
Manage end-to-end TV, radio, digital and social media news production Dalet News Wire is Dalet Newsroom Computer System (NRCS), the only fully integrated news system that meets the challenge of media convergence. In a single system, Dalet News Wire manages end-to-end TV, radio, digital and social media news production.
This powerful module covers all the needs of a newsroom, from scheduling, job assignment, wire ingest, scripting to social media integration. To foster collaboration and offer a cohesive workflow, Dalet News Wire is directly connected to the desktop production tools and shares the same media database. Boasting integration with third-party systems, Dalet News Wire story-centric workflow tools increase productivity and maximize content value through easy content repurposing on multiple devices.
Connect your Newsroom to the World In addition to traditional agency wire feeds, Dalet News Wire allows you to capitalize on user-generated content (UGC) and to engage your audience on a deeper and more personal level. To take full advantage of the incoming value-added content in a way that enhances overall productivity, Dalet News Wire delivers efficient tools that fully integrate into existing workflows.
From capture to multi-platform distribution, it offers a complete solution to leverage social media. Compelling stories are created using a mix of user-generated content and professionally gathered content before being easily distributed to traditional and new media channels.
Scheduling Editors model their timetable with program slots for a given period, insert scripts or blocks based on templates, manage timings and assign studios. Dalet News Wire allows for economies of scales as multiple sites and channels can be managed from a central location.
Planning & Assignment Editors create events on specific subjects for which journalists receive job assignments along with valuable information such as descriptions, associated wires, linked media or PDF, URLs and more. When inserted into a rundown, all related stories created by journalists are automatically inserted pending editor’s validation.
Notifications & Chat Dalet notification engine sends assignments directly to journalists’ desktops. Other notifications can be set up to notify incoming wires, approval or rejection of submitted stories. An instant messaging feature allows for fast information and links exchanges.
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Dalet AmberFin

Dalet Brio

Dalet Cube NG


Dalet Galaxy five

Dalet Galaxy xCloud


Dalet OnePlay

Dalet StoreFront


Dalet AmberFin
Dalet AmberFin software runs on cost-effective, commodity IT hardware that can adapt and grow as the needs of your business change.
Whether you need a single application specific product or a large-scale enterprise-class transcode farm, Dalet AmberFin software is built upon unique technology that ensures your media assets retain the highest quality whether standard- definition, high-definition, ultra-high-definition or new media content.
Ingest: Dalet AmberFin enables optimal media ingest from camera card, local, network and cloud locations. Ultra high-quality codecs, color and HDR conversions maintain the value of the original material, with mezzanine formats including JPEG 2000, XAVC, HEVC, ProRes, DNx, AVC-Intra and XDCAM HD. Growing file support and the ability to write directly to shared and cloud/object storage dramatically reduces workflow latency, while flexible Closed Caption/Subtitle and Ancillary Data retention and conversion support offers further time savings.
Transcode: Dalet AmberFin is a completely scalable, fault-tolerant, high-quality transcode environment, including format and standards conversion, with best-in-class image processing, allowing for fast, effortless content delivery and repurposing. Our service-based architecture enables sites to build transcode farms on commodity IT hardware or virtual/cloud machine instances - minimizing downtime, reducing maintenance costs and enabling complete "lights-out" operation.
Media Supply Chain Orchestration: Dalet AmberFin includes a fully capable BPM workflow design and execution environment, enabling media packaging and delivery to be created for multiple endpoints, running in parallel. Media packaging is available for HLS, DASH and IMF directly within the workflow engine. Native integration between the transcode and workflow engines ensures that your existing conversion profiles can be used seamlessly within the BPM environment. Automation plugins are available for third-party file-based QC, forensic watermarking and file acceleration vendors.
Dalet Brio
Dalet Brio is an innovative and cost-effective platform for broadcast customers looking for non-proprietary hardware to digitize and playback their content, either as a complement or replacement of their existing video servers. Built on an IT-based input and output video platform, it seamlessly integrates with Dalet Solutions to provide a highly flexible and scalable end-to-end solution.
Dalet Brio units are designed to ingest and playout broadcast quality video in SD, HD, and UHD formats. They come in a variety of input/output or local/central storage combinations. Each unit is built on robust IT equipment with built-in redundancy.
Flexible Codec Support
Dalet Brio supports a very wide range of software codecs. In order to ensure broad interoperability, industry-standard wrappers such as Quicktime & MXF are supported, allowing seamless workflow integration with third-party NLEs and Dalet production tools. Dalet Brio can play any supported files, including a mix of SD, HD and UHD on the same timeline, back-to-back with dynamic cross-, up- and down- conversion of the video signal, as well as aspect ratio modifications.
Transition to IP
Dalet Brio is ready for the transition to IP-based video production, with the support of multiple video-over-IP standards from the high-end SMPTE 2022-6/-7 and SMPTE 2110, including NMOS interoperability, to the popular NewTek NDI streams. Dalet Brio supports hybrid SDI / IP workflows, to ensure that the transition to IP production is smooth. Dalet is working together with the AMWA association.
Proven Reliability
With more than 1,000 news, channel automation, MAM & QC, and sports production deployments, Dalet Brio has a successful track record that spans just about every broadcast server workflow scenario. More than its versatility, Brio has proven its load tolerance and scalability capabilities, supporting large content producers and broadcasters.
Third-party support
Dalet Brio can be part of Dalet Galaxy Architecture for Ingest and Playout but can also fit into third-party MAM, NRCS, and Playout control systems with VDCP and BVW protocol. With Dalet Brio supporting FIMS standards, Adobe Premiere Pro CC can control Dalet Brio for ingest as a plugin as well as Ingest to AVID Interplay/ISIS and Apple FCP X.
Dalet Cube NG
Dalet Cube NG offers a redesigned, highly scalable architecture and modern web-based UI. The embedded, high-performance Brainstorm real-time 3D graphics engine significantly expands on-air and file-based graphics capabilities with its support for 4K and user-defined options, added primitives for building 2D and 3D graphics, support for Unicode fonts and languages, and outstanding transition logic. Noted news broadcasters that rely on the Brainstorm real-time graphics engine include CNBC, NHK, RAI, RTHK, RTVE, TVN and many others.
Feature highlights of the new Dalet Cube NG include:
- Advanced Materials and Objects – Thanks to the Brainstorm graphics engine, Dalet Cube NG supports a wide range of objects including spheres, curves and arrows with extensive control over parameters. It also includes a particle generator for creating visual effects such as fire, smoke, rain and more.
- Font and Text Management – Dalet Cube NG offers full control over 2D and 3D text including size, texture, shading and mapping. It also includes support for Unicode fonts and a wide range of languages including Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Japanese, Korean and Thai.
- Format and Resolution Independent – Dalet Cube NG is resolution independent and supports HD, 2K, 4K, 8K, UHD and beyond, as well as digital and social graphics formats and workflows.
- Tweet to Graphics – No story is complete until it’s been posted on social; the moment users transform a tweet into a graphic, that graphic becomes an object within Dalet that journalists can either schedule in a production rundown or play out on-air with the news package.
- Ease-of-Use – Dalet Cube NG features simple-to-use tools and tight integration with Dalet Galaxy five that facilitate the adoption of graphics creation and use across the newsroom.
Dalet Cube NG Designer
Dalet Cube NG Designer is a 3D graphics authoring software, used by graphic designers and artists to create graphics needed by media organizations, especially news channels. Dalet Cube NG Designer provides both the page-based workflow familiar to many designers, as well as the possibility of working with templates. Formatting can be implemented on the template and the changes to the text can still be done on each page. Modifications made to a template will be shown on every page of the project.
Dalet Cube NG with the Dalet Workflow Engine
When managing multi-lingual, multi-channel and multi-platform distribution, the Dalet Workflow Engine enables an efficient process for users to enter CG information once, and this gets distributed to a wide variety of Dalet Cube NG placeholders created automatically.
Dalet Cube NG Ticker
A key module for building advanced tickers, Dalet Cube NG Ticker is embedded in the Dalet Cube Play Controller and supports the same graphic elements configured for other Dalet clients. Graphic elements can be executed with different speeds and together with other graphics. Dalet Cube NG Ticker includes various tools that enable parsing of live data such as XML, spreadsheets, SQL or text files.
Dalet Cube NG Play Web
Dalet Cube NG Play Web is a web application used to prepare data entry templates that will be used by journalists and editors in Dalet Galaxy five, and by graphic playout operators using Dalet Cube NG Play Web.
Dalet Flex
The latest release of Dalet Flex now offers enhanced security capabilities and additional OVP integrations, including Brightcove and JWPlayer plug-ins, as well as custom integrations with Bitmovin and Kaltura, improving OTT preparation and multiplatform distribution workflows to help content owners quickly scale their operations. Dalet Flex will reinforce your business continuity with a hybrid or fully-cloud based content supply chain.
For those involved in delivering content to consumers, the task of providing top quality content has never been more complex and fiercely contested. You have to source the highest quality content from multiple sources preparing it and delivering to many platforms and geographies, on tighter budgets and schedules.
Dalet Flex delivers an open solution that simplifies and streamlines content preparation and video publishing. It can utilize your existing investments in best of breed solutions joining your business together, removing manual tasks that can cause errors and delays, meaning, less cost and complexity, more engagement, and maximum revenue.
The core of Dalet Flex handles the metadata, orchestrates workflows, and collects analytic data. It’s enhanced with native applications that support key parts of the supply chain. Then it adds multiple third-party integrations for extra functionality. You can configure the platform to solve even the most complex or siloed supply chain issues:
- Content Production: Manage, integrate and orchestrate your content pipeline
- Content Distribution: Deliver engaging content to each and every channel
- Intelligent Archive: Use artificial intelligence and automation to increase revenue from your content archive
Flex applications unlock and streamline value chain stages like acquisition with FlexMOVE, asset management with FlexMAM, approval workflows with FlexREVIEW, publishing and syndication capabilities with FlexB2C and, linear and multi-platform delivery. Obtain real-time data from every stage of the production and distribution process with FlexTRACK and gain solid business insights from the platform’s reporting capabilities. And to complement this impressive stack, we work closely with Microsoft, Google Cloud Platform, Avid, Oracle Telestream, Interra, AWS, Brightcove and other best-of-breed technology partners to build powerful integrations that seamlessly connect your supply chain.
The flexible open APIs also allow you to develop your own integrations or work with Dalet's Professional Services team to build them.
The result: powerful metadata-driven workflows that move your content through your business seamlessly.
Key Benefits
- Boost your speed to market
- Unblock your content supply chain to open up new revenue opportunities
- Configurable and extensible, so it changes with your needs
- Unrivalled custom workflow orchestration
- Powerful asset management and the most sophisticated metadata on the market
- Integrates via public APIs and SDKs
- Reduces manual work so your team can focus on creating engaging campaigns
- Drives down the total cost of ownership
It’s finally easy to onboard new partners, offer new services and deliver new digital viewing experiences. It’s time to really connect with your partners and your consumers. It’s time to change the way you run your media business – with Dalet Flex.
Dalet Galaxy five
A central, unified multimedia content catalog manages rich media assets across the organization enabling seamless collaboration. Workflow specific, task-oriented tools have native access to this central catalogue, facilitating every aspect of content creation, management and distribution: tools to design, manage and share media and metadata; tools to orchestrate the workflow, automate processes and human tasks; integration tools to unify disparate components into a cohesive system; business intelligence enables customizable reports for full visibility over the performance of your operations and systems.
The new version of the platform brings a number of important functional enhancements and three major technology innovations that augment media operations and create new forward-thinking business models. The first of which enables broadcasters and media organizations to leverage Artificial Intelligence (AI) across the workflow, the second leverages hybrid infrastructures with on-premise and cloud deployments, and the third to bring social media at the core.
Dalet Galaxy five feature highlights include:
- AI Framework: Build smart workflows with contextual recommendations, smart content matching, and better provisioning
- Hybrid Operations: Leverage cloud to deploy hybrid workflows that minimize content handling costs and allow new operation models
- Social Media at the Core: Harvest, analyze, produce and deliver rich content on social media platforms alongside traditional outlets
Dalet Galaxy xCloud
Dalet Galaxy xCloud enables customers to work productively from home leveraging cloud infrastructure, while still using familiar production tools, such as Dalet OneCut, Dalet WebSpace, and Dalet On-the-Go from their home-based devices. Adobe® Premiere® Pro based editing workflows are also supported through the Dalet Xtend plugin.
Dalet’s powerful local caching mechanism provides a seamless editing experience even under difficult network conditions with Galaxy xCloud. Benefit from advanced proxy editing, mixing of central and local content, ability to review packages, approve stories, and deliver breaking news in seconds.
Dalet Galaxy xCloud works through a simple, but secure gateway to your on-premise system. Hosted in AWS and fully managed by Dalet, the solution complies with our leading security policies (ISO 27100).
Key features of Dalet Galaxy xCloud:
- Collaborate: Work collaboratively with your production team, access new content as it arrives and edit growing files.
- Produce: Mix local and remote content seamlessly on the timeline. No need to download large high-resolution files.
- Create: Leverage Dalet OneCut powerful editing features such a new effects and transitions, support for a range of aspects ratios including vertical and square, and much more!
- Work offline: Even when you can’t connect, cached content allows you to continue to edit from virtually anywhere.
- Integrate: Leverage central resources with remote rendering at the production hub.
- Scale: Adjust your Dalet Galaxy xCloud infrastructure as your operational requirements change.
With Dalet Galaxy xCloud, broadcasters and media organizations can ensure business continuity and drive remote workflows that focus on creative work, not on content logistics.
Dalet News Wire
This powerful module covers all the needs of a newsroom, from scheduling, job assignment, wire ingest, scripting to social media integration. To foster collaboration and offer a cohesive workflow, Dalet News Wire is directly connected to the desktop production tools and shares the same media database. Boasting integration with third-party systems, Dalet News Wire story-centric workflow tools increase productivity and maximize content value through easy content repurposing on multiple devices.
Connect your Newsroom to the World In addition to traditional agency wire feeds, Dalet News Wire allows you to capitalize on user-generated content (UGC) and to engage your audience on a deeper and more personal level. To take full advantage of the incoming value-added content in a way that enhances overall productivity, Dalet News Wire delivers efficient tools that fully integrate into existing workflows.
From capture to multi-platform distribution, it offers a complete solution to leverage social media. Compelling stories are created using a mix of user-generated content and professionally gathered content before being easily distributed to traditional and new media channels.
Scheduling Editors model their timetable with program slots for a given period, insert scripts or blocks based on templates, manage timings and assign studios. Dalet News Wire allows for economies of scales as multiple sites and channels can be managed from a central location.
Planning & Assignment Editors create events on specific subjects for which journalists receive job assignments along with valuable information such as descriptions, associated wires, linked media or PDF, URLs and more. When inserted into a rundown, all related stories created by journalists are automatically inserted pending editor’s validation.
Notifications & Chat Dalet notification engine sends assignments directly to journalists’ desktops. Other notifications can be set up to notify incoming wires, approval or rejection of submitted stories. An instant messaging feature allows for fast information and links exchanges.
Dalet OnePlay
An extension of Dalet Galaxy five, Dalet OnePlay not only automates the control of all devices in the studio, it also fully leverages the MAM, NRCS and workflow orchestration capabilities of the platform to open up new forms of audience engagement and revenue opportunities, all the while optimizing the costs of the entire operations
Dalet OnePlay benefits any production of scripted shows, making it an ideal solution for newscasts, sports magazines, live and live-to-tape studio shows.
Modern UI, collaboration and orchestration unleash new opportunities
Dalet OnePlay’s modern, intuitive and efficient UI and UX combined with the agile Dalet Galaxy five News Production and Workflow Orchestration platform enables custom live production workflows with unrivaled operational flexibility, way beyond traditional studio production.
The single shared environment gives way to much smoother and efficient collaboration between show preparation and studio production teams.
More content to more platforms with the same resources
The Dalet Workflow Engine facilitates synchronized multiplatform distribution and automated social media publishing, mitigating operational errors across the board.
This modern workflow allows media organizations to shift their operations forward and get more content to more platforms in a shorter timeframe with the same resources, all while ensuring audiences receive consistent and high-quality experiences across all delivery devices.
Fully Featured and Fully Integrated
Dalet OnePlay controls all device types including video switchers and servers, cameras, audio mixing consoles, graphics, lighting, routers and more. The intuitive, web-based user interface controls all core production devices and is fully integrated with Dalet Galaxy five for seamless workflows, automation and ultra-efficient collaboration between the newsroom and playout.
Dalet StoreFront
Dalet StoreFront is a window into your rich inventory, enabling external users to access and request content with a familiar shopping experience. Underpinned by Dalet MAM orchestration engine for content preparation and delivery, Dalet StoreFront creates an optimal content shopping experience that maximizes inventory exposure, repurposing and retail opportunities, bringing value to the overall media operation and business.
The Dalet StoreFront shopping experience is easily actionable, discoverable through an intuitive browsing and online shopping model, and eliminates the need for back and forth email exchanges.
With Dalet StoreFront, licensing content is easier than ever. Content owners can easily identify and tag content rights for their community of licensees as well as establish rights to visitors and potential licensees. Dalet StoreFront secures your rich content inventory by keeping all the source content under the control and management of Dalet MAM. Only after an order has passed through all checks, automated by Dalet Orchestration, can the fulfillment happen, thus creating a segregated browse/shopping experience from the source catalog.
StoreFront highlights include:
- Catalog: Tap into your existing Dalet content inventory and supply chain engine to promote and showcase your assets.
- Discover: With a familiar shopping experience for searching and discovering content, Dalet StoreFront makes browsing easy without the need for any user training.
- Showcase: Build a partner curated showcase of your best works, and further drive engagement.
- Collect: Enable collaboration by assembling your favourites into collections prior to requesting.
- Integrate: Tight coupling with your Dalet MAM content inventory and supply chain platform, plus open APIs that enable third parties to interact with your content factory.
- Report: Dalet StoreFront reporting provides accurate insights on browse and transactional trends, such as popular searches and cart checkouts. Usage Reports allow you to track your partner’s use of your content.
Dalet Flex
For those involved in Monetizing Content, the task of delivering top quality content has never been more pressurized. You have to source the highest quality content from multiple providers, process it and deliver it to multiple platforms, geographies and on tighter schedules and ensure you are maximizing revenues for that content. How can this be achieved without increasing resources?
Dalet Flex can orchestrate and optimize the entire process. It can leverage your existing investments in best of breed technology, integrating business units and removing error-prone manual tasks. Become more productive, deliver more content, quicker, driving increased revenues and reduced costs.
The core of the platform handles the metadata, orchestrates workflows, and collects analytic data. It’s enhanced with native applications and our open APIs integrations to key best-of-breed partners.
The result: powerful workflows, driven by metadata and easy to create and maintain using the visual Workflow designer. Each individual piece of content is delivered to the right audiences, on the right platform, and the best time to ensure business returns.
With Dalet Flex you can configure delivery packages that ensure the right parameters are set for each endpoint, such as correct subtitles, multiple language audio tracks, relevant metadata, resized images and correct video resolutions. Easily create the monetization platform that brings more customers and keeps them, whether that is advertising, subscription, transactional or a combination of all of these. Combine this automation with actionable insights and make informed decisions quickly on which content to deliver next to drive more revenue.
Key Benefits
One-stop-shop to manage, publish and syndicate your content.
Monetize new and archived content easily through subscriptions, pay-per-view, ads or all three.
Protect your existing investments in best of breed solutions by integrating them through a single platform.
Manage and deliver engaging Live and VOD Content at the right place and the right time
Make business-driven decisions based on real-time analytics.
Dalet Flex helps you meet the goals of modern distribution: to deliver more quality content, to more audiences and channels, driving more revenue without spending more resources. Automated workflows will reduce the driven by the deep metadata that only Dalet Flex can provide.
Join the connected content supply chain revolution - video your way
Dalet Flex
The task of producing top quality content has never been more pressurized. Schedules are tighter, teams are scattered, and delivery to an astonishing variety of platforms around the globe is expected.
Dalet Flex can orchestrate and optimize the entire process. It will break down silos in your business and remove the manual tasks that cause errors and delays. Companies that have deployed Dalet Flex to their Content Production processes have seen an average of 70% in time reduction in producing content, and up to triple their previous output.
The core of the platform handles the metadata, orchestrates workflows, and collects analytic data. This enables the aggregating of metadata from all parts of your business to create the single source of truth. Using the metadata to create powerful workflows that orchestrate the applications and processes that drive your business. Being able to analyze the performance of your processes is a vital element in the long-term success of your business.
Beyond these core functions, Dalet Flex is enhanced with native applications and our open APIs integrations to key best-of-breed partners.
Ooyala applications cover key areas like acquisition with FlexMOVE, asset management with FlexMAM, and approval workflows with FlexREVIEW. Further to this, key partners like Avid, Adobe, Aspera, AWS Elemental and Microsoft are integrated letting you leverage your existing investments. The flexible open APIs also allow you to develop your own integrations or work with Dalet's Professional Services team to build them.
The result: powerful workflows, driven by metadata and easy to create and maintain using the visual Workflow designer. Your content moves seamlessly through your business, with timely reviews and progress clear at all times.
KEY BENEFITS
Unify metadata from across your business, delivering a single source of truth for use everywhere.
Protect your existing investments in best-of-breed solutions by integrating them through a single platform.
Create your own metadata models to fit your needs and use them to drive workflows.
Orchestrate key processes and create efficient custom workflows using the visual Workflow Designer tool.
Find the assets you need with powerful metadata-driven search tools.
Optimize your processes and attack bottlenecks with content production analytics.
Easily add new solutions and technologies with the plug-in framework ― or create your own integrations using simple scripting tools.
Can be hosted on-premise, in the cloud or as a hybrid
Dalet Flex helps you meet the goals of modern production: to create and deliver more quality content faster without spending more resources. Automated workflows reduce bottlenecks and speed up your content creation pipeline, multiplying your production output and increasing your revenue.
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Dalet News Wire
This powerful module covers all the needs of a newsroom, from scheduling, job assignment, wire ingest, scripting to social media integration. To foster collaboration and offer a cohesive workflow, Dalet News Wire is directly connected to the desktop production tools and shares the same media database. Boasting integration with third-party systems, Dalet News Wire story-centric workflow tools increase productivity and maximize content value through easy content repurposing on multiple devices.
Connect your Newsroom to the World In addition to traditional agency wire feeds, Dalet News Wire allows you to capitalize on user-generated content (UGC) and to engage your audience on a deeper and more personal level. To take full advantage of the incoming value-added content in a way that enhances overall productivity, Dalet News Wire delivers efficient tools that fully integrate into existing workflows.
From capture to multi-platform distribution, it offers a complete solution to leverage social media. Compelling stories are created using a mix of user-generated content and professionally gathered content before being easily distributed to traditional and new media channels.
Scheduling Editors model their timetable with program slots for a given period, insert scripts or blocks based on templates, manage timings and assign studios. Dalet News Wire allows for economies of scales as multiple sites and channels can be managed from a central location.
Planning & Assignment Editors create events on specific subjects for which journalists receive job assignments along with valuable information such as descriptions, associated wires, linked media or PDF, URLs and more. When inserted into a rundown, all related stories created by journalists are automatically inserted pending editor’s validation.
Notifications & Chat Dalet notification engine sends assignments directly to journalists’ desktops. Other notifications can be set up to notify incoming wires, approval or rejection of submitted stories. An instant messaging feature allows for fast information and links exchanges.
CGI Viura
Smart camera automation
Viura is a CGI software tool for editors and presenters that provides intelligent camera control in the radio studio. The solution is entirely manufacturer-independent through a combination of video hardware from Blackmagic Design and our specially-designed control software. This means it’s compatible with other dira solutions, as well as with third-party solutions for playout and production.
Triggered by microphone-level detection, fader starts, or by key actions, the software automatically switches to the corresponding configured camera in the studio. Packaging elements, such as lower thirds or broadcast logos, are generated automatically and also can be displayed automatically or by pressing a button.
Key benefits:
- Automatic operations with no additional studio staff required
- Event-controlled camera changes (e.g. by microphone input level, fader starts, etc.)
- Individual logos and texts displayed
- Automatic background recording
- Workflow can be implemented with any mixing console using Ember+
- Integrated touch interface
Find out more about Viura
CGI offers a wide range of professional news and content delivery solutions for innovative media companies across local, national and international markets. This includes the market-leading flagship dira radio delivery software product family, serving many key players in broadcast and delivery.
Learn more about CGI’s radio solutions
CGI OpenMedia NewsBoard
OpenMedia NewsBoard
CGI's cross-media planning tool
OpenMedia NewsBoard enables journalists and editorial teams to organize their story production process directly from everywhere.
It features a fully customizable and open widget architecture that allows newsrooms to stay flexible to workflow adaptations at any time. It’s modern and unified web-based user interface for journalists and editorial teams dynamizes the collaboration process.
Key features include:
- Story-centric planning for full transparency
- Web-based for collaboration anywhere- Integrated agency feeds and social media for broad news access
- User-friendly interface and highly customizable board design for intuitive handling
- Seamless integration with existing OpenMedia solutions for data consistency
- Cloud-native architecture for easy scalability
- Microservice structure for high performance and easy maintenance
Find out more about OpenMedia NewsBoard
CGI offers a wide range of professional news and content delivery solutions for innovative media companies across local, national and international markets. This includes OpenMedia CGI's flagship newsroom computer system, providing maximum speed and scalability for handling complex workflows in broadcast news production.
Learn more about CGI's newsroom solutions
Bluefish444 IngeSTore
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
Etere NDI Newsroom
Etere Nunzio Newsroom integrates seamlessly with Newtek NDI to deliver unlimited streams for live productions with savings of up to half the cost of a traditional SDI setup. Upgrade your newsroom to Etere to get more done for less!
With NDI integration, Nunzio Newsroom software delivers and receives unlimited broadcast quality video streams with low latency and frame accuracy. Setting up a live newsroom production for unlimited streams is easy and cost-efficient. Newstek NDI is a royalty-free standard that allows multiple video systems to identify and communicate with one another over IP. It encodes, transmits and receive multiple streams of high quality, low latency, frame-accurate video and audio in real-time. Etere is compatible with Newtek NDI technology since 2014 when it rolled out support for the IT-based Etere ETX Channel-in-a-box system.
Etere NDI Nunzio Newsroom enables the use of virtual machines to manage the complete newsroom workflow. With a virtualised environment, you have the freedom to run unlimited streams without the need to invest, operate and maintain a large number of hardware and cables. In addition, you can save up to half the hardware costs with a smaller footprint using only standard Gigabit cables. Moreover, with the use of standard IP adapters, the system is fully redundant for a fault-tolerant performance.
Etere Nunzio Newsroom is the newsroom management component of Etere Ecosystem. It enhances coordinated multi-media planning and collaboration across different production units and departments with an editorial driven workflow and flexible metadata management. Etere Nunzio Newsroom represents the future of news reporting with a host of features for the modern newsroom. Etere supports complex stories with multiple video elements including video files, live streams, graphics and secondary media files simultaneously. Even in the face of complex workflows, Etere delivers the reliability, flexibilty and speed that is critical in any fast-paced newsroom. Etere Nunzio taps on a common database to provide real-time updates across all workflows. Nunzio newsroom goes the extra mile for your workflows so that you can focus on producing better content.
Etere Nunzio Newsroom is a collaboration tool that was designed to facilitate information exchange between internal and external teams of all sizes. It supports Windows and web interfaces, giving you the flexibility to share resources, run your workflows, plan tasks, schedule news story, create and approve content from wherever you are. With a simple software download, you have access to capabilities including instant chat, E-paper support, website uploads, integration with social media platforms and a mobile interface to take your newsroom with you wherever you are. No longer confined to a single device or platform, you are equipped with the software tools to bring the stories to your audience anytime, anywhere.
Key Features ■ Unlimited creative possibilities for live production, allows multiple video systems to connect to one another over IP
■ Use of virtual machines for unlimited broadcast quality video streams
■ Eliminates the need to invest, operate and maintain hardware equipment and bulky cables
■ Cost-efficiency at its best - Save up to half the hardware and maintenance costs
■ Encodes, transmits and receives multiple streams of high quality, low latency, frame-accurate video and audio in real-time
■ Uses standard IP adapters for complete redundancy
■ Send high-quality and low latency video while simultaneously streaming and capturing it elsewhere on your network
■ Support multiple devices with web, Windows and mobile interfaces
Etere Nunzio Newsroom
Nunzio Newsroom is a newsroom management software that empowers Media Enterprises with the best tools to develop a story from the initial idea to the final broadcast, all from a single interface. With Etere's mastery of integrated workflows, you can achieve a better performance!
With Nunzio newsroom, you can work better, faster and achieve amazing results. Nunzio Newsroom is a highly-flexible and cost-effective solution with fully empowered Newsroom Computer System (NRCS) capabilities to manage the entire tapeless workflow of a Newsroom environment, starting from the planning of news stories (virtual assets) to the control of on-air playback.
Nunzio Newsroom makes all jobs within a Newsroom easier, helping managers control overall daily operations, guiding journalists to prepare their stories, and enabling editors to quickly edit (e.g. voice-over) and deliver news stories. Nunzio Newsroom is the newsroom management component of Etere Ecosystem, the approach that greatly improves coordinated multi-media planning and collaboration across different production units such as radio, TV or web departments, editorial driven workflow and metadata management. Nunzio Newsroom enables you to develop a story from the initial idea to broadcast. It leverages Etere workflow capabilities to handle requirements and offers ideal integration into the entire existing IT and production environment. Nunzio Newsroom relies on an Etere Media Asset Management (MAM) database and uses the Etere Data Mover engine for transfers and integration of multi site systems. Nunzio Newsroom is equipped with a powerful new instant chat feature that enables quick set-up of group chatrooms; logs favourites list, contact list as well as a history of conversations. Etere Nunzio Newsroom supports E-paper, website upload as well as full integration with Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Youtube directly from Nunzio interface. Additionally, Nunzio is NDI-ready, enabling unlimited channels and live productions with low latency.
Key Features
■ Manage complex stories with multiple video elements including video files, live streams, graphics and secondary media files simultaneously
■ Supports Newtek NDI
■ Supports E-paper and website upload
■ Add/update playlists from social media including Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Youtube directly from Nunzio interface
■ Real-time updates
■ Supports MOS-compliant Teleprompters
■ Flexible and scalable production workflow
■ Fully configurable data model
■ Supports Dante Audio
■ Sophisticated rights, search and communication tools
■ News tickers to create custom carousels
Blaze
This version provides huge performance and usability improvements over the existing system along with a reduced resource footprint. A significant study has gone into making the system more intuitive and at the same time
retain the simplicity for which BLAZE NRCS is known for
AP ENPS
The unique perspective of being the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats helped the Associated Press develop AP ENPS, innovation that was recognised with an Emmy. The market-leading newsroom computer system (NRCS) runs in over 700 newsrooms around the world, with a storycentric workflow it helps journalists create content and publish it to broadcast, digital and social channels.
During the pandemic, ENPS Mobile, accessible through a browser or a mobile client was a lifeline for many newsrooms who were able to carry on with remote collaboration and production.
Unparalleled integration gives maximum flexibility to the customer in terms of choice of system partners to achieve the desired workflows. AP ENPS was recognised with an Emmy in 2017 for its contribution to establishing MOS integration as an industry standard.
The latest version of ENPS prioritises security and user access controls while adding greater flexibility to an enhanced UI/UX. Renowned for its reliability and performance across a distributed network of newsrooms, ENPS remains the solution of choice for news organisations with major TV and digital output.
Octopus Newsroom
Powering more than 250 channels, Octopus is an industry-proven newsroom system designed both for traditional linear broadcasting and web-based digital content delivery. Its flexible structure can be used successfully for mainstream news, sports broadcasting and eSports production as well as website and online publishing.
Octopus integrates with leading social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram as well as the various web content management systems.
Collaborative workflow with shared project planning is central to Octopus, delivering advanced calendar-based collaboration and story-centric workflow across specific topics, no matter what the output format or platform. Fast and easy to operate, Octopus employs a uniquely intuitive two-way digital or linear workflow.
Digital and linear production workflows vary in priority level between organisations. The latest version of Octopus enables tighter than ever collaboration between digital and linear processes, maximising the creative potential of newsroom staff. The feature set includes collaborative script editing, integrated rundown management and easy access to incoming feeds.
Supported by more than 50 MOS partners, Octopus is an open solution with a unified interface which allows operators to work efficiently across multiple devices. It offers smooth integration with any broadcasting system, powering rundown production, studio automation, MAM, playout, graphics, CG solutions and teleprompters.
Easily implemented, simple to learn, Octopus scales to any newsroom environment and supports all major languages.
Octopus Newsroom Computer Systems
Powering more than 250 channels, Octopus is an industry-proven newsroom system designed both for traditional linear broadcasting and web-based digital content delivery. Its flexible structure can be used successfully for mainstream news, sports broadcasting and eSports production as well as website and online publishing.
Octopus integrates with leading social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram as well as the various web content management systems.
Collaborative workflow with shared project planning is central to Octopus, delivering advanced calendar-based collaboration and story-centric workflow across specific topics, no matter what the output format or platform. Fast and easy to operate, Octopus employs a uniquely intuitive two-way digital or linear workflow.
Digital and linear production workflows vary in priority level between organisations. The latest version of Octopus enables tighter than ever collaboration between digital and linear processes, maximising the creative potential of newsroom staff. The feature set includes collaborative script editing, integrated rundown management and easy access to incoming feeds.
Supported by more than 50 MOS partners, Octopus is an open solution with a unified interface which allows operators to work efficiently across multiple devices. It offers smooth integration with any broadcasting system, powering rundown production, studio automation, MAM, playout, graphics, CG solutions and teleprompters.
Easily implemented, simple to learn, Octopus scales to any newsroom environment and supports all major languages.
Inception News
From the smallest newsrooms to the world’s largest broadcasters, Inception can scale to meet any size operation or workflow with both subscription and purchase models available.
Inception’s robust MOS interface makes it easy to integrate with other broadcast devices like graphics, video servers, media asset management, teleprompters and automation.
Key Features:
- Story-Centric Workflows
- Enterprise Features
- Social media and Web
- Assignment Manager
- Horizon + Inception
- Messaging
Tria News
Tria News is tightly integrated with Ross Video’s Inception newsroom computer system, Streamline media asset management and OverDrive automated production control platform. With this seamless and comprehensive newsroom ecosystem, it's easy to organize newsroom media assets, create and manage run-down playlists, and present news story play out from Tria News. This system also uses well-established and proven MOS newsroom processes, providing reliable and worry-free live operations.
DiNA
DiNA is a story creation, planning and collaboration tool for journalists. It is a complete cloud based newsroom system allowing users to work from anywhere with an online connection.
With DiNA as the centrepiece of the newsroom, organisations avoid the costs associated with maintenance of on-premise equipment with all functions running in the cloud.
DiNA integrates with studio automation systems, media asset management systems, graphics systems, and more, providing one tool for all for the end users.
DiNA launched for the US and wider world wide market early 2020 and received the TV Technology Future Best of Show Award in April 2020.
DiNA customer are, amongst others, Danish broadcaster TV 2/ FYN, Australian OTT channel ausbiz, Canal 8/Kanal 9, the soon to launch GB News in Britain, and TVNZ.
TelePrompter
MOS protocol support allows instant visualizing of any changes in a prompter.
Additional hardware (control panel) facilitates text scrolling more accurately.
Various office types of files support reduces time for story preparation and speeds up going on air even in case there is no NRCS.
NewsPlan
Integration with Media Asset Management platform A-MAM allows immediate access to all content, including the archived materials.
Embedded media player allows video and graphics frame accurate preview.
Media data exchange with various NLE systems simplifies editing.
Advanced auto save funtion provides disaster recovery facility in case of hardware failure.
The opportunity to managing newswires allows the users to always stay tuned.
Advanced Rundown Timing is aimed at managing duration of stories.
nxtedition
The existing paradigm in TV production of using different ‘appliance’ based products from multiple manufacturers creates layers of complexity which are expensive to purchase, difficult to maintain, hard to integrate and need specialist staff to operate. What if, instead of having to navigate different systems for different parts of the workflow, you could consolidate these all into one, efficient toolkit?
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.
Being first, fast and accurate with the story is critical to the brand and recognition of the news outlet.
nxtedition encapsulates all the following activities into a single user interface offering to be first, fast and accurate with the stories people want and need to know - be that news, sport, entertainment, or production.
- Channel Playout (TV and Radio)
- Graphics
- Ingest Recording
- Live Streaming In And Out
- Media Asset Management
- Metadata Management
- Music Rotation
- Production Planning
- Prompter
- Publishing To Web, App And Social Media
- Reporting
- Rundown Creation
- Scriptwriting
- Studio Automation (TV and Radio)
- Subtitling
- Transcoding