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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.

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The DataMiner® NMS/OSS platform manages absolutely every aspect of your entire operational ecosystem, both on-premises and off-premises. That includes standard & legacy technology, commodity & industry-specific hardware and software, and much more. Our award-winning solution guarantees a true end-to-end integration in every single case, across any vendor and technology boundary, from service origin to destination.

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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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.

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Your video server can do more than you think: Beyond high-performance but expensive storage, you can use it to control ingest and playout, digitize video tapes, control newsroom rundowns, create advanced multicamera productions with live-to-server add-on and insert recording, and much more All you need is the right tool.

VPMS ClipJOCKEY, our professional solution for studio production is designed as a standalone product for broadcasters and production houses who want get more from their video server invest-ment. With ClipJOCKEY you can exploit the full potential of your video server hardware, transforming it into a true multi-channel production tool.

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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.

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Ensure your content reaches the widest audiences, even on those breaking news. AUDIMUS.MEDIA creates automatic closed captionings for all of live programs and nowadays they are reaching more that 500 million viewers spread in two continents!

The cost-effective solution you were looking for to comply with CC regulations.

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Newsbridge Remote Live Production

Speed up story production workflows with Live Production Tools to reach your audience while live content is still hot.

Connect all your devices and schedule UHD live streams directly in the cloud via your web browser. Monitor all your streams easily from a single page. Start working on your live stream right away without waiting for the end of the transmission. Immediately live-clip key moments to build your rough-cuts and leverage our live transcription feature to generate subtitles. This workflow delivers near-live publication to your social media platforms.

Live Schedule

An award-winning feature that allows for live recording of UHD video streams from a web-browser.

✂️ Live Video Clipping

Only export the video snippet you need! Let our multimodal AI crawl your content and help you find and create the most relevant video highlights from any live stream or file-based asset and start your rough cuts. Simply adjust your selection bar to choose the specific segment you will be using.

📝 Auto-Transcribe & Subtitles

Use our bleeding-edge transcription and subtitling solutions to automatically generate transcript from live video streams. Take advantage of our unique confidence level technology which rates transcription accuracy throughout your entire video transcript.

🔜 Multi-Audio Channel Support

We are working on supporting up to 16 audio channels.

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IDSaaS is a fully managed service encompassing design, implementation, hardware, software, and ongoing support and backup. Customers can sign up for a determined time period, with two years expected to be the normal duration, while they will also be able to scale their use of the IDS platform in response to evolving demands. It can be difficult to predict how business will change over the course of 12 months, so we have designed IDSaaS to be flexible, affordable, and supportive of users managing their cashflow. The new service also takes advantage of recent updates to the IDS platform that allow it to be used more flexibly – whether part of a hybrid approach or on-premise, at someone’s home, or in the cloud. In the wake of Covid-19 there is evidently a stronger pull towards more remote working, and users of IDSaaS will be able to benefit from this increased versatility.

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The VPilot automated studio product package enables content producers to create completely automated livevodep production without any crew on site. Mobile Viewpoint’s patented Virtual Director software will vividly and accurately capture any interview or news production. With this state-of-the-art solution, a cameraman or director is no longer required. By mimicking a real director, Mobile Viewpoint’s VPilot solution allows presenters to do what they do best - hosting a news broadcast.

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Smart Workflows is designed to help broadcasters across the media supply chain accelerate content transformation processes This scalable solution is based on active learning workflows which enables media companies to adapt to changing demands in media production, boosts speed to market and accelerates readiness 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.

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The IQ Sports Producer is an all-in-one multi camera production suite operated by just one person. Its simple and intuitive interface allows anyone to produce and stream a game anywhere.

The IQ Sports Producer makes live and on-demand web broadcasting available without the hassle of hiring an entire camera crew. The system provides an automated video broadcast production with up to 3 180-degree cameras, which makes it possible to upgrade from a single camera to a multi camera production. The superb de-warping and stitching technology provides a natural-looking corrected image with straight line-markings.

With this technology, cost-effective cameras can be used for complete coverage of the playing field. A pan and zoomed image is automatically created by special developed game tracking technology. With extra features such as live streaming, game replay generator, commentary, scoreboard options and automatic summaries and highlights, the IQ Sports Producer enables clubs to capture, stream and re-publish their field games easily and cost-effectively.

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Smart Workflows designed to help broadcasters, production houses and content aggregators across the media supply chain accelerate content transformation and QC processes This scalable solution is based on active learning workflows which enables media companies to dapt to changing demands in media production, boosts speed to market and accelerates readiness for OTT and international distribution.

Features:

Audio Conformance -Aligning the high-res master video with audio tracks of low-res proxy derivatives to automatically generate a single video asset with multiple audio versions

Subtitle Conformance - Aligning the subtitles in different languages to the corresponding scenes to automatically generate a conformed asset complying with standard Netflix/OTT rules"

Benefits:

• Ready-to-onboard repository of accurately conformed master video feeds, audio feeds and subtitles for OTT platforms like Amazon Prime, Hulu and Netflix, enabling accelerated content distribution.


• Enhance Resource Flexibility - Free up manual bandwidth for creative/subjective tasks by eliminating redundant tasks."


• Boosts Post-Production Efficiency - Reduce redundant content transformation and quality control (QC) processes in the content supply chain."


• Pay per Use Model - Exercise greater control on workflow expenditure by paying only for the assets processed, devoid of committed costs."