Etere Media Asset Management

Manage » Prepare » Content Preparation » Content and metadata packaging »

A multi-channel and end-to-end software solution, Etere combines video switching, video server, advertisement and logo insertion capabilities for targeted ad insertions. From planning and billings to playout, Etere is able to manage real-time connectivity between different departments.

Etere Ad Insertion enhances video monetization opportunities, it effectively manages the end-to-end ad insertion and playout process including resource management, insertion of filling events on demand, scrolling text, logo and CG insertions. Etere is designed to manage dynamic and targeted ad insertion requirements in any fast-moving environment. Running on either automatic or manual mode, it is able to manage real-time insertion of video clips, logos, CG graphics, graphics overlays and scrolling text into stored content and live content for an unlimited number of channels. It combines a video switcher, video server, ad and logo inserter into an open system that ready to fit into any workflow. It streamlines playout complexity with its multi-format capabilities and support for cable, satellite, terrestrial and IP deliveries. Its integrative real-time monitoring and redundancy features provide a highly fault-resilient and accurate performance. Etere is capable of managing an unlimited number of TV channels, scale up or down according to your business needs. It is a fully integrative software-based solution that increases your advertising ROI and operational efficiency.

 

Key Features

■ Supports multiple platforms including satellite, terrestrial, cable and IP television

■ Manages Ad Insertion on compressed video channels with high density DPI ad server

■ Frame accurate splicing on any frame

■ Intuitive PC and web-based interface enhance control and operational efficiency

■ Integrated Cue-Tone decoder

■ Fault resilient performance with main and backup redundancy

■ Manages channels independently for each network

■ Start via GPI/SCTE signals/VANC codes

■ Multi-network support

■ Supports IP connection, SD and HD inputs and outputs

■ DVB Subtitles

■ Supports Splicing and pass-through

■ Time-shift with very high accuracy

■ Manages loudness control and syncs loudness levels across all channels and formats

 

Significant Cost Advantage

■ IP workflows support for a more cost-efficient setup compared with baseband systems

■ Uses standard servers

■ Lowers total cost of ownership across multiple platforms

■ Integrates seamlessly into any environment without a major change in the system

■ Does not require dedicated streaming server with local file-based storage

Ad Insertion

■ L-shaped squeeze and overlay for ads

■ Insert graphics, texts, crawlers and logos

■ Able to manage last minute changes and filling events

■ Flexible ad insertion: Overlay, around the content via slices, overlays and text crawls

■ Seamless insertion of advertisements into live, linear or video-on-demand (VOD) content

■ SCTE-104 and SCTE-35 compatibility for targeted ad insertion

■ Effective video monetization with location specified programming

 

Easy Scalability

■ Scalable at any stage according to requirements

■ Does not require a major change in the system

Splicing

■ Frame accurate splicing

■ Able to splice on any frame

■ CBR & VBR splicing

■ Stream-to-stream (live to live program)

■ File-to-stream (advert to live program)

■ File-to-file (advert to advert)

■ Stream-to-file (live program to advert)

■ Embedded filee asset streaming server

■ MPEG video playout server

Logo Generation and Embedment

■Enhanced advertisements with the embedded 2D & 3D logo generator, supports multiple overlays and layers

■Seamless commercial graphics/logos workflow from production to edits, scheduling, invoicing and playout

■Pre-set and real-time preview features enable preliminary checks on the graphics

■Dynamic ad insertion: Inserts 2D and 3D logos into live and stored video feeds

■Compatible with a wide range of graphics files: TGA, AVI, MOV, SWF, PNG, JPEG, GIF

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Etere Airsales is the most powerful software solution to manage your complete advertising lifecycle.

Etere Airsales is an integrated solution for traffic, accounting and all sales management-related operations. It is completely scalable to your size and needs, from the smallest single-station setup to the largest corporation. Etere Airsales is THE powerful solution for your sales workflow. It is able to give you total visibility and inventory control to optimise advertising revenue and profitability. The integrated characteristics of Etere Airsales ensures information is always visible in real-time, thus allowing enhanced inventory management and optimal decision-making. Etere Airsales manages the full spectrum of advertising sales activities including pre- and post-sales activities, sales campaigns, customer relationship proposals, commercial planning, invoicing, salesmen and agencies commissions.

Key Features ■ Multi-day inventory view for managing inventory across multiple days

■ Maximized returns on investment and reduced operating costs

■ Fast contract entry for unlimited spots

■ Centralized campaign planning and placement

■ Sales force and account management

■ Post transmission analysis, real-time reporting and statistics

■ Seamless integration with automation systems

■ Available web management of orders and pre-orders

■ Ability to import data from traffic systems

Produce » Real-Time Production » Video Production » Production automation systems »

Etere Automation is a powerful, reliable and modular playout automation system that is able to enhance broadcasters' potential in terms of functionalities and workflow design. Its unique approach combines real-time device control and media asset management in a single product, offering a powerful mix of solutions and capabilities. It is a system to fit all broadcaster needs. Etere Automation is able to transmit streaming events according to the videoserver capabilities, and play in A/B switch mode and remote several devices among the large list of the supported ones, using network, serial, and GPI connections. In addition, Etere Automation database-independent capabilities enable different levels of fault tolerance, allowing it to run on Backup Mode, Master/Clone Mode, and Disaster Recovery Mode. Etere Automation's distributed architecture provides a system that can grow and change to fit all broadcaster needs. It runs on Windows and controls all the broadcast system devices. Etere Automation uses the database of Etere Media Asset Management to integrate all the activities in a single environment, thus allowing retrieval of assets stored in the station with no size limit, as well as to manage playlists and perform last minute changes.

Key Features ■ Integrated environment with a user-friendly interface

■ Ingest system, common with Etere Media Asset Management (MAM), can be used for both archive and playout

■ Start and end points on videos are stored in the system database

■ Single segment, multi segment and multi spot are managed as a same database object

■ Barcodes can be printed on catalogue tapes

■ Ingest jobs can be automated to minimize operator work

■ Live recordings are also supported and these can be manually triggered or pre-scheduled

■ Play while recording is supported on every device

■ Etere Automation runs independently from the Etere' SQL Server, ensuring a truly fault-tolerant and resilient performance

■ Etere Automation is able to offer different levels of fault tolerance, with Backup Mode, Master/Clone Mode, and Disaster Recovery Mode with a distributed architecture that provides high redundancy for system failure

■ Seamless workflows with Etere ETX, Etere Scheduling and Etere Automation for real time content delivery

Monetize » Schedule Content » Broadcast Management System » Linear and non-linear scheduling »

A comprehensive and complete scheduling solution providing a range of program planning tools, customisable views and filters along with full rights, media and content validation.

Designed to be scalable, robust and secure, Etere BMS has evolved to provide the most powerful integrated suite of content management modules available. Etere BMS was developed to satisfy the most demanding users by providing an all-in-one-solution with program acquisition planning, content utilisation monitoring, inventory using Etere Media Asset Management.

It integrates with Etere Media Asset Management (MAM) metadata, dynamic play-out, post-transmission accounting, rights management and media workflow processing via Etere Workflow and Delivery Platforms.

BMS stands for Broadcast Management System and it specifically refers to the management of licensing rights process, which is a critical element to overall success in the broadcasting business.

Key Features

■ Central tracking of rights consumption and distribution

■ Long-form and short-form rights for multi-platform services

■ Real-time reporting of rights situation and payments

■ Detailed rights management on territory and media diffusion

■ Versatile amortization templates to manage program payment

■ Transparent and powerful inventory management

■ Manage licensed television programs (both single programs and series programs), including their planning, rights management and scheduling

■ Reliable way of managing of one of the most delicate parts of the broadcasting business

■ Organised structure streamlines workflow and increases efficiency

A comprehensive and complete scheduling solution providing a range of program planning tools, customisable views and filters along with full rights, media and content validation.

Designed to be scalable, robust and secure, Etere BMS has evolved to provide the most powerful integrated suite of content management modules available. Etere BMS was developed to satisfy the most demanding users by providing an all-in-one-solution with program acquisition planning, content utilisation monitoring, inventory using Etere Media Asset Management.

It integrates with Etere Media Asset Management (MAM) metadata, dynamic play-out, post-transmission accounting, rights management and media workflow processing via Etere Workflow and Delivery Platforms.

BMS stands for Broadcast Management System and it specifically refers to the management of licensing rights process, which is a critical element to overall success in the broadcasting business.

Key Features

■ Central tracking of rights consumption and distribution

■ Long-form and short-form rights for multi-platform services

■ Real-time reporting of rights situation and payments

■ Detailed rights management on territory and media diffusion

■ Versatile amortization templates to manage program payment

■ Transparent and powerful inventory management

■ Manage licensed television programs (both single programs and series programs), including their planning, rights management and scheduling

■ Reliable way of managing of one of the most delicate parts of the broadcasting business

■ Organised structure streamlines workflow and increases efficiency

Manage » Prepare » Content Preparation » Compliance control »

Etere CensorMX Simple is a reliable, powerful and user-friendly Live Censorship and Time Delay platform that allows you to edit or replace any video segment, insert clips or advertisements on the fly, as well as easily mute or bleep any audio segment. It features a dual-monitor design that enables Hi-Res preview alongside a second monitor that is capable of displaying the CensorMX Simple interface with full controls for a seamless operation. CensorMX Simple also offers workspace customization that allows the user to pick the layout that they want or use a default setting. The software is also a client server application that allows a single client to control multiple servers with zero delay technology for preview, making Etere CensorMX Simple a flexible, reliable and cost-effective solution.

Etere CensorMX Simple comes equipped with a comprehensive editing suite containing all essential tools to allow broadcasters to quickly and efficiently replace footages. Its load balanced architecture ensures a fault-resilient and powerful performance. With CensorMX Simple, broadcasters are able to build a library of clips that can be inserted without delay, into time-critical live footages.

Key Features

■ Variable time delay

■ No waiting times to preview content while recording, with countdown timers for alerting

■ Quickly perform deletions, insertions and replacements for live and recorded video

■ Easily mute and bleep audio with Mute and Bleep functions

■ MTX zero delay technology for preview

■ Continuous Loop in Playlist

■ Multiple Image Format Management

■ Anticipate, censor and replace sensitive or inadequate footages

■ Save costs as client server applications allows one single client to control multiple servers

■ Timeline with markers showing all edits with full logs and report of censorship operations

■ Library allows you to select any clips (including advertising spots) for rapid insertion

■ Enhanced preview for both live/delayed video with countdown timers

■ Multiclip insertion

Produce » Real-Time Production » Video Production » Production automation systems »

Etere Channel in the Cloud encompasses all the features you need for a cloud playout, management and distribution. Be ready for the cloud with Etere's cost-efficiency, speedy deployments, easy scalability and secure remote access.

Etere Channel in the Cloud empowers users with broadcast-quality, cost-effective and cloud-based channel playout, management and distribution. With Etere, you can lower costs, retain better control of your operations and achieve greater flexibility.

Etere provides a hassle-free and cost-effective approach to cloud playout with a full range of advantages including:

■ Launch channels in the cloud without the high costs associated with traditional hardware and satellite delivery

■ Discover new revenue generating opportunities with the easy expansion of channels

■ Channels can be managed from any location and device with an internet connection

■ Distribution to all platforms including satellite, cable, IPTV, web and mobile

■ Unified workflows for linear, Video-on-Demand (VOD) and Over-the-Top (OTT) deliveries

■ Create unlimited sub-channels for different regions and head-ends

■ Insert logo and channel branding directly from the same interface

■ Full resiliency and secure access

Key Features

■ Time delay

■ Disaster recovery

■ As-run output file

■ With full IP inputs and outputs

■ Live playlist and live monitoring

■ Cloud Storage with automatic file sync

■ Cloud transcoding/transfer with Multiplex

■ Segment and edit clips directly from the cloud

■ Full SD and HD broadcast quality of 480i, 720p, 1080i and 1080p

■ CEA 608/708 closed caption support for both live and file sources

■ Supports IP Multiviewer for up to 9 display monitors and 30 input sources

■ Playlist preview and scheduling for both automatic and manual insertions

■ Costs are significantly lower than that of standard playout solutions

■ Channels can be controlled from any location with an internet connection

■ Manage CG insertions including logos, crawlers and animated graphics directly from the cloud

■ Network providers can launch a channel in the cloud easily without satellite video system setup and hardware complexity

■ Broadcasters can launch separate or sub-channels for different regions or headend which can also serve as revenue generators

■ No need to send affiliates playout servers when channels are launched in the cloud, cost savings are significantly lower than a traditional setup

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

Etere DiskLibrary is a next-generation software solution that manages archive based on sleeping disks. It is a cost-efficient alternative to LTO and ODA libraries. It allows to mix any archive enclosure as well as different disk technologies.

Etere DiskLibrary is a disk-based archive solution that bridges the gap between performance and cost-efficiency. It is a cost-efficient alternative to Linear Tape-Open (LTO) tapes and ODA. It features greater flexibility and interoperability as it allows the user to use any archive enclosure instead of a dedicated type. For long-term benefits, Etere DiskLibrary provides easy maintenance and upgrades. The ultra fast retrieval time of Etere DiskLibrary fits better in Newsroom application and MAM, where data needs to be retrieved as fast as it is possible. The easily expandable and small footprint fits in every system.

Ultra-dense Storage with Greater Flexibility

Etere DiskLibrary uses sleeping disks which enable significant power savings when not in use. The average life span of the disks is also enhanced. With current technology, it costs lesser than LTO for capacity up to 1 PB. Recognizing that data retention and long-term archive are important elements of a broadcasting lifecycle, Etere DiskLibrary is designed to offer greater flexibility and security at a lower cost. Etere DiskLibrary allows unlimited I/O while LTO access is limited by the number of files and linear access. Etere DiskLibrary is also easier to maintain and upgrade.

■Very low setup costs

■Very low maintenance costs

■Smaller footprint compared to LTO and ODA

■Low power consumption compared to LTO and ODA

■Extreme density of up to 1.3 PB hard drives using just 10U of rack space

■Price advantage against LTO with capacity up to 1 PB

■Unlimited bandwidth

■Easy to upgrade, mix of different generations and hardware in the same system

■JBODS and MAID integrated

■JBODS and MAID enclosures are inexpensive and interchangeable

■Disk backup provides greater reliability, faster data retrieval and faster write speed

■Archive based on sleeping disks, this extends Hard Drive lifespan to more than 5 years

■Centralized database of archival records

■FAST !! Less than 2 secs to access any data and access multiple data at any point of time

Hybrid Disk and Tape for Long-term Storage Solution

Etere DiskLibrary is a versatile solution that works well on its own or as part of a hybrid disk and tape solution, thus empowering organisations with the flexibility to adapt the most suitable solution based on the functional requirements of the data to be archived. Picking an archive solution that meets the functional requirements of the archived data will not only ensure regulatory compliance, lower costs, and mitigate risks but will also meet operational goals and achieve long-term viability.

Key Features ■All-in-one software-based solution that works with a simple PC setup

■Users are able to use any archive enclosure and mix disks of any size

■Users are able to mix hardware from different vendors

■Fast and powerful performance with Windows SQL database integration

■Can be configured with JBODS and MAID for high performance, fast restores and large capacity for a smaller energy consumption and footprint

■Fast data recovery and restoration when compared to tapes

■Easy upgrades with very low maintenance costs

■Able to cluster multiple disk archives to create a geographically distributed archive

■Off-premise deployments, configurations and upgrades at distributed locations

■Provides both logical and physical redundancies that protects your data

■Archive based on sleeping disks with low energy consumption and longer disk life

■Customisable settings for user rights

■Faster replication, migration and integration

■Distributed architecture ensures a fault-resilient and fault-tolerant performance

■Highly scaleable solution that can be upgraded easily and quickly

■Supports partial restore, manage restorations according to specific requirements

■Able to handle large data capacity with no limitations, suitable for media enterprises

■SMPTE 2034 data format

■Reads any disk from any computer, standard NTFS file system

■Disk encryption to avoid unauthorized access

Produce » Real-Time Production » Video Production » Production automation systems »

The most advanced IT-based solution, cost-efficient video management system on the market that is a complete channel in a box with full IP/NDI/SDI in and out capabilities.

Etere ETX is the most advanced, tightly integrated and cost-efficient video management system on the market, completely based on IT technology. It is 4K ready and a complete channel in a box with full IP/NDI/SDI (in and out) for multiple frames rates. It is able to drive the most popular HD/SD digital video/audio/graphics platforms without using middle-ware/proprietary hardware. ETX is a fully digital ingest/playout engine that gives you professional video technology with support for all major essences and wrappers in the broadcast industry. It is capable of SDI output, multiple layers of graphics. Additionally, HEVC/ H.265 encoding is also available on Etere ETX. With ETX inserter, operators are able to create closed captions including CEA 608 and CEA 708. In addition, ETX is capable of live subtitling with the ETX inserter and time delay. ETX is also integrated with a countdown timer that displays the time remaining until the next program. As part of the Etere Ecosystem framework, Etere ETX has a distributed architecture that enables it to take advantage of ultimate storage and video hardware to create a high-performance digital media solution that can be used to capture/playout servers, NLE systems, graphics/production servers, automation and master control units. To receive an NDI source stream, use live source object and initialize the "NDI Receiver" device just like any other capture card. The distribution of contents from the different ETX engines is controlled by Etere Data Mover, the application that delivers the correct video to the correct place at the correct time. In addition, Etere ETX video file transfer capability is one of the fastest in the market.

Key features

■ Multiple graphics and webGL graphics overlays

■ Capture web pages as live multimedia sources

■ 4K, HD, and SD with Up and Down conversion

■ RTMP input and integrated time delay

■ Serves as a RTMP sender or RTSP receiver

■ Full IP support for both HD and SD videos, supports NewTek NDI

■ Supports multiple layers of graphics

■ Fully compliant DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting) stream

■ Supports Microsoft ReFS File System, cloud-ready

■ Included graphics engine allows overlay of static/animated logos and crawlers on 8 layers

■ Able to perform IP in and IP out, with multiple frame rates and independent IP out services

■ Integrated IT-based master control with multichannel ingest/playout

■ Easy insertion of closed captions including CEA 608 and CEA 708 with ETX inserter

■ Create live subtitling seamlessly with ETX inserter and time delay

■ SDI output with support for selected cards (SDI or IP) including Blackmagic, Matrox

■ File formats includes LXF, MOV, MXF, GXF, ASF, MPG-TS, MPG-PS, AVI, DV and MKV

■ Video codecs includes DVCPRO, MPG1, MPG2, MPG4, H.264, HEVC/ H.265, DNxHD, ProRes

■ Audio codecs includes AAC, MP2, MP3, Flac

■ Graphics files includes TGA, AVI, MOV, SWF, PNG, JPEG, GIF

■ Plays files from 5 secs

Store » File-based & Object Storage » On-Premise Storage » Off-line/archive storage »

Tape Library Manager for several long-term archiving: integration, proactive cache, MAM prefetch, reliability, enterprise design, and partial restore capabilities. Etere provides higher storage variations.

Etere HSM is a tool to move and optimize video contents between different media. The data movement policy is applied to get the best compromise between cost and speed.

Etere HSM manages all archives in a single integrated environment, supporting a mix of proprietary and/or industry file systems, including Linear Tape-Open (LTO) storage, Sony Optical Disc Archive (ODA) storage, Disk Archive, Object Storage and Cloud Storage, with a single interface that provides all information on archives located on-site as well as across multiple geographic locations. The integrated workflow orchestration helps automate multi-vendor and multi-format file transformations, across unlimited storage tiers in a hybrid cloud environment. Etere HSM also streamlines metadata interchange between third-party systems, and metadata enrichment services to enable users to attain more value from their assets. This solution lets our customers choose from a wide range of archive storage technologies. Users can create an archive copy of all critical data on performance storage and a second copy on secure storage. Optionally, a disaster recovery copy can be stored offsite. Etere HSM uses Windows drivers to interface with hardware; any windows-compatible library or tape drive can be used.

Key Features

■ Supports LTO8

■ Archive high and low resolution copies as well as Master and TX copies

■ Store all metadata along with the video for an increased protection

■ Carry out the backup copy of the database

■ Auto-update the library status of files to prevent last minute issues

■ Optimize space according to cost and reduce expensive media

■ User-friendly interface combined with display of tape content, even for offline tapes

■ Capable of producing multiple copies of the tapes, up to three copies that can be held in the library or off the shelf for increased security

■ Archiving of all the video files and management of both high and proxy resolution with increased protection

■ Enables metadata integration when a clip is archived in the Tape Library

■ Long term archive management; the tape library is used to significantly expand the system capacity to allow permanent storage of data

■ MS Windows based and is able to interface with all library or tape drives that are MS Windows compatible

■ A single view of a multi-library environment; it is able to manage different libraries located in different places as a single logical entity

Publish » Linear Playout » Linear Playout Systems » Master control switchers »

Etere Master Control enhances Etere ETX video and graphics features to achieve new capabilities of a full IT-based playout.

Etere, the pioneer of IT-based playout, is a worldwide provider of comprehensive and integrative software solutions for an easy management of all the functions within a Media company. Etere solutions are designed with more efficient workflows that are also fully scalable to your organisation's needs. Etere has always been an innovator in broadcast and integrating the traditional Master Control functions into Etere ETX ensures that you get the best returns on your investments. Etere system turns a simple computer into a multi-functioning integrated solution. With ETX, you will need only one server to playout, switch, fade dissolve, insert logo and do all the CG functions.

For customers who already use ETX, implementing an IT-based playout enhanced with master control functionalities will consist in a simple software upgrade based on an add-on license, no extra hardware is needed.

Etere Master Control provides all features required from a master control including:

■ Supports touch-screen display for a fully interactive experience

■ Customised transition effects settings

■ Preset and preview bars for fast switching

■ Default configuration (A/B) needs a SD/HD 2IN-2OUT card

■ Up to 8 logo layers with multiple sizes per decoder

■ Unlimited number of input channels plus one Crawl/CG

■ Audio shuffling and control as well as dolby-e pass-through

■ Video switching including transitions effects

■ Multiple PC's installations (e.g. for a 2nd EE monitor)

Manage » Manage & Orchestrate » Data & Metadata Management » (Meta)data aggregation and management »

Etere MAM is a highly-effective digital content management solution that is designed specifically to streamline the process of ingest, index, storage and retrieval of digital assets. MAM is an end-to-end software solution created to fully optimize the value of your assets through a centralized management of digital content and associated metadata. Its effective implementation both increases operational efficiency and maximizes the return on investment of digital media. MAM simplifies the process of content management by streamlining the digital workflow, bringing media to the market faster and in multiple formats thus ensuring an exceptional and frame accurate content. MAM is an indispensable workflow orchestration that simplifies complex tasks across the entire media lifecycle.

 

Key Features

■Complete modular solutions that are able to manage the end-to-end media lifecycle including ingest, transcoding, content retrieval, metadata association and asset distribution

■Compatible with Nuance Dragon for automatic audio and file transcriptions

■Automated content processing that is able to detect new content assets

■Automated Ingest followed by effective and integrated QC workflows

■Connects to Wowza for live and VOD content

■Generation of multiformat, multipurpose files for delivery to multiple platforms

■Connects with Etere Browsing to support the streaming of VC-1 codecs

■Rights structure to protect intellectual property including digital watermarking

■Etere Nunzio Newsroom integration for real-time access to media content(MOS compliant)

■Etere HSM integration to transfer files between near-line, libraries and playout servers

■Compliant with FFV1 Format

Publish » Linear Playout » Linear Playout Systems » Compliance recording »

Get more out of your compliance logger software with Etere Memory which equips you with the features to comply with regulatory requirements as well as to analyse audience data, insert logos/timecodes, view/edit recordings, log clips for OTT, VOD and social media delivery.

Etere Memory provides broadcasters with a reliable compliance logger that records and stores all transmitted video and audio in a low resolution format (Mpeg4/WMV), enabling operators to fulfill all broadcast recording laws. Not only that, it allow content creators to re-purpose their content in a cost-effective and easy way. Etere Memory provides the tools to record, create, edit clips, add metadata, transcode and distribute content for VOD, OTT and social media. Etere Memory is a simple and cost-effective software that runs on any Windows computer that enables the recording and viewing of clips at the same time with only a few seconds delay. Etere supports commonly used input cards including Blackmagic and IP input including IP with TS, AIMS and ASPEN. Streaming out from Etere Memory is possible with HTTP, UDP, RTSP & RTMP streaming to flash media server and Wowza Media Server. Etere Memory also supports the H264 format (MPEG-4) which was developed for use in high definition systems such as HDTV, Blu-ray and HD DVD to produce better quality at a lower file size. Etere Memory comes with Etere player for Windows and HTML5 player for web to provide an exceptional viewing experience.

Key Features ■ HTML5 player for web/desktop browsing and H264 (MPEG-4) compatibility

■ Compliance logger that complies with all the TV regulatory requirements

■ Streaming out of content for remote control of video

■ Live clipping for OTT and social media

■ Video-On-Demand (VOD) clipping

■ HTTP, UDP, RTSP & RTMP streaming to flash media server and Wowza Media Server

■ Supports analogue and digital video capture boards

■ Data protection and advanced redundancy to record files on remote servers

■ Unlimited and simultaneous clients/recordings, multiple viewings and editing

■ Embedded time code on recorded videos

■ Automatic detection and SNMP notifications for black and freezed video issues

■ Metadata marking to identify and search key video parts

■ Audience data insertion into logged video files and competitors record checks

■ Supports insertion of logos and timecodes, supports annotation on video

■ Includes Etere HSM archiving at no additional costs

■ Integration with loudness check and preview with Etere Audience

Etere Memory provides broadcasters with a reliable compliance logger that records and stores all transmitted video and audio in a low resolution format (Mpeg4/WMV), enabling operators to fulfill all broadcast recording laws. Not only that, it allow content creators to re-purpose their content in a cost-effective and easy way. Etere Memory provides the tools to record, create, edit clips, add metadata, transcode and distribute content for VOD, OTT and social media. Etere Memory is a simple and cost-effective software that runs on any Windows computer that enables the recording and viewing of clips at the same time with only a few seconds delay. Etere supports commonly used input cards including Blackmagic and IP input including IP with TS, AIMS and ASPEN. Streaming out from Etere Memory is possible with HTTP, UDP, RTSP & RTMP streaming to flash media server and Wowza Media Server. Etere Memory also supports the H264 format (MPEG-4) which was developed for use in high definition systems such as HDTV, Blu-ray and HD DVD to produce better quality at a lower file size. Etere Memory comes with Etere player for Windows and HTML5 player for web to provide an exceptional viewing experience.

• HTML5 player for web/desktop browsing and H264 (MPEG-4) compatibility


• Compliance logger that complies with all the TV regulatory requirements


• Streaming out of content for remote control of video


• Live clipping for OTT and social media


• Video-On-Demand (VOD) clipping


• HTTP, UDP, RTSP & RTMP streaming to flash media server and Wowza Media Server


• Supports analogue and digital video capture boards


• Data protection and advanced redundancy to record files on remote servers


• Unlimited and simultaneous clients/recordings, multiple viewings and editing


• Embedded time code on recorded videos


• Automatic detection and SNMP notifications for black and freezed video issues


• Metadata marking to identify and search key video parts


• Audience data insertion into logged video files and competitors record checks


• Supports insertion of logos and timecodes, supports annotation on video


• Includes Etere HSM archiving at no additional costs


• Integration with loudness check and preview with Etere Audience

Produce » Manage Production » Production Software » Newsroom computer systems (NRCS) »

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

Produce » Manage Production » Production Software » Newsroom computer systems (NRCS) »

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

Publish » Non-Linear Publishing » Non-Linear Publishing Systems » Internet/OTT servers and systems »

A business-class OTT delivery solution to expand broadcasters' and TV operators' multi-platform product.

The invasion of Over-the-Top (OTT) services has begun, it is time for media operators to prepare their positions and choose their weapons to win the battles for media, mobile and cloud services.

Etere OTT Delivery is the solution that enables you to get a quick and easy way to export your content to over-the-top platform provider, meet all contract terms and media formatting requirements while ensuring the protection of your premium assets.

The broadcasting industry is well known for being a rapidly-evolving landscape, Etere's strong grasp of industry's trends and innovative technologies enables you to keep up the pace. Etere OTT Delivery is the innovative and revolutionary solution to enrich your broadcasting and make you the next generation media winner.

Key Features

Etere OTT Delivery module enables content providers to manage the distribution of their OTT content over a variety of media platforms. Delivery orders managed in this module have:

■ Facilitated order compilation and multi-change capabilities

■ OTT Ad Insertion: Create multiple sub-playlists to be generated from the main playlist

■ Exclusive relation to a specific platform

■ Easy duplication of orders to extend platforms

■ Multi-platform delivery of assets through different orders

■ Custom XML headers per order/platform

■ Automatic workflow preparation and export of files

■ Track and consult all delivered assets through accurate reports

■ Defines the rights agreement that determines the platforms through which the delivered content can be transmitted through diffusion of Rights

■ Real-time payment tracking of delivered content

■ "ToDo Notifications" tool allows easy creation of reminders to be automatically delivered via e-mail at specific times, for example, to remind the accountancy department to perform the payment of the sold rights

■ Search delivery orders easily via search filters

■ Distribute content over a variety of media platforms including Netflix, Hulu Plus, Amazon Prime, Redbox Instant, Vudu, Vodafone TV, CanalSat, Orange Nouvelle TV

■ Specify all delivery conditions such as licensee, platform, metadata, asset(s) and workflow to be executed

Produce » Manage Production » Post-Production Software » Playlist/package mastering software »

Streamline your workflow and increase operational efficiency with Etere Post Pro package which is designed as a one-stop solution for all your post-production needs. Etere Post Pro package includes some of our top-of-the-line products at a single package price.

Post production is a critical part of the broadcasting lifecycle. Get a headstart with Etere Post Pro Package which is tailored to help you to achieve optimised operational efficiency while enhancing the production value of projects with the best tools possible. Future-proof your projects with Etere's forward-thinking solutions curated in an all-in-one package tailored for all your post-production needs: Reduce complexity with Etere Media Asset Management (MAM) at every stage of your post-production workflow including management, access, production and archive. With demands for higher quality content with shorter timelines, it is important to stay relevant in this fast-paced environment. Etere Post Pro amplifies your investment returns with optimal quality at every stage of the workflow. Etere's efficient load balancing capabilities distributes tasks across resources for a fault-tolerant and exceptional performance.

Key Features

Advanced Archive Management: Users are able to use Etere DiskLibrary as a more cost-efficient alternative to LTO and ODA libraries Transcoding with Intuitive Interface: Transcoder for quick search, multi-formats support for multi-platforms delivery Metadata Search: Delivers files & metadata efficiently & adds metadata for a quick search Seamless Integration & Delivery: Multi-format, multi-frame-rate, multi-resolution and multi-platform Etere Media Asset Management (MAM) Indexing with QC: Performs file based QC of the files produced, scalable speeds from 3X to 50X Etere HSM - 20Slots: Tape Library Manager for long-term archiving Etere CAL Licence - 5 Licenses: Licence is identified by computer not by username, supports multiple users Etere software driver for each LTO tape drive - 2 Drives in total: Interfaces the devices & systems most widely-used in broadcast/post-production houses Etere Database Management and Etere User Rights: Comprehensive tool to facilitate total configuration of all the system settings Etere Workflow: Complements and optimizes underlying broadcasting system Etere Resource Management: All-in-one framework for all activities, shared metadata exchange between departments Etere Tape Loan: Fast Loans & returns, comprehensive view of tape movements Etere Ingest - Indexing with QC: Captures in real-time SD/HD media from virtually any video source Etere SNMP console: Optimizes all infrastructure performance & availability of a system from a centralised real-time system Etere Media Manager: Streamlines the process of ingest, indexing, storage & retrieval of digital assets Etere Proxy Browsing: Advanced browsing solution integrated in all Etere solutions with free web client Etere Player: Designed to play any major HiRes and LoRes codecs Etere Tapeless Reception: Manages all your digital content from external sources Etere Subtitles Tool for Closed Captions: A digital platform for the creation, management, burning, airing and conversion of subtitles, captions and other text services for production, post production, advertisement and entertainment Etere Disklibrary: A software solution that manages archive based on sleeping disks and enables you to mix any archive enclosure as well as different disk technologies

Manage » Prepare » Content Preparation » File-based technical QC »

With scalable speeds from 3X to 50X, Etere QC is able to carry out high-speed controls of video files including that of black frames, audio silence and freeze frames.

Etere QC is an integrated file-based module for performing Quality Control (QC) via a streamlined workflow. It automatically detects and marks audio/video issues (e.g. freeze frames, black frames, scene changes, audio loss) on assets' EDL according to their quality, setting also a default quality rating at the end of the process.

Etere QC is able to speed up, automate and streamline the operational efficiency of file-based quality controls performed via workflow across the entire content life cycle.

Etere QC is the best solution for checking audio/video either prior (e.g. playout, repurpose, archiving) or after (e.g. encoding, ingest, editing, transcoding, archiving) media operations. It is able to check all the main videofile codecs and wrapper of any resolution including 4K.

Key Features

■ Works on any Windows computer, without dedicated hardware

■ Multi-processing on the same computer is supported

■ Prevents wasting time by processing only selected issues

■ Up to 50 times faster than real-time speed

■ Fully customizable detection profiles

■ Results are stored in the database using standard format

■ Thumbnails are generated for each detected issue

■ Fault tolerant, load balanced architecture

Produce » Real-Time Production » Audio Automation » Audio Automation »

Fully integrated, cost effective, and user friendly, Etere makes radio broadcasting attainable with Radio Live. Managing audio and visual radio with the latest IP technology, Radio-Live is Etere’s solution to fuss free radio and radio on video broadcasting.

Radio Live makes radio broadcasting easy. Each aspect of radio broadcast has been perfectly virtualised on a intuitive, user friendly interface and supported by a 24 hour support center. With Radio Live, you can present radio programs in multiple video formats and platforms including smartphones, tablets, web browsers and smart TVs. Etere Radio-Live manages live video based on IP technology, featuring pre-set playlists, unlimited preview of audio and video, interface with GPI, control surfaces and serial controllers.

Create, prepare and present content for Radio, TV, Web, and Mobile, with Radio Live's integrated system. Fit to ingest and produce content, Radio Live is intended to be a complete solution that is able to complete all aspects of radio broadcast. Built on the guidance of industry professionals, Radio Live is perfect for big broadcasters to organise your tracks, build stacks, and schedule multiple channels. Equipped to create graphics to wow your audience, enhance your visual radio streams by making easy 2D and animated graphics fit for broadcast. Shape logos, crawls, animations, and customise your streams however you want. Even create Picture-in-Picture effects with up to 8 layers of video.

The system is fully connected through IP, and is powered by NDI technology. The software only system brings out its full potential with NDI by making your streams stronger, faster, and better.

Key Features Etere Radio-Live can make live, instant changes to your broadcast, and schedule advertisements with customisable graphics, for a single track or the entire channel. The flexible manipulation of media item playback, simultaneous previews, and high degree of control over characteristics and specifications of the output allow you to make the most out of your broadcasts.

■ Instant player

■ Preview and quick edits

■ Inbuilt playback automaton

■ Unlimited simultaneous previews

■ High degree of control over characteristics and specifications of the output

■ Media material instant playback

■ Simultaneous broadcasting

■ TCP/IP/Gpio (matrix, switches, audio processors, video processors, remote control) and serial connection

■ Manage direct and live streaming

Support » Monitoring, Control & Communications » System Monitoring & Control » Resource monitoring systems »

Etere SNMP Console is a highly customizable solution that optimizes all processes, infrastructure performance and devices from within a single interface.

Etere SNMP Console is the leading edge technology with a simple, intuitive and user-friendly interface that helps to optimize all the infrastructure performance and availability of a system. The SNMP Console provides a smarter solution since it takes under-control not only Etere solutions but all processes/devices in the system. Etere innovates and upgrades its Console continuously to transform any broadcast system into a completely safe solution because the security is of utmost importance! All processes are monitored by SNMP standard protocol.

Etere provides a common, flexible and easy-to-use browser interface, designed to be highly customizable to facilitate system monitoring, it's able to detect and recover potential problems automatically. Etere SNMP Console is capable to receive SNMP messages sent by other non-Etere applications or devices such as network switches, routers, and firewalls.

Key Features

■Easy monitoring and management of all the system

■Monitors the status of the system and performs diagnostics

■Handshakes Etere applications to check if they are running correctly

■Controls any SNMP enabled process

■Saves the history log of what happened in your system

■Gives you a view of your machine room to easily locate every PC

■Web access console for an easy control of the system

■In order to improve monitoring of devices, modules and workflows, all Etere components are automatically subscribed to SNMP Service, periodic heartbeats are sent via SNMP

■Etere SNMP Console detects missing heartbeats and sends both a visual-alarm and a real-time e-mail notification to the operations department

■Increased visibility to isolate raised faults

■Etere SNMP Console is smartly divided across different panels to allow a quick monitoring of specific functions

■Manage and archive all SNMP messages

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

With one single licence, you can have all the functions you need to manage closed and open captions. Etere Subtitling and Closed Caption software manages production, approval and transmission.

Etere Subtitling and Closed Caption Software is a digital platform for the creation, management, burning, playout and conversion of subtitles, captions and other text services for production, post-production and live shows. It allows broadcasters to freely produce subtitles in multi-languages and for multi-platforms, search by metadata and streamline the process with real-time sharing of edits without hardware. Operators are able to insert live captions, open captions and closed captions including ARIB and Digital Video Broadcast (DVB) via ETX inserter. Etere MOS connection supports teleprompter and provides a seamless integration with newsroom. For live subtitling, Etere MOS connector connects with NCS Server to receive rundowns and import subtitles from the rundown directly with extremely fast speed and accuracy. Etere also supports FTP connection to newsroom for live news. For a complete management, Etere Subtitling and Closed Caption Software makes it easy for broadcasters to monitor and verify all captions to comply with closed captioning laws across different countries. Etere Subtitling and Closed Caption Software supports all formats, frame rates and comes equipped with Etere Media Asset Management (MAM) for an effective and efficient management of multi-language subtitling.

Key Features

■Integrated with Google Speech to Text for 120 Languages and variants

■CEA 608 and 708 Closed Captions

■DVB Subtitling and ARIB Subtitling

■Extremely fast. Captions can be inserted/edited even just before being on-air

■Web format include ad webVtt

■Automated subtitling workflows including insertion, extraction, format conversions, timing, frame rate adjustment, sub-clipping and clip assembly

■No licence or hardware is needed for insertion or preview

■Unlimited web clients supported

■Etere ETX 's time delay feature enhances live captioning

■Easy single key production and management of large files

■Live captioning management with live edits and voice recognition

■Import and export subtitles in all major standard formats

■Full support for Unicode language, TrueType fonts and spell-check for multiple languages

■Integrated MAM provides an effective management of subtitles and targeted advertising

■Open captions: Transcoder licence for file production and preview

■Integrated Etere workflow system for easy production

■Customisable subtitle fonts and size

Manage » Prepare » Content Preparation » Transcode and normalization »

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

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

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

Key Features

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

■ H265 encoding/Decoding at at different resolutions

■ H264 encoding/Decoding at at different resolutions

■ H262 encoding/Decoding at at different resolutions

■ XDCAM HD 50 PAL/NTSC encoding

■ XDCAM IMX 30 PAL/NTSC encoding

■ Up conversion and aspect ratio change

■ Down conversion without aspect ratio change

■ AAC and MP3 audio encoding

■ Timecode burn-in on video

■ H264 encoding/Decoding at at different resolutions

■ GPU accelleration

■ Custom rules for auto file naming

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

■ Set transcoding profiles under the Etere Transcoder Job Builder area

■ Cloud-device path selection

Manage » Manage & Orchestrate » Data & Metadata Management » (Meta)data aggregation and management »

Increase video views and video consumption by delivering relevant videos to users, increasing ad impressions and advertising revenue.

IBM Video Recommendations enables Clients to generate personalized video streams to web and mobile audiences on a one-to-one level, create custom business rules to control video programming, run campaigns for branded and sponsored content and track audience video consumption. It also provides clients with access to video metadata that has been extracted by IBM Video Analytics.

The service includes aspects like automated data structuring, enabling clients to extract and amplify video metadata. This AI-enriched metadata is then structured and used to build taxonomies that help drive the recommendations engine utilizing algorithms to surface recommended video assets to online audiences. The platform also has tools that publishers can use to create and manage custom business rules to control what content is recommended to audiences, and target users based on criteria like the content they are watching or where they are located.

A dashboard is also provided, tracking consumption along with content supply and demand analysis. It also provides tools to create custom business rules for targeted programming, and management tools to run sponsored campaigns.

Manage » Manage & Orchestrate » Data & Metadata Management » (Meta)data aggregation and management »

LTN® Cue & Connect are fully managed linear metadata solutions designed for today’s platforms and advertising demands. The IP-powered solutions simplify signal decoration for optimized ad signaling, targeted transformation, and greater monetization.

LTN Connect is an on-prem metadata insertion solution that deploys in existing broadcast environments. The solution tailors linear metadata decoration to conform to your specific workflow and requirements — with flawless interoperability. Connect features include advanced blackout management, content regionalization, graphic and audiotrack overlays, plus automated VOD file creation from linear programs.

LTN Cue is an in-network metadata insertion and video delivery solution. Cue simplifies channel management with advanced advertising and content replacement workflows to generate more metadata — and more revenue — without requiring additional hardware. Cue features include scalability to multiple SCTE 35 profiles, compatibility with any playout, facilitation of OTT platform advertising, and always-on NOC monitoring and support.

Transform the future of video with LTN Cue & Connect.

Manage » Manage & Orchestrate » Data & Metadata Management » (Meta)data aggregation and management »

WO Analytics provides business intelligence specific to the local TV and radio industries, consolidating all relevant data from both WideOrbit and third-party systems within a single analytics platform. A unified view across channels, markets, and platforms makes it simple for any user to analyze business performance, spot inefficiencies, and pinpoint new revenue opportunities.

• Built for Media: Pre-built media analytics solution that can be customized and deployed quickly


• Single Source of Truth: Combines relevant data, down to the spot level, from multiple WideOrbit and third-party sources into a single data lake


• Immediately Actionable Data: Access pre-built dashboards to help your organization analyze business performance, spot inefficiencies, and pinpoint new revenue opportunities


• Accessible and Flexible: Drill down and share data with just a few clicks from any device Seamlessly integrates with WideOrbit’s ad traffic management system, WO Traffic

Manage » Manage & Orchestrate » Data & Metadata Management » (Meta)data aggregation and management »

Integrating Ratings into your Actus platform allows News and Programming to understand the relationship between ratings received and the content your and your competitor's stations are broadcasting

Efficient Actus ratings graphing and analysis tools provide a clear graphical view of ratings alongside the video broadcast on each channel that earned those ratings.

This is a great tool for News to work with graphics and talent and improve performance, as well as for sales to prepare Advertiser Sales Pitches perhaps researching demographic performance as it applies to them. The easy to read graphs are based on data received from rating and audience measurement companies such as Nielsen, Comscore, Kantar, IBOPE, TNS, AGB, BARC, GFKGallup and/or any others data source that relate to performance per channel over time.

The result is better program planning, ad placement, program scheduling and performance. This helps improve your ratings which can significantly increase revenues.

Manage » Manage & Orchestrate » Data & Metadata Management » (Meta)data aggregation and management »

VSN’s Media Asset Management software, VSNExplorer MAM, offers all the necessary tools to manage the entire media life-cycle. Its GUI is based on HTML5, allowing users to manage media files within different storage units, also in the Cloud, and to access the platform from any browser and operating system. In addition, its highly scalable and open architecture enables the integration of VSNExplorer MAM with any software and hardware available in the market. This solution is available on-premise or in the Cloud, as pay-per-use in SaaS platforms such as Windows Azure, Amazon or Private Cloud. This model grants higher speed and more flexibility, reducing costs and time-to-market rates.

VSNExplorer MAM has also been integrated with the Artificial Intelligence systems of IBM, Google, Microsoft Azure and Etiqmedia for automatic metadata detection and content cataloging. This systems can also be “trained” (known as machine learning) to automatically detect informacion adapted to user’s needs, such as people first unknown to the system who will be automatically recognized from that moment on. Apart from facial recognition and objects analysis, thanks to AI systems VSNExplorer MAM can also perform advanced searches relying on metadata, automatic speech-to-text, translation and subtitling, advanced Cloud transcoding to different formats or even help on content moderation processes through the detection of sensitive or adult content, among others.

VSNExplorer MAM now includes Wedit, the web video editor integrated within VSNExplorer platform, to boost collaborative work and increase efficiency in media management and video editing through its cloud-based functionalities, whether assets are stored in deep archive, nearline or online files. 100% HTML5, Wedit allows journalists and editors to easily locate and edit media files within a single interface, without necessary changing to an NLE.

Main features:

- Open and scalable architecture: It easily integrates with existing or newly installed third-party systems, becoming the "orchestra conductor" of all workflows and ensuring a seamless transfer of files and information between systems. Its scalability allows the system to grow as the business grows, reducing the risk of quick replacement or obsolescence in the future.

- Ingest & Transcoding: VSNExplorer MAM organizes and manages all the media and content of a company, controlling all files from the ingest. Users can change the files' format (transcoding) depending on their needs and the system that they plan to use later, during the production, editing, delivery and broadcast or publishing of content.

- Advanced metadata structures: Create complex custom metadata structures, ideal for the most demanding needs in media cataloging and management. The hierarchy of areas and classes of metadata with inheritable properties allows for a totally versatile system, boosting collaborative work between several departments or multiple companies.

- Segment and layer cataloging: Segment cataloging allows for fast and easy access to relevant parts of a media file. This is specially useful for creating sport event highlights, press conferences, automatic transcriptions, quality check results, etc. Moreover, layer cataloging (strata logging), allows you to assign different thematic metadata layers (technical, documentation, marketing, etc.) to the same asset.

- Advanced content searches: For any media and broadcast company, it is essential to locate in a fast and easy way all its media assets. VSNExplorer MAM offers a tool for quick and advanced searching, which allows users to save time and to access any asset whenever is needed. You can also classify your content in different areas and add metadata layers depending on the type of asset.

- Thesaurus management: The correct integration and management of a thesaurus is essential for the archivists’ work. Create a list of standard terms for different usages to achieve terminological coherence when cataloging your content. In addition, the system allows for the validation of the proposed terms by the users depending on their permisssions.

Finally, VSNExplorer MAM is completely integrated with the main social media platforms, such as Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, allowing users to share content directly from their MAM interface, automatically converting media files into MP4 and completing the metadata required by these platforms with the metadata detected from each media file.

Latest product update (09/2020): The VSNExplorer platform has a new functionality for users to create dashboards from which to operate all the tools and functionalities of the system in a centralized way. Each user can create their own control and operation panels from the top menu of VSNExplorer and easily customize them by combining different widgets that allow to use and operate all the tools and functions of the VSNExplorer system from the panel itself and without having to open each one of them.

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Tiger Bridge is a non-proprietary, software-only data management solution that blends on-premises and multi-tier cloud storage into a single space and enables hybrid workflows. This human-friendly, transparent and seamless file server extension enables millions of Windows server users to benefit from cloud scale and services, while securely preserving legacy applications and workflows.

Tiger Bridge addresses a number of data management challenges including, but not limited to, File Server Extension, Disaster Recovery, Cloud Migration, Backup & Archive, Remote Collaboration and Multi-site Sync and Continuous Data Protection.

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Meta enables customers to store identification, editorial, technical, rights, discovery and AI-generated content metadata for media and entertainment catalogues. It also stores additional metadata assets like images and videos that are required to complete a dynamic and compelling user experience.

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The VSNExplorer platform integrates via API with top Artificial Intelligence engines from companies like IBM Watson, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure or AWS for automatic metadata detection and cataloguing. This way, media management becomes much more efficient, accurate and easy to control and monitor.

Main features:

Wide range of information: From the moment that a media file is ingested, users can automatically extract a great amount of data and information from the advanced image processing features (facial recognition, objects, places, organizations and logos), audio layers analysis (music, voice, speakers and audio effects), speech-to-text and automatic translation, Optical Character Recognition (OCR) or sentiment analysis or emotions' detection, among many others.

Automatic content cataloguing: Users can focus on content creation and news production, leaving the immediate cataloging of media to the its AI tools. They would only need to perform a quick control and validation of the metadata obtained, saving time and resources that can be reallocated. In addition, with AI they can obtain a higher volume of information, which is also more accurate and leads to a more precise and exhaustive categorization of content.

Advanced search functionalities: The volume of data generated from each media asset allows users to perform more accurate searches thanks to the big amount of options and parameters available. This way it is easier for users to adapt the search of content to their specific needs, reducing the number of results delivered by the system, which will only focus on those truly relevant to the user according to the keywords provided.

Quicker content creation: Thanks to the integration of Artificial Intelligence engines within VSNExplorer, it is now possible to automatically detect and retrieve specific video segments that comply with a set of given parameters and metadata, drag and drop these segments directly over VSNExplorer's web video editor, Wedit, and consolidate a final and already edited piece ready for broadcast, all without changing between windows.

Translation, captioning & subtitling: Subtitling process can now be automated thanks to language analysis, speech-to-text and automatic translation functionalities of AI-tools. These capabilities allow for the automatic translation and generation of captions in several languages of audio texts, delivering the corresponding text distributed by segment with mark-in and mark-out time codes.

Content moderation capabilities: Content moderation is sometimes mandatory depending on the legislation applied in the region where some specific content is being broadcasted. Sentiment recognition systems, image and objects analysis, and natural language analysis enable the automatic detection of sensitive or adult content, both within image and audio layers, so that they may be adapted or eliminated directly using a video editor like VSNExplorer's Wedit.

 

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Benchmark’s PIPE|Bridge is an interface system, which receives financial data from agencies like Bloomberg/Reuters in realtime and pushes to broadcast graphics engines. The data will be stored in local database for while dumping to PIPE|Bridge database for processing.  The product has different modules as explain below:

Pipe Failiover: Enables redundancy for Reuters / B-PIPE©data. It monitors the data feed and in case of Main feed failure, it switches to backup feed.

 Pipe Feed Handler:  The Feed Handler application is used to define and manage the securities (stock code), for which the realtime data is need . The Feed Handler service will pull the data from the data provider, and dump it to the database. The system enables smooth real-time data stream between the data provider and the database

 Pipe History Archive: The history archive enables users to extract massive historical data of subscribed securities for processing and display them as graphs/Charts

 Pipe History Scheduler: History scheduler ensures daily market data of each security Is captured on the database

 Pipe Viz Updater: Viz updater, pushes security values to graphics & ticker engines on request by the systems.

 Pipe RSS Feed :   RSS module listens and process the RSS feeds and enable them to be displayed in the graphics engines

 

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Etere MAM is a highly-effective digital content management solution that is designed specifically to streamline the process of ingest, index, storage and retrieval of digital assets. MAM is an end-to-end software solution created to fully optimize the value of your assets through a centralized management of digital content and associated metadata. Its effective implementation both increases operational efficiency and maximizes the return on investment of digital media. MAM simplifies the process of content management by streamlining the digital workflow, bringing media to the market faster and in multiple formats thus ensuring an exceptional and frame accurate content. MAM is an indispensable workflow orchestration that simplifies complex tasks across the entire media lifecycle.

 

Key Features

■Complete modular solutions that are able to manage the end-to-end media lifecycle including ingest, transcoding, content retrieval, metadata association and asset distribution

■Compatible with Nuance Dragon for automatic audio and file transcriptions

■Automated content processing that is able to detect new content assets

■Automated Ingest followed by effective and integrated QC workflows

■Connects to Wowza for live and VOD content

■Generation of multiformat, multipurpose files for delivery to multiple platforms

■Connects with Etere Browsing to support the streaming of VC-1 codecs

■Rights structure to protect intellectual property including digital watermarking

■Etere Nunzio Newsroom integration for real-time access to media content(MOS compliant)

■Etere HSM integration to transfer files between near-line, libraries and playout servers

■Compliant with FFV1 Format

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Strawberry is an award-winning Production Asset Management Suite (PAM), designed to keep productions organized and collaboration flexible. Strawberry solves key storage and workflow management issues that plague every media production house. For a PAM to be effective, it must integrate tightly with key creative applications, accelerate production workflows, and manage the underlying production storage. Strawberry does this and more, so that you can utilize your creative talent more effectively. Its unique approach balances the needs of the technical team and creative team for producing content seamlessly. If you have tired of constantly adding storage and see that a smarter workflow is the solution, have a closer look.

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BitSave v.2 is the next generation AI technology offered by iSIZE Technologies for fast and low complexity precoding with significant bitrate savings. Available both as a SaaS platform at bitsave.tech and for on- premise use as a “bolt-on” solution on top of any standard or proprietary video codec.

LIGHTNING FAST

Precode and Encode videos up to 500% faster than other encoding services. Save time and reduce your cloud energy footprint

CODEC INDEPENDENT

BitSave technology is compatible with any codec, including AVC, HEVC, VP9, AV1, and even the upcoming AV2 and VVC, with increased gains in bitrate and quality offered for newer standards

SUPERIOR QUALITY

Reach ultimate video quality for resolutions up to 8K. Reduce streaming bandwidth by as much as 40%

SUBSTANTIALLY CHEAPER

Less than $5 per hour of content for all resolutions up to 4K – up to 50% cheaper than the most competitive solutions

SUSTAINABLE

BitSave enables sustainability with significant computational and energy efficiency, datacenter cost reduction, prolonging battery life for resource-constrained devices (drones, action-cams, smartphones).

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

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The core of the Agama solution is the central Enterprise Platform. The Enterprise Platform provides real-time aggregation, alarming, and storage of data retrieved through an ingest layer. The ingest layer can handle data reported by our Analyzers products in the head-end and network, by our clients in STBs and OTT players, and from adaptation interfaces for ingesting data from third-party sources. The Enterprise Platform also features an application platform, which provides core applications with interfaces for system management, technical operations, and reporting. The application platform is modular and can be extended with additional applications.

For high capacity exporting and reporting as well as other data mining use cases, the Enterprise Platform’s real-time core can be complemented by an architecturally isolated data platform, thus separating time-critical operations from data mining use cases.

For integrations with northbound NMS solutions, inventory systems and data warehouse applications, the Enterprise Platform provides an integration framework with SNMP alarms, provisioning APIs, and optional high-capacity file export.

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Agama’s Client Device Monitoring solution provides detailed high-resolution real-time information on technical service quality, viewer behavior, and device health. Data is automatically collected from the viewers STB, other customer-premises equipment and/or player apps.

 

A key component of our solution is a lightweight software client integrated in the device or player software. The client sends compact, binary data about events and

continuously monitored metrics to the solutions central ingest infrastructure at frequent, configurable intervals. The information includes quality-related events such as packet loss and unavailability. State reporting makes it possible to see if the viewer has been watching multicast services or playing adaptive bitrate on-demand content, for example. Detected events are mapped to the relevant channel/asset and service type.

 

The client also supports reporting of device parameters such as CPU, memory and hard disk usage.

The integration (or adaptation of existing integration) of the client is performed by the STB or player application vendor with support and Quality Assurance performed by Agama to verify the integration. The client is deployed remotely via standard software update mechanisms.

 

The solution provides information on precisely the services that each viewer has watched. Opt-out settings and support for anonymization enable compliance with privacy legislation including GDPR.

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From playout to the edge, the Analyzer OTT product family actively monitors and analyzes adaptive bitrate services at packager, origin and CDN edge caches. The Analyzer OTT EDGE actively downloads and analyzes playlists and segments and is ideal for assuring readiness to deliver throughout the CDN. The Analyzer OTT H-E does all that plus codec and content level analysis.

Analyzer OTT Edge is designed for monitoring and analysis of adaptive bitrate services at packetizers, origin and edge cache servers. Its in-depth analysis covers the availability of services, manifest correctness and segment availability.

With support for all leading formats, such as MPEG-DASH (supporting DASH264 profiles), HLS 7, MS Smooth Streaming as well as HDS, the Analyzer OTT Edge provides in-depth analysis, proactive alarming and visualization and troubleshooting tools. Examples of other supported features are: Connection, DNS and HTTP metrics for Manifests and segments, TR290 validation for HLS.

QoS and QoE are available per profile, asset and originating server. Fine-grained alarm and alerting for quick detection of errors and fast troubleshooting.

Analyzer OTT Edge is available in different capacities, to cover both small and large installations.

Analyzer OTT Head-End is designed for deployment in the head-end for assurance of adaptive bitrate streaming services. Its in-depth analysis provides assurance of all levels of the ABR stack: availability of the service, manifest correctness, segment availability and correctness, as well as the video/audio quality.

The Analyzer OTT Head-End provides at a glance insight into the current and past service performance, detecting issues in IP connectivity and configuration, packetizers and transcoders.

The Analyzer OTT Head-End supports the leading streaming protocols such as MPEG-DASH, HLS, MS Smooth Streaming and HDS and validates manifest as well as segments.

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When you know who your OTT viewers are, and they login, VIA Profiles enables you to create richer personal experiences to keep audiences watching, engaged, and coming back for more.VIA Profiles helps you manage your viewer journeys and experiences.  Connect with Vimond Identity Access and Management, or external authentication providers, to enable access and control for viewers logging into your service, and enable set up of sub-profiles for family members.Define data and build profile information to better understand each individual viewer.  Track their subscription, billing and transaction history, and segment users by attributes, devices and location to better target relevant content to keep them connected.Email communication paths make it easy to automate sign-ups, renewals, purchase confirmations and password resets.

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Our industry-leading and award-winning automated metadata cloud platform, Atlas, includes a flexible and extensible data platform to easily aggregate rich sources of content data.  MetaBroadcast utilises industry leading data science techniques and proprietary algorithms to accelerate filtering and classification of ingested metadata. Machine learning and artificial intelligence streamline ID matching, metadata enrichment and content healing.

In addition, customers can access Atlas' index and search capabilities to review MetaBroadcast's data warehouse to enhance metadata within their own CMS. Atlas simultaneously processes millions of data fields in near real-time; and is easily integrated with 3rd party platforms.

The efficiency and accuracy of our Atlas gives customers the confidence that we can continuously adapt to their market-driven requirements and empowers them to maximise audience awareness of all available content.

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This file analysis application can be used to compare files and folders to one another or generate reports of an entire hard drive - no matter the size or content - keeping teams organized between multiple workstations. Compare files, folders or volumes with thumbnails and metadata displayed results. Integrates with Frame.io for automatic and secure upload. Generate reports of entire directories or hard drives without making a copy. PDF reports provide metadata and thumbnails. Set specific criteria for deep, smart searches of files on hard disk or any connected drives. View previously generated checksums, choose from multiple algorithms. Verify previously created MHL reports with thumbnails and metadata for each file. Easily import jobs from the history list.

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KYBIO Media is an end-to-end, vendor-agnostic monitoring and control (M&C) platform serving TV, radio, satellite, telco, and other vertical marketing in the media and broadcast world. This award-winning solutions helps meet the critical challenges of ensuring operational continuity and efficiency across the entire value chain from media acquisition, production, and down to distribution in an increasingly digital and IP-based environment.

Across KYBIO's unified, intuitive, and easy-to-use web interface, users can oversee the real-time status of large and complex ecosystems, centralize data and streamline the management of a wide variety of products and platforms - both locally and remotely.

Thanks to a unique combination of modules, users benefit from real-time supervision, along with multiple management and control capabilities. Users can visualize and analyze large data sets, then break them down into comprehensible, dynamic insights and reports. They are also equipped with a built-in ticket & incident tracking platform tied to a powerful analytics & reporting engine.

Leveraging its advanced auto-pilot configuration engine, KYBIO Media is incredibly fast to deploy. Following the automated scan, KYBIO Media identifies and starts monitoring all your devices within minutes if not seconds. It can be installed on any physical or virtual host that matches our specifications. It can be run on-premises, in the cloud or in a hybrid environment.

With KYBIO Media, we help you ensure operational continuity across your end-to-end value chain from media acquisition, production, and distribution in an increasingly digital and IP-environment.​​​​​​

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With Veritone Attribute, you can demonstrate and enhance the effectiveness of broadcast advertising to drive customer investment. As a broadcaster, you can offer advertisers near real-time ad performance analytics on their in-content and prerecorded campaigns.

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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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Curio saves you time and reduces costs by making digital assets such as videos, images and documents easier to search, discover and use.

Curio unlocks information hidden inside assets such as words, images, logos, sounds and noises, faces and people and by leveraging machine learning & AI services to enrich these assets with DNA level metadata.

Curio enables you to easily connect to your data right from your browser or using the API from popular cloud storage providers along with on-premise storage.

Curio enables the creation of many types of metadata for your digital assets, meeting the needs of use cases across different teams and departments all from a single location via the browser or API.

Curio for Adobe Creative Cloud enables Curio users to find and import content directly into Adobe Premier Pro, Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign using insights created by machine learning and artificial intelligence.

 

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ProMD EMS is Media Links’ Enhanced Management Software for the Company’s MD Series Ecosystem solution portfolio.

ProMD-EMS 2.0 software provides a perfectly tailored means to manage and control network resources. Comprehensive views of every aspect of system operation and performance are available, ranging from individual media services to the overall health of the complete end-to-end network.

Scalable in terms of price/performance, ProMD EMS provides network operators and broadcasters the ability to quickly bring new services online for studio, remote and field locations, all while monitoring and maintaining the reliability of active circuits, trunks, and network devices. The software’s multi-level topology view and innovative cross-linked device, card, circuit, and log screens make service provisioning and proactive troubleshooting over the network fast and accurate.

ProMD EMS provides a graphical overview of all the elements and their status within a network. It provides operators with an intuitive view of the network for quick, clear provisioning and routine service monitoring. Then, if issues or alarms occur, the interface delivers rapid troubleshooting with a clear definition of different devices and their service purpose (such as video transmission).

• Operational Monitoring of Media Networks


• Centralized Server/Client Architecture with Redundancy


• Web Booking Portal


• XML Scripting Engine for Device Modeling


• Alarm & Trap Management


• Customizable GUI


• Quick Implementation and Integration of New Devices


• Quick First-Time Set-up


• Quick Provisioning for Future Planning

WATCH VIDEOS:

• WATCH this Video on ProMD EMS


• WATCH 100G Eco-System Video

DOWNLOADS:

• DOWNLOAD Datasheet


• DOWNLOAD Media Links Solutions Brochure


• DOWNLOAD North America Case Study (Telecom)


• DOWNLOAD Metropolitan Distribution Network Application Note


• DOWNLOAD Live Sports Production Application Note


• DOWNLOAD Centralized IP Switching Application Note


• DOWNLOAD WAN IP Network Application Note

 

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The Boon AI machine learning (ML) integration platform breaks down the ML adoption barrier for media technologists looking to automate digital asset management at scale. It provides a no-code/low-code workflow for users without ML expertise to run their unstructured media assets against a suite of computer vision APIs from Google, AWS, and Azure with just a few clicks. 

Run agile ML experiments to validate business use cases and start automating manual tasks like metadata tagging, image classification, speech transcription, and content moderation with Boon's GUI-driven workflow. 

• Multi-vendor ML APIs: Easily access image, text, and logo detection, content moderation, speech to text APIs from GCP, AWS, and Azure


• No-code workflow: Select the APIs, run the analysis, manage and evaluate results with a point-and-click workflow


• Vendor orchestration: Eliminate ML API vendor account setup, API documentation, billing.


• Data prep: Boon AI transcodes raw images, video, and PDF documents to vendor-ready format at scale


• Data visualization: Run faceted searches and view the ML results in JSON and human-readable format, compare ML model confidence levels


• Metadata integration via API: integrate resulting metadata into custom or third party app with Python and REST APIs

Why engage with Boon AI?

Boon AI breaks down the AI/ML adoption barrier by enabling agile ML experimentation and implementation not supported by traditional AI/ML workflows. The platform enables media tech teams to:

• Stand up an ML pipeline without a dedicated team   


• Modernize media management workflows through ML-automated media management 


• Integrate ML features into apps you're already using with minimal code 


• Enable agile ML experimentation and rapid cycle innovation


•  Compress a 12-month development cycle down to an hour

Boon AI provides a modern, no-code ML implementation for innovation teams in media and entertainment, broadcast, ecommerce, CPG, advertising, and UGC-driven industries. Boon AI is a product of Zorroa.

 

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MORE THAN THE SUM OF ITS PARTS

Metadata should describe content, products and offers with depth, nuance and granularity. With Metadata Foundry, we unshackle it from proprietary silos to create better data.

DATA SOURCE INTEGRATION

Any Metadata, From Any Source

Metadata Foundry is open and can source and merge metadata from virtually any third-party provider. Operators can also integrate their own data sources, ensuring the ability to support applications in any language, any market and any category.

METADATA ENRICHMENT

Expanding the depth and granularity of data

By integrating and intelligently merging dishomogeneous sources, Metadata Foundry enriches your data. It can assemble rules and metadata from one source and other rules and metadata from a different dataset.

CENTRAL HUB

An intelligent central hub for metadata

Metadata Foundry is a single storage, manipulation, distribution and publishing center for a all metadata. This single source generates flexible publishing models that work on multiple services, applications and devices.

EDITORIAL WORKFLOW

Simplifying the life of metadata editors

When Metadata Foundry encounters a problem it triggers a workflow. If, for example, an item is missing fields in a language, Metadata Foundry automatically translates labels and then triggers a verification workflow and approval queue.

AUTONOMOUS EDITING

Human-like ability to catch and correct inaccuracies

Because all information and relationships between items are stored in a graph, Metadata Foundry can automatically resolve errors and inaccuracies, evaluate the impact of changes and propagate them to the affected publishing models.

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Using our flagship product, CLEARTM, PFT undertakes new metadata
creation as well as the enrichment of existing metadata. Our
Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) spread around the world collaborate
to deliver genre-specific cataloging for episodic TV content, feature titles, news, sports and documentaries, in addition to country
specific and culture specific content. In today’s fast paced digital era, we help our clients future proof their content.

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Today’s journalists have to process several sources in order to create a story: In most cases, they need to search in external and internal systems for different types of content, using different tools with different search algorithms. This all makes the publishing process inefficient, time consuming and often frustrating.

MediaPortal answers this problem, providing a central hub not only for access to diverse sources such as newsfeed, social media, internal and external archives and MAM systems, but also for the functionality to collect, curate and share this content within one search logic and an intuitive design.

While most search engines focus only on the search process itself, MediaPortal also addresses typi-cal "next steps" in media workflows by incorporating advanced video & metadata tools for browsing, editing or logging of material across multiple locations.

The open architecture of MediaPortal makes it simple for organization to tailor the system to their needs. The advanced API enables the rapid development of "connectors" for new and legacy data sources, while a robust plug-in framework can be used to augment and extend the user interface.

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Smart-Segmentation generates segments automatically (chapters/scenes/clips)Smart-Segmentation

• Automates workflow from linear-tv to digital offers.


• Enables personalised user-experiences through playlist generation.


• Makes sub-content accessible & searchable.


• Combines video-content-data to users-datas for unprecedented insights.


• Enables fast-track promotional content creation.


• Enables Contextual Advertising.


• Enables new ways to monetise video-content.

 

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Smart-Labeling automatically qualifies video segments with tags and editorial labels.

• Enables classification of video-content and sub-content.


• Enables personalised user-experiences through playlist generation.


• Enables Contextual Advertising.


• Improves Search Engine Optimisation.


• Improves Content Recommendation Engine.

 

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Use the Utelly Platform to activate new revenue streams. Maximize the potential you hold as the arbiter of content placement whilst capturing affiliate revenue for content-initiated referrals. Across media & entertainment products and services there remains unrealized potential to capture new revenue streams. Based on content metadata and user interaction patterns our monetization features can help to access this potential.

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It is vital to keep consumers engaged with content in and around your products. By understanding user engagement patterns and coordinating targeted campaigns, Utelly's CRM integrations will help to ensure the full potential of your offerings is realized by your users. Building on top of user-profiles and activity patterns, our platform integrates with your chosen CRM tools to engage users with personalized content. Explore user profiles to understand affinity to content types, genres, topics, and much more. Build compelling messaging with personalized content. Retarget based on a user search history, previous recommendations, and interaction with content. Ensure your catalog's potential is maximized and reduce user churn. Understand your customer base and their preferences. Use this knowledge to drive content strategy.

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Achieving a high-quality dataset is never straightforward and can be resource-intensive. We have an established ETL to achieve just this. We ingest core metadata catalogs to provide a universal view of the content available, along with ingesting individual feeds which are matched with the core metadata to provide an enriched unified dataset ready for powering Content Discovery. Meaning you can invest time and energy into the core development of your products and services rather than worrying about data.

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Managing metadata is hard

It “lives” in lots of different places. making quality a real problem.  Fixing quality issues takes time and money.

Fuse Metadata Manager tackles those issues head-on

It’s a single store for all of your metadata. Automation consolidates data and eliminates duplicate records. It can help you turn metadata into better data.

Fuse Metadata Manager can help you manage, monetise and maximise the value of your metadata

Create a single source of truth for your metadata, Turn raw data into decision-making power. Cut the amount of time and money spent on manual tasks. Empower a slicker, more rewarding customer experience and get future-ready with a reliable, scalable metadata platform

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A recent study on Media Industry revealed that out of all the content spread around different servers & clouds, 25% to 30% are duplicates.

• A variety of content operations are responsible for generating multiple duplicates, which add to storage costs and slow down migration to content. These duplicates are almost similar variants of the same content, which makes their identification difficult.


• Furthermore, while fast migration to the cloud is necessary to streamline content management, cloud storage is expensive.  

Hence, an end-to-end smart Video Intelligence solution is a must-have to manage content well and save on unnecessary expenses.

Quantiphi’s Video Deduplication Solution enables Media Enterprises to autodetect, delete, and restore similar content, thus saving on cloud expenses and automating content operations.

 

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For companies that create or manage a large volume of digital media CatDV helps teams organize, communicate and collaborate effectively. Its simple, yet powerful tools support some of the world’s most sophisticated media workflows and provide the flexibility to work your way. 

CatDV is a media asset management system that consists of a suite of products, providing a scalable, cross-platform, media asset database that can handle a very wide range of file types.

CatDV creates a catalog of all kinds of media assets, not just video (although enhanced support for video content is included) but also still images, audio files, PDFs, etc. You can log metadata against your media making is searchable using key words, not just clip titles. It also provides analysis and transcoding of media files with advanced logging tools, sequence editing and integration with non-linear editing applications.

Unlike many Media Asset Management products CatDV can start small and grow seamlessly. With its scalable and modular architecture the CatDV product family has an offering that’s right for every user. Many of our customers with tens or hundreds of networked CatDV users started with small systems that grew alongside budgets and new requirements.

 

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With nearly a decade of developing AI and computer vision tools for the world’s number one interactive video platform at WIREWAX, and with another two decades of experience in the video and broadcast space, the team identified ways to leverage the platform’s award-winning image processing technologies in the big media sector too.

Lightning fast; face and object recognition, segmentation, fingerprinting, speech recognition and many other unparalleled tools available in the suite has changed the game for the broadcast and media industry.

Being able to scan entire archives of video assets and create a powerful, digital understanding of videos, programmes and movies with this core technology has enabled large TV and movie studios to leverage data and digital tools and services like never before.

 

We’ve not met a media business on the planet that doesn’t have a digitised asset problem. Lack of metadata, no understanding of content, zero monetisation capabilities and gigantic and disorganized archives. Not to mention expensive asset management, overpriced syndication and VOD preparation, and notoriously slow and extortionate manual services.

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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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At PFT, we believe that if AI has to work for M&E players, then it has to deliver accurate and actionable data which can solve unique business challenges. For this to happen, solution providers have to be open and committed to work with any AI/ML engine, have the data science talent pool to interpret the data and its subtle nuances, and tweak it to suit the needs of the enterprise’s content.

Hence, we offer a combination of Technology and Consulting to deliver accurate and actionable data that can solve specific M&E challenges seamlessly.

• Accurate Data – This is the only expectation from the industry currently



• Actionable Data – We have gone beyond the current expectation to create Action Toolkits

We make AI work for you. And that is our promise.

PFT’s CLEAR Vision Cloud is a Media Recognition AI platform that integrates best-of-breed AI engines like Microsoft, Google, Amazon Web Services, IBM Watson, and home-grown AI models along with a unique Machine Wisdom layer that is focused on harnessing the best quality data. Along with Technology, PFT offers bespoke strategic Consulting services to ensure AI works for the customer, taking into consideration their specific business challenges and unique content.

CLEAR Vision Cloud comprises of

• Data



• Action Toolkits

Modular Data Packs include those for Basic Metadata, Advanced Metadata, Premium Metadata, Video Comparison, Compliance and Transcripts.

Action Toolkits, as the name suggests, are ready-to-use to address specific M&E use cases. The Action Toolkits include – Discovery, Segmentation, Content Moderator, Language Tools and Video Comparator.

These are enveloped by PFT’s unique Machine Wisdom layer that imparts cognitive benefits to CLEAR Vision Cloud. Think of it as an AI platform with a human brain!

CLEAR Vision Cloud does not just produce accurate data but also actionable data.

Making AI Work For You

With a decade of experience in the M&E industry, nobody understands the unique business requirements of content enterprises – broadcasters, studios, production houses and D2C players – like we do. PFT is working round the clock to solve real world M&E business problems and build additional use cases to showcase how it can deliver AI-led business outcomes.

Accurate data and Actionable data are the hallmarks of CLEAR Vision Cloud. While other AI models available today in the market can offer data accuracy to some extend, none are capable of presenting accurate data that is actionable too.

CLEAR Vision Cloud. Making AI work for you.

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A comprehensive original and proxy quality 24/7 capture solution with live-multiviewer, QoS monitoring/logging/alerting and Transport Stream analytics, integrated with As-Run logs for internal air-check and ad-verification and a host of features and tools for clipping and repurposing back-to-air or OTT/Social, competition monitoring, ratings graphing, HLS packaging, and competitor-aired ad-identification with lead-list generation for sales.

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Hero Scheduling is designed base on TV broadcaster work flow. It has been proven the efficiency for multimedia archive, newsroom, sub-control room, post production and government associations which need to archive and share their media asset. Hero Scheduling can be smoothly integrated with existing system.

Hero Scheduling could be perfectly integrated with Hero Playout as an efficient media Channel in Box system. Please find more in "4K Channel in Box system" page.

Basic Operation:

◎  WEB UI to manage database, edit playlist and appoint playout time.

◎  User can search, add and modify the video database.

◎  User can search by channel name, category, keyword, and archive date.

◎  System log  for operation record, showing user account, operating time, page, event…

◎  Auto-archive by dragging clips to watch folder.

◎  Auto-import and record metadata like video name, resolution, length, format...,no extra effort require.

◎  Clip info including Program name, category, note, 2 titles, 6 logos, in/out point, time code(up to 64 set), file existing or not.

Playlist:

◎  Playlist could be import, save, and export to excel file.

◎  Showing the length of daily playlist.

◎  Able to combine files and live program in 24HR playlist for playout system.

◎  Auto-accumulate program length while editing playlist.

◎  Able to save video split record, easy to edit next time.

◎  Different titles, logo and time for every program.

◎  Customized playlist transfer tool for all systems.

Administration:

◎  Account authority management mechanism.

◎  Channel management: able to add, delete channels and categories.

◎  To set account authority to access every channel for editing playlist, clip, and system management.

◎  To define clip categories, ex: program, ad, promotion…

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Limelight Video Platform is the fastest and most intuitive way to manage and distribute online video to media devices everywhere. Engage web audiences with immersive video content. Track performance and collect valuable metrics from your viewers. The power and simplicity of Limelight Video Platform lets you manage, publish, syndicate, measure, and monetize web video with ease. Upload your source file and our transcoding services automatically handle video format conversions and publishing steps required for optimized viewing on any device, anywhere. The video platform is integrated with the global Orchestrate Platform to deliver the high-quality viewing experience audiences expect.

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Equipped with the technological power of AI, Digital Nirvana’s MonitorIQ 7.0 provides new capabilities for compliance logging and monitoring. Known as the industry’s most reliable, secure, and easy-to-use broadcast monitoring and compliance logging platform that allows operators to record, store, monitor, analyze, and repurpose content quickly and efficiently with a minimum of clicks. MonitorIQ enables broadcasters to collect and use knowledge about their broadcast content to meet a wide range of regulatory and compliance requirements. Version 7 of the Digital Nirvana platform gives broadcasters access to valuable next-generation content processing and analysis tools.

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Digital Nirvana’s MetadataIQ is known for accelerating the speed of content creation while simplifying and automating the metadata generation process. MetadatorIQ is a secure, scalable platform to automate the process of metadata generation for production, pre-production, and live content residing in AVID. It aids in a secure and efficient generation of metadata Avid based assets. The 100% automatic generation and ingestion of relevant metadata along with locators into AVID helps editors to accurately identify relevant content, thereby saving time and effort.