What you can make

Every graphic a broadcast needs

From a single lower third to a whole election night: made by your designers, driven live by your control room.

NewsBreaking news, lower thirds, tickers and explainers
SportsScoreboards, match clocks, standings and analysis
ElectionsResults maps, seat counts and swing, live all night
WeatherForecast maps and weather stories
Data and businessCharts and big numbers that update themselves
Touch screensStudio consoles a presenter drives by touch
Real-time 3DProducts, logos and sets in 3D, lit in real time
Promos and brandingLaunches, countdowns and animated backgrounds

How it works

Three steps from idea to air

Design
Draw it, or open the Photoshop, vector, animation and 3D files you already have. Animate it on a timeline, as in a motion design app.
Connect your data
Name the parts that change: a headline, a score, a colour, a picture, a camera feed. On air, the control room fills them by hand or from a data feed, and the graphic updates as it plays.
Put it on air
Check it, then send it to the control room. airZ Engine plays the same file you designed, so what you approved is what the audience sees. The same file runs on studio touch screens and on the web.

Designed here. Live everywhere.

What makes it different

Most broadcast graphics tools are built to play templates. airZ Editor is built for the designers who make them, and it covers everything a broadcast needs, and more.

A 3D scene in airZ Editor: its objects, lights and camera as rows in the hierarchy, each one selectable

Your files

Your Photoshop, SVG, Lottie and 3D files open fully editable

Layers stay layers, animations stay keyframes, 3D models keep their parts and materials. Nothing to rebuild, and anything that cannot come across is listed, never lost.

airZ Editor rigging a character: a bone selected on the stage, its constraints in the inspector

Motion design

The animation tools motion designers expect

Timelines and easing curves, bones and rigging, text that animates letter by letter, and layouts that resize with their content.

airZ Editor in Animate mode: an election scene with its logic drawn as a graph

Interactive

Build interactive graphics without code

Decide visually how a graphic comes in, updates and goes out, and what happens when someone taps it. Scripting is there when you want it, never required.

Sending a graphic to the control rooms from airZ Editor

One file

One file plays everywhere

The graphic you approve is the file that airs: on air with airZ Engine, on a studio touch screen, and on the web. Nothing is rebuilt along the way.

AI assistant

Describe a graphic,
and the assistant builds it.

Tell the assistant the graphic you want. It builds it in your document, step by step, in front of you: the artwork, the animation, the logic and the data. It checks its own result and fixes what it sees. Guide it in plain words, and undo any step.

Rendered by the assistant

40 minutes in 30 seconds

A real session, replayed: the prompts, the assistant’s own words and the frames it rendered while it worked. Sped up: about 40 minutes of work, here in 30 seconds. The names are placeholders.

Reference pictures and fontsSteer it in wordsIt checks its own rendersInto your document, or as a previewOne Ctrl+Z undoes a turn

Import

Imports stay editable, layer by layer

Every layer, shape, keyframe and 3D part arrives as something you can select and change. Anything a file holds that the editor cannot use is listed when it comes in, never dropped quietly.

Design filesPhotoshop layers, vector art, Lottie animations and .riv scenesPSD · SVG · Lottie · RIV
3D modelsModels with their parts, materials, cameras and lights, and HDR skiesglTF · FBX · OBJ · DAE · 3DS · STL · PLY · HDR
Video, pictures and soundClips for live video windows, stills, and sounds for eventsMP4 · MOV · MXF · PNG · JPEG · WAV · MP3 · FLAC
FontsTypefaces carried inside the file, so it opens the same anywhereTTF · OTF

Format by format

The Assets panel of airZ Editor, where PSD, SVG and Lottie files are added

Photoshop · PSD

Every layer, in its place

Each layer arrives as its own picture in Photoshop's order and grouping, with its opacity and blend mode, ready to animate.

Lottie · JSON, dotLottie

Shapes and their motion

The animation comes in as a timeline of editable shapes, gradients and pictures, so you can retime it and bind it to data.

The import notes airZ Editor shows after an SVG comes in

SVG

Vector artwork

Paths, groups and gradients become shapes you can edit point by point.

A 3D scene's objects, lights and camera in the airZ Editor hierarchy

3D models

glTF, FBX, OBJ and more

GLB and glTF, FBX, OBJ, COLLADA, 3DS, STL and PLY, with their parts, materials, cameras, lights and animations, into a real-time 3D scene.

Skies · HDR

Your own lighting

An HDR image or a panorama lights and reflects in the 3D scene.

Video

Clips for a video window

MP4, MOV, M4V, MXF, WMV, AVI, MKV and WebM play in a video window, and the control room can swap them on air for a camera or another clip.

Pictures and fonts

Carried in the document

PNG and JPEG pictures, TTF and OTF typefaces, kept inside the file so it opens the same on any machine.

The import report after a .riv file opens in airZ Editor

.riv

Files from other tools

Open a .riv animation made in another tool and keep working on it.

Design and animation

The tools of a motion design app

Draw, paint, rig and lay out your graphic, then animate it on a timeline. Everything a motion designer expects, inside the broadcast editor.

A text with its background box on the airZ Editor stage

Draw

Shapes, paths and text

Rectangles, ellipses, polygons and stars with rounded corners and slanted ends, a pen for paths you can reshape point by point, and text with runs, styles and a background box.

In the manual →

Paint

Fills and strokes

Colours and gradients you drag on the stage, feathered edges, strokes trimmed and dashed, blend modes and opacity.

In the manual →

Two bones posing an arm on the airZ Editor stage

Rig

Bones and weights

Draw a chain of bones, bind artwork to it and pose it: an arm that swings, a flag that waves. Meshes bend pictures the same way.

In the manual →

Constrain

Constraints

Tie one object to another: follow its position, rotation or scale, keep a distance, run along a path, or make a limb reach for a point.

In the manual →

A text modifier in the airZ Editor inspector

Type in motion

Text modifiers

Animate a range of characters rather than the whole line: a typewriter, a word that lifts, letters that stagger in.

In the manual →

Layouts

Boxes that reflow

A layout arranges what is inside it, so a name bar grows with a long name and a table fits whatever the data sends.

In the manual →

Components

Reuse a design

Place one design inside another, with its own data and its own logic: design a row once, use it everywhere.

In the manual →

Animate

Timelines for the motion, Animation States for the logic

Key anything on the timeline and shape its easing in the graph editor. Animation States, the editor’s visual logic, connect the timelines: how the graphic comes in, updates and goes out, and what happens when the data changes, a button is pressed or someone touches the screen. No code.

The graph editor with an ease-out curve — The graph editor

An Animation States graph — Animation States

In the toolkit

Timelines and Animation States

A lower third mid-move in airZ Editor, its keys on the timeline below

Animate

Timeline and graph editor

Auto-key, onion skin, a work area, and every key with its own ease, shaped as a curve in the graph editor.

In the manual →

Logic

Animation States

States and the rules between them: react to the data, to clicks, keys and touch, or to a joystick that scrubs an animation.

In the manual →

Ready-made elements

34 ready-made elements

The pieces every broadcast needs, already made: a parliament that fills seat by seat, a swingometer, clocks and countdowns, charts that grow, standings, formations. Drop one into your design, point it at your data, and it is done. Nothing to build from scratch, nothing to code.

Live data and video

Connect any text, number or colour to live data

Give each part that changes a name: a headline, a score, a colour, a picture. On air, the control room fills those names by hand or from a data feed, and the graphic animates to the new values. No code, and nothing to rebuild. Try it below →

Data

Every value has a name

Text, numbers, colours, pictures and cues are named, so a control room or a feed can change them live. Export lists them all for the operator.

A graphic’s named values in the airZ Editor Data panel

Lists and formatting

One row, every item

Design one row and it repeats for every item: tickers, results, standings. Numbers become decimals and percentages, and a score can count up.

Live video

Put live camera and video feeds inside your graphics

Any picture in the design can be a video window. On air, the control room fills it with a camera, a clip or another channel, at full quality.

Real-time 3D

Real-time 3D inside your graphics

Add a 3D scene to any graphic: models, lights, materials and a camera with a real lens, animated on the same timeline and connected to the same data as everything else. Reflections and shadows can be ray traced for extra realism.

A chrome ball, a gold box and a red lacquer ring on a studio sweep, lit by an area light, with soft reflections and a pool of light on the floor — Rendered in real time on the editor's stage: chrome, gold and lacquer under an area light. What you see while you design is the render.

Ray traced: two strip softboxes behind a chrome ball, a gold box and a black lacquer cylinder, the floor mirroring the objects and the chrome showing the gold box — Softboxes you can see: two strip softboxes in the shot, and a third lighting the set from above, out of frame. Drag across: standard rendering on the left, ray traced on the right, where the floor mirrors the set and the chrome shows the gold box.

The same softbox studio with standard rendering: the panels and their light, without the floor's mirror image — Softboxes you can see: two strip softboxes in the shot, and a third lighting the set from above, out of frame. Drag across: standard rendering on the left, ray traced on the right, where the floor mirrors the set and the chrome shows the gold box.

With global illumination: warm light bounced off the orange panel and the floor onto the wall and ceiling, cooler light by the blue panel, pools of light, and the desk grounded on the floor — Light that bounces, as in a real studio. Drag across: on the left, a flat fill makes every shaded surface the same grey. On the right, global illumination is on, with the fill turned down and the lights up to the same brightness: warm light bounces off the orange panel and the floor, cooler light off the blue one, and the desk sits on the floor. Included in the Maximum preset.

The same news set without global illumination: two spotlights and a flat fill, every shaded surface the same grey — Light that bounces, as in a real studio. Drag across: on the left, a flat fill makes every shaded surface the same grey. On the right, global illumination is on, with the fill turned down and the lights up to the same brightness: warm light bounces off the orange panel and the floor, cooler light off the blue one, and the desk sits on the floor. Included in the Maximum preset.

Design in the camera's own picture: a live camera behind the 3D on the editor's stage. As the camera gets darker or brighter, the 3D follows, and a material chosen in the shot is matched at once. How it works.

Objects

Shapes, 3D text and models

Boxes, spheres, a studio cyclorama, extruded text and logos, or your own models from glTF, FBX, OBJ and more, with their skins and animations.

Light

Soft shadows and ray tracing

Directional, point, spot and area lights, softboxes the camera sees, reflection cards, sky light, and traced shadows and reflections.

Camera

A real lens

Sensor sizes, focal length, aperture and depth of field. Blend two cameras for a move.

Motion

Copies and particles

Repeat and scatter objects, or emit confetti, sparks and snow.

Studio

Camera tracking

Follow a real studio camera (FreeD tracking) and its exposure and white balance, for virtual sets and augmented reality.

Data

Data in 3D

Bar heights, 3D text and colours from the same data as the 2D graphic.

Live effects · in your browser

A live effect, running in your browser

The Sea effect from airZ Editor’s library, drawn by your own graphics card right now: not a video. Every slider is a setting a designer can animate or connect to data, so the control room can change the weather on air.

The Sea look: a ray-marched ocean under a low sun

From the editor's effects library

Starting the sea…

Effects library, included

57 live effects, ready to use.
No code, no setup.

airZ Editor comes with a library of effects already built for you: backgrounds, weather, celebrations, countdown rings, light and lens effects. Pick one, put it behind a graphic or on a 3D surface, and it moves. There is nothing to write or build, and each one shows how much of a frame it takes on air.

They are drawn live, not played from a video, so they never visibly loop, fit any screen from a monitor to a video wall, and the control room can change them on air: heavier rain, the team's colours.

And 26 looks for pictures and video, ready to use too: film and TV looks (film grain, old film, VHS, scanlines, halation, grade, lens), damage and glitches (glitch, signal break-up, cracked glass, noise dissolve), glass and light (frosted glass, rain on glass, shine, foil sheen, neon tube, hologram, heat haze), print styles (halftone, print, ink), moves (zoom punch, wipe, liquid fill, kaleidoscope) and an LED panel.

Material library

200 materials,
one click each

Gold, chrome, brushed aluminium, carbon, marble, walnut, velvet, ice, lava, neon and an LED wall, plus 72 surfaces photographed from the real thing: brick and stone walls, wood floors, metal, concrete, grass, leather and more. Type a name, a colour or a feel to find one. Realistic, so they sit right under any light and reflect the sky around them. Or make your own: colour, metal, roughness, relief, glow, or a live video on the surface.

Before air

Check it before air, keep versions, send it to the control room

The editor and airZ Engine play the same file, so the graphic you approve is the graphic the audience sees.

Preflight

Problems found before they air

Preflight lists what would go wrong on air, a font that is not embedded for one, and takes you to the fix. Versions keep earlier states to return to.

Send

Send it to the control room

Export writes one standard file and the list of everything an operator can change. Each control room sees what will change before it does.

Try it · live data

Type your own numbers. The chart updates.

Here the page plays the control room. Change the title or a figure and press Update: the chart animates to it, just as it does on air when an operator or a data feed sends new values.

A bar chart of quarterly revenue by business unit

Loading the chart…

Live data

Try it · election night

A whole results desk in one scene

Fifty states on one map, Senate, House and governor races, margins, swing and turnout, poll closings by the hour, and a state's race a click away. Every figure is data, so the desk follows the count all night.

An election-night desk: a map of the United States coloured by party, the Georgia Senate race, and Senate and House bars — BELLWETHER, an election-night desk. The candidates and results are simulated. Live, it plays in your browser on the airZ player, the file as it plays on air.

Senate · House · GovernorResults · Margin · Swing · Turnoutvs 2024 · vs 2022Geographic ⇄ cartogramCall · Uncall · Flag

Try it · touch screen

A touch-screen console, built without code

MERIDIAN is a terrain console for a studio touch screen: seven screens of tabs, sliders and buttons, with 156 live values, all designed in airZ Editor without code. Press play and use it: it works here the way it works on the studio wall.

A dark terrain console: a route over a contour map, speed and power dials, and tabs along the bottom — MERIDIAN, a terrain console. Live, it plays in your browser on the airZ player, the file as it plays on the wall.

Try it · 3D

Direct a 3D product shot

A 3D model and a 2D shot menu in one graphic. Pick a shot and the camera flies there; switch to the free camera and drag to turn the product.

A leather-trimmed camera model beside a product menu of eight shots, lit in a dark studio — An imported model in a 3D scene beside a 2D shot menu, all one file. Pick a shot and the camera flies there; switch to Free camera and drag to turn it. Live, it renders in your browser on the airZ player, the runtime airZ Engine plays on air.

Measured on air

Built for broadcast, measured on air

0late frames

Ray-traced 3D at broadcast frame rate (1080p, 59.94 frames a second) over SDI.

0.03colour error

Far below the 1.0 the eye can notice: the colours you pick are the colours that air.

3screens, one scene

A video wall driven from one scene, without a late frame.

0.11HDR accuracy

In HDR, the largest error is a tenth of the smallest step the signal can show.

Measured live on airZ Engine with an NVIDIA RTX A4500, playing scenes made in airZ Editor. How we measure →

Templates

Ready-to-use templates

Every one of these was built in airZ Editor and comes with it, ready to open and make your own. Hover over one to play it.

Real-time looks, no shader code

Pick a look from the effects library, a glow, particles, a grid, a sky, and drop it onto any layer or 3D scene. It moves in real time.

57 looks ready to use, and several can share one scene.
Every setting of a look can be keyed on the timeline or bound to data.
Titles and countdowns around it are data too, so one design serves every event.

Shown: a hologram launch, three library looks in one 3D scene.

3DEffects

A football analysis board with a formation

Data-driven graphics, at any scale

Bind shapes, text, colours and positions to your data, and the graphic redraws itself when the feed changes.

There is no small limit to meet: this board runs on 1,848 live values.
Ready-made elements draw networks, radars and charts.
A controller or a live feed fills every value by name.

Shown: a football analysis board, formations, passing networks and statistics.

SportData

3D, directed on cue

Import your 3D models and direct them: shots, orbits and moves through a camera with a real lens, each one a cue.

Next and previous step through the shots; the camera flies between them.
Every camera value is data, so a controller or a touch screen can take over.
glTF, FBX, OBJ and more come in with their parts and materials.

Shown: a product presentation in eight shots.

3DModel import

A chart system, not a chart

One design covers every chart your show needs, fed live and animated on every update.

Colours, fonts and shapes are data too, so one package serves every brand.
Values grow, rankings re-sort and charts swap, with the transitions built in.
Operators switch parts on and off live, without a designer.

Shown: nine chart types in one file, with 68 live values.

DataCharts

Chrome spheres and a cube lit by a sunset sky

Light from a single image

Drop in a sky or a studio panorama, and it lights and reflects across the whole 3D scene.

Swap the image and everything relights at once: no lamps to re-aim.
Real materials read the same light: metal, paint, fabric and more, 200 in the library.
Bring your own HDR or panorama, or pick one from the library.

Shown: chrome, brushed metal and satin paint over a polished floor.

3DMaterials

A live leadership table of five countries

Live data, any size

A graphic can be a corner bug, a lower third or a full wall, and its values update on air as the data arrives.

Every name and score is a field the controller fills.
Place one graphic inside another as a component, with its own data.
Layouts reflow, so a long name still fits.

Shown: a compact leaderboard at 600×400.

DataLower thirds

Interactive graphics for touch screens

Build consoles a presenter drives live: tabs, sliders, buttons and markers, with logic you wire, not code.

Every button, tab and slider is set up visually, with no code.
Several screens make one console, and each control can read and change the data.
Try one live on this page.

Shown: MERIDIAN, a terrain console: seven screens, 156 live values.

InteractiveTouch

Six bars of vote share in front of an LED wall

Data in 3D

Drive 3D objects with your data: heights, colours and labels follow what the controller sends.

Send new values and the scene redraws, animated.
One trigger brings it on, and the scene keeps moving for as long as it is on air.
Reflections, mirror floors and neon, rendered in real time.

Shown: an election results wall, six bars over a mirror floor.

3DElections

Graphics that build on cue

Bring each part of a graphic on with its own trigger, so the desk shapes the story as it breaks.

Every word is a field the newsroom fills.
Operators step it on piece by piece, or all at once.
The file you design is the file that airs.

Shown: a breaking-news lower third: logo, tag, headline and a second line.

Lower thirdsNews

The manual

Every panel, every control, documented

A searchable manual with pictures taken from the editor itself. Your first scene in ten minutes, then panel by panel.

126pages

9step-by-step guides

98keyboard shortcuts

30templates to start from

Open the manual → Your first scene

Ready when you are

Make your next graphic
in airZ Editor

We'll build a scene with you, bind it and play it to air, from the first rectangle to the control room.

Request a demo → See airZ Controller

Design it.Connect your data.Put it on air.

Every graphic a broadcast needs

Three steps from idea to air

Design

Connect your data

Put it on air

What makes it different

Your Photoshop, SVG, Lottie and 3D files open fully editable

The animation tools motion designers expect

Build interactive graphics without code

One file plays everywhere

Features, in depth

Describe a graphic,and the assistant builds it.

Imports stay editable, layer by layer

Every layer, in its place

Shapes and their motion

Vector artwork

glTF, FBX, OBJ and more

Your own lighting

Clips for a video window

Carried in the document

Files from other tools

The tools of a motion design app

Shapes, paths and text

Fills and strokes

Bones and weights

Constraints

Text modifiers

Boxes that reflow

Reuse a design

Timelines for the motion, Animation States for the logic

Timelines and Animation States

Timeline and graph editor

Animation States

34 ready-made elements

Connect any text, number or colour to live data

Every value has a name

One row, every item

Put live camera and video feeds inside your graphics

Real-time 3D inside your graphics

Shapes, 3D text and models

Soft shadows and ray tracing

A real lens

Copies and particles

Camera tracking

Data in 3D

A live effect, running in your browser

57 live effects, ready to use.No code, no setup.

200 materials,one click each

Check it before air, keep versions, send it to the control room

Problems found before they air

Send it to the control room

Try it live

Type your own numbers. The chart updates.

A whole results desk in one scene

A touch-screen console, built without code

Direct a 3D product shot

Built for broadcast, measured on air

Ready-to-use templates

Real-time looks, no shader code

Data-driven graphics, at any scale

3D, directed on cue

A chart system, not a chart

Light from a single image

Live data, any size

Interactive graphics for touch screens

Data in 3D

Graphics that build on cue

Every panel, every control, documented

Make your next graphicin airZ Editor

Design it.
Connect your data.
Put it on air.

Describe a graphic,
and the assistant builds it.

57 live effects, ready to use.
No code, no setup.

200 materials,
one click each

Make your next graphic
in airZ Editor