Automated live graphics for radio
Build your station's graphics once and let VRA update song titles, artists and programme details from your radio automation and schedule. The Render Engine supplies the graphics to your video production, so your team does not retype them during the show.
The next song starts. The title changes with it.
The breakfast show goes from an interview into music. The title and artist come from your radio automation. At the top of the hour the next programme takes over, and its name and presenter come from the schedule. Nobody retypes any of it.
How automated radio graphics work
Your existing radio workflow supplies the information. VRA puts it into your station's design.
Connect
Read what is on air
Connect your radio automation's now-playing feed and add programmes and presenters to VRA's schedule.
Design
Use your station's look
Build your graphics in the browser with your own colours, fonts and media. Keep the design reusable across shows.
Link
Let the fields update
Link the song title, artwork or programme name to its data. Set conditions for when a layer should appear.
Output
Put the graphics on screen
The Render Engine on a studio machine draws the graphics into your production setup.
Bind
Show what is playing, as it changes.
Build the now-playing overlay once, with title, artist and artwork, and link each field to your radio automation. The information follows the track.
Set a fallback for missing values and use artwork when the feed supplies it.
See all integrationsSchedule
The right show. The right name on screen.
A programme in the schedule carries its name and its presenters. Lower thirds read that, and a presenter linked to a mic lets the graphic follow who is speaking.
Show or hide a layer on an on-air condition, so the station logo stays while the show details change.
How the schedule feeds itDesign
Make it look like your station.
Your own fonts, colours and artwork, in a browser editor. Start from an image of a graphic you already use and get editable layers back.
Lottie animations expose their text and images for binding, so a motion graphic can carry live data too.
Render
Send the graphics into your video production.
VRA's Render Engine runs on a studio machine and sends the finished graphics over SDI or NDI to your video production setup. You build and control the graphics from the browser.
Each output has its own player, with the signal path and the connected device visible in the same browser where you run the show.
How the Render Engine worksWhat this does not do.
- Listen to the audio to identify songs
- Titles come from your radio automation's now-playing feed, not from the sound.
- Recognise a presenter
- A presenter is linked to a programme or a mic by your team. Nothing identifies a face or a voice.
- Replace your radio automation
- It keeps scheduling and playing the audio. VRA reads what is on air; its schedule is show context, not music scheduling.
- Import an After Effects project
- Animations come in as Lottie. Text, images and controls in a Lottie file can be bound to data.
Radio graphics questions.
What are automated live graphics for radio? +
They are on-screen graphics that update from the information your radio station already produces. VRA can fill song titles from a now-playing feed, programme details from the schedule and presenter information from linked microphone triggers. You design the graphics and choose what controls them.
Can VRA show a now-playing overlay with song title and artist? +
Yes. Connect a supported radio automation system and link text layers to its now-playing values. You can also use album artwork when it is available. The connected feed supplies the information; VRA does not listen to the audio to identify songs.
Can presenter names appear automatically in a lower third? +
Yes. A scheduled programme carries its presenter information. You can also link a presenter to an audio trigger so a graphic can respond to that microphone. The association is configured by your team; VRA does not recognise a person's identity from their face or voice.
Can each radio show have its own graphics? +
Yes. Use programme data and layer conditions to choose what appears for the show on air. Reuse station elements such as logos while keeping show details in the schedule. Changes to linked programme data then reach the graphics that use it.
Can I use our station's own fonts, colours and animations? +
Yes. Visual Designer supports uploaded fonts, your own images and layered graphics. Supported Lottie animations can expose text, images and controls for data binding. An After Effects project file is not imported directly; compatible animation needs to be exported as Lottie first.
Can I put news headlines or other data in a radio overlay? +
Yes. Configure an RSS, JSON, XML, CSV or text data source and use its values in your graphic. External feeds need their own source configuration. Weather information, for example, requires a suitable feed rather than a built-in weather service.
Does VRA replace my radio automation software? +
No. Your radio automation keeps scheduling and playing the audio. VRA reads its now-playing information and uses it to update the visual production. VRA's programme schedule supplies show context; it is not a music scheduling system.
How do the graphics reach my video production setup? +
A Render Engine running on a studio machine draws the graphics and provides SDI or NDI output. SDI keying requires compatible hardware. Your existing production and encoding setup handles the final video mix and streaming destinations.
The products behind it.
See your own show in your own graphics.
Bring your branding and the name of your radio automation, and we will show the information reaching the screen.