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MediaKind’s Aquila On-Demand solution delivers an end-to-end content delivery workflow designed to ingest, process and deliver video files for OTT and IPTV consumption. This solution addresses the challenge in delivering a high-end user experience while ensuring operational costs remain under strict control. When combined with the MediaKind PRISMA advertising and alternate content portfolio, it also enables new revenue streams leveraging advertising and content distribution rights capabilities.

• Push your video quality higher leveraging MediaKind’s On-Demand Encoding technology to provide the highest video quality and guaranteed performance across multiple codec choices - MPEG-2, H.264 & HEVC•


• Enabling a better consumer experience delivering content to a wide variety of devices by leveraging MediaKind’s packager support for all major segment and manifest formats (HLS, Smooth Streaming, DASH, CMAF)•


• Faster time to market by deploying a unified solution across any network and infrastructure type (COTS servers, IT datacenters & private and public clouds)•


• Reduce operational complexity using a single interface for all services and servers’ operations•


• Optimize server footprint with an underlying micro-services design, that provides deployment flexibility, allows scalability according to demand and delivers a highly available service

 

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Vantage simplifies media conversion in today's multi-format, multivendor video environments: production, archiving, and multi-platform distribution. It provides scalable, intelligent workflow automation for file-based content production and multi-channel distribution. Vantage can automatically make decisions, manage content, and correct workflows based upon incoming metadata and content properties.

Telestream offers automated file-based system solutions built on the scalable Vantage media processing platform: Tempo, Post Producer, VOD Producer, VOD Producer DAI and, TrafficManager.

Vantage can run on public and private virtualized infrastructure with a proven multi-node orchestration engine that intelligently capitalizes on the flexibility of virtual infrastructure.

What Vantage Is:
The Vantage media processing platform is based on a flexible service-oriented architecture, Vantage is made up of discrete services and connectors that combine to create powerful automated workflows – all under unified system control. Vantage services provide transcoding, media capture, metadata processing, media analysis, and content assembly. Vantage connectors enable seamless, API-level integration with third-party systems.

Used By:
Content owners, producers, and distributors use Vantage to quickly, easily, and cost-effectively ingest, edit, transform, package, monetize, and distribute their media.

Scalability:
Vantage offers scalability from simple standalone systems to complex, multi-server systems to meet your growing business needs today and well into the future. Running on standard, off-the-shelf server hardware, or our GPU-accelerated Lightspeed® Server, Vantage utilizes all of the capabilities of today’s enterprise-level IT infrastructures and best practices.

The Latest Technologies:
Vantage transcoding, workflow, and systems solutions utilize the latest technologies to deliver pristine quality, exceptional processing speeds, plus the industry’s most intelligent and scalable workflow automation system. Vantage processing can be extended from on-premise systems to the Cloud – to quickly address peaks in production demand, or test new business concepts.

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Free up your powerful editing workstations from performing non-creative tasks – even for remote workflows. • Critical business continuity & disaster recovery issues are solved by Vantage Cloud Port. • Vantage workflows can automatically “follow the media,” using cloud processes when and where it makes sense. • Vantage Cloud Port supports hybrid deployments of appliance, virtualized, and cloud, using proven best-of-breed Vantage technology. • As media files are orchestrated, Vantage Cloud Port automatically provides intelligent and efficient management of cloud storage, avoiding egress fees and providing operational efficiencies that are easily monitored. • Workflows can be made to burst in peak demand situations – you’re ready for worst-case workload without constant overprovisioning. Consumption-based pricing protects your bottom line. • Proven partner integrations that have made Vantage the industry standard are now available in a flexible hybrid cloud offering. • With the Vantage Cloud Port Hosted Workflows option, Vantage workflows can be exported and run completely in the cloud. There is no dependence on Vantage systems running on the ground.

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Telestream Cloud Flip is multi-cloud video transcoding service that runs on AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure. It takes your source files, converts them to required output formats, and delivers to your storage. It allows you to easily produce high-quality content for a variety of applications - from mobile to broadcast: H264, H.265 or VP9 for web publishing; HLS & MPEG-DASH with AES/Common Encryption DRM for multi-screen devices; and MPEG-2 TS, XDCAM, AVC-Intra, IMX, Apple ProRes, DNxHD for broadcasting and professional workflows. Flip provides you with the flexibility to process and store your media files in multiple regions, as close to your source files as possible, reducing latency and egress costs. Transcoded media files can be delivered to one of the supported storage options: AWS S3; Google Cloud Storage; Azure Blob Storage; IBM Aspera; (S)FTP; and IBM Cloud Object Storage.

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Dalet AmberFin is an orchestrated, scalable media processing platform with fully integrated transcode, color conversion, packaging and file transport functionality, enabling facilities to make great pictures in a scalable, reliable and interoperable way.

Dalet AmberFin software runs on cost-effective, commodity IT hardware that can adapt and grow as the needs of your business change.

Whether you need a single application specific product or a large-scale enterprise-class transcode farm, Dalet AmberFin software is built upon unique technology that ensures your media assets retain the highest quality whether standard- definition, high-definition, ultra-high-definition or new media content.

Ingest: Dalet AmberFin enables optimal media ingest from camera card, local, network and cloud locations. Ultra high-quality codecs, color and HDR conversions maintain the value of the original material, with mezzanine formats including JPEG 2000, XAVC, HEVC, ProRes, DNx, AVC-Intra and XDCAM HD. Growing file support and the ability to write directly to shared and cloud/object storage dramatically reduces workflow latency, while flexible Closed Caption/Subtitle and Ancillary Data retention and conversion support offers further time savings.

Transcode: Dalet AmberFin is a completely scalable, fault-tolerant, high-quality transcode environment, including format and standards conversion, with best-in-class image processing, allowing for fast, effortless content delivery and repurposing. Our service-based architecture enables sites to build transcode farms on commodity IT hardware or virtual/cloud machine instances - minimizing downtime, reducing maintenance costs and enabling complete "lights-out" operation.

Media Supply Chain Orchestration: Dalet AmberFin includes a fully capable BPM workflow design and execution environment, enabling media packaging and delivery to be created for multiple endpoints, running in parallel. Media packaging is available for HLS, DASH and IMF directly within the workflow engine. Native integration between the transcode and workflow engines ensures that your existing conversion profiles can be used seamlessly within the BPM environment. Automation plugins are available for third-party file-based QC, forensic watermarking and file acceleration vendors.

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InSync Technology, experts in software motion compensated standards conversion, have partnered with Marquis Broadcast, specialists in high-performance media solutions, to deliver a flexible conversion solution for broadcasters and content owners of any size.

High quality motion compensated frame rate conversion is now available as an optional upgrade within the Medway middleware platform. This will benefit broadcasters and content owners who face unexpected needs for frame rate and format conversion, such as when footage that was expected to be 1080 50i turns out to be 720 30p, and there’s no option to reshoot, or when a client requests a clip for integration into a UHD 59p program, but the only version on the server is HD 50i.

Using FrameFormer's unique and advanced algorithms file-based content can now be converted with the smoothest motion possible.

FrameFormer is easy to integrate via its open API, runs under Linux, Windows, and Mac operating systems and targets CPU-only deployment for maximum flexibility.

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Libero Igest is a flexible multi-channel ingest, transcoding and encoding software with powerful and user-friendly features. It provides monitoring and controlling all the ingest operations on a single screen.

Libero Ingest has a wide range of file formats and input cards compatibility. It lets the operators record live events by controlling VTRs in a straightforward manner. The system offers freeze frame, black frame and signal loss detection in order to automatically start and stop ingest operations. Libero Ingest is designed to adapt your workflows or 3rd party systems with its own REST API and flexible triggering features.

KEY FEATURES

• SD/HD/UHD/4K/8K support(*)


• Stable for 24/7 operations


• Wide range of file formats compatibility


• Scheduled or crash recording


• Support for dump (as is) record


• Multi-language support


• Multiple input source support (SDI/NDI/SRT/IP Stream)


• SDI/NDI/IP Stream output support


• Support for growing-file editing (Adobe Premiere, GV Edius, Apple Final Cut)


• Audio mapping, level control, dynamic audio scan


• Automatic file transfer and housekeeping options


• UDP/RTP/RTSP/RTMP/HLS/MPEG-DASH/SRT for Stream input


• Freeze frame, black frame and signal loss detection


• CPU, RAM and storage capacity monitoring


• Media panel for trimming, preview and export


• VTR control with RS-422


• Advanced tagging feature while recording


• Customizable tagging buttons


• Simultaneous proxy generation with defined formats


• Support recording same input to multiple formats and locations


• E-Mail and notifications


• Drop frame counter


• Advanced logging


• “Start/stop/split/pause” all sources with one click

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Cambria Live works as a standalone, all-in-one live studio encoder or as a part of a network of multiple Cambria Live workstations overseen by Cambria Broadcast Manager (BCM).

Playlist Creation/Import

Create playlists with a group of files for repeated playback, highlight clips edited in Cambria Live, or a playlist to be muxed with a separate audio track.

Powerpoint Input

Users can integrate PowerPoint presentations into a live broadcast for E-learning and seminars.

Cambria Live Controller

Cambria Live Controller integrates seamlessly with your existing playout server and ad scheduling systems while mixing live and file assets. Customizable controllers communicate with these systems and control Cambria Live’s engine via API.

Audio Level Control

Allows users to adjust audio levels on the fly while live streaming.Cambria Live EditCreate multiple video clips on the fly during an event by simply setting in and out points on Cambria Live Edit timeline.

File Recording

Simultaneously stream and record a broadcast as a TS or MP4 file.

Multi-view Function

Cambria Live can replicate the feel of a multi camera broadcast by creating virtual cameras in software that can be cued as if you had multiple studio cameras.

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Encoding.com hands its clients full and granular control over the preparation, transcoding and packaging of premium VOD content without the complexity and cost of managing on-prem infrastructure. Our comprehensive and growing suite of microservices — including broad I/O format support, ABR and CableLabs packaging, content-adaptive bitrate (CABR) encoding, digital rights management (DRM), dynamic ad insertion (DAI), Neilsen watermarking, closed captioning and subtitling, and automated quality control — assures access to best-of-breed video processing technologies for both AVOD and SVOD pipelines. And because we regularly add new engines and capabilities, our customers are guaranteed a high-speed, future-proof workflow.

 

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Bandwidth-Friendly HEVC/4K Encoding

MainConcept HEVC SDK is a bandwidth saver compared to open source. According to the latest Moscow State University (MSU) codec performance comparison, MainConcept HEVC encoders showed 20% better bitrate efficiency than open source for fixed resolution video encoding. This makes MainConcept the leading choice for encoding HEVC/4K video content, allowing broadcast and OTT networks to save on bandwidth - with no loss in quality.

MainConcept HEVC SDK comes equipped with powerful features you won’t get from open source, including 8K/60fps live video encoding, Canon XF HEVC 4:2:2 10-bit decoder support, and advanced GPU acceleration to maximize video encoding performance on low-cost hardware, saving time and money!

Key Features

• 8K live


• 4:2:2 10-bit chroma for professional video


• Hybrid GPU acceleration


• HDR decoder with support for HLG/PQ and SDR conversion


• Canon XF HEVC 4:2:2 10-bit decoder support


• 30% encoding time savings with MainConcept’s patented Intelligent ABR (SABET™) technology

Save Time

• 20% better bitrate encoding efficiency than Open Source


• 2.5x encoding performance increase with Hybrid GPU acceleration


• Fast integration


• Codec optimization with MainConcept Professional Services

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nxtedition is a complete production solution for video and audio - used by broadcasters, publishers, corporates and other industries to create video channels for broadcast and streaming, as well as audio for radio broadcasting, streaming and podcasting.nxtedition encapsulates all the following activities into a single user interface offering to be first, fast and accurate with the stories people want - be that news, sport, entertainment, or production.• Production Planning• Scriptwriting• Media Asset Management• Metadata Management• Reporting• Graphics• Subtitling• Prompter• Transcoding• Rundown Creation• Studio Automation• Ingest Recording• Channel Playout• Music Rotation• Live Streaming In And Out• Publishing To Web, App And Social Medianxtedition - innovative storytelling grounded in realism.

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The Etere Transcoder action is a robust transcoder that provides a flexible workflow action able to decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux and filter almost any media used in the broadcast industry.

Etere Transcoder is an encoding solution for file-based workflows, a transcoder able to provide all major format conversions required in production, post-production, broadcast and distribution environments. Additionally, Etere transcoder is able to perform frame rate conversions between different video standards.

These days, where file-based video is the common standard for media workflows and content is being more and more ingested from different sources, encoded at different bitrates and formatted in different standards, an automated transcoding system becomes crucial within any workflow. With Etere Transcoder your files will be always in required places at the right time, with the right format!

Key Features

Etere Transcoder is the solution that ensures an advanced level of transcoding for your media, giving you all the advantages of a reliable automated system powered with the following features:

■ H265 encoding/Decoding at at different resolutions

■ H264 encoding/Decoding at at different resolutions

■ H262 encoding/Decoding at at different resolutions

■ XDCAM HD 50 PAL/NTSC encoding

■ XDCAM IMX 30 PAL/NTSC encoding

■ Up conversion and aspect ratio change

■ Down conversion without aspect ratio change

■ AAC and MP3 audio encoding

■ Timecode burn-in on video

■ H264 encoding/Decoding at at different resolutions

■ GPU accelleration

■ Custom rules for auto file naming

■ Flexible workflow action able to decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux and filter almost any media used in the broadcast industry

■ Set transcoding profiles under the Etere Transcoder Job Builder area

■ Cloud-device path selection