xmOverlayCG System

International Roll-Call^® Corporation has extensive experience interfacing with a wide variety of video character generator (CG) systems in legislative Chambers across the United States. Video CG systems are used to place text and graphics over a live or recorded video feed. Such CG systems are very useful for legislative Chamber video broadcasts by enabling the Legislature to add the bill number, bill sponsor, name of the Member speaking, vote totals, or other data to the Chamber video. The detailed legislative information overlaid on the video allows for the final product to become significantly more streamlined and to impart important information to the those watching whether it be Members, staff, or the general public.

Experience has shown us that most CG systems are costly and are often overly complicated for the defined and nuanced needs of State Legislatures. With this knowledge coupled with our commitment to serving State Legislatures and the legislative process, IRC has devoted significant time and resources toward the development of a proprietary CG system: the IRC xmOverlayCG.

The IRC xmOverlayCG software is custom designed for a Legislature to perform a particular task efficiently and accurately. The customizable software provides the user with the ability to design chamber-specific graphic templates to include legislation information on the video feed. Engineered to be fully compatible with Windows 10 as well as future Windows OS updates, the xmOverlayCG receives and transmits SD-SDI, HD, and UltraHD (4K) video, which are widely used broadcasting video graphic standards.

The xmOverlayCG system is a complete hardware/software package, consisting of a PC with a video card running IRC’s xmOverlay software. The xmOverlayCG is designed to integrate seamlessly with IRC’s xmLegislator™ voting software and is uniquely equipped to interface with and extract the desired legislative data from the voting software in a focused and expedient manner that no third-party CG system package can offer.

As part of the suite of IRC voting applications, the xmOverlayCG system affords every legislative body the ability to be fully confident that the technology being utilized will provide for their current and future video technology needs with ease and efficiency.