adjustments, edge refinement and colour grading in the same production workflow.
Key camera media live inside the Wyvern engine. Adjust the key in the production interface and see the result in the composition.
Ask the assistant to help adjust key settings, then inspect the picture and refine the result while keeping control.
Adjust the camera media’s colour to match the virtual environment, keeping image adjustments alongside the keyer.
Refine edges, clipping and spill around the presenter to improve how the keyed image fits the scene.
04 / Composition
Bring camera media, virtual environments and 3D graphics together for green screen, AR, AR extension and LED/XR production. Keep the tools in one interface so a single operator can build the picture and respond quickly during the show.
Build the picture through Background, Media, Mask and Foreground layers. Each layer brings its colour grading and relevant settings into the interface, so you can adjust the composition directly without building a complicated node graph. Keep preparation and live changes fast and practical.
Wyvern combines multiple AI rendering technologies to reconstruct pixels and improve visual quality while using the machine’s resources efficiently. Bring detailed virtual environments and graphics into your live composition with a balance of image quality and real-time rendering performance.
Run multi-camera green-screen productions with live keying and hot-cut switching. Keep one profile on air while previewing another profile’s complete keyed composition live, ready for the next cut.
Place 3D graphics alongside people and the physical set in the camera image. Bring visual information into the live production while keeping the real studio in view.
Extend the physical studio with virtual elements and 3D graphics in an AR composition. Preview another profile’s live composition while the current profile stays on air, then switch when the next picture is ready.
Keep the physical set you need and extend the picture with virtual scenery. Define the retained studio area within the composition, so you can create a larger environment without rebuilding the whole physical set.
Build LED wall panels and set up LED/XR extensions in the same interface. Grade the wall, extension and camera media, and control inner and outer frustum separation, rendering quality and graphics. A single Wyvern engine can be configured for resolutions up to around 10K, depending on hardware, scene complexity and the production configuration.
05 / Wyvern AI Assistant
An AI assistant built on knowledge gathered from virtual production experts and put to work inside Wyvern. Understand the system, learn the tools, troubleshoot and take action—with 24/7 in-product assistance and the operator in control.
Knowledge from virtual production experts is brought together with Wyvern’s tools and workflows, giving you assistance specific to the production tasks you are working on.
Use the available production state and settings to understand what is happening, what is selected and which controls can help with the task at hand.
Describe a problem and get help inspecting relevant settings, understanding possible causes and working through the next steps in the production workflow.
Ask what a control does, how a feature works or which approach fits your production. Get explanations connected to the tools you are using.
Get help adjusting a key, updating graphics, preparing profiles or building macros. Inspect what changed and refine the result while keeping the final decision.
Bring assistance to composition, keying, graphics and data, tracking, profiles and macros. Move between guidance and supported production actions in the same conversation. Wyvern AI is available by subscription.
06 / Tracking & timing
Connect standard tracking systems and FreeD-enabled PTZ cameras. Run up to five tracked cameras simultaneously, with independent movement, lens and media timing inside the same Wyvern engine.
Connect standard camera tracking systems, including VIVE, Stype and Mo-Sys, and bring their movement and lens data into Wyvern.
Use any PTZ camera that provides compatible FreeD tracking output. Feed its pan, tilt and available lens data into the corresponding virtual camera.
Run up to five tracked cameras simultaneously inside one engine and the same virtual world. Each camera can receive data from a different tracking solution.
Keep all five virtual cameras running as the production continues. Recall their views through profiles and switch between them inside the same running world.
Configure position, rotation, zoom, focus and iris separately. Select the tracked values each camera uses and adjust the individual channels in one workspace.
Adjust movement, zoom, focus, iris and media timing independently. Compensate for the different processing paths so the camera picture, lens changes and virtual view stay aligned.
Set tracking origins and camera offsets in the production interface. Align different tracking sources to the same virtual scene.
07 / Live graphics & data
Bring editable graphics, animated looks and virtual screens into your live production. See the result in the programme preview while you update text, media and data as the show changes.
Edit names, captions and text fields during the show. Change fonts, sizes, colours and text styling directly in the production interface.
Replace supported images, textures and media without rebuilding the prepared graphic.
Place graphics and virtual screens inside the scene. Adjust their position, rotation, scale and visibility to fit the camera view.
Animate graphics in and out, and transition between prepared looks while the production is live. Bring information on screen, update it and move to the next look as the story develops.
Build reusable graphic templates and save different looks for players, election candidates, weather conditions or programme segments. Switch and animate between those looks live, using the same prepared graphic.
Map video, images and live media onto virtual screens placed inside your scene. Create anything from a small display to a large video wall, without buying or installing a physical screen.
Connect supported graphics to APIs and other live data sources through a configured connection, so on-air content can update as the data changes.
08 / Macros & cues
Put multi-step production actions behind buttons and cues, so one operator can respond at the pace of the live programme.
Put recurring production tasks behind clearly named buttons.
Run supported graphics, content, camera and profile operations in a defined order.
Prepare repeatable actions at configured time offsets.
Advance through a prepared sequence one press at a time.
Create, edit, run, cancel and remove macros in the control interface.
Ask Wyvern AI to prepare a supported sequence, then inspect and test it.
09 / Talent tracking
An automated vision system tracks each presenter’s whole body as a 3D object and projects that representation into the virtual scene. Shadows, reflections and depth relationships follow their movement across different camera angles.
Track multiple presenters automatically with a dedicated external vision camera and processing system.
Track the presenter’s whole body as a 3D object, rather than a single position. Project this representation into the virtual scene to maintain coherent depth, shadows and reflections from different camera angles as the presenter moves.
Use tracked positions to place people in front of or behind virtual elements, maintaining their relationship with the scene.
Place and update virtual shadows at the talent’s feet automatically, driven by their tracked position and movement.
Drive reflections at the talent’s feet from the same tracking data. The reflections follow each presenter automatically as they move.
10 / Media & outputs
Manage supported live inputs, file media, monitoring and outputs.
Receive camera feeds through supported Blackmagic Design capture hardware.
Bring compatible network video sources into the production.
Play supported video files and image sequences within compositions and virtual screens.
Reuse supported sources across backgrounds, layers and screens.
Monitor programme over the production network at 1280 × 720 and up to 60 fps; production output is configured separately.
Inspect supported composition layers while keeping programme visible.
Configure supported output routing around the installed hardware, signal formats and engine count.
11 / Multi-engine control
Stack your Wyvern engines in one place and manage each machine or a configured group from one interface. Synchronize production actions across engines and keep backup servers following the live show.
Install the production engines together in your rack or machine room. Reach each machine from the Wyvern interface and keep everyday operation in one connected workspace.
Select an engine to control it individually, or mirror production commands across a configured group. Run the same profile, graphics and macro actions on multiple machines from one interface.
Execute the same scheduled production actions at the same time across configured engines. The Wyvern engine synchronization system coordinates when those actions run on each machine.
Mirror production commands to running backup engines in real time. The standby engines follow the same operations and stay ready to be taken live if the primary engine develops a problem, helping maintain continuity of the show.
Inspect machine, project, source and engine synchronization states together. Move between individual engines while keeping the wider production setup in view.
Capabilities depend on the selected modules, supported content, hardware and installation. Bring up to five HD camera inputs together on one hardware system. We can help map the right configuration to your production.
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