| Production automation systems |
DataMiner
DataMiner is the most advanced end-to-end multi-vendor NMS, OSS and orchestration software solutions for the broadcast, satellite, cable, telco and mobile industry. The platform offers a plethora of functions including unlimited web access, alarm monitoring, email and SMS notification, long-term trending, professional reporting, advanced automation, intelligent correlation and root cause analysis, service management, real-time SLA monitoring, user-definable key performance indicator dashboards, spectrum monitoring, mobile access, powerful CPE management, inventory and asset management, and much more. One interface to manage your entire operational ecosystem, across any vendor and technology boundaries, results in a significant reduction of operational expenses and increased quality of service. This award-winning solution is integrated with more than 5500 devices and systems from more than 600 different key industry suppliers. It enables end-to-end integration of the most complex technical ecosystems and has been deployed by leading operators around the world.
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Viz Mosart
Viz Mosart
Viz Mosart puts the story in the center of the production, removing technical complexity with a simple user interface, designed to give all necessary information to the director while giving full flexibility to operate both planned and breaking news scenarios.
Viz Mosart operators in the control room benefit from a real-time view of all upcoming events through a tight integration with all major newsroom computer systems.
The system gives the director a real-time updated version of the presenter text, and video integrated into the user interface to view of all the elements that are on program out and in preview. The user interface also contains advanced keyboard and touch screen hotkeys specially made to handle breaking news and other unscripted events.
MIMiC
MIMiC
Whether it’s a slate of games for a major sports league, a regional athletic meet, an international esports competition, a targeted enterprise announcement, or any other live or virtual event, The Switch has production services to suit every organization’s needs. Our cloud-based platform, MIMiC, is an on-demand, production-as-a-service offering that includes remote IP-video contribution, production and clipping tools, and distribution. It empowers you to cost-effectively ensure broadcast quality production to and from anywhere in the world.
MIMiC handles all aspects of the production workflow in the cloud, from editing and graphics creation to comms and talk-back. It gives content producers the choice of using their own production crew or relying on The Switch to provide a full complement of experienced operators who know how to deliver award-winning programming. For a mainstream TV sporting event, for instance, rights holders can tap our full remote production service to produce the main game, while leveraging MIMiC to produce the shoulder programming, social media streams and individualized “player-cam” feeds. Plus, it offers the perfect set-up to produce esports tournaments, either stadium-based or virtual.
MIMiC is also ideal for both live and virtual enterprise events. It offers a flexible and scalable way to run everything from customer conferences and product launches to all-hands meetings and press briefings. MIMiC allows you to produce content in any time zone, localize the feed and address specific segments individually.
In enabling true cloud-based production, MIMiC gives producers of events of every size and type unmatched agility. It enables you to streamline workflows to get the most out of each production and better engage audiences. MIMiC complements the existing remote production services The Switch helped pioneer, letting rights holders, enterprises and other content producers choose the level of service they need.
The Switch Remote Production
The Switch Remote Production
Live TV events, especially sports, generate unrivalled buzz and excitement among viewers the world over, but live event production is no small undertaking. Remote production offers a smart, flexible model for success in the globalized world of live content, where surging audiences for niche sports, esports and unique entertainment are driving even more demand. The Switch’s remote production services enable broadcasters and other rights holders to continue meeting consumers’ seemingly insatiable thirst for high quality live content while maximizing resources.
The Switch has pioneered remote production for three decades and our Emmy Award-winning team has played a leading role in bringing premier sports to life for major networks and leagues. We know how to put together top-caliber productions and determine what our customers need so they can deliver the best content to viewers around the world.
With The Switch, producing content more efficiently and cost effectively – without compromising quality – is simple. Our end-to-end event production and packaging capabilities scale to meet the needs of a single event or multiple productions. As a home away from home, we support dynamic live sports, news, entertainment and event production in locations across the globe, removing the need for large amounts of equipment and big production crews on site.
With links to every major sports stadium in North America and connections to the leading international sports and entertainment venues around the world, The Switch has you covered from stadium to studio to any screen. Many of the biggest names in sports and entertainment rely on our production services and facilities to create and deliver the world’s major live events.
Viz Mosart 4
Viz Mosart 4
Viz Mosart 4 changes the studio production dynamic by adding live IP video support directly within the touch-based user interface, opening the door to entirely new workflows and allowing producers to build shows that can be run more easily, from a wide variety of locations. Further improvements to usability also mean that anyone in the organization is able to execute a pre-built show, reducing dependencies on limited resources.
Live sources in the interface
As a market first, Viz Mosart 4 features a fully customizable interface with interactive live sources. Viz Mosart integrates video over IP directly to your monitor to give an unrivaled view of the show – displaying any video source, program and preview directly in the user interface. Building on the software-based and IP leadership within Vizrt Group and NDI®, this setup can be deployed to an existing network environment and does not require radical infrastructure or monitoring changes.
Breaking news tools
Viz Mosart was made for breaking news. New functionality gives instant and unscripted access to assets including templates, show openers, and much more. The new graphics panel lets you access all your Vizrt graphics, preview them and then put them directly on-air. When combined, these tools offer true innovation and access to on-air news production in ways that have previously just not been possible.
Template management
The template organization capability introduced in Viz Mosart 4 significantly reduces the time spent on creation and maintenance of automation templates, allowing you to focus on your show and not the tools needed to create and bring your vision to life.
VPilot
AI Powered Solution for International Distribution
AI Powered Solution for International Distribution
Features
Detect Textless Elements - Identify shots with overlaid text & subtitles in a video and map those to their corresponding textless counterparts. These are commonly present after the end credits in a video asset"
Benefits:
- Increased Time for Creativity - Free up employee bandwidth for creative/subjective tasks by eliminating manual & redundant editing tasks.
- Faster Content Localization - Enable automation of various QC processes in post-production to accelerate international distribution
- Pay per Use Model - Exercise greater control on workflow expenditure by paying only for the assets processed, devoid of committed costs.
- Reduction in costs and effort involved in manual quality control and editing processes.
Channel in a Box
Channel in a Box
PlayBox Technology has incorporated its most advanced playout engine which is the result of over 15 years of experience in developing playout solutions for the world's
leading broadcasters.
PlayBox Technology Channel-in-a-Box provides an integrated playout solution for Broadcasters and OTT service providers in a 1RU or 3RU server, regardless if you are working with IP or SDI.
The CIAB will enable you to playout an IP stream or an SDI in SD, HD or UHD. PlayBox Technology’s CIAB takes care of all your scheduling needs and uses simple, clean and engaging HTML5 for your transmission graphics needs including crawlers and rollers.
As you would expect from PlayBox Technology, it offers sophisticated and easy to use automation. We have designed a user friendly ingest which also gives you the ability to FTP your media straight to the Channel In A Box, saving you time.
It is available as a complete turnkey solution for single channel or multichannel HD SDI/SD. Available as both full turnkey solutions and software-only for single and multi-channel operations.
Channel in a Box (CIAB) is compatible with a wide range of compression types, including: MPEG-2, DV, DVCPro, DVCPro HD, AVC/H.264, HAVC/H.265, XAVC and more.
Pro Capture SDI 4K Plus capture card
HD-BNC x4
Two connectors are compatible with SD/HD/3G SDI
One connecter is compatible with SD/HD/3G/6G SDI
One connecter is compatible with SD/HD/3G/6G/12G SDI
Support for input of Single Link, Dual Link, Quad Link
Host Interfaces:
PCIe Gen2 x4
Input Features:
Support for input video resolutions up to 4096x2160 pixels
Auto detection of Single Link, Dual Link, Quad Link
SDI Specific Features:
Integrated cable equalizer extending the cable length as follows:
up to 330m for SD-SDI signals
up to 190m for HD-SDI signals
up to 150m for 3G-SDI signals
up to 75m for 6G-SDI signals
up to 40m for 12G-SDI signals
Support for SD/HD/3Ga/3Gb/3Gb-DL/3Gb-DS/6G/12G
Support for 2K (2048x1080) & 4K (4096x2160) mode
Support for RGB 4:4:4, YCbCr 4:4:4, YCbCr 4:2:2 color sampling
Support for 10/12-bit color depth
Support for extraction of SMPTE 352 payload identifier
Support for up to 8 (mono) audio channels at 48KHz
Support for extraction of audio formation information & channel status data
Support for Closed Caption via SDK
Video Capture Formats:
Support for capture image resolutions up to 4096x2160 pixels
Support for capture frame rates up to 144fps
SDK:
Magewell Capture SDK for easy integration, maximum flexibility and performance
USB Capture SDI 4K Plus capture dongle
BNC
SD/HD/3G/6G SDI
3.5mm audio jack
unbalanced Line In interface
Host Interface:
USB 3.0
compatible with USB 2.0
compatible with USB 3.1 Gen 1
Output Interface:
3.5mm audio jack
unbalanced Line Out interface
Loop-through Interface:
BNC
SD/HD/3G/6G SDI
Input features:
Support for up to 4096x2160 input resolution
SDI Specific Features:
Integrated cable equalizer extending the cable length as follows:
up to 330m for SD-SDI signals
up to 190m for HD-SDI signals
up to 150m for 3G-SDI signals
up to 75m for 6G-SDI signals
Support for SD/HD/3Ga/3Gb/3Gb-DL/3Gb-DS/6G (SMPTE 2081) standards
Support for 2K (2048x1080) & 4K (4096x2160) mode
Support for RGB 4:4:4, YCbCr 4:4:4, YCbCr 4:2:2 color sampling
Support for 10/12-bit color depth
Support for extraction of SMPTE 352 payload identifier
Support for up to 2 (mono) audio channels at 48KHz
Support for extraction of audio formation information & channel status data
Limited support of 3Gb-DS: only the first stream can be captured
Limited support for capture of the first link of dual link interfaces:
YCbCr 4:2:2 10-bit 1080p 50/59.94/60: captured as 1080i 50/59.94/60
YCbCr 4:4:4 10-bit: captured as 4:2:2
RGB 4:4:4: R/B sub-sampled
Video Capture format:
Support for capture resolutions up to 4096x2160
Support for capture frame rates up to 120fps
SDK:
The USB Capture SDK provide functions including signal status extraction, capture configuration and real-time audio & video capture, etc.
Accessories:
USB3.0 cable
Pro Convert HDMI 4K Plus converter
HDMI
DVI-D 1.0
HDMI 1.4
HDMI 2.0
Loop-through Interface:
HDMI
DVI-D 1.0
HDMI 1.4
HDMI 2.0
Storage Interface:
SD Card (functions to be developed)
PTZ + TALLY Control:
Mini-DIN–8 jack
Screw Mounting Hole:
¼–20 mounting hole
Network Interfaces:
10/100/1000Mbps Ethernet
IEEE 802.3af PoE
USB Interface:
USB2.0 Type B
5V/2.1A power supply
USB RNDIS/ECM
Input feature:
Support for input video resolutions up to 4:4:4 8-bit 4096x2160 60fps
HDMI Specific Features:
600MHz HDMI receiver
Adaptive HDMI equalizer
Support for customized EDID
Support for extraction of AVI/Audio InfoFrames
Full colorimetry support
Support for up to 4096x2160 4:4:4 60fps input signals
Support for 8 channel IEC60958 audio streams
Support for extraction of audio formation information & channel status data
Support for extraction of video timing information
Support for extraction of 3D format information
Support for Side-by-Side Half, Top-and-Bottom, Frame Packing 3D mode.
NDI® Output Format:
Support for 4:2:2 8-bit output
Support for up to 4096x2160 60fps or 1920x1080 240fps
Support for NDI 4.1
Accessories:
USB 2.0 A to B Cable
5V/2.1A power adaptor
Mini-DIN–8 (PTZ + TALLY) to RS232 (PTZ) + Mini-DIN–8 (TALLY)
L-bracket
LED matrix panel (optional)
Etere Channel-in-the-Cloud
Etere Channel-in-the-Cloud
Etere Channel in the Cloud encompasses all the features you need for a cloud playout, management and distribution. Be ready for the cloud with Etere's cost-efficiency, speedy deployments, easy scalability and secure remote access.
Etere Channel in the Cloud empowers users with broadcast-quality, cost-effective and cloud-based channel playout, management and distribution. With Etere, you can lower costs, retain better control of your operations and achieve greater flexibility.
Etere provides a hassle-free and cost-effective approach to cloud playout with a full range of advantages including:
■ Launch channels in the cloud without the high costs associated with traditional hardware and satellite delivery
■ Discover new revenue generating opportunities with the easy expansion of channels
■ Channels can be managed from any location and device with an internet connection
■ Distribution to all platforms including satellite, cable, IPTV, web and mobile
■ Unified workflows for linear, Video-on-Demand (VOD) and Over-the-Top (OTT) deliveries
■ Create unlimited sub-channels for different regions and head-ends
■ Insert logo and channel branding directly from the same interface
■ Full resiliency and secure access
Key Features
■ Time delay
■ Disaster recovery
■ As-run output file
■ With full IP inputs and outputs
■ Live playlist and live monitoring
■ Cloud Storage with automatic file sync
■ Cloud transcoding/transfer with Multiplex
■ Segment and edit clips directly from the cloud
■ Full SD and HD broadcast quality of 480i, 720p, 1080i and 1080p
■ CEA 608/708 closed caption support for both live and file sources
■ Supports IP Multiviewer for up to 9 display monitors and 30 input sources
■ Playlist preview and scheduling for both automatic and manual insertions
■ Costs are significantly lower than that of standard playout solutions
■ Channels can be controlled from any location with an internet connection
■ Manage CG insertions including logos, crawlers and animated graphics directly from the cloud
■ Network providers can launch a channel in the cloud easily without satellite video system setup and hardware complexity
■ Broadcasters can launch separate or sub-channels for different regions or headend which can also serve as revenue generators
■ No need to send affiliates playout servers when channels are launched in the cloud, cost savings are significantly lower than a traditional setup
