Produce » Real-Time Production » Real-Time Production Graphics » Virtual sets and chromakey »

NEP is a leading provider of augmented reality (AR) solutions that have the power to visually change the world inside your studio. By combining real life with virtual elements, our AR solutions can transform a confined area into an infinite space, or replace a green screen with a set that can be anything you can imagine to perfectly fit the content of your program.

NEXT LEVEL AUGMENTED
We have developed an augmented reality solution that combines four key elements into one workflow, creating next-level results.

TRACKING METHODS AND SCALABILITY
In order to bring augmented reality to the next level we offer the new Mo-Sys Startracker optical system. By deploying this tracking technology on any broadcast camera, we can work in an environment of mixed encoded cameras, including handheld, crane cameras, hard/pedestal cameras—even steady cams.

ADVANCED LIVE RENDERING
Creating virtual graphics that are realistic to the human eye requires live rendering capacity, realistic live shadows and realistic live reflections. All of these things were lacking in today's broadcast render engines, so we adopted the most advanced gaming technology and modified it to fit in the broadcast environment. We use Zero Density Reality Virtual Studio as a bridge between hardware and our platform CUBE.

NEXT GENERATION KEYING
High-end keying is crucial in a virtual set environment, so we have integrated the latest generation "vision" based keying into our solution. Even the most difficult circumstances are no problem.

TOTAL WORKFLOW INTEGRATION
A virtual multi-camera environment is complicated. How do you handle the delays? What do you do with clean and dirty feeds? What back up scenarios are there for the live feed? We have created a seamless integration with the entire production chain, ensuring our virtual world is reality throughout the entire production.

Produce » Post Production » Ingest » Post-production ingest »

Post production workflow is now a lot better at working and flowing. NEP’s automated production workflow solution, guides your team through every project from start to finish, and eliminates time-consuming, error-prone tasks and bottlenecks of complex processes. Through the transformative power of the cloud, our automated ingest solutions enable seamless collaboration between teams and technology, making your production simpler, faster and readily accessible to everyone from beginners to experts. Even global teams can be brought together to work faster and more efficiently than ever before.

Produce » Real-Time Production » Production Services » Outside broadcast and mobile facilities »

We offer centralized multi-camera production solutions around the globe that can help streamline the most complex productions. Our centralized production solutions can create higher efficiency, reduce on-site staff and create a central production hub that allows resources to be shared across multiple productions—all while safeguarding the quality of programs. This central-hub solution can help clear the way for creativity, flexibility and consistency across productions.

REMOTE PRODUCTION THAT’S FULLY DIRECTED
Around the globe, we offer several state-of-the-art centralized production suites that allow your entire production process to be fully-produced remotely. The studio and all essential components are securely housed in one of our own datacenters, and linked to site via IP connections.

With as little as only cameras and microphones in the field, our centralized production lets you deploy only the resources and crew you need, and only for the duration of the recording—helping you create efficiencies without lowering your standards.

NEP CENTRALIZED PRODUCTION FEATURES
100% IP-based, exclusive technical infrastructure
Resources available on demand
100% uptime dark fiber network
Hosting via exclusive Tier 3 data centers
24/7 skilled service operations center

Produce » Real-Time Production » Production Services » Outside broadcast and mobile facilities »

With more than 34 flypack systems that can be sourced from four different continents, our flypacks can be configured to suit your exact production needs, wherever they're needed. No other supplier has more flypack options or more flexibility than NEP. As the largest provider of flypacks in the world, we have it all.

POWERFUL FLEXIBILITY
Our packages make use of the very latest technologies, including the latest 3G HD, UHD, 4K, or IP systems, and our experienced engineering team ensures that the solution we design meets your exact needs. We can create a complete OB production unit, International Broadcast Center (IBC) or Master Control Room (MCR) in any location around the world, drawing on our world-class pool of leading-edge broadcast equipment. Our highly efficient workflows and worldwide inventory allow us to provide the perfect solution, no matter how complex your requirements or how short the notice.

UNMATCHED EXPERIENCE
Our flypack solutions are created with the same exacting standards and care that we put into our world-class OBs and television studios, backed by our team's experience creating flypack solutions and supporting events around the globe. From solutions created for host broadcasters at major events all the way down to a small production in a remote corner of the world, we have supported it all.

MULTI-VENUE PROJECTS
We specialize in delivering solutions for multi-venue projects. Our deep flypack inventory allows us to provide multiple, identical flypacks for each location so that your production team can be immediately familiar with the setup and workflow as they travel from venue to venue. This allows for a seamless, optimized and reliable production environment, helping to ensure that your event is the best it can be.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT
When it comes to flypacks, you need more than just the equipment delivered to your venue. NEP will work with you to understand your needs and detail the right solution for your requirements. From concept drawing and system layouts, to camera plans and production room layouts, we partner with you to achieve the best results. We have senior DOPs and engineers available on-site to help make your production a success. We provide support for project integration, system planning, installation and wiring, lighting design and engineering maintenance. NEP has the resources and solutions you need to make your production a success.

Produce » Real-Time Production » Production Services » Outside broadcast and mobile facilities »

With more than a decade of successful events on our resume from around the globe, NEP’s host broadcasting team has the resources and know-how to plan, adapt, innovate, support and deliver superior host broadcasting support solutions across all geographies. Our experience, efficiencies and ability to spot troubles before they arise carries over from one successful event to the next. Whether it’s a single venue or multiple locations, we offer end-to-end solutions that are supported entirely in-house through our extensive worldwide OB facilities, expert production and technical crews, skilled engineering and technical expertise, and leading-edge logistical software solutions.

Whether you need us to handle everything, or you need us to partner with local organizing committees, sporting federations and broadcasters, we’re ready with the solution that works best for you. Our capabilities range from full host broadcast management to any of our extensive services.

Design, Build, Install and Manage:
Venue Technical Operation Center (TOC)
Commentary Control Room (CCR)
International Broadcast Centre (IBC)
Media Centre (MC)

Other Services:
Project management
Consulting services for bid cities and/or committees
Key management placement
Production services
Logistical support and execution
Business Continuity Planning (BCP)
Rights holding broadcaster management
Unilateral services
Rate card management and supply
Archiving services
Project website design and implementation
Venue overlay design and management
Venue broadcast facilities and crews
Venue big screens and displays
Transmission delivery solutions

Produce » Real-Time Production » Real-Time Production Graphics » Production graphics and CG »

NEP's live/non-live graphics solutions include:
Live TV & Sports Graphics
Game Show Control Platforms
Virtual Advertising
Broadcast & Live Event Titles
Display Management

Produce » Post Production » Editing and Finishing » Color correction and grading »

The best post production is equal parts stand-out creativity and leading-edge technology. Our teams deliver both, earning awards and a reputation for excellence with major broadcasters and studios all over the world. Based in Ireland, Norway, Germany, Finland and Belgium, we provide VFX and post production services—from full HD and 4K finishing to HDR editing—to the broadcast, film, commercial, corporate and digital markets.

FULL PICTURE POST SERVICE
Dailies, editing, grading, finishing, deliverables, DCDM, DCP
Picture post at HD, 2K, 4K
Over 300 suites worldwide offering Avid, DaVinci, Flame, FCP, Smoke, including 220 cloud editing suites

FULL SOUND POST SERVICE
Editorial, foley, ADR, mixing, deliverables
Mixing in stereo and 5/1 for broadcast and cinema
Editorial rooms and TV mixing rooms; Dolby-approved feature mixing stages

VISUAL EFFECTS (VFX)
Full production VFX and CGI service
3D Max and Adobe CC
A 120 node render farm

GRAPHIC DESIGN AND ANIMATION
Full graphic design and animation for commercials
Full title and package design for broadcast
Specialists in live and post GFX design for sports

Produce » Post Production » Editing and Finishing » Non-linear editing »

The best post production is equal parts stand-out creativity and leading-edge technology. Our teams deliver both, earning awards and a reputation for excellence with major broadcasters and studios all over the world. Based in Ireland, Norway, Germany, Finland and Belgium, we provide VFX and post production services—from full HD and 4K finishing to HDR editing—to the broadcast, film, commercial, corporate and digital markets.

FULL PICTURE POST SERVICE
Dailies, editing, grading, finishing, deliverables, DCDM, DCP
Picture post at HD, 2K, 4K
Over 300 suites worldwide offering Avid, DaVinci, Flame, FCP, Smoke, including 220 cloud editing suites

FULL SOUND POST SERVICE
Editorial, foley, ADR, mixing, deliverables
Mixing in stereo and 5/1 for broadcast and cinema
Editorial rooms and TV mixing rooms; Dolby-approved feature mixing stages

VISUAL EFFECTS (VFX)
Full production VFX and CGI service
3D Max and Adobe CC
A 120 node render farm

GRAPHIC DESIGN AND ANIMATION
Full graphic design and animation for commercials
Full title and package design for broadcast
Specialists in live and post GFX design for sports

The best post production is equal parts stand-out creativity and leading-edge technology. Our teams deliver both, earning awards and a reputation for excellence with major broadcasters and studios all over the world. Based in Ireland, Norway, Germany, Finland and Belgium, we provide VFX and post production services—from full HD and 4K finishing to HDR editing—to the broadcast, film, commercial, corporate and digital markets.

FULL PICTURE POST SERVICE
Dailies, editing, grading, finishing, deliverables, DCDM, DCP
Picture post at HD, 2K, 4K
Over 300 suites worldwide offering Avid, DaVinci, Flame, FCP, Smoke, including 220 cloud editing suites

FULL SOUND POST SERVICE
Editorial, foley, ADR, mixing, deliverables
Mixing in stereo and 5/1 for broadcast and cinema
Editorial rooms and TV mixing rooms; Dolby-approved feature mixing stages

VISUAL EFFECTS (VFX)
Full production VFX and CGI service
3D Max and Adobe CC
A 120 node render farm

GRAPHIC DESIGN AND ANIMATION
Full graphic design and animation for commercials
Full title and package design for broadcast
Specialists in live and post GFX design for sports

Produce » Post Production » Post-Production Services » Creative services »

The best post production is equal parts stand-out creativity and leading-edge technology. Our teams deliver both, earning awards and a reputation for excellence with major broadcasters and studios all over the world. Based in Ireland, Norway, Germany, Finland and Belgium, we provide VFX and post production services—from full HD and 4K finishing to HDR editing—to the broadcast, film, commercial, corporate and digital markets.

FULL PICTURE POST SERVICE
Dailies, editing, grading, finishing, deliverables, DCDM, DCP
Picture post at HD, 2K, 4K
Over 300 suites worldwide offering Avid, DaVinci, Flame, FCP, Smoke, including 220 cloud editing suites

FULL SOUND POST SERVICE
Editorial, foley, ADR, mixing, deliverables
Mixing in stereo and 5/1 for broadcast and cinema
Editorial rooms and TV mixing rooms; Dolby-approved feature mixing stages

VISUAL EFFECTS (VFX)
Full production VFX and CGI service
3D Max and Adobe CC
A 120 node render farm

GRAPHIC DESIGN AND ANIMATION
Full graphic design and animation for commercials
Full title and package design for broadcast
Specialists in live and post GFX design for sports

Support » Design, Build, Run » Implementation Services » Design and build systems integration services »

With over three decades of experience supporting all types of productions around the world, we understand the different challenges content producers face and the varied demands they must meet. We use this insight and experience to drive the systems integration for the broadcast facilities we create for our clients. Our design and integration capabilities for permanent or long-term facilities include:
OBs
Flypacks
Studios
Control Rooms
Master Control
Broadcast Centers
Edit and Post Facilities
Playout and Media Centers

WITH YOU EVERY STEP OF THE WAY
We pride ourselves in being a true partner to all of our clients, and will help you manage your facilities infrastructure from design and scope to build – and can help you with technical support and maintenance long into the future.

PLANNING TECHNOLOGY SELECTION
As the largest client of nearly every broadcast manufacturer around the world, we not only have experience with just about everything available on the market today, we have a seat at the table when they are designing the products of tomorrow. Our technology leaders use this knowledge to help guide our clients though the ever-changing technology landscape – to choose the technology that is right for their production and their budget.

SYSTEMS DESIGN
We have skilled and experienced Systems Design Engineers who understand the ins, the outs, and how to put it all together. They work with our engineers in the field and our technology strategists to create the best work flows using the right technology to bring together top-notch systems.

CUSTOM BUILDOUT AND INSTALLATION
Our engineers work hand-in-hand with our team of technicians and craftsmen to ensure that everything from routing, to fiber systems, to the look and feel of the racks and consoles is the best it can be. Our team pride themselves in creating an exceptional finished product.

ENGINEERING SUPPORT & MAINTENANCE
With over 1600 engineers and technicians on staff around the globe we will be there to support you and your facility, whenever, wherever, however you need us.

AN EYE ON THE FUTURE
We have been in the business for over 30 years – long enough to see radical shifts and changes in technology. This has helped us to learn the best ways to plan for and adapt to change, understand when technology is ready to adopt and add value in the broadcast chain, and leverage our knowledge to bring tomorrow’s technology to our clients today. We can help you build a facility today that is built to adapt to the changes tomorrow will bring.

Produce » Manage Production » Production Software » Project, resource and facilities management software »

Rapid technological innovation in the industry has helped simplify our work and push the boundaries of our creativity. But with the increased reliance on IT technology and infrastructure, the occasional failure is virtually unavoidable. So, how can you predict these failures to ensure rapid response and minimize risk? Meet GrandCentral, our intuitive monitoring system.

GrandCentral actively monitors the entire technical infrastructure online: from power supply, cooling, possible water and smoke damage to servers (Windows or Linux), processes, APIs and workflows. The custom production dashboard provides an overview of the state of the entire technological environment at a glance on your smartphone, tablet and flat screen. Plus, the dark cockpit ensures that critical information gets to the service desk and technical staff immediately and securely. It displays the very first signs of problem escalation, allowing employees to take proactive and targeted action.

Produce » Manage Production » Post-Production Software » Collaboration, review and approval »

We understand what you’re dealing with: a never-ending, never-easy river of files flowing in. Different sizes, different formats, different publishing rights and destinations and metadata... Does it have to be this complicated? Well, no. Meet NEP's Mediabank.

Mediabank's Review & Approval is an extensive collaboration tool that allows you and your team to share updates and comments clearly and quickly and move through the approval process efficiently, saving valuable time and money. Use it to communicate real-time with your team to keep the project moving, annotate on material at any point during production, or give it a final check before going to air. You can even share your content with a third party, by using our great Quicklink feature, and get real-time updates as responses come in.

COLLABORATION
EASY AND TIME-EFFICIENT
Make Collaboration between your teams easy and time-efficient. Our collaboration tools allow you to glue comments and remarks directly to in- and out points in a frame accurate player. They allow you to create and modify revisions quickly and simply. And you can use our 'Quicklink’ tool to allow anyone without a Mediabank user account to return instant feedback on comments and remarks - from any mobile device or computer.

AUTOMATION
TOTAL CONTROL OF ALL YOUR PROGRAMMING
Customize Automation just for your workflows and reduce time and human error. We offer automations for transcoding and distribution to designated destinations - which speed up the process when projects are approved. Then, before your content goes on air, it can be automatically checked for compliance with local rules and regulations - giving you total control of all your programming.

CONTROL
TAKE TOTAL CONTROL OF YOUR CONTENT
Take total Control of your content and never lose or forget important communication - it will all be saved and tagged when you use Review & Approval. You can also keep a detailed overview of all activities and versions using our ‘Logviewer’.

SO WHAT DOES REVIEW & APPROVAL GIVE YOU?
Easy tools for collaboration and real-time communication with your team
An integrated frame-accurate player
Quicklink, a fast and easy sharing feature
Automated transcoding into any format you need
Automated distribution to pre-set destinations in the specified format
Automatic compliance checks before your content hits the air
Detailed view of past versions and all activity for every file
A record of all communications, feedback and approvals

Manage » Manage & Orchestrate » Content & Workflow Management » Media asset management (MAM) »

Mediabank is a cloud-based toolbox with an extremely intuitive and user-friendly interface that allows you to access your media from anywhere, anytime. You can search, process and distribute anything from your entire media library using your favorite browser on your own computer, tablet or phone.

Mediabank is a cloud-based toolbox that offers a series of apps that allow you to store, search, interact and share your video content. Pick and choose from the apps that meet your needs:

ADEX: YOUR NEW DIGITAL AD COURIER
Your new digital advertisement and master content courier. We’ve created this guy right here to remove the hassle of sending and versioning your deliveries. What most people want to do is to stick to what they’re good at. In your case, that is creating excellent content for your customers. Yes, we do understand that you are not enjoying the never-ending web forms. So we´ve made it a lot easier for you. Just create it, and then have AdEx send it off.

REVIEW & APPROVAL: COLLABORATION MADE EASY
This is the web application that lets you approve, comment on and/or reject material in a production or compliance process. It is an extensive collaboration tool that lets you decide whether your content is acceptable or if it needs adjustments before going on air by commenting directly on the timeline. You can include your comments in an automated email subscription to your production team, customer or similar. Once the material is approved, it is transferred ”automagiacally” in the correct format and resolution to your media outlet, badaboom!

LIBRARY: SHARE ALL OF YOUR ASSETS EASILY
Use the Library app to search, filter and access all your stored media and assets. While in Library, you can play, view and publish the content from any device. You can preview clips in your Library with the integrated media player and get detailed information about your content. Feel free to add tags and comments to any piece of stored media, as you wish.

Produce » Real-Time Production » Production Services » Outside broadcast and mobile facilities »

ANY PRODUCTION, ANYTIME, ANYWHERE Whether it’s right in your backyard or halfway around the world, we’re ready to roll. With more than 150 OB trucks/mobile units worldwide, a full line of support and specialty units, and an in-house integration team that specializes in building custom solutions, we’re ready for coverage of any event, large or small.

With NEP, clients tap into unmatched, innovative, dedicated talent, anywhere in the world. We provide complete support through our seasoned team of engineering and technical experts, including: Broadcast Engineers, Communications Specialists, Fiber Specialists & Fabricators, Mechanical Engineers, Systems Design Engineers, Integration Specialists and more.

Produce » Real-Time Production » Production Services » Studio and stage facilities »

We offer 30 complete studios ready for hire in the U.S., Australia, Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, Finland and Sweden—with the ability to create custom studio control rooms anywhere. Offering the latest technology supported by the finest technical staff in the business, our flexible studio solutions can meet the needs of any production, no matter the size, scale or genre.

We can create a solution for any studio production—anywhere around the globe. Our expert engineers design, build and maintain our custom control rooms based on the unique needs of each show we support. Our control rooms are designed and built to be "semi permanent" with sturdy custom consoles, modular custom fabricated rack units and a spacious comfortable working environment designed to feel like home for a crew working in a daily show situation. They can be built inside any facility or in a climate controlled trailer. With our experience, resources and support behind a production, our clients know the budget and timelines will be met, technical changes can be accommodated and the producers can concentrate on the creative and other business aspects of the show.

Produce » Post Production » Ingest » Post-production ingest »

The redesigned R&S®VENICE incorporates Rohde & Schwarz’s decades of experience in the broadcast & media industry, our customer feedback and the latest IP technologies. R&S VENICE can be flexibly adapted to your requirements thanks to its software architecture and scalability. For channel playout, studio and live applications, the latest application is just a software license away. The foundation comes from our new R&S®VENICE microservice core paired with commercial off-the-shelf hardware and a video I/O board designed by Rohde & Schwarz.

Produce » Post Production » Ingest » Post-production ingest »

Post production workflow is now a lot better at working and flowing. NEP’s automated production workflow solution, guides your team through every project from start to finish, and eliminates time-consuming, error-prone tasks and bottlenecks of complex processes. Through the transformative power of the cloud, our automated ingest solutions enable seamless collaboration between teams and technology, making your production simpler, faster and readily accessible to everyone from beginners to experts. Even global teams can be brought together to work faster and more efficiently than ever before.

Connect » Real-Time Signal Transfer » Audio Interfacing & Conversion » Audio signal processing, routing and infrastructure »

Matrox DSX Core is a complete set of 100% software-only modules for media processing in virtualized broadcast infrastructures based on Matrox DSX SDK. Modules include versatile file reading and writing, a large selection of software codecs and video effects, IP streaming and a precise system clock. OEMs can easily build IP- and file-based video applications such as ingest and playout servers, channels in a box, encoders and transcoders for broadcasters and service providers to use in media datacenters.

Publish » Linear Playout » Linear Playout Systems » Channel branding graphics and promotion systems »

Matrox DSX LE4 LP is a low-profile, half-length PCIe card that offers up to eight reconfigurable SDI I/Os—from SD to 4K. When configured with inputs, the cards are equipped with built-in frame synchronizers to generate clean SDI signals in any environment.

Matrox DSX LE4 LP is ideal for OEMs who need to create compact channel-in-a-box systems, video servers, broadcast graphics systems, encoders, transcoders, multiviewers, switchers and other digital media equipment.

Key features
Low profile, half-length PCIe card
Re-configurable I/O that can support up to 8 SDI inputs or outputs
Frame synchronizers
VANC and HANC support for each input and output
Analog blackburst reference input (tri-level or bi-level)
Automatic video relay bypass (optional)
Live zero-frame delay video mixers

Publish » Linear Playout » Linear Playout Systems » Channel branding graphics and promotion systems »

Matrox Xmio3 LP offers an unprecedented level of integration of both multi SDI I/O and hardware processing in the smallest form factor PCIe card.

This low-profile, half-length card offers up to eight reconfigurable SDI I/Os from SD to 4K.
Multi-channel hardware processing accelerates compute-intensive operations including motion-adaptive de-interlacing, up/down/cross scaling and mixing/compositing for all resolutions including 4K.

Matrox X.mio3 LP is ideal for OEMs who need to create advanced yet compact channel-in-a-box systems, video servers, broadcast graphics systems, encoders, transcoders, multiviewers, switchers and other digital media equipment.

Key features
Low profile, half-length PCI-e card
Re-configurable I/O that can support up to 8 SDI inputs or outputs
Frame synchronizers
VANC and HANC support for each input and output
Analog blackburst reference input (tri-level or bi-level)
On-board multi-channel MADI (Motion Adaptive De-Interlacer)
On-board multi-channel Up/Down/Cross scaler
On-board multilayer compositor
Automatic video relay bypass (optional)
Live zero-frame delay video and audio mixer

Publish » Linear Playout » Linear Playout Systems » Channel branding graphics and promotion systems »

Matrox M264 family of PCI Express cards features hardware-based multi-channel 8- and 10-bit H.264 encoding, decoding and transcoding capabilities. They provide an instantaneous H.264 quality and density boost offering the pristine quality needed for broadcast contribution, production and distribution. With the capability for up to four channels of 4K XAVC encoding/decoding in a single slot card, the M264 family enables OEMs to provide multi-channel 4K production servers in a PC platform. Supporting the H.264-based Sony XAVC and Panasonic AVC-Ultra mezzanine codecs, it makes live 4K production as easy as today’s XDCAM HD workflows in PC platforms.

The M264 family can encode/decode up to four streams of 4Kp60 at 4:2:2 10-bit, 40 streams of HD long GOP at 4:2:2 10-bit or 64 streams of HD at 4:2:0 8-bit. The faster than real-time encoding/decoding ability of the M264 allows multiple blazing fast transcodes for distribution on differing media platforms. With onboard multi-channel, motion-adaptive deinterlacing, and up/down/cross scaling, the M264 family can repurpose content into any resolution before encoding or after decoding, particularly beneficial for OTT workflows.

Specifically designed for high density encoding/decoding (Baseline Profile to High 10 Intra Profile up to Level 5.2), M264 cards provide the highest possible quality at the lowest power per stream (< 1.5 W per HD stream). The M264 S4, S3 and S2 cards are cloud friendly and their resources can be shared across virtual machines.

Matrox M264 cards are the ideal H.264 accelerators for channel-in-a-box systems, video servers, broadcast graphics systems, multi-viewers, and switchers or to create high-density encoders, transcoders and other broadcast media equipment. The Matrox M264 hardware is supported by the Matrox DSX Software Development Kit. Please refer to the Matrox DSX Developer Products datasheet for information on file I/O, software codecs and CPU effects.

Key features PCI Express Cards M264 - Gen 2, ½ length card M264 S2 - Gen 3, ¾ length card M264 S3 - Gen 3, ¾ length card, M264 S4 - Gen 3, full length card. Multi-channel, high-quality H.264 video encoding, decoding and transcoding Up to 4K resolutions supported 4:2:2 10-bit and 4:2:0 8-bit Hardware based deinterlacing and scaling Real-time and faster than real-time operation Dynamic codec control Sony XAVC compliant encoding including 4K XAVC Long and 4K Intra Class 480 Panasonic AVC-Ultra compliant Native MXF file wrapping Native MXF file reading. This includes Trim in and Trim out settings for building playlists File consolidation Time Delay Instant Replay (TDIR) support MXF file truncation and appending during live recording

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X.mio5 Q25 SMPTE ST 2110 network interface controller (NIC) card provides 25GbE and 10GbE interfaces for multi-channel IP video I/O from HD to 4K, with zero CPU usage. The X.mio5 Q25 card features on-board multi-channel HDR conversions along with motion adaptive de-interlacing, pristine scaling, and powerful compositing engines for high-density 4K video processing.

The Matrox X.mio5 Q25 network adapter offers complete ST 2110 offload allowing OEM software solutions to provide reliable and scalable COTS based 10Ge and 25Ge IP solutions. This ST 2110 NIC offloads all packet processing required for ST 2110-20, ST 2110-30, ST 2110-31 and ST 2110-40, as well as ST 2022-7 redundancy, to free up system resources. With ST 2110-21 packet pacing built into the NIC, software solutions can provide guaranteed narrow senders (Type N) under all conditions independent of CPU load and OS interactions. The X.mio5 Q25 ST2110 IO cards also provide line rate capture allowing for wide asynchronous receivers (type A). Both the permissive wide asynchronous receivers and the ST 2110-21 packet paced, narrow senders allow software solutions to guarantee universal compatibility and interoperability at scale.

Key features Native SMPTE ST 2110 support with no CPU usage 4x UHDp60/50 inputs and outputs over 25GbE 32x HD inputs and outputs over 25GbE 256 audio flows from 1 to 64 tracks Multi-channel HDR conversion On-board de-interlacing, scaling, and compositing, Built in NMOS IS-04 and IS-05 support, 3 year warranty

Publish » Linear Playout » Linear Playout Systems » Channel branding graphics and promotion systems »

DSX LE4 IP offers multi-channel, IP-encapsulated HD and 3G video I/O for SMPTE ST 2022-6, SMPTE ST 2110, and SMPTE ST 2022-7 transport protocols with hardware based packetization, packed into a single half-height, half-length PCIe card.

Key features
Multi-channel IO allowing up to 4 video inputs and 4 video outputs with redundancy in HD
Guaranteed non-bursty packet transmission with zero CPU usage
Support for multiple IP encapsulations
IP and analog blackburst timing reference
IP bypass and fail-safe mechanisms
Feature rich SDK

Publish » Linear Playout » Linear Playout Systems » Channel branding graphics and promotion systems »

DSX LE4 FH provides multichannel SDI IO in a half-length PCI express card. This card provides up to 12 reconfigurable IOs, from SD to 4K, along with support for AES/EBU, LTC and GPIO to provide for versatile connectivity.

Matrox DSX LE4 FH is ideal for OEMs who need to create channel-in-a-box systems, video servers, broadcast graphics systems, encoders, transcoders, multiviewers, switchers and other digital media equipment.

Key features Half-length PCI express card Re-configurable IO that can support up to 12 SDI IO Frame synchronizers VANC and HANC support for each input and output Analog blackburst reference input (tri-level or bi-level) Automatic video relay bypass Live zero-frame delay video mixers Up to16 channels of AES/EBU inputs and outputs Up to 8 LTC inputs and outputs RS422 control Single slot all inclusive option

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X.mio3 IP offers multi-channel, IP-encapsulated HD and 3G video I/O for SMPTE ST 2022-6, SMPTE ST 2110, and SMPTE ST 2022-7 transport protocols with hardware based packetization, plus onboard de-interlacing, scaling and compositing to free up CPU cycles, all packed into a single half-height, half-length PCIe card.

Key features Multi-channel IO allowing up to 4 video inputs and 4 video outputs with redundancy in HD Guaranteed non-bursty packet transmission with zero CPU usage Support for multiple IP encapsulations IP and analog blackburst timing reference IP bypass and fail-safe mechanisms On-board multi-channel MADI (Motion Adaptive Deinterlacer) Onboard multi-channel Up/Down/Cross scaler Onboard multi-layer compositor Feature rich SDK

Publish » Linear Playout » Linear Playout Systems » Channel branding graphics and promotion systems »

Matrox X.mio3 12G is a half-length PCI Express card that offers two 12G SDI inputs, two 12G SDI outputs, and two reconfigurable 3G SDI I/Os allowing for 4K and HD simulcast for broadcast production. Multi-channel hardware processing accelerates computation-intensive operations including up/down/cross scaling and compositing for resolutions up-to-4K. The card empowers OEMs to provide small-footprint, one-wire SDI solutions for 4K deployments like production trucks. X.mio3 12G also features 4K compositing and mixing to enable graphics workflows.

Matrox X.mio3 12G is ideal for OEMs who need to create advanced channel-in-a-box systems, video servers, broadcast graphics systems, encoders, transcoders, multi-viewers, switchers and other digital media equipment. This card is supported by the Matrox DSX SDK (Software Development Toolkit). Please refer to the Matrox DSX Developer Products datasheet for information on file I/O, software codecs and CPU effects.

Key features
Half-length PCI Express card
Up to two 12G SDI inputs
Up to two 12G SDI outputs
Two re-configurable SD, HD, 3G SDI I/O
Frame synchronizers on each input
VANC and HANC support for each input and output
Analog blackburst reference input (tri-level or bi-level)
Onboard multi-channel 4K scaler
Onboard multi-layer 4K compositor
Live zero-frame delay video and audio mixer
Up to16 channels of AES/EBU inputs and outputs
Up to eight LTC inputs and outputs

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X.mio3 FH provides multichannel SDI IO with hardware based video processing in a half-length PCI express card. This card provides up to 12 reconfigurable IOs, from SD to 4K, along with support for AES/EBU, LTC and GPIO to provide for versatile connectivity. The multi-channel hardware processing accelerates compute-intensive operations including motion-adaptive de-interlacing, up/down/cross scaling and mixing/compositing for all resolutions, including 4K.

Matrox X.mio3 FH is ideal for OEMs who need to create advanced channel-in-a-box systems, video servers, broadcast graphics systems, encoders, transcoders, multiviewers, switchers and other digital media equipment.

Key features Half-length PCI express card Re-configurable IO that can support up to 12 SDI IO Frame synchronizers VANC and HANC support for each input and output Analog blackburst reference input (tri-level or bi-level) On-board multi-channel MADI (Motion Adaptive De-Interlacer) On-board multi-channel Up/Down/Cross scaler On-board multilayer compositor Automatic video relay bypass Live zero-frame delay video and audio mixers Up to 16 channels of AES/EBU inputs and outputs Up to 8 LTC inputs and outputs RS422 control Single slot all inclusive option

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 Support multiple professional devices, e.g. SxS / XDCAM / P2 / XDS
 All import tasks can be monitored and controlled by Task List window
 Multiple importing modes
 Import all clips on one medium to be one clip in Hive
 Import all clips on one medium to be separated clip in Hive
 Partial importing
 Multi-selection importing
 Support to preview clip(s) before importing on Import Terminal
 Synchronize NRCS planning information and use for importing metadata
 Open to integrate with 3rd party NRCS, e.g. iNews, ENPS and Open Media
(requires custom integration)
 Write NRCS planning information to XDCAM dics to be XMPilot and then all
imported clips are inherited with the XMPilot metadata

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 Provide virtual panel to control A/V Router on ingest terminal  VTR batch digitizing  SD / HD mixed recording  Growing file workflows end-to-end. Any feed ingest to content can be used by production editing and rundown broadcasting as quickly as possible  Generate High / Low-res simultaneously while recording  Multiple ingest modes, e.g. Crash recording, Scheduled recording, Periodic recording and Loop recording  Support to import excel file to create batch of scheduled ingest tasks  Live streaming signal monitoring  Preview recording clip by Clip Trimmer  Synchronize NRCS planning information and use for ingest task metadata  Open to integrate with 3rd party NRCS, e.g. iNews, ENPS and Open Media (requires custom integration)  User-friendly operations of Ingest Terminal

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Video feed and VTR software module for the AutoPlay MAM system. Ingest operator ‘s workstation.

Features

• Scheduled or crash (manual) recording with VTR transport control.


• Unlimited TimeDelay loop recording.


• Manual QC, logging and metadata fill-in during ingest.


• Processing and migration of video files while recording.


• Near-instant availability of video being recorded for proxy creation, preview, editing, playout to all AutoPlay services and users.

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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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CaptureBox allows the capturing of multiple HD and SD content channels from digital HD / SD SDI feeds, analog sources and MPEG transport streams. You can monitor and control four video sources on a single screen via a new simplified user interface. Audio levels can be tracked and modified if necessary as loudness / true-peak displays. Content ingested in CaptureBox can be played within a few seconds of capture. The CaptureBox feature set additionally provides catch-list input from third party traffic systems, including CEA-608/708 closed-captioning support and RS-422 automated VTR control with batch-capture listing.

Universal Ingest: The wide range of inputs offered–composite, component SD / HD SDI, UDP Transport Stream–makes various ingest applications possible Remote control of VTR:RS-422

VTR control by Sony protocol is used to automatically capture batches from tape. With convenient keyboard shortcuts, tape cue, playback and shuttle is quite easy.

Batch and Scheduled Capturing: You can catch video clips from various tapes in one session, sorted by tape ID and upward time code. Once the capture session is started the only operator assistance if requested is to switch the tapes. You can continuously collect content from live sources such as satellite feeds based on a schedule with a single, daily or weekly reoccurrence. Optional router control offers automated input channel transitioning when capturing different channels.

Audio Loudness/True Peak Meters: It is possible to monitor and correct audio VU / peak levels dynamically.

Use While Capturing (TDIR): Before the capture process is complete, ingested clips can be used for immediate editing or playout of AirBox. This is especially useful for sports events or applications for time delay / instant replay.

Multi-channel audio: It is possible to record up to 16 channels.

MS Windows 10 compatible.

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MediaServicesIQ contains a suite of machine learning (ML) applications. These microservices can be applied to speech-to-text, video intelligence, closed caption conformance, and content classification in media workflows. The microservices in MediaServicesIQ integrate easily with media workflows used by broadcasters and media houses, helping them leverage AI/ML technologies within existing workflows.

Media ServicesIQ provides an easy-to-access portal to cloud-based AI/ML services through custom-developed workflows.

  KEY FEATURES & CAPABILITIES

Metadata Generation

Cloud-based collection of speech-to-text and video intelligence applications automating the generation of speech and video-based metadata Provides off-the-shelf integration with the Avid system Easily interfaces with existing workflows using REST API Video intelligence metadata for face, logo, ad, number, on-screen text, object, and shot change detection Metadata with timecodes for tagging, enabling search and faster content retrieval.

Automatic Closed Caption/Subtitle Generation

Machine-generated, time-synced outputs in various sidecar formats for further processing Faster, scalable, reliable, and secure generation of preliminary outputs Easily ingest sidecar files into workflows for repurposing.

CC Quality Conformance for Multi-Platform publishing

Generate reports on non-conformance parameters within a CC sidecar file Automatically compares against predefined style guides standards from platforms such as Netflix Time coded error reports for easy navigation and correction Ability to ingest multiple sidecar formats.

Auto classify content for better value

Automatically create a classification for content Classify advertisements using various labels to automatically identify and ingest Automatic classification of high-points in a feature-length video Easily integrate and ingest labels into existing workflows.

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Post-Production Automation

Post-production workflows are notably slow and manual, with files being shipped by hard drive  and editors tasked with batch encoding and ingesting files, as well as manually entering custom bin information into their Avid systems. These steps can add days to the production schedule, slowing content creation.

Now, latakoo has created a solution that automates this workflow for teams using Avid Media Composer, shaving days off of the current process.

Automation with MediaComposer

With latakoo, crews on location can send a lightweight proxy file to the editors within minutes of the shoot. With latakoo’s patented compression/upload process, proxy files can be created and quickly uploaded to your private cloud account, for storage and sharing. Metadata associated with the files – such as card number, shoot date, camera ID, project number, or any custom field - can be collected for each group of videos transferred. The metadata form is completely customizable for your project requirements.

After upload, the files are automatically downloaded by latakoo HUB and dropped inside your firewall. All the editors have to do is drag the group of files into the appropriate bin in Avid Media Composer. The files, along with the metadata, automatically populate the Avid bin with the correct information.

And because the proxy files retain their original video ID, relinking the original media is easily achieved.

latakoo is a complete system, so when that first draft is finished, you can easily export it to the cloud for review and approval.

Reclaim Your Time

Imagine saving days off of your current video workflow; automating proxy creation, ingest and metadata into one simple system. It’s possible with latakoo.

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KRONOS K8 is Bluefish444’s fully-featured high-bandwidth 4K/UHD, 2K/HD & SD video and audio I/O card for professional video workflows on Windows, macOS and Linux operating systems.

Capable of up to 8 independent and simultaneous channels of 3G/HD/SD-SDI input or output, K8 also features Reference and LTC I/O.

Cross-platform support with Industry leading 3rd-party software

Adobe Creative Cloud | Assimilate SCRATCH | Avid | CasparCG | Dataton | Foundry Nuke | Resolume | Streamstar | Unity | Unreal Engine | vMix

All Bluefish video cards are Thunderbolt compatible, work with the free Bluefish acquisition application IngeSTore, the Bluefish cross-platform SDK, and leading 3rd party content creation tools.

Bluefish products are deployed globally throughout the broadcast graphics, post-production, live event and entertainment, immersive graphics, proAV, corporate, military, government, medical and education markets, including integration into digital intermediate, mobile production, QC and compliance, Video Over IP and video streaming workflows.

FREE multi-channel capture tool, IngeSTore

• Capture up to 4 channels of video


• Wide range of codec options


• Records direct to shared storage, including Avid shared storage


• Growing file support with Edit-While-Record in Adobe Premiere Pro and Avid Media Composer


• REST API to control remotely


• RS-422 Controller


• Encode for live production, post production, archival and streaming workflows

MAJOR FEATURES

Bi-directional I/O’s provide unrivalled flexibility

• 8 bi-directional HD-BNC video connectors supporting 3G/1.5G SDI I/O


• Multi-channel 4K UHD 60p playout or capture video Quad Link 3G-SDI


• Each BNC is completely independent

Maximum connectivity

• Reference I/O BNC


• LTC I/O


• Interlock between multiple K8 and Epoch | Neutron/4K Neutron cards

Optional connectivity

• Optional auxiliary I/O can be added to K8 via the STEM port interface and optional EX-1 and EX-2 products


• K8 with EX-1 adds LTC I/O, RS-422 control and AES audio I/O


• K8 with EX-2 adds LTC I/O, RS-422 control and Analogue audio I/O

The industry's lowest latency I/O, by design

KRONOS K8 has, by design, the world's lowest-latency providing access to captured fields or frames to on-board card memory event before the whole field or frame is complete, thereby reducing the latency to sub on field or frame. During a capture or playout, each process can occur at less than or equal to 1 field for interlaced modes, and less than 1 frame for progressive modes.

Maintaining a 12-bit processing pipeline

• 12-bit image processing is standard on all Bluefish video cards


• Allows 8, 10 & 12-bit SDI video signals to be produced from 8, 10, 12 & 16-bit pixel formats providing the highest image quality available from your source material


• 4096 discrete values of red, green & blue are maintained per pixel


• 4 times the colour precision of a traditional 10-bit processing pipeline!

Maintaining the highest quality RGB <=> YUV

• Fully programmable 4 x 4 x 33-bit colour matrix providing the highest quality colour space conversions


• Reduces colour space conversion errors and ensures the highest quality colour accuracy during capture, monitoring and mastering

Thunderbolt expansion chassis compatibility

• Compatible with Sonnet, One Stop Systems Magma, Netstor, and AKiTio Thunderbolt devices for multichannel mobile production


• Visit Bluefish's website for a full list of qualified 3rd-party chassis options

Low-latency video keyers

• 4 x Low latency hardware video keyer


• Allows video layers to be combined in hardware with microseconds of delay


• Enables animated logos, captions, tickers, and more to be keyed over live video feeds at full 12-bit precision, and with minimum input to output delay


• Can also function as an image pre-multiplier to assist in previewing images with alpha data

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Managing the capture of live feeds has never been easier.

IN2IT live is the ultimate solution to capture live events and deliver them to your users for logging and editing. You can finally handle SDI, NDI and web sources with a single tool!

Live streams, remote interviews, screen capture are ingested to your central storage and referenced into your Media Asset management platform in optimal quality and in a short amount of time.

IN2IT live is an open solution. It integrates with mos of the popular post production solutions on the market including Avid MediaCentral, Dalet Galexy or Grass Valley Stratus.

Record, schedule and collaborate, even remotely

Multiple operators can collaborate from any location thanks to the IN2IT live web-bases user interface. IN2IT live manages crash recording and tasks scheduling, across multiple physisal or virtual video servers.

Operators can enrich the assets with additional metadata. They get real-time monitoring of recording and transfers to the central production environment.

Multiple ingest profiles can be create to enable various workflows witht the same infrastructure.

Remote interviews and web streams ingest drastically simplified

IN2IT live supports natively Newtek's NDI protocol. It enables recording from network cameras, mobile apps and remote interviews. Skype and Teams support NDI output and allow you to record any participant feed in one click.

IN2IT live also supports a wide range of streaming protocols. It makes it really easy to get any web live stream available for your editing teams!

Download the product sheet

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Content comes first on social networks. Get it on-air, faster than ever!Auto

Automate ingest and outgest workflows

IN2IT excahnge excecutes import, export and transfer tasks from and to any local, remote or cloud-bass environment.

Configure sophisticated workflows, easily. Deliver to multiple targets simultaneously.

Get and accurate view on the ongoing processes anf tasks. IN2IT excchange notifies you when you need and where you need.

Make your content available to any user or viewer

IN2IT exchange is already integrated, with numerour MAM platforms, storages solutions, filesystems, transfer accelerators and social networks.

Implement your own business rules and rely on a powerful media and metadata processing engine.

Your content is available on time and in the right place.

Gear up for the future

Build a reliable infrastructure you can trust. Scale it as your needs grow.

IN2IT exchange is designed to manage 24/7 operations and high volumes of processed content.

Use the API to build your own integration and get more from you IN2IT platform.

• Multiple PAM/MAM/NRCS integrations


• advanced media and metadata processing engine


• Cloud watchfolders and delivery


• Scalability and high availability


• REST API


• Smooth integration with IN2IT access and IN2IT social for sophisticated workflows


• Avid MediaCentral integration for ingest and outgtes

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A single tool to search across multiple opens sources

Search posts, videos and photos across different social networks in the powerful nunki.co search engine, and find the most relevant content to create your story.

Check out the latest news about an event using keywords and locations, or create your custom lists or Twitter users to follow. Don't miss any update with the saved searches, and get instant view on trending topics.

Add content to your story and share it with your team

Preview and select content from every social network. Simply drag and srop your selection into the basket to save your favorite media or quickly copy and paste the URL to automatically save content.

Content metadata is preserved and delivered to your favorite newsroom or media asset management system.

IN2IT social ensures efficient cataloging and organization of content to get news on-air, faster than ever.

Pick and choose the best content, without leaving current page

IN2IT social extension for Google Chrome is your new time saver.

At a glance, find out if the website you are navigating on is supported by IN2IT social, and process the content in one click.

You can add metadata and monitor the process from end to end.

• Advanced keyword search


• Laction search


• Fact-checking with reverse search


• Support of file sharing platforms (Google Drive, Dropbox, Wetransfer)


• Web-browser extension


• End to end metadata processing


• MAM and Newsroom integrations

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Everyone can ingest with full autonomy

IN2IT access has been designed for all users. It brings file and camera ingest operations to an unprecedented level of intuitiveness, thanks to a highly configurable web-based UI.

Journalists and ingest operators can browse, preview and selct their content in a few clicks. Technical decisions are made automatically in the background, avoiding mistakes.

Your ingest is triggered in a few clicks, making media and metadata available for everyone in the production environment.

Enrich and organize your content from the first step

IN2IT access is the entry point of your workflow. It's a crucial step where you want to ensure everything is in order for the next steps.

Custome metadata, naming convention and organization rules are defined by administrators in ingest profiles, and smoothly integrated in the user interface.

The content is easy to find in the MAM or on the central storage. This is a time saver for editors, journalists, Media managers and support teams.

The workflow is under control, and users fell it easy even in rush situations.

Enable remote workflows in minutes

Working from home, from the fiels or in another office does not make any difference. Your content needs to get on-air.

IN2IT access allows you to ingest from anywhere and on any device including your iOS or Android smartphone.

Transfers to production environments (cloud or on-premises) are accelerated, devices and profiles are centrally managed by administrators. Don't spend time configuring your device, just send what you have shot.

Raw footage or edited stories are available faster for editing and broadcast.

• Hundreds of supported source formats


• Automatic detection of camera cards


• Partial ingest, clips stitching


• Enbedded transcoding engine


• Multiple delivery protocols


• MAM and PAM integration


• Automated card backup


• Advanced notifications

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Epoch | 4K Neutron is Bluefish444’s fully-featured 4K/UHD, 2K/HD & SD video and audio I/O card for professional video workflows on Windows, macOS and Linux operating systems.

Capable of up to 3 independent and simultaneous channels of 3G/HD/SD-SDI input or output, 4K Neutron also features 4K/UHD HDMI monitoring, AES Digital Audio IO, Analogue Audio Output, RS-422 Control, and auxiliary Reference Input. 4K Neutron is also available as a low-profile configuration compatible with compact installations or devices.

Cross-platform support with industry-leading 3rd-party software

Adobe Creative Cloud | Assimilate SCRATCH | Avid  | Avmeda  | Brainstorm  | BTi | CasparCG | ChryonHego | ClassX | Dataton | Drastic Technologies 4KScope & VideoQC | DVBControl | Etere | Foundry Nuke | Libero Systems | Marquise Technologies MIST & ICE | Masterplay | Media 5 | Media-Alliance | Medialooks | Metus | MOG | NewTek | Nverzion  | Resolume | Ross Video | Streamstar | Telestream Wirecast | Touchdesigner | Unity | Unreal Engine | Unreal Streaming Technologies | Vizrt Viz Engine & Viz Arena | vMix | VRi | Xdream Media | Zinemath zLense

All Bluefish video cards are Thunderbolt compatible, work with the free Bluefish acquisition application IngeSTore, the Bluefish cross-platform SDK, and leading 3rd party content creation tools.

Bluefish products are deployed globally throughout the broadcast graphics, post-production, live event and entertainment, immersive graphics, proAV, corporate, military, government, medical and education markets, including integration into digital intermediate, mobile production, QC and compliance, Video Over IP and video streaming workflows.

FREE multi-channel capture tool, IngeSTore

• Capture up to 3 channels of video


• Wide range of codec options


• Records direct to shared storage, including Avid shared storage


• Growing file support with Edit-While-Record in Adobe Premiere Pro and Avid Media Composer


• REST API to control remotely


• RS-422 Controller


• Encode for live production, post production, archival and streaming workflows

MAJOR FEATURES

Bi-directional I/O’s provide unrivalled flexibility

• 3 bi-directional BNC video connectors supporting 3G/1.5G SDI I/O


• Up to 4K UHD 30p playout or capture via Dual Link 3G-SDI


• Each BNC is completely independent


• Third BNC can be set to Reference input instead of standard video signal

Maximum connectivity

Included breakout cable provides:

• RS-422 machine control for control of VTRs and other serial-controlled devices


• 8 channels of AES EBU audio input and output for 7.1 surround sound monitoring. Capture and playout digital audio signals in crystal-clear quality


• 2 channels of Analogue Audio for quick and simple high quality audio monitoring


• Auxiliary Reference (Input) connector frees the 3rd BNC for 3G/HD/SD video I/O

The industry's lowest latency I/O, by design

4K Neutron has, by design, the world's lowest-latency providing access to captured fields or frames to on-board card memory event before the whole field or frame is complete, thereby reducing the latency to sub on field or frame. During a capture or playout, each process can occur at less than or equal to 1 field for interlaced modes, and less than 1 frame for progressive modes.

4K/UHD HDMI monitoring

• Cost-effective 4K/UHD monitoring via HDMI 1.4


• Simultaneous SDI and HDMI playout

Maintaining a 12-bit processing pipeline

• 12-bit image processing is standard on all Bluefish video cards


• Allows 8, 10 & 12-bit SDI video signals to be produced from 8, 10, 12 & 16-bit pixel formats providing the highest image quality available from your source material


• 4096 discrete values of red, green & blue are maintained per pixel


• 4 times the colour precision of a traditional 10-bit processing pipeline!

Maintaining the highest quality RGB <=> YUV

• Fully programmable 4 x 4 x 33-bit colour matrix providing the highest quality colour space conversions


• Reduces colour space conversion errors and ensures the highest quality colour accuracy during capture, monitoring and mastering

Thunderbolt expansion chassis compatibility

• Compatible with Sonnet, One Stop Systems Magma, Netstor, and AKiTio Thunderbolt devices for multichannel mobile production


• Visit Bluefish's website for a full list of qualified 3rd-party chassis options

Low-latency video keyer

• Low latency hardware video keyer


• Allows video layers to be combined in hardware with microseconds of delay


• Enables animated logos, captions, tickers, and more to be keyed over live video feeds at full 12-bit precision, and with minimum input to output delay


• Can also function as an image pre-multiplier to assist in previewing images with alpha data

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Epoch | 4K Supernova S+ is Bluefish444’s fully-featured 4K/UHD, 2K/HD & SD video and audio I/O card for professional video workflows on Windows, macOS and Linux operating systems.

Capable of up to 4 independent and simultaneous channels of 3G/HD/SD-SDI input or output, 4K Supernova S+ also features a fifth BNC for SDI monitor output and a dedicated Reference input BNC.

Cross-platform support with industry-leading 3rd-party software

Adobe Creative Cloud | Assimilate SCRATCH | Avid  | Avmeda  | Brainstorm  | BTi | CasparCG | ChryonHego | ClassX | Dataton | Drastic Technologies 4KScope & VideoQC | DVBControl | Etere | Foundry Nuke | Libero Systems | Marquise Technologies MIST & ICE | Masterplay | Media 5 | Media-Alliance | Medialooks | Metus | MOG | NewTek | Nverzion  | Resolume | Ross Video | Streamstar | Telestream Wirecast | Touchdesigner | Unity | Unreal Engine | Unreal Streaming Technologies | Vizrt Viz Engine & Viz Arena | vMix | VRi | Xdream Media | Zinemath zLense

All Bluefish video cards are Thunderbolt compatible, work with the free Bluefish acquisition application IngeSTore, the Bluefish cross-platform SDK, and leading 3rd party content creation tools.

Bluefish products are deployed globally throughout the broadcast graphics, post-production, live event and entertainment, immersive graphics, proAV, corporate, military, government, medical and education markets, including integration into digital intermediate, mobile production, QC and compliance, Video Over IP and video streaming workflows.

FREE multi-channel capture tool, IngeSTore

• Capture up to 4 channels of video


• Wide range of codec options


• Records direct to shared storage, including Avid shared storage


• Growing file support with Edit-While-Record in Adobe Premiere Pro and Avid Media Composer


• REST API to control remotely


• RS-422 Controller


• Encode for live production, post production, archival and streaming workflows

MAJOR FEATURES

Bi-directional I/O’s provide unrivalled flexibility

• 4 bi-directional BNC video connectors supporting 3G/1.5G SDI I/O


• Up to 4K UHD 30p playout or capture via Dual Link 3G-SDI


• Each BNC is completely independent

Maximum connectivity

• Additional BNC for SDI monitoring


• Dedicated Reference input BNC

The industry's lowest latency I/O, by design

4K Supernova S+ has, by design, the world's lowest-latency providing access to captured fields or frames to on-board card memory event before the whole field or frame is complete, thereby reducing the latency to sub on field or frame. During a capture or playout, each process can occur at less than or equal to 1 field for interlaced modes, and less than 1 frame for progressive modes.

Maintaining a 12-bit processing pipeline

• 12-bit image processing is standard on all Bluefish video cards


• Allows 8, 10 & 12-bit SDI video signals to be produced from 8, 10, 12 & 16-bit pixel formats providing the highest image quality available from your source material


• 4096 discrete values of red, green & blue are maintained per pixel


• 4 times the colour precision of a traditional 10-bit processing pipeline!

Maintaining the highest quality RGB <=> YUV

• Fully programmable 4 x 4 x 33-bit colour matrix providing the highest quality colour space conversions


• Reduces colour space conversion errors and ensures the highest quality colour accuracy during capture, monitoring and mastering

Thunderbolt expansion chassis compatibility

• Compatible with Sonnet, One Stop Systems Magma, Netstor, and AKiTio Thunderbolt devices for multichannel mobile production


• Visit Bluefish's website for a full list of qualified 3rd-party chassis options

Low-latency video keyer

• Low latency hardware video keyer


• Allows video layers to be combined in hardware with microseconds of delay


• Enables animated logos, captions, tickers, and more to be keyed over live video feeds at full 12-bit precision, and with minimum input to output delay


• Can also function as an image pre-multiplier to assist in previewing images with alpha data

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ONE GUI gives access to all information and controls that are relevant to the software operators. And it hides all options and controls that a user at his role level should not have access to. Different access levels based on a user/group/role definition can be configured. A login dialogue grants access and gives access to the options according to the user’s role. This said the processing farms “customers” for instance can be limited to watch the status while only operators can change priorities but just supervisors can stop and delete a job within the job list of a processing farm.

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Very most often the business processes within the post-production chain do start with the ingest from modern storage media. This can be either disks like Sony's XDCAM or cards like Panasonic's P2. Alternatively source footage is delivered via Internet or on USB hard drives, sticks, DVD's, BluRays or what so ever and moved from here to a central storage. But not all material is relevant. A selection of and within video files is required. For a more practial file handling the relevant shots are desired to get concatenated before moving onwards within the workflow.

This is the are where x-dream-media's Ingest Browser plays. This product allows previewing professional video files within a web browser. Basic technical metadata of the files are displayed. The files can get trimmed and concatenated. Finally automatic processing actions are triggered by human operator. By default x-dream-media’s MXF Sticher and Re-Muxer is called. Alternatively a job can get started at x-dream-media’s Workflow Manager.

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Search, find, tag, comment, and preview… for the whole team.
ShareBrowser enables your users to organize and search for media and projects across EVO storage as well as local, offline, and other SAN/NAS network disks.

Assets can be catalogued, tagged, and commented, so everyone on the team can easily find, preview, and share media and projects.

ShareBrowser is perfect for post-production teams that collaborate around a shared storage workflow, giving everyone a central, searchable database.

ShareBrowser shows you your storage workspaces in one spot — including cloud services like Dropbox, Hightail, and Adobe Creative Cloud.

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MOG high quality central ingest system reduces your Ingest time and free your team for creative work.

mxfSPEEDRAIL reduces the amount of time you take to ingest your footage by a factor of 4 or even more. You can tag and organize your files with an extremely intuitive and user-friendly web interface, that frees your editing suites only for editing.

With mediaMOVE, you can also benefit from a fully automated QC system that checks your media while the file-based contents are ingesting.

Main Benefits:

• Multiple Formats and Resolutions;


• Frame-Chase Editing;


• Pre Select, Trim and Merge;


• Frame Rate Conversion and transcoding into any broadcast format;


• Compliant with main editorial formats;


• Direct ingest in the cloud.

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mxfSPEEDRAIL mediaREC is a powerful and flexible multi-format SDI recording system that can capture your baseband and IP Live signals.

With dozens of formats supported and compliant with all editorial environments and workflows, mediaREC schedule your events, digitizes your tape archive and manages multiple cameras.

Main benefits:

• Edit-while-capture;


• Multi-camera management;


• multiple formats and resolutions;


• Built-in VTR controller;


• Multiple destinations;


• Remote web interface;


• Video-Over-IP standards (ST2110 and ST2022-6) support.

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Get the unique advantage of creating user profiles for every workflow and automate your metadata and clip-naming tasks.

Increase your performance with unattended batch ingest and stitching of camera media and let the ingest process work as a background task.

Main benefits:

• Ingest from Card Readers;


• Ingest from Hot/Watch Folders;


• Support Spanned Clips;


• Multi-Resolution Clips;


• Frame-Chase Editing.

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Bluefish444 IngeSTore Server 3G is a dedicated 3RU Server able to capture up to 4 independent streams of video from separate 3G/HD/SD-SD or NDI® sources simultaneously. Recorded files can be capture in Uncompressed, DV and DVC Pro HD file formats free, and additional codec upgrades are available for purchase. IngeSTore Server 3G comes pre-configured with Window 10 Pro operating system, Bluefish IngeSTore software, dual port 10Gb Network Interface to connect with existing network attached storage, professional NVIDIA Quadro GPU, and a Bluefish Epoch | 4K Supernova S+ professional SDI video capture card.

Watch the IngeSTore product video here

The perfect companion for the following workflows:

• Multi-cam studio


• ISO recording


• Archive from video tape


• Post-production


• Electronic News Gathering (ENG)


• Uncompressed capture & encode later


• Edit While Record (Growing files)


• Remote production


• Mobile production

Multiple codec options

• Uncompressed, DV, DVCProHD codecs free


• H.264, DNxHD, AVC-Intra 100, XDCAM, JPEG2000 via additional licence


• Codecs are compatible with MAM options such as eMAM and CatDV

Network Shared Storage

• Connects via 10Gb, 5Gb, 2.5Gb or 1Gb network interfaces


• Compatible with Avid Nexis shared storage devices, and storage from G-Technology, DDP, SNS Evo, ProMAX, JMR, Caldigit, MAGMA, ATTO, Fusion, Facilis Technology, Masstech, Accusys, EditShare, StorageDNA, Quantum, plus more


• Visit Bluefish's website for a full list of qualified shared storage options

Edit-While-Record

• BlueCodecPack licence allows IngeSTore to record to growing file compatible formats


• Edit live in Avid Media Composer or Adobe Premiere Pro while the recording is still underway. This is available within Premiere Pro natively in some formats, with all other formats requiring the BlueRT plug-in


• Requires separate workstation connected to the same network as IngeSTore Server 3G


• Growing file support with Adobe Creative Cloud, Assimilate SCRATCH, CasparCG, Drastic Video QC, VLC and Medialooks software

REST API

• Control IngeSTore Server 3G remotely on your network


• Supports multiple servers controlled via a single interface


• Add extra functionality to IngeSTore


• Requires a REST API licence per server

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Bluefish444 have developed IngeSTore as a complementary multi-channel ingest tool, enabling Bluefish hardware to capture multiple independent format SDI or NDI® sources simultaneously. Capture to QuickTime, AVI and DVCPRO50/HD codecs for free.

Watch the IngeSTore product video here

IngeSTore can be used seamlessly in combination with popular NLE software such as Avid Media Composer and Adobe Premiere Pro CC to provide a simultaneous capture and output solution, with compatible Bluefish hardware and firmware modes.

IngeSTore features software licence upgrades to encode uncompressed SDI to other codecs, such as Avid-compliant OP-ATOM DNxHD 8-bit media. IngeSTore can write directly to local or shared storage, including Avid shared storage, allowing systems to access media directly from the Avid Media Database.

The BlueCodecPack licence includes DNxHD, ProRes, H.264, Sony XDCAM, and AVC-Intra 100 codecs, with JPEG 2000 also available as an optional addition to BlueCodecPack.

The perfect companion for the following workflows:

• Multi-cam studio


• ISO recording


• Archive from video tape


• Post-production


• Electronic News Gathering (ENG)


• Uncompressed capture & encode later


• Edit While Record (Growing files)


• Remote production


• Mobile production

Multiple codec options

• Uncompressed, DV, DVCProHD codecs free


• H.264, DNxHD, AVC-Intra 100, XDCAM, JPEG2000 via additional licence


• Codecs are compatible with MAM options such as eMAM and CatDV

Network Shared Storage

• Connects via 10Gb, 5Gb, 2.5Gb or 1Gb network interfaces


• Compatible with Avid Nexis shared storage devices, and storage from G-Technology, DDP, SNS Evo, ProMAX, JMR, Caldigit, MAGMA, ATTO, Fusion, Facilis Technology, Masstech, Accusys, EditShare, StorageDNA, Quantum, plus more


• Visit Bluefish's website for a full list of qualified shared storage options

Edit-While-Record

• BlueCodecPack licence allows IngeSTore to record to growing file compatible formats


• Edit live in Avid Media Composer or Adobe Premiere Pro while the recording is still underway. This is available within Premiere Pro natively in some formats, with all other formats requiring the BlueRT plug-in


• Can either be used on the same system as IngeSTore or a separate network-connected NLE workstation


• Growing file support with Adobe Creative Cloud, Assimilate SCRATCH, CasparCG, Drastic Video QC, VLC and Medialooks software

REST API

• Control IngeSTore remotely on your network


• Supports multiple servers controlled via a single interface


• Add extra functionality to IngeSTore


• Requires a REST API licence per server

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Welcome to the next generation of Bluefish444, with the arrival of the KRONOS range of video, audio, and data processing I/O cards. Built with multi-channel 4K UHD 60p, High Dynamic Range, High Frame Rate SDI and SMPTE 2022 & SMPTE 2110 support for Video Over IP workflows for broadcast, production and post-production, the new KRONOS range is ready for anything that you can throw at it.

KRONOS will offer the choice of SDI I/O connectivity with the KRONOS ēlektron, featuring 8 high-density BNC connectors capable of 3G/HD/SD-SDI. Each HD BNC connector is fully bi-directional, enabling numerous configuration options, including 8 input, 8 output, or a mixture of SDI input and output connections.

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Welcome to the next generation of Bluefish444, with the arrival of the KRONOS range of video, audio, and data processing I/O cards. Built with multi-channel 4K UHD 60p, High Dynamic Range, High Frame Rate SDI and SMPTE 2022 & SMPTE 2110 support for Video Over IP workflows for broadcast, production and post-production, the new KRONOS range is ready for anything that you can throw at it.

The KRONOS optikós offers future-proofing connectivity with 3 SFP+ cages in addition to 2 HD BNC connectors for 3G/HD/SD-SDI I/O. These SFP+ cages provide limitless connectivity options exposing greater than 3G SDI, IP connectivity across 10Gb Ethernet, and flexibility to choose from numerous physical interfaces.

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Epoch | Supernova CG is Bluefish444’s 2K/HD & SD video and audio I/O card for professional video workflows on Windows, macOS and Linux operating systems.

Capable of up to 4 independent and simultaneous channels of HD/SD-SDI input or output, Supernova CG features a flexible combination of multi-channel SDI I/O, and a dedicated Reference input BNC.

Cross-platform support with industry-leading 3rd-party software

Adobe Creative Cloud | Assimilate SCRATCH | Avid  | Avmeda  | Brainstorm  | BTi | CasparCG | ChryonHego | ClassX | Dataton | Drastic Technologies 4KScope & VideoQC | DVBControl | Etere | Foundry Nuke | Libero Systems | Marquise Technologies MIST & ICE | Masterplay | Media 5 | Media-Alliance | Medialooks | Metus | MOG | NewTek | Nverzion  | Resolume | Ross Video | Streamstar | Telestream Wirecast | Touchdesigner | Unity | Unreal Engine | Unreal Streaming Technologies | Vizrt Viz Engine & Viz Arena | vMix | VRi | Xdream Media | Zinemath zLense

All Bluefish video cards are Thunderbolt compatible, work with the free Bluefish acquisition application IngeSTore, the Bluefish cross-platform SDK, and leading 3rd party content creation tools.

Bluefish products are deployed globally throughout the broadcast graphics, post-production, live event and entertainment, immersive graphics, proAV, corporate, military, government, medical and education markets, including integration into digital intermediate, mobile production, QC and compliance, Video Over IP and video streaming workflows.

FREE multi-channel capture tool, IngeSTore

• Capture up to 4 channels of video


• Wide range of codec options


• Records direct to shared storage, including Avid shared storage


• Growing file support with Edit-While-Record in Adobe Premiere Pro and Avid Media Composer


• REST API to control remotely


• RS-422 Controller


• Encode for live production, post production, archival and streaming workflows

MAJOR FEATURES

Bi-directional I/O’s provide unrivalled flexibility

• 4 bi-directional BNC video connectors supporting 1.5G-SDI I/O


• Up to 2K/HD 60p playout or capture via Dual Link 1.5G-SDI


• Each BNC is completely independent

Maximum connectivity

• Dedicated Reference Input BNC

The industry's lowest latency I/O, by design

Supernova CG has, by design, the world's lowest-latency providing access to captured fields or frames to on-board card memory event before the whole field or frame is complete, thereby reducing the latency to sub on field or frame. During a capture or playout, each process can occur at less than or equal to 1 field for interlaced modes, and less than 1 frame for progressive modes.

Maintaining a 12-bit processing pipeline

• 12-bit image processing is standard on all Bluefish video cards


• Allows 8, 10 & 12-bit SDI video signals to be produced from 8, 10, 12 & 16-bit pixel formats providing the highest image quality available from your source material


• 4096 discrete values of red, green & blue are maintained per pixel


• 4 times the colour precision of a traditional 10-bit processing pipeline!

Maintaining the highest quality RGB <=> YUV

• Fully programmable 4 x 4 x 33-bit colour matrix providing the highest quality colour space conversions


• Reduces colour space conversion errors and ensures the highest quality colour accuracy during capture, monitoring and mastering

Thunderbolt expansion chassis compatibility

• Compatible with Sonnet, One Stop Systems Magma, Netstor, and AKiTio Thunderbolt devices for multichannel mobile production


• Visit Bluefish's website for a full list of qualified 3rd-party chassis options

Low-latency video keyer

• Low latency hardware video keyer


• Allows video layers to be combined in hardware with microseconds of delay


• Enables animated logos, captions, tickers, and more to be keyed over live video feeds at full 12-bit precision, and with minimum input to output delay


• Can also function as an image pre-multiplier to assist in previewing images with alpha data

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X-Pert Ingest enables multiple channels of HD or SD content to be captured from HD/SD SDI digital feeds, analogue sources and MPEG transport streams. Four video sources can be monitored on a single screen and controlled via a new streamlined user interface. Audio levels can be monitored as loudness/true-peak displays and adjusted when required.

Content ingested to X-Pert Ingest is available for playback within a few seconds of capture commencing. In addition the solution includes capture-list import from third-party traffic systems, support for CEA-608/708 closed-captioning and automated VTR control via RS-422 with batch-capture listing.

• Four independent ingest channels in a single server *


• Scheduled capturing of satellite feeds with automated channel switching


• Comprehensive Metadata handling (TCI, MTD creation)


• HD capturing (optional)


• File splitting based on duration


• Multi-channel audio capturing (optional)


• API available for OEMs


• All 4 instances in a single screen


• New Streamlined User Interface Design


• Add Metadata during ingest (position markers, notes, etc.)


• Loudness/True Peak audio meters are available for precise audio level fine-tuning


• Automated RS-422 VTR control with batch capturing lists


• Third-party traffic system capture list import


• Closed Captioning support under EIA-608/708 standards

*Number of available ingest channels depends on used capture compression and hardware resources

Newest Features

• IP RTMP/HLS/RTSP/MPEG-2 DASH stream source


• NVidia GPU hardware acceleration for H264/HEVC encoding content and IP feeds


• Intel CPU/GPU hardware acceleration for H264/HEVC encoding content

X-Pert Ingest comes in two versions: X-Pert Basic Ingest and X-Pert Advanced Ingest.

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Epiphan’s suite of rugged and portable USB-based frame grabbers enable users to capture signals from just about any video source.

The UVC-based AV.io HD simplifies video capture with no software or drivers required; programs will recognize a connected source as if it were a plug-and-play webcam. AV.io HD transfers uncompressed video to your computer or laptop in beautiful HD at 60 fps with near-zero latency and can also capture audio from an HDMI source. The device automatically adjusts video scaling and aspect ratios based on your application’s requirements, delivering fantastic image quality even when swapping video sources.

AV.io HD is built with an all-metal enclosure and features robust connectors designed for reliable and repeated long-term use.

Package includes an HDMI to DVI adapter, DVI to VGA cable, DVI cable, and USB 3.0 cable.

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Epiphan’s suite of rugged and portable USB-based frame grabbers enable users to capture signals from just about any video source.

The HDMI-to-USB AV.io 4K frame grabber simplifies video capture with no software or drivers required; programs will recognize a connected source as if it were a plug-and-play webcam. This award-winning frame grabber captures resolutions up to 4096 × 2160 with 4K UHD video streaming at 30 fps and 1080p at 60 fps – all with near-zero lag. Use your video at its original resolution or let AV.io scale it to exactly what you need.

AV.io 4K is built with an all-metal enclosure and features robust connectors designed for reliable and repeated long-term use.

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Epiphan’s suite of rugged and portable USB-based frame grabbers enable users to capture signals from just about any video source.

The UVC-based AV.io SDI frame grabber simplifies video capture with no software or drivers required; programs will recognize any connected source as if it was a plug-and-play webcam. AV.io SDI supports resolutions up to 1080p and transfers uncompressed video to your computer at 60 fps with near-zero latency, letting you capture even the tiniest details with perfect clarity.

AV.io SDI is built with an all-metal enclosure and features robust, full-size connectors designed for reliable and repeated long-term use.

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What is Creative Cloud?

Creative Cloud is a collection of 20+ desktop and mobile apps and services for photography, design, video, web, UX and more. Now you can take your ideas to new places with Photoshop on the iPad, draw and paint with Fresco, and design for 3D and AR. Join our global creative community — and make something better together.

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Key Feature:

◎  Support AJA、Blackmagic capture card.

◎  Showing CH/EN channel name on monitoring windows.

◎  4 channels showing on monitor, every channel could be ON/OFF.

◎  Start, stop and record button for single/multi channel.

◎  Checking video while recording.

◎  De-Interlacing function.

◎  Indication in every channel window to check coding quality drop.

◎  Logo/ real time overlay for output.

◎  Cut clip and save function, clip length is down to second.

◎  Auto-delete function: while local HDD is full, system will delete oldest files.

◎  Traditional Chinese/ English UI.

◎  Setting periods for screenshot and saving as JPG/PNG files. (optional)

◎  Streaming while recording (optional).

◎  Scheduled function: set time/date for start/stop recording (optional).

◎  Customized software service (optional).

Specification:

◎  4 channels HD/SD-SDI or HDMI input.

◎  4 track audio monitor per channel, support audio output.

◎  Bitrate:  1Mbps~50Mbps.

◎  Resolution: 320x180~1920x1080.

◎  Support MP4, MPG, AVI (option), MXF (option) output.

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Industry leaders such as FOX Sports have used the Aspera Streaming technology to disrupt the status quo with its capabilities and advancements.

As an example, IBM Aspera Streaming enables customers to centralize remote production of high bit-rate live programming, eliminating the need to co-locate costly production staff at remote venues. It supports in-line transcoding and packaging to accelerate live video delivery and facilitates open file workflows for real-time editing and production. By lowering the production costs for all kinds of events, broadcasters can create and deliver new content targeting new audiences.

Designed to revolutionize the way live and near-live high definition video is delivered, IBM Aspera Streaming software can replace or minimize the use of expensive satellite and dedicated fiber with the timely delivery of any bit rate video over unmanaged public internet. The underlying technology can also be seamlessly embedded via a set of APIs that enable a new, broader set of IP network and cloud-based use cases and workflows. Video can be streamed as a uniform, unaltered, in-order byte stream that equally supports constant bit rate and adaptive bit rate formats. Aspera Streaming-enabled solutions perform exceptionally well over long-haul WANs, with negligible start up delay.

The robust, easy-to-use web application in Aspera Streaming enables:

• Auto-discovery of streaming devices for fast, simple set-up


• Centralized monitoring of networked streaming devices


• Location status (online/offline) and management features


• View devices, streams and connections from any vantage point (both sending and receiving locations)

 

Innovative streaming technology

IBM Aspera Streaming meets the challenge of today’s live video opportunities with an innovative transport solution that uses commodity Internet (IP) networks in place of costly legacy satellite delivery and dedicated fiber networks. Aspera’s patented FASP transport technology can provide the consistently exceptional broadcast quality and “zero-delay” experience of traditional satellite backhaul and transmission.

 

Stream provider and receiver interoperability

The software can transport any live video source available on local multicast, unicast UDP, unicast TCP, or growing file source and will output video to the same options. It provides a uniform lossless, in-order byte stream transport that equally supports constant bit rate and adaptive bit rate formats with performance independent of video encoding details.

 

Reliability and multi-endpoint capability

One stream source can be sent to multiple destinations concurrently and provides built-in path redundancy. Server hosts are natively clustered. Stream sessions failover automatically connect to another host. Aspera management services automatically reconnect and restart failed streams after a network outage.

 

Aspera product interoperability and management

Streaming sessions are designed for full interoperability with the Aspera file transfer stack. RESTful APIs allow production workflow and broadcast management systems to manage streams and provide status. Stream sources can include cloud and on premises transcoders and encoders that read from stream and file – or provide stream outputs or growing files.

 

High quality video delivery

One stream source can be sent to multiple destinations concurrently and provides built-in path redundancy. Server hosts are natively clustered. Stream sessions failover automatically connect to another host. Aspera management services automatically reconnect and restart failed streams after a network outage.

 

Robust security and authentication

All streaming sessions are encrypted in transit and security authenticated using standard public/private key authentication or Aspera’s multi-tenant access key system. Built-in access control policies can be used to restrict stream providers and consumers by stream protocol, IP address and ports.

 

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Gloobox Capturer supports a wide range of codecs, now including support for HFR (High Frame Rates) 50p and 60p. Additionally, Capturer offers a multi-channel SDI player designed to monitor captured content, and loop record mode for when users need to capture content for an undetermined or unpredictable amount of time.

GLOOBOX Capturer Family Features/Benefits:
Baseband capture solution for direct ingest of SDI, HD-SDI, Quad 3G-SDI
and IP signals into file-based workflows.
• Capture and check into Avid Interplay | Production or MAM with frame chase.
• Up to 3 resolutions/formats per input channel.
• Capture into two systems simultaneously.
• Two PAM systems: one MAM, one PAM.
• 2 or 4 Channel HD / IP and 1 or 2 Channel 4K versions available.
• IP standards: SMPTE 2022-6, 2022-7.
• Background transfer functionality.
• SDI monitoring with pre-read (optional on 4K systems).
• Controllable via GLOOBOX Scheduler and LiveOps.
• Colored locators with labels and comments.
• Up to 16 HD-SDI embedded audio channels per input.
• Supports industry codecs:
FR (High Frame Rates) 50p and 60p, SD/HD: XAVC, DV, IMX, XDCAM HD, XDCAM EX, DVCPRO HD, AVC-lntra/AVC-Ultra, ProRes, DNxHD & DNxHR, h.264.
UHD/4K: DNxHR, XAVC.
• Controllable via VDCP, FIMS compliant API.
• Automatic timecode break detection and handling.
• VTR control via RS-422 (optional).
• LTC input.

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media|producer is a truly innovative product that will transform ingest into
a much simpler, cost effective and productive process. It is a fully distributed and
virtualizable, load-balanced, cloud-ready, multi-user, media and metadata ingest
platform for post production environments.

FEATURES:
• Multi Avid Interplay authentication and automatic project-based ingest template creation.
• Truly multi-user system with individual profiles and session settings.
• Automatic file source and type detection – user is not required to have any technical knowledge of file types & formats.
• Easy and flexible clip grouping with marker (locator) support to identify source clip boundaries.
• Metadata profiles to enforce required metadata input.
• Flexible metadata handling, creation, and editing.
• Full metadata support for standard file structures.
• True multi-destination ingest with virtually unlimited ingest destination targets.
• LUT support for HDR workflows.
• 3 panel GUI design with two modes of operation:
• Right-click mode: gives the user full control over every aspect of the ingest job settings and properties.
• Ingest mode: streamlined ingest function for high-demand ingest operations.
• Flexible auto-sync to group video/audio tracks based on timecode with the ability to generate subclips, multi-groups,
and sequences.
• Support for almost all file-based formats in the market, from mobile media (iPhone, Android, DSLRs, GoPro) to HD and
4K formats (including XAVC class 480, DNxHR).
• Support for the latest Master file-based formats:
• RED, XAVC-I, XAVC Long Gop, XOCN, SStP, AVC-LongG.

The innovative media|producer series is now available in two versions: standard and ultimate.

media|producer ultimate is designed for high-end production and digital cinema. Alongside all the features of the standard version, media|producer ultimate also benefits from:

• High Frame Rate support • Functionality with special codecs such as XOCN 16-bit, XAVC class 480, RED, ARRI • LUTs • Floating license model • Load balancing • Full ingest automation • Simultaneous OP-Atom and OP1a outputs • media|gateway subset (selection of one file acceleration connector)

media|producer, which is optimized for broadcast and content production, is fully upgradeable to media|producer ultimate.

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X-Pert Ingest (XI) enables multiple channels of HD or SD content to be captured from HD/SD SDI digital feeds, analogue sources and MPEG transport streams. Four video sources can be monitored on a single screen and controlled via a new streamlined user interface. Audio levels can be monitored as loudness/true-peak displays and adjusted when required.

Content ingested to X-Pert Ingest is available for playback within a few seconds of capture commencing. The X-Pert Ingest feature set also includes capture-list import from third-party traffic systems, support for CEA-608/708 closed-captioning and automated VTR control via RS-422 with batch-capture listing.

• Four independent ingest channels in a single server *


• Scheduled capturing of satellite feeds with automated channel switching


• Comprehensive Metadata handling (TCI, MTD creation)


• HD capturing (optional)


• File splitting based on duration


• Multi-channel audio capturing (optional)


• API available for OEMs


• All 4 instances in a single screen


• New Streamlined User Interface Design


• Add Metadata during ingest (position markers, notes, etc.)


• Loudness/True Peak audio meters are available for precise audio level fine-tuning


• Automated RS-422 VTR control with batch capturing lists


• Third-party traffic system capture list import


• Closed Captioning support under EIA-608/708 standards

*Number of available ingest channels depends on used capture compression and hardware resources.