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IBM Enterprise Content Delivery Network, when used with IBM Enterprise Video Streaming, enables organizations to relieve bottlenecks associated with delivering security-enhanced video to single or multiple corporate connections.

Process

ECDN protects your network by offering flexible and scalable enterprise video delivery solutions, allowing scale through caching a single version of a video asset that is then delivered across a network to viewers. Each viewer pulls video content from the appropriate node, with built-in methodology to improve redundancy and reduce strain through multiple installations. Furthermore, this does not disrupt normal video delivery over a worldwide network for remote viewers. Performance can also be monitored in real-time as well through a web-based portal, which can visual use across the network.

The solution forgoes costly hardware deployments and can be installed on shared or dedicated hardware as a virtual server and in conjuncture with firewalls, with included flexibility for multiple instances to support multiple ISPs or multiple offices. New ECDN nodes can also be added and configured within the central interface.

Visit the website below to learn more and to see testimonials on how Sandy Audio Visual, N3 Results and others are using the solution today.

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IBM Enterprise Video Streaming is an end-to-end solution for internal communications, simplifying the process of delivering town halls, conducing employee training and general department communication.

Process

The cloud based platform enhances workforce engagement and collaboration through secure, internal facing video delivered through a streaming platform. Content is secured through SSO (Single Sign-On) that can link up to a corporate directory, allowing employees to use familiar credentials to login.

Included in the service are numerous features ranging from automatic archiving of material, multi-administrative capabilities (with audit trail) and tapping into AI analysis through being infused with IBM Watson. This is done through speech-to-text processes that develop transcripts and captions for content. These are then used to enhance internal search, allowing employees and other stakeholders to not just turn up relevant content but also to jump to a specific moment in a video where a phrase might have been mentioned.

Visit the website below to learn more and to see testimonials on how Herman Miller, Airbnb, Marshall Multimedia, AngioDynamics and others are using the solution today.

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IBM Video Streaming is a comprehensive, cloud-based online video platform for live or on-demand content to an external audience. Managed from a dashboard by account administrators, the service supports both ease-of-use and complex setups.

Process

The solution is setup to reach large audiences, both through compatibility and scalability. To broaden potential audiences, content is automatically transcoded in the cloud for delivery to virtually any device, with adaptive bitrate support to reach a range of connection speeds. Content also utilizes multiple CDNs through a software defined content delivery network (SD-CDN) layer, online video is delivered with improved geographic reach and reliability by having a built-in backup process with intelligent traffic management. In addition, content can be monitored in real-time from a web-based panel.

Through included features, IBM Video Streaming also supports numerous video marketing activities as well. This includes a built-in, clickable video overlays, to provide CTAs for content. A registration gate can also be added, enabling the generation of leads and also for their activity to be tracked as well for lead qualification.

Visit the website below to learn more and to see testimonials on how Roland, Infor Global, University of Notre Dame, the State of Minnesota and others are using the solution today.

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IBM’s OTT solution unites powerful content management capabilities with robust catalog management and subscriber administration functionality. IBM’s M&E video platform spans the entire content lifecycle. This includes not just catalog and subscriber management, but also down to content ingest as well. It provides a single and complete platform to seamlessly manage and administer all components of a content streaming service.

Process

The solution is built around maximizing revenue from every user by flexibly controlling access to ad-supported (AVOD), subscription-based (SVOD), or mixed- model video services. It allows you to monetize your video service with easy connections to in-app or direct billing providers. IBM Video Streaming for OTT Video Management allows you to get a unified view of subscriber growth trends or view activity on each device.

IBM’s powerful platform also includes new IBM Watson integrations as well to help content owners deliver relevant and contextual video assets to viewers while also generating automated closed captions.

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IBM Watson Captioning is a solution that generates automatic closed captions for video using artificial intelligence. It automates the previously time consuming and costly process of creating captions for both on-demand and live video content, empowering content owners and broadcasters to quickly generate captions.

Process

To automatically generate accurate captions, several different technological capabilities are used. This includes speech recognition, the ability to analyze audio and convert speech to a machine-readable format like text and audio recognition, the ability to separate noises like clapping from actual speech.

Caption generation is managed from a web based interface, allowing videos to be loaded into it and offers manual editing of the AI generated captions. Furthermore, the AI learns as more content is captioned and edited, while the learning can be managed from this same web interface.This includes the ability for hyper-local training as well, being able to teach the artificial intelligence on concepts like local politicians, accents, landmarks and more.

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Watson Captioning Live helps you streamline your closed captioning process by using cognitive speech-to-text applications that deliver automated captions in a fraction of the time. Users can upload a glossary of specialized terms that arms Watson with greater context and improves accuracy at no additional cost.

The result is a trainable, scalable solution that helps you save time and money while improving captions by providing:

- Flexible, accessible technology that can seamlessly integrate with existing station equipment and is always available
- Low cost and low risk with minimal up-front investment and a billing model that allows you to pay only for the minutes of captioning you use
- Self-learning technology that remembers corrections to constantly evolve and improve accuracy over time
- Positioning for future expansion with access to IBM’s industry-leading AI solutions to help you unlock deeper value in your video content.

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

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

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

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

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

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Nevion VideoIPath is a convergent orchestration and SDN (software defined networking) control software system for media a data networks. It offers connection management, workflow planning, maintenance planning, monitoring and analysis, both in IP and mixed IP/baseband environments.

Proven

Developed by experts in IT, broadcast and telecom networks, Nevion VideoIPath is being used daily for a variety of applications by broadcasters, service providers and other organizations across the world, including BT, BBC, CBC Canada, France Télévisions, Optus, Singtel, TV 2 Norway, and many more.

Managing broadcast contribution

With Nevion VideoIPath, the production team can set-up contribution links between locations on their own, both in a planned and ad-doc manner.  Users just select the source and destination(s), pick the profile needed (e.g. what type of compression and protection to use), set the date and time(s), and let Nevion VideoIPath manage all the underlying complexity.

Planning broadcast workflows

Nevion VideoIPath allows production planners to design workflows, well ahead of events or shows. All the connectivity, media-flows, processing and salvos can be planned and tested graphically, without needing to worry about the physical aspects of the network. When the production needs to take place, the pre-configured workflow can be set-up at the touch of a button.

Controlling broadcast workflows

In a live-production environment, the team in the gallery can continue to use familiar control panels, thanks to Nevion VideoIPath’s support for industry-standard interfaces. Nevion VideoIPath also offers a touch-screen panel that can run on computers and tablets. So the production team can work as they always have done, even as the underlying media network evolves.

Architecting the network

Nevion VideoIPath is the solution to network architects’ network management and control headache. Nevion VideoIPath supports both centralized and distributed architectures; automatic routing, SDN, and hybrids; media and data; and IP LANs and WANs. Nevion VideoIPath also manages bandwidth, ports and other capacity issues.

Running the network

Nevion VideoIPath provides advanced monitoring and fault-recovery capabilities, enabling support operations to a ensure service continuity. These capabilities include graphical alarm management, root cause detection, historical logs, and network to service correlation, as well as manual and automatic re-routing.

Maintaining the network

Nevion VideoIPath makes it easy for operations to set-up and manage the installed base, for example by enabling planned maintenance of equipment, and the roll-out of software and firmware upgrades. VideoIPath enables operations to identify services affected, and re-route them proactively.

Key features

• Robust 3-tier architecture, with synchronized main and backup server


• Role-based secure access, with multi-tenanting support


• Support for centralized star, dual-star and spine-leaf network architectures


• Support for automated routing (e.g. IGMP/PIM), SDN (including Netconf/Yang, OpenConfig or Openflow) and hybrid control


• Ability to act as an NMOS IS-04 registry for compliant media equipment, to detect when new devices are connected to the IP media network, and understand their capabilities


• Control NMOS compliant equipment through IS-05, and non-NMOS compliant devices via driver-based interfaces, to establish media flows between senders and receivers mixed environments


• Ember+, SWP-02 and MRP northbound interfaces to broadcast control systems, automation systems and other routing control systems

 

Support for Nevion eMerge IP routers, as well as 3rd party switches, including those from Arista, CISCO, Juniper and Mellanox

Getting help and support

Nevion experts are on hand to ensure Nevion VideoIPath deployments are a success, with project planning and management, equipment driver development, system integration, deployment, testing, training, support and maintenance.

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dira Onair Player

All-in-one command center for modern studio workflows

In a fast moving environment such as a broadcasting studio, every click matters and flexibility is essential. Adding an audio or live feed to a schedule, creating a mix between upcoming songs, or editing a text – these workflows must take as little time as possible.

dira Onair Player’s interface and features are optimized for such self-operated studio workflows and give radio DJs unmatched control over the content and presentation of their broadcasts, even in extremely demanding environments such as outside broadcasts. dira Onair Player offers a built-in crossfade editor, voice-track editor and jingle management tools. An integrated content browser features such as timescaling and loops on the fly and much more—all with a network-independent emergency operation.

Key benefits:

• Optimized for self-operated workflows with up to 4 playlists​, 8 players and instant hotkeys


• Assisted and automatic playout operation


• ​​​​​​Time scaling and loops on the fly


• Integrated content browser


• Onair API and web views for flexible integrations


• Built-in crossfade editor & voice track recorder


• Network independent emergency operation with local cache


• Newsroom story editing directly at the playout

Find out more about dira Onair Player

CGI offers a wide range of professional news and content delivery solutions for innovative media companies across local, national and international markets. This includes the market-leading flagship dira radio delivery software product family, serving many key players in broadcast and delivery.

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dira Medox

Multimedia Content Management

Everyday life for media enterprises working with multimedia content can be complex, the audio lies in a database; texts are saved somewhere as Word documents; pictures and videos are buried in folders and so on.

The new dimension of dira is our web-based multimedia content management system, dira Medox. In addition to functions such as storing, editing and searching for media assets, the solution offers some new features like a new organization system which enables cross-media operations, as well as an innovative and intuitive contributor system. dira Medox supports all media types, meaning that all audio, video, image, and texts can be stored in one place and found quickly and easily with our integrated search engine. Furthermore, users can easily edit metadata and compile different types of content into coherent multimedia stories.

Working with multimedia content has never been more convenient

Key benefits: 

• Intuitive full-text search


• Ability to edit and create audio, images, videos and documents


• Web-based single-track audio editor for quick turnaround


• Built-in workflow engine for transparent control of technical processes


• Transcode multimedia content


• Use of descriptors and folders to organize content


• Contributor-management to reduce multiple entries


• Truly built with web technology for access on desktops and tablets


• Cloud friendly service oriented architecture


• Role-based configurations


• Multi-site functionality

Find out more about dira Medox

CGI offers a wide range of professional news and content delivery solutions for innovative media companies across local, national and international markets. This includes the market-leading flagship dira radio delivery software product family, serving many key players in broadcast and delivery.

Learn more about CGI's radio solutions

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OpenMedia NewsBoard

CGI's cross-media planning tool

OpenMedia NewsBoard enables journalists and editorial teams to organize their story production process directly from everywhere.

It features a fully customizable and open widget architecture that allows newsrooms to stay flexible to workflow adaptations at any time. It’s modern and unified web-based user interface for journalists and editorial teams dynamizes the collaboration process.

Key features include:

• Story-centric planning for full transparency


• Web-based for collaboration anywhere- Integrated agency feeds and social media for broad news access


• User-friendly interface and highly customizable board design for intuitive handling


• Seamless integration with existing OpenMedia solutions for data consistency


• Cloud-native architecture for easy scalability


• Microservice structure for high performance and easy maintenance

Find out more about OpenMedia NewsBoard

CGI offers a wide range of professional news and content delivery solutions for innovative media companies across local, national and international markets. This includes OpenMedia CGI's flagship newsroom computer system, providing maximum speed and scalability for handling complex workflows in broadcast news production.

Learn more about CGI's newsroom solutions

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The demand for first-to-market video content, at the highest quality and lowest cost, are exploding. Are you prepared to keep up? Dalet Flex, Dalet's poly-cloud content supply chain solution, is here to help. It will unlock your content supply chain and revolutionize the way your content is managed, distributed and monetized throughout its lifespan.

The latest release of Dalet Flex now offers enhanced security capabilities and additional OVP integrations, including Brightcove and JWPlayer plug-ins, as well as custom integrations with Bitmovin and Kaltura, improving OTT preparation and multiplatform distribution workflows to help content owners quickly scale their operations. Dalet Flex will reinforce your business continuity with a hybrid or fully-cloud based content supply chain.

For those involved in delivering content to consumers, the task of providing top quality content has never been more complex and fiercely contested. You have to source the highest quality content from multiple sources preparing it and delivering to many platforms and geographies, on tighter budgets and schedules.

Dalet Flex delivers an open solution that simplifies and streamlines content preparation and video publishing. It can utilize your existing investments in best of breed solutions joining your business together, removing manual tasks that can cause errors and delays, meaning, less cost and complexity, more engagement, and maximum revenue.

The core of Dalet Flex handles the metadata, orchestrates workflows, and collects analytic data. It’s enhanced with native applications that support key parts of the supply chain. Then it adds multiple third-party integrations for extra functionality. You can configure the platform to solve even the most complex or siloed supply chain issues:

• Content Production: Manage, integrate and orchestrate your content pipeline


• Content Distribution: Deliver engaging content to each and every channel


• Intelligent Archive: Use artificial intelligence and automation to increase revenue from your content archive

Flex applications unlock and streamline value chain stages like acquisition with FlexMOVE, asset management with FlexMAM, approval workflows with FlexREVIEW, publishing and syndication capabilities with FlexB2C and, linear and multi-platform delivery. Obtain real-time data from every stage of the production and distribution process with FlexTRACK and gain solid business insights from the platform’s reporting capabilities. And to complement this impressive stack, we work closely with Microsoft, Google Cloud Platform, Avid, Oracle Telestream, Interra, AWS, Brightcove and other best-of-breed technology partners to build powerful integrations that seamlessly connect your supply chain.

The flexible open APIs also allow you to develop your own integrations or work with Dalet's Professional Services team to build them.

The result: powerful metadata-driven workflows that move your content through your business seamlessly.

Key Benefits

• Boost your speed to market


• Unblock your content supply chain to open up new revenue opportunities


• Configurable and extensible, so it changes with your needs


• Unrivalled custom workflow orchestration


• Powerful asset management and the most sophisticated metadata on the market


• Integrates via public APIs and SDKs


• Reduces manual work so your team can focus on creating engaging campaigns


• Drives down the total cost of ownership

It’s finally easy to onboard new partners, offer new services and deliver new digital viewing experiences. It’s time to really connect with your partners and your consumers. It’s time to change the way you run your media business – with Dalet Flex.

 

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eVIAS provides you secure, high efficiency cost-effective solutions of digital assets throughout your organization, across multiple delivery channels and media platforms. eVIAS lets you centralize all your digital assets, automate and streamline your workflow, makes every step faster and easier. It provides comprehensive media functions which enable operators to control all the aspects of digital asset management, including multi-format import/ingest, organization, smart and flexible archiving strategy.

Combining professional video-audio processing and IT technology, eVIAS offers advanced, yet easy-to-use features for content searching, browsing, editing, auditing, archiving, and downloading. Furthermore, a set of customization tools are included, so that the operator can easily adjust the workflow and catalogue GUI on demand.

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AUDIOTOOLS SERVER

Quality-First Audio Automation

AudioTools Server automates the most sophisticated audio tasks and offers a wide variety of processing, specifically created for use in cable, satellite, OTT, terrestrial and IPTV, radio, and post-production facilities. As a pure software platform running on commodity hardware, including VM or cloud deployment, AudioTools Server is flexible and customizable, allowing for new workflows as requirements inevitably change.

• State-of-the-art audio processing


• Customized, efficient file-based workflows


• Unrivaled loudness tools


• Compliance to broadcast standards


• Interoperability with major environments


• Modular, scalable platform

 

Leader in Loudness

Loudness Control is a significant use case for AudioTools Server, using Linear Acoustic® APTO® loudness processing. Our loudness-normalization processes fully preserve the existing audio and only apply a gain change combined with optional peak limiting. Other use cases require changing the dynamic range and more complex parameters of the audio content, such as dialog intelligibility. Advanced Loudness Adaptation is a collection of intelligent loudness profiles designed to adapt a theatrical audio mix for broadcast to create the best possible audio experience for all modern platforms such as OTT/web, mobile/ handheld, and VOD/SVOD.

 

Modular Design

Modular architecture allows AudioTools Server to always be state-of-the-art, but the real power of this approach is using workflows to combine module functions in a sequential or highly conditional profile. AudioTools Server provides a modern REST API to connect the system to any industry-standard Workflow Automation or Media Asset Management system. AudioTools Server is also a VST plug-in host, enabling third-party plug-ins as part of an overall AudioTools Server workflow.

 

File-Based Workflow and Next Generation Audio Support

With the requirements for broadcasters’ talent and editorial staff getting more and more difficult, automating as many file-based audio processes as possible makes good business sense. Broadcasters will need to support Dolby Atmos® and MPEG-H content—as well as your existing deliverables requirements—but tools that can do it all are scarce. AudioTools Server meets broadcasters’ existing needs to automate workflows for file-based loudness management, encoding/decoding, QC, and more, as well as easily adding Next Generation Audio support to those workflows.

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TELOS VXs VIRTUAL VOIP SYSTEM FOR TELEVISION

Powerful and adaptable Voice over IP virtualized system for broadcast and live TV production

Telos Alliance first introduced broadcasters to the benefits of VoIP a decade ago, with our first VoIP phone system, Telos VX®. VX replaced racks of phone couplers, contribution hybrids, and engineering coordination lines with a single hardware VoIP Engine. Now, Telos VXs is here to help broadcasters reap the benefits of true virtualization as they adapt to changing broadcast workflows, all while making it easier for remote teams to tap into production and engineering partylines.

From remote IFBs to audience call-ins, VXs can run anywhere from one or two lines in a small studio to the on-air phones for your entire plant, giving you incredible operational power, adaptable workflows, and superior audio quality.

Production facility design is evolving, moving away from dedicated hardware connected to centralized router frames to flexible SMPTE 2110 media networks with software-based workflows. VXs software can be deployed on shared servers in the centralized data center or in cloud instances. These deployment options enable the benefits of true virtualization, such as easier facility-wide upgrades, automated deployment, and more, without site visits. Broadcasters can scale VXs in size from a single contribution audio line to a facility-wide IFB system to a multi-facility system, meeting the exact needs and budget of the facility now, with the ability to upgrade at any time with no penalty.

For decades, phone-based IFB and comms have been neglected in video production facilities. Instead of treating these critical communication paths as invisible background connections, VXs allows these assets to be brought to the forefront for detailed monitoring and control via customizable Pathfinder HTML-5 user panels for applications such as OB Truck to HQ Comms.

Standards-Based for Easy Connectivity

Support for SMPTE-2110 and AES67 environments brings a new level of compatibility and flexibility to VXs, allowing for direct integration with intercom systems, audio consoles, and other production systems over existing multicast media networks. Support for SAP advertisement means VX smoothly integrates alongside AES67-enabled Dante® devices, as well.

When combined with the Telos Infinity™ IP Intercom system, the drag-and-drop Infinity Dashboard interface allows remote IFBs and engineering coordination lines to be centrally configured, added to partylines and groups, and assigned to Infinity IP Intercom panels quickly.

For those without an IP media infrastructure, Telos Alliance AoIP Audio Nodes provide high-density AES3, SDI, and analog I/O to integrate with any console or intercom system now while providing an upgrade path to direct AoIP connectivity as your facility evolves in the future.

New-to-AoIP Installation

Don’t have IP-Audio networking yet? VX will work with all console and intercom brands, networked or not, using Telos Alliance Nodes with AES3, SDI, and analog I/O, as well as GPIO.

The diagram above shows an example system with a non-AoIP mixer and intercom system using a Telos Alliance AES xNode and SDI Node.

AoIP Installation

Support for Livewire+™ AES67, AES67, and SMPTE 2110-30 environments brings a new level of compatibility and flexibility to VX VoIP systems. Support for AES67 gives broadcasters the capability of integrating VX into any AES67 environment or compatible SMPTE 2110-30 environments. Support for SAP advertisement means VX smoothly integrates alongside AES67-enabled Dante® devices.

The diagram above shows an example system consisting of a Livewire+ audio console and Telos Infinity® IP Intercom.

HTML-5 Control

When combined with Axia® Pathfinder™ Core PRO Broadcast Controller, you can create touchscreen-friendly custom HTML-5 panels to monitor and control every aspect of the VX system from any web browser. Comms managers and producers can use panels to manage all the IFB, contribution, and tech coordination lines in the facility. Gone are the days of reporters calling in to the wrong IFB and missing their live shot. With an HTML-5 control panel, producers can see the status and caller ID of each IFB line and even have the ability to call the reporter directly.

High-Performance Audio

Every call gets 5th-generation audio processing, packed full of technology engineered to extract the cleanest, clearest caller audio from any phone line—even noisy cellular calls. VXs makes TV talents’ in-ear and comms feeds more intelligible as well. It includes Smart AGC coupled with Telos’ three-band adaptive Digital Dynamic EQ, a three-band adaptive spectral processor, noise gating, and Acoustic Echo Cancellation.

HD voice calls will benefit from VX’s native support of the G.722 codec, instantly improving speech quality.

TelosCare™ PLUS Customer Care

We know that your VX is just one piece of the telephony puzzle, which may include your VoIP provider, PBX vendor, IT team, network security team, and more. We love to leverage our combined centuries of telephony experience to serve as your trusted VoIP ninjas and help you complete and maintain your telephony puzzle for years to come. TelosCare PLUS gives you the one-stop service and support you need long after the sale, going far beyond basic support and troubleshooting with proactive, holistic service and membership perks.

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Powerful and adaptable Virtual Voice over IP system for broadcast with legendary Telos high-performance audio.

Telos Alliance® introduced broadcasters to the benefits of VoIP a decade ago with VX, the world’s first VoIP talkshow system, in a hardware appliance. Now, Telos VXs is here to help broadcasters reap the benefits of true virtualization as they adapt to changing broadcast workflows and operations, all while making it easier for teams to produce great-sounding and compelling content.

Legendary Telos Audio Quality

Using VoIP, VXs combines modern networking with the power of digital signal processing developed by Telos over the past three decades. Every call gets fifth-generation audio processing packed full of technology engineered to extract the cleanest, clearest caller audio from any phone line—even noisy cellular calls.

VXs includes Smart AGC coupled with our famous three-band adaptive Digital Dynamic EQ, a three-band adaptive spectral processor, and noise gating. Call-ducking and host override are part of the VX toolkit as well. Users can conference multiple lines with superior clarity and fidelity. Send audio gets its own sweetening with an AGC, limiter, and Acoustic Echo Cancellation (AEC) technology that eliminates open-mic feedback.

And if you choose to use compatible telco services, calls from mobile handsets with SIP clients, HD capable telephone sets, and PC apps will benefit from VXs’s native support of the G.722 codec, instantly improving caller speech quality.

Standards-Based for Easy Connectivity

Telos VXs systems are “facility-wide” broadcast phone products. That means multiple studios, multiple stations, multiple shows—with minimal hardware requirements. Telco is delivered via IP from your SIP PBX, hosted VoIP service, or UCaaS provider. For carrier-grade reliability and redundancy, a dedicated SIP trunk circuit can be integrated via a Telos-configured Asterisk-based PBX; legacy circuits such as POTS, ISDN, or T1 can be integrated in the same way. Once connected, all telecom and audio connectivity flows via Ethernet.

New-to-AoIP Installation

Don’t have IP-Audio networking yet? VXs will work with all console brands, networked or not, using Telos Alliance xNodes and the VXs Call Controller drop-in controller for your console. xNodes, like the Telos Alliance Mixed Signal Node, break out audio into analog and digital formats, along with GPIO logic commands. The diagram below shows a typical studio with an analog mixer, using a Telos Alliance Mixed Signal xNode to connect to the console and other broadcast equipment.

AoIP Installation

Installing a VXs VoIP system in facilities already powered by Livewire+™ AES67 networks requires even less time and hardware. Your new VXs phone system will plug right in for seamless integration.

Additionally, support for AES67 gives broadcasters the capability of integrating VXs into any AES67 environment or compatible SMPTE 2110-30 environments. With plug-and-play connectivity, you can network multiple channels of audio with any manufacturer’s AES67- compliant hardware. Support for SAP advertisement means VXs smoothly integrates alongside AES67- enabled Dante® devices.

Call Management

When combined with call management software, producers and talent can screen and air calls from anywhere with a computer and a solid internet connection. Producers can identify repeat or unwanted callers and enter information about the call, such as topic and mood. This information is available to other production staff and talent in real-time. Various software options are available from Telos Alliance partners.

Use with Axia® Pathfinder™ Core PRO

For more custom needs, Axia® Pathfinder™ Core PRO can monitor, control, and display all aspects of your VXs system. This enables customized solutions such as drag-and-drop construction of custom control panels (pictured), timed Show changes based on studio schedules, or even API translation between third-party systems to display caller information or control lines. The possibilities are endless.

TelosCare™ PLUS Customer Care

We know that your VXs is just one piece of the telephony puzzle, which may include your VoIP provider, PBX vendor, IT team, network security team, and more. We love to leverage our combined centuries of telephony experience to serve as your trusted VoIP ninjas and help you complete and maintain your telephony puzzle for years to come. TelosCare PLUS gives you the one-stop service and support you need long after the sale, going far beyond basic support and troubleshooting with proactive, holistic service and membership perks.

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Dalet StoreFront is a SaaS-based solution that enables Dalet customers to create a content marketplace that offers a familiar shopping experience for their B2B clients, partners and affiliates. Dalet StoreFront manages multi-user access to Dalet MAM stored content with advanced search tools to quickly locate assets, filtered to only show relevant materials to a qualified client.

Dalet StoreFront is a window into your rich inventory, enabling external users to access and request content with a familiar shopping experience. Underpinned by Dalet MAM orchestration engine for content preparation and delivery, Dalet StoreFront creates an optimal content shopping experience that maximizes inventory exposure, repurposing and retail opportunities, bringing value to the overall media operation and business.

The Dalet StoreFront shopping experience is easily actionable, discoverable through an intuitive browsing and online shopping model, and eliminates the need for back and forth email exchanges.

With Dalet StoreFront, licensing content is easier than ever. Content owners can easily identify and tag content rights for their community of licensees as well as establish rights to visitors and potential licensees. Dalet StoreFront secures your rich content inventory by keeping all the source content under the control and management of Dalet MAM. Only after an order has passed through all checks, automated by Dalet Orchestration, can the fulfillment happen, thus creating a segregated browse/shopping experience from the source catalog.

StoreFront highlights include:

• Catalog: Tap into your existing Dalet content inventory and supply chain engine to promote and showcase your assets.


• Discover: With a familiar shopping experience for searching and discovering content, Dalet StoreFront makes browsing easy without the need for any user training.


• Showcase: Build a partner curated showcase of your best works, and further drive engagement.


• Collect: Enable collaboration by assembling your favourites into collections prior to requesting.


• Integrate: Tight coupling with your Dalet MAM content inventory and supply chain platform, plus open APIs that enable third parties to interact with your content factory.


• Report: Dalet StoreFront reporting provides accurate insights on browse and transactional trends, such as popular searches and cart checkouts. Usage Reports allow you to track your partner’s use of your content.

 

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Dalet Galaxy xCloud is a secure and highly scalable SaaS solution hosted by Dalet that extends on-premises production and enables an exceptional, friction-free remote editing and collaboration experience from home to hub.

Dalet Galaxy xCloud enables customers to work productively from home leveraging cloud infrastructure, while still using familiar production tools, such as Dalet OneCut, Dalet WebSpace, and Dalet On-the-Go from their home-based devices. Adobe® Premiere® Pro based editing workflows are also supported through the Dalet Xtend plugin.

Dalet’s powerful local caching mechanism provides a seamless editing experience even under difficult network conditions with Galaxy xCloud. Benefit from advanced proxy editing, mixing of central and local content, ability to review packages, approve stories, and deliver breaking news in seconds.

Dalet Galaxy xCloud works through a simple, but secure gateway to your on-premise system. Hosted in AWS and fully managed by Dalet, the solution complies with our leading security policies (ISO 27100).

Key features of Dalet Galaxy xCloud:

• Collaborate: Work collaboratively with your production team, access new content as it arrives and edit growing files.


• Produce: Mix local and remote content seamlessly on the timeline. No need to download large high-resolution files.


• Create: Leverage Dalet OneCut powerful editing features such a new effects and transitions, support for a range of aspects ratios including vertical and square, and much more!


• Work offline: Even when you can’t connect, cached content allows you to continue to edit from virtually anywhere.


• Integrate: Leverage central resources with remote rendering at the production hub.


• Scale: Adjust your Dalet Galaxy xCloud infrastructure as your operational requirements change.

With Dalet Galaxy xCloud, broadcasters and media organizations can ensure business continuity and drive remote workflows that focus on creative work, not on content logistics.

 

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wTVision's Media Manager adds power to any production operation by keeping track of all available media across the network and making sure it reaches the intended destination. It makes it easy for users to find, catalog, preview, transfer and manage media through a web interface that can be accessed from any desktop or mobile device.

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OpenMedia ReporterApp

Stay connected with your newsroom wherever you are

CGI’s OpenMedia ReporterApp is a feature-rich application for Android and iOS that enables reporters in the field to stay connected to their OpenMedia-based newsrooms at all times, wherever they are in the world. In an era of increased remote work, ReporterApp enables news organizations to conduct core news production activities in the field, seamlessly and efficiently.

Built on a cloud-native architecture, ReporterApp’s full integration with OpenMedia newsroom systems provides journalists with convenient access to the data they need in the field and control over their tasks and assignments. Journalists are able to access multiple sources of news, including agency wire feeds, scan events and topics, check contact details and collaborate on content.

Key features include

• Direct link between field and newsroom


• Operable with one hand


• Seamless integration with OpenMedia solution family


• Cloud-native architecture for easy scalability


• Task management, including push notifications


• Support for remote workflows


• Available for Android and iOS

Learn more about how ReporterApp can advance the mission and work of your newsroom.

CGI offers a wide range of professional news and content delivery solutions for innovative media companies across local, national and international markets. This includes OpenMedia CGI’s flagship newsroom computer system, providing maximum speed and scalability for handling complex workflows in broadcast news production.

Learn more about CGI’s newsroom solutions

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Dalet Galaxy five is the evolution of the industry-leading Dalet Galaxy Media Asset Management (MAM) and Workflow Orchestration platform that unifies the content chain by managing assets, metadata, workflows, and processes across multiple and diverse production and distribution systems. Specially tailored for media workflows, this unique technology platform helps broadcasters and media professionals increase their productivity while providing operational and business visibility.

A central, unified multimedia content catalog manages rich media assets across the organization enabling seamless collaboration. Workflow specific, task-oriented tools have native access to this central catalogue, facilitating every aspect of content creation, management and distribution: tools to design, manage and share media and metadata; tools to orchestrate the workflow, automate processes and human tasks; integration tools to unify disparate components into a cohesive system; business intelligence enables customizable reports for full visibility over the performance of your operations and systems.

The new version of the platform brings a number of important functional enhancements and three major technology innovations that augment media operations and create new forward-thinking business models. The first of which enables broadcasters and media organizations to leverage Artificial Intelligence (AI) across the workflow, the second leverages hybrid infrastructures with on-premise and cloud deployments, and the third to bring social media at the core.

Dalet Galaxy five feature highlights include:

• AI Framework: Build smart workflows with contextual recommendations, smart content matching, and better provisioning


• Hybrid Operations: Leverage cloud to deploy hybrid workflows that minimize content handling costs and allow new operation models


• Social Media at the Core: Harvest, analyze, produce and deliver rich content on social media platforms alongside traditional outlets

 

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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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Unify media operations with BLAM from Blue Lucy.

Designed to meet the complex content production and delivery requirements for the multiplatform age. BLAM combines media management, workflow orchestration & operational task management in a single solution.

BLAM workflows are entirely customisable through an easy to use drag-and-connect interface. BLAM is truly transformative in operational optimisation.

BLAM Benefits

Operationally Focused BLAM enables your business to:

• Create efficiencies through automation:

BLAM enables the controlled migration of production and operations to cloud-based service models.

• Reduce operational costs and exploit new revenue opportunities:

BLAM enables content owners and distributors to capitalise on a multiplatform presence.

• Connect disparate systems:

BLAM connects production and business systems to provide broad visibility and enables ‘low friction’ business operations.

See BLAM in action: https://bluelucy.com/in-action/

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Acknowledging the fact that “Content is the KING” in a media-driven workflow, QuickEdge asset management provides you complete control on media and document assets. One of the first in the industry to incorporate scale-out cluster support, all operations load is divided across the server cluster which helps in extreme scalability.

• A core Linux based back-end provides robustness and better security for content


• Supports multiple production storage across different platforms & protocols. Cross-Platform Client supports both Windows & MAC


• Youtube Plugin – Upload and Manage your YouTube channel within the MAM User interface


• Well thought user management system enables folder wise privileges to Add & edit metadata, read-write operations, Monitor system resources


• NLE-PLUGIN: Powerful NLE plugins for Adobe Premiere Pro (Premiere Pro CC 2018 or later), final cut pro X, and Edius enable media to browse & search right inside the NLE. Drag and drop media directly on to the timeline and export to QuickEdge MAM Explore more in this video link


• “SMART FOLDERS” and “INTRA SHARE”  features help in collaborating media with all teams.


• Unlimited multi-type metadata fields. (Date, text, paragraph, picklist) help you create a metadata structure of your choice. each user can further customize the metadata fields.


• Access privileges can be assigned based on users or groups. Additional support for LDAP based authentication


• Partial retrieval support with multiple mark in and outs.


• Smart Quota system Allows user-specific storage area allocation.


• Duplicate media detection: Find identical media files across the solution and reduce duplication.


• Complete system administration using a remote web application.


• Intelligent caching for media lying in offline media like LTO, ODA and Cloud

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INTELLIGENT DIGITAL ASSET MANAGEMENT

Veritone Digital Media Hub is a cloud-native, AI-enabled media management portal specifically designed for content owners in sports, film, TV, news, and media enterprises. Custom-branded to maintain your company’s personality, Digital Media Hub allows content creators to immediately access, search, manage, share, and monetize media including videos, still images, and audio.

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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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Tiger Spaces is a project & user management software that enables you to create, assign and manage virtual project workspaces. Gain the freedom to move projects and assets across a mix of heterogenous storage solutions (shared Tiger SAN storage and any NAS SMB & NFS protocols), while preserving users’ mount points and data paths intact. Tiger Spaces carves out separate workspaces in your shared storage and users see each one as a local attached drive, which prevents inefficient scanning of workspaces and ensures best performance. You still manage one shared storage space - no added complexities. Tiger Spaces allows elastic project sizing as well as setting workspace quotas. Optional Avid bin-locking improves collaboration by allowing users to work on the same project simultaneously.

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Media Engine is a modern media management service built into the Signiant Platform. Easily do a federated search across all your storage – on-premises and in the cloud – and quickly preview and interact with media assets. Results are immediately actionable via the powerful services available on the platform, anchored by fast file transfer.

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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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It is not uncommon for additional audio, subtitle, audio descriptions or music and effects tracks to arrive after your content has been ingested, which means each time a new track arrives from an external supplier another time consuming ingest has to be performed.

With Aqua TrakStak, the new track is appended to your asset at up to 80 times real-time, without the need to re-ingest the video.

Initially the new track is aligned to the video using the timecode to synchronise. Any adjustment to the track alignment is made easily in the intuitive user interface – at the click of the mouse you can nudge the track, frame by frame, either backwards or forwards to ensure accurate lip sync correction.

Tracks can be re-ordered at any time, so it really doesn’t matter which track arrives first. Using a powerful 3rd party integration with Telestreams Vidchecker the QC of a full asset can now be fully automated, adding notes to the media timeline and ensuring there are no hold ups in the workflow. TrakStak is ideal for Quality Insurance, multi-language broadcasting and audio and subtitle reviewing.

Features & Benefits
--Re-sync audio tracks
--Fully automated track stacking and QC
--Import audio at 80 times real-time speeds
--High-speed audio visualisation
--Integrates with channel management systems
--Attach or link scripts, graphics and all other files

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ShotLogger is used to tag frame accurate ‘points of interest’ in your media, saving it as metadata for future use in your database. It is perfect for marking up goals and penalties in football, crashes and overtaking in F1 racing, speeches at a political party conference, special events in newsgathering, flashing lights, violence and nudity for TV and film compliance – the list is endless

This information, which is synchronised to the video by the timecode, can be used when selecting media with common themes for creating a montage sequence, a series promo or edited highlights from an event. It is extremely powerful when making altered versions of the same content for compliance purposes.

ShotLogger has a flexible graphic user interface (GUI), which can be customised to suit all your user preferences and client workflow requirements. This includes keyboard shortcuts, customisable keywords and form design, keyframe adjustment and shot-change configuration. The keyboard shortcut templates also integrate with Quantel, Avid, FCP and Adobe.

Using the keyword buttons, events and points of interest are easily logged and colour coded for quick identification. Shots made in ShotLogger offer cross module interaction, becoming searchable through Aqua Finder, Splice and TrakStak making it easy to find specific events no matter when they took place. Each Shot offers a comment box for a description of the event to allow for even easier searching and quick reviewing.

Features & Benefits
--Optimise edit suite usage
--Low resolution ‘browse’ versions allow for remote working
--Re-purpose content
--Fast content, clip-note and metadata search
--Ideal for edit-compliance newsroom, live sports production and fast turnaround and continuity
--Enriching content with metadata
--Touch screen compatible

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FileCatalyst Central is a web-based monitoring tool that acts as a united gateway to view and administer your entire FileCatalyst deployment. FileCatalyst Central allows you to view ongoing transfers in real-time, drill into transaction histories and reports, view system health including alarms, remotely configure nodes, and initiate file transfers.

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Neither cloud nor CDN, the Eluvio Content Fabric allows content publishers to distribute premium video globally including live, video on demand, and linear channels, direct to consumers and to business partners without CDNs, cloud stacks, transcoding services or databases.

The Content Fabric is a single backend source for master asset servicing including media, metadata and code, with inherent linking of components, re-use, rights, and versioning.  Streaming and file based video presentation are delivered just in time, globally, from the source objects to consumer with ultra-low latency. There are no file copies and the content security does not trust the infrastructure (trust less).

An embedded blockchain ledger, contract-backed content, and dynamic composition enable personalization, rights control, monetization, and re-use of media and metadata across properties.

Tier 1 Hollywood Studios, Broadcasters and new mobile streaming platforms use the Fabric for radically simple, fast, and inexpensive supply chains.

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OOONA Integrated is a cloud-based system for the seamless management of localization, translation and captioning workflows in a user-centric approach.

Designed for localization service providers, OOONA Integrated uses current web and database technologies to provide an intuitive and easy-to-use system. With integrated financial tools, project dashboards and internal message system, OOONA Integrated offers instant and full visibility of the entire localization workflow, thus hugely reducing the scope for human error and eliminating duplication of effort.

In an industry in which there are constant and immovable deadlines, managers are offered peace of mind by having instant access to up-to-the-minute information about all processes, including task status and profit and loss analysis.

Everyone in the localization workflow, from the operations staff to the translators and the financial management team, is able to benefit from OOONA Integrated inherent time-saving capabilities. With OOONA Integrated, different levels of access can be allowed to company staff and end clients. As a cloud-based management tool, OOONA Integrated is easily accessible to users in any location and complemented with a suite of high-end web-based production tools, the OOONA Tools.

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Industry leading Management Tools for your Media Business

 

Serving clients across production, post-production, broadcasting, equipment rental, agency, and education

 

Organize and track project resources, plan and control the project lifecycle, and manage day-to-day tasks.  farmerswife exists to simplify your work

 

Expert global multilingual team will help you all the way from implementation to day-to-day support

[1] schedule

Powerful Resource Scheduling developed from 21 years of deep experience of client needs

Simple to use for all employees from management to creatives

Real time updates whether in the office, work from home or on the road

[2] manage

Unlimited resources, including people, rooms, desks, equipment

Assign and manage projects across your entire team Track your production costs from start to finish and everything in between

[3] collaborate

Work on Team Tasks using a powerful set of mobile tools

Coordinate resources, communicate and share files in one central hub

Instantly improve efficiency with custom workflows & templates

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Eliminate tools, increase productivity and collaborate using Cirkus

Schedule, assign and manage projects

Bring clarity to your plans, and task ownership to your team

Collaborate with anyone

Coordinate resources, collaborate and  share files in one central hub

Create custom templates

Reuse your successful workflows and instantly improve efficiency

 

https://cirkus.com/getting-started/

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Protect your valuable data with Paragon for Archives

Designed for flexibility and ease of use, Paragon is a Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) platform that can scale from systems for a single user or small workgroups, through to large national archives responsible for the safe storage of petabytes of data.

The Paragon system provides an open architecture to deliver a media-aware storage management system by utilising the LTFS standard and controlling LTO data libraries. It creates a fully-managed, digital content library that is device independent, future proof, and secure, while enabling easy access to archived content and making it simple to repurpose it across teams and organisations.

An integrated proxy-browse interface makes it simple to search, discover and browse media with its associated metadata, select clips, and carry out partial restore of content before downloading, saving both time and money for your organisation.

Paragon has the flexibility to be used as a standalone archive solution as well as being capable of being extended for wider business requirements by combining it with other TMD media services platforms.

 

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Strawberry is an award-winning production asset management (PAM) system, designed to keep you organised even in complex collaborative environments. Strawberry integrates closely with your Adobe workflow, allowing you to manage your storage more effectively, accelerate production workflows and make the most of your creative team’s time – all without overburdening technical staff.

Do your media manager a favour: get them Strawberry

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Flow Works specializes in the technical processing of media content (of any type) as well as editorial & management processes of any kind.Flow Works consists of 6 core parts: Flow Center, Flow Device and Workflow Manager, Flow Coder – Media Transcoding, Flow Storage Manager, Flow Fuel Playout Modules & Interfaces, Flow ANT – the Micro Media Management System. Flow Center is a highly integrated, complete workflow and asset management solution. It specializes in the technical processing of media content (of any type) as well as editorial & management processes of any kind.

Flow Center covers all technical, workflow and integration needs encompassing:

• Editorial to administrative management of media content (archive, editorial processes, automated workflows, communication, distribution / publishing)


• Complete technical handling and editing of media content (transcoding, cut, brand, mux, crop, delivery, playout)


• Integration of third-party technical, management and distribution applications into complete and automatable workflow chains.

Both as primary purpose or line-extention, Flow Works offers a wide range of made-to-measure web based services/surfaces for specific tasks. These services, collectively called “Fuel”, can be categorised into four groups:

• Production workflows (uploader, dailies, screening & approvals, file exchange)


• Project workflows (uploader, multiple content pool management, projects management, screener, file exchange)


• Publishing workflows (content pool management, distribution / channel management, file delivery)


• Playout (web TV, corporate TV, showrooms / crm, press-services, shops, apps, hybrid, social media – all via any device)

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Build Your Media Asset Collections

AI-Powered Collections to ingest, store and manage your archives, rushes and live streams.
* Collections: Ever-growing folders triggered by face, speech & object Multimodal AI detection.
* Contribute audiovisual files from multiple sources in professional formats.
* Centralize, work on and share your content via a shared cloud workspace.

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Spaces|MAM is a fully featured web-based media management tool that enables you to handle ingest, metadata, logging, search, viewing, editing and transcoding of media assets from a Tiger Spaces managed virtual workspace. The Spaces|MAM integration with Tiger Spaces controls the media flow, project definition and all metadata throughout the entire production. Via its web interface, users can search, browse, upload & download, share rough cuts with clients, and perform any actions allowed by their profile even without accessing the local storage directly. Spaces|MAM has an integrated player window that allows operators to preview any content, add in/out marks, leave comments, etc. Spaces|MAM has a built-in web editor which allows you to fully edit your media for news, sport, or social media. It also enables live web stream editing and publishing content to multiple platforms in various formats from within the browser.

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TMD’s Media Portal has been developed to provide a standardised method of receiving content. It is designed to make it simpler for media organisations to manage the process of receiving content, along with making it easier and more efficient for studios and third-party collaborators to deliver content to them. Media Portal provides an intuitive solution to transfer media content, with no technical knowledge required. This is preferable to many other methods of transferring content, where there may be limitations on file sizes and formats as well as security challenges.

With Mediaflex Media Portal, all that is required is for suppliers to access the web address of the organisation’s portal, which could be on the public internet. Once logged in the user is immediately presented with what media content they need to transfer to the Mediaflex platform. The first screen the user sees is a hierarchical list of media content grouped by Series, Season, Episode and Versions, all ordered by deadline date.

Once uploaded, the video content then goes through an initial set of pre-configured ingest technical QC processes, making it easy to see which files have been successfully uploaded, passed the initial technical checks and are ready to send onto the next stages of the content supply chain processes. Any number of users can upload at the same time from different user accounts located across multiple locations around the world. Configurable metadata fields are completed by the user at the same time, enabling discoverability and searchability of the content once it is enters Mediaflex as a media item.

Media Portal includes comprehensive logging of events including capturing the details of all files uploaded, sent and deleted. The interface is configurable for each media organisation, and intuitively provides support information and support availability based on the location of the user.

 

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The Mediaflex Video Browser is an intuitive web-based UI, enabling the viewing of all Parliamentary sessions in legislature chambers and meeting rooms, as well as recordings from studios and external locations. Where recordings are from the chambers, during and after the sessions, senators and senate aides and any authorised personnel can view the recordings and access any section of the clips in near real-time as they are being recorded. Selected clips can be added to a workflow, which makes the clip recordings available to senators and staff for use in their parliamentary duties.

The Video Browser is configurable for access rights. It can be set to only be accessed via a login screen from an authorised network, so it is only available to approved users, or set to have open access if desired.

Recorded content is searchable by configurable criteria, including date, what is currently being recorded, by location, and by keyword (the content of each recorded session). All sessions are recorded to a preservation format and a browse format, with the browse format being configurable including live frame-accurate HLS with closed captions. A thumbnail of the recording and the close captions can also be viewed. The Video Browser reads the captions with corresponding timecodes from the database and/or a file. It supports captions in any language, and in any number of languages.

A recording may be many hours long. Video Browser enables the user to select a single clip from the recording, several short clips as well as single or multiple clips from multiple recordings. The user is the able to see the selected clips in a timeline, which can then be added to a workflow.

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Tedial is transforming and redefining media business efficiency and technology approaches with the introduction of smartWork, a unique Media Integration Platform that distills complex workflows into simplified processes.  smartWork’s no-code architecture will revolutionize productivity for non-technical users, and because it follows Infrastructure as a Code (IaaC) it can be deployed on-premises, on any cloud or in a hybrid architecture for incredible flexibility.

The game-changing technology will revolutionize the way media companies and content owners manage their media by speeding up the digital transformation with benefits that include unprecedented flexibility, seamless and effortless integrations, reduced costs, enhanced team collaboration, improved profitability, accelerated growth and dramatically shorter delivery times.

smartWork democratizes business processes, empowering users to define integrations autonomously - without vendor participation - and create workflows in a flexible and agile manner. Aligned with Movielabs’ 2030 Vision for Media Creation, the platform removes time-consuming and complex configurations via a common User Interface that guarantees an optimal experience and easy access to all applications, external systems (including any legacy MAMs, PAMs and DAMs ensuring business continuity), and features self-validation. An easy-to-use toolset allows users to concentrate on creativity and make the data-driven decisions necessary to quickly adapt to market or supply changes.

smartWork’s unique approach is built upon a common interface and a common data model so applications and systems are integrated within the platform as opposed to the platform integrated into the applications. This major change simplifies workflow design, as the workflows needn’t be aware of the specific APIs and the data models of each component making it simple to swap integrations within an existing workflow. In addition, a common workspace allows the applications to go to the media and not the media delivered to the applications, which is key.  A media abstraction layer is added so that workflows are not dependent on physical locations (on premises / cloud) providing an extra security layer.

Tedial has designed smartWork natively with microservices and kubernetes to provide future proofing and scalability of both media operations and resources.  Its easy-to-use no-code editor enhances flexibility and minimizes operational risk with built-in complexity abstraction and visual tools. A quick drag and drop tool enables anyone, even those without coding expertise or technical knowledge, to easily assemble and modify workflows, including integrations of external third-party systems, without vendor or specialist intervention. This leads to greater self-sufficiency and cost-savings and quick-to-market benefits for the organization.

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X-Pert Compact MAM is a highly integrated SQL-based media and content management database.

User-friendly interface 

Our application is a database for media and content management. It classifies your content using many indices, such as type, category, genres, keywords, credits, media, etc. Besides, the UI is compact and comfortable. It has only three sections: Tree View, Search Fields, and Data Grid.

• The Tree View is not only a highly space-efficient solution but also gets everything in one space. You can view it with a single click.


• The Search Fields section allows you to find whatever you need in all database content.


• The Data Grid presents the list of entries. Here, you can find full details of each file at a glance.

Sometimes, more than one asset should be updated with a piece of information. In such cases, XCM provides multi-editing functionality. This feature allows you to edit data in several records simultaneously. In particular, you will be aware of the identical and various fields between the records in your database.

Export to MS Excel

This seamless integration with MS Excel allows you to export your records to the .*xls file. Moreover, you can create a template form in MS Excel to be filled in with records from X-Pert Compact MAM.

Templates

You can use this functionality to create new records. Furthermore, the templates option saves effort for entering uniform data in multiple records. Meanwhile, they are very useful for creating sequences that consist of many records with the same data.

Expired node

Each database requires strong maintenance. Notably, the deletion of data can be a real problem. Because of that, our application provides a unique expired node. You just have to decide how to proceed with these instances. For example, you may delete them or change their expiration dates.

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TV Attribution for Advertisers

mediaQX forms a bridge between off-line and on-line broadcasts TV viewership data & obtained from millions of connected TVs. Attributing TV campaigns to online conversions (website visits, mobile app downloads, even sales) is a challenging task for advertisers.

• Which channels or shows drive quality online traffic?


• What time of day or day of the week is more effective for your TV campaign?


• How to maximise Return on Advertising Spend (ROAS) for TV campaigns ?

mediaQX AI fills the gap between offline and online worlds of advertising to understand cross-channel performance better and gives you a deep behaviorial analysis by gathering data from millions of Connected TVs.

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ShotPut Pro has been the industry standard camera card offloading application for 10 years. It is optimized for video files but can be used for any file type, from any source. Files are verified using checksums or file based comparison, multiple options for both are available including XX Hash and MD5. Process multiple jobs at once, as well as one source to multiple output destinations. Color-coded, at-a-glance progress window clearly indicate what job is at what stage of the process. Email, text and desktop notifications provide information about completed jobs from anywhere. PDF reports with thumbnails and metadata can be generated, as well as TXT and CSV. Detailed naming options can be saved and exported in presets. Available on both Mac and Windows.

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FileCatalyst Direct is a suite of server and client applications that enable point-to-point accelerated file transfers at speeds of up to 10Gbps. By utilizing a patented UDP-based file transfer technology, FileCatalyst overcomes the issue of slow file transfers caused by network impairments such as latency and packet loss.

Our client applications are designed to meet needs that are dependent on your specific workflow. By adding on one or multiple client applications, you can expect to see increased productivity within your workflows and an overall improvement in business efficiencies.

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The consumption of content continues to accelerate on an upwards path and the need to efficiently acquire, manage and deliver across the entire content supply chain becomes ever more compelling.

To achieve optimum performance we need to consider following a digital transformation strategy that builds on the four pillars of the content supply chain:

• Content – in all its forms, digital and physical, video, audio, graphics, captions, subtitles, scripts and documents, as well as all the associated and additional metadata


• Workflow – Nothing happens to content without direction, as simple or complex as needed. Business processes, logic and decisions must be performed to create cohesive and efficient workflows, taking into account both manual, and the increasing amount of automated tasks


• Resources – Workflows don’t happen without somebody or something managing and orchestrating them, whether it be a person and/or technology


• Analytics – How do you know how well your operation is running and that you’ve implemented efficient working practices? Analytics. Being able to measure and manage the business across the above 3 pillars enables an organisation to automate elasticity in resource utilisation, to understand the metrics of its operation, how efficient they are and ultimately how the bottom line is affected by them.

Undertaking a strategy that creates tight integration of all 4 pillars will deliver significant benefits to the organisation. Maximising the benefit requires the implementation of an agile and flexible content supply chain solution, so implementing a business solution, such as Mediaflex-UMS (Unified Media Services), that embraces all 4 pillars will ultimately lead to a significantly more efficient operation.

From its concept, Mediaflex-UMS has been designed to integrate these 4 pillars and place clients in control of their content, metadata and the business processes across their content supply chains. Equally as important, it was designed to place our customers in control of the Mediaflex-UMS platform.

So often organisations find out the hard way that the implementation of a new system requires them to go back to the vendor and/or rely on technology experts to modify the code to cater for new business processes, or modify existing ones, as the business changes. This often leads to the question “Do I build or buy?”.

With Mediaflex-UMS you get the best of both worlds: buying a system that allows authorised personnel to use the tool-sets built into the system to design, modify and configure it to meet the ever-changing demands of the business as the consumption of media continues to change.

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eMAM is a powerful media asset management platform that provides users an intuitive web interface to collaboratively produce, share, and deliver video and other media.  Artists and designers use integrated tools inside Adobe Creative Cloud and Apple Final Cut systems.  With built-in tools and over 80 technology partners, eMAM manages native resolution files and integrated workflow processes needed by leading organizations worldwide since 2006 in local, cloud, and hybrid environments.  eMAM helps organizations respond to emerging demands with scalability, easy reconfiguration, and multiple ordering options:  by purchase, by subscription, or by turnkey cloud SaaS and VM/PaaS.   Contact one of our system integration partners at emamsolutions.com/reseller or get eMAM Cloud from the AWS and Alibaba Cloud Marketplaces or emamcloud.com.

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Axinom CMS (Content Management System) is a fully extensible content management system built to meet the requirements of the media and aerospace industry in managing many content types, metadata, and services. The capabilities span automated workflows for the digital supply chain, including asset and metadata management, localization, e-commerce, advertising, subscription management, and secure multi-channel delivery to all types of client devices. The interfaces and services layer of Axinom CMS provides a seamless and automated way to integrate various interfaces and services out-of-the-box either with Axinom or any other backend systems.

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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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With ever-growing production demands and the associated increase in media assets and users required to access them, every production project needs a sophisticated media management toolset. With our heritage in shared storage solutions for broadcast and media, EditShare is uniquely positioned to understand these requirements and today our Flow production media asset management platform is at the heart of many of the worlds leading production facilities workflows.

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Cinegy Desktop is a Windows based application that is the media production client connected to the Cinegy Archive server. Multiple Cinegy Desktop clients can form a highly efficient team collaboration environment for import, logging, simple and advanced editing. It also has an integrated news environment for real-time workgroup-oriented production.  Cinegy Desktop now includes Desktop editions of Capture and Convert for local live ingest and local import/export. The integrated real-time NLE system has seen major improvements. It now fully supports UHD, keyframing of GPU-accelerated effects, UHD formats including ProRes, XAVC, AVC-Ultra, DNxHR, and of course our own Daniel2.

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Cinegy Archive is the innovative media asset management solution for any organization with an archive or productions to manage. With its scalable and open architecture Cinegy offers the most affordable solution to digitize tape-based archive and production workflows. With advanced logging and metadata accumulation over the entire lifecycle of your assets these become easily searchable and reusable, saving you time and money. Cinegy Archive enables local and remote real-time collaboration allowing loggers, story editors and video editors to work on video material in real-time already while it is being ingested.  Using the Cinegy Workspace browser-based interface, clips can be searched, browsed, selected and even edited from anywhere. Cinegy Archive brings your assets to life. For broadcast or mission critical applications the use of clustering for high-availability (e.g. mirrored servers with active/passive failover) for the Cinegy Archive database server is recommended. Generally, Microsoft’s Best Practice Recommendations for Microsoft SQL are applicable for sizing RAM, configuring DB storage and choosing the appropriate processors.

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Limecraft Flow is used by producers and post production facilities worldwide to streamline their workflow end-to-end. It uses proxies for cloud-based collaboration, while keeping the high-resolution material, stored on premise or 3rd party cloud services, linked at all time. Hence it allows significant savings in bandwidth and online storage cost, and it is perfect for setting up remote post production and solo editing operations.

Limecraft Flow is used for sharing and approving dailies and rushes, logging and pre-cutting, and it manages the complete workflow through the different stages in post-production. It uses AI to automatically create same language subtitles for accessibility and translated subtitles for localisation of content. Eventually it is used as well for verification dispatching of the masters.

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Flow 2020 is an open and collaborative media management solution. Managing the entire media technology stack, Flow 2020 adds a secure media control layer to storage platforms with embedded production tools that let users effectively manage and better utilize millions of assets as well as automate complex workflows and redundant tasks. Flow 2020 supports a myriad of codecs and resolutions ranging from Standard Definition up to 4K and 8K. It enables remote editorial production workflows including content ingest and sharing, storyboarding with review and approval tools. The public API enables extensible workflows and deeper integration with leading creative editing and production tools. In response to COVID-19 and the need for remote production tools, EditShare has made Flow available for free through July 1, 2020.

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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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FileCatalyst Workflow is a web portal that that allows users to submit, distribute and share large media files to any email address using any browser. Recipients are provided links that allow them to download sent files. Users may submit files to your organization for processing, with full tracking at every stage, or they may securely distribute files to anyone with an email address. Additionally, file areas allow users to store files in your organization’s private cloud for collaboration, with online access from anywhere.

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WHATS’ON is Europe's most advanced platform for managing and programming radio, TV and online content channels. With modular desktop applications or web-based applications in the cloud that sit at the centre of future-proof media operation ecosystems, MEDIAGENIX help optimise and automate the life cycles of content, and drive efficiencies throughout the content supply chain from acquisition over planning, scheduling and rights management to publication and beyond. The solution supports the entire content workflow, or drives content/rights/media/EPG/finance workflows as a central system complemented with best-of-breed niche applications, to strategically run a mix of OTT, VoD and Linear business.

MEDIAGENIX started out in 1992 helping a commercial channel move away from Excel sheets and handwritten programme schedules. After decades of co-creation with an ever growing international customer community, MEDIAGENIX rank among the top of tech vendors in the international media industry, serving  customers in Europe, the Middle East, the United States, Asia, Latin America and Oceania. Customers include public and commercial radio and TV stations, on-demand platforms, OTT streamers, telcos and their service providers.

Your benefits

Optimally exploit your content on any VOD services Driven by rights. Fully verified. Completely integrated with multiformat workflow management. Catch-up & preview services driven from the linear schedules.

Manage smart linear channels end to end Integrated workflows, from budget plan to fully crafted playlists. Automatically in line with rights,regulations, business rules, branding and marketing targets. Use the same toolset for your VOD operations.

Don’t leave money on the table Exploit your rights to the full. Always know the value of stock and schedule, and your ROI. Manage your commercial inventory.

Streamline the material workflow Manage and monitor the workflows for both VOD and Linear publication.

Integrate, automate & future-proof media operations Integrate with standard interfaces or with the toolkit to create your own REST API calls. Set up workflows across departments and systems.

Hit the targets and report on everything Calculate and report on statistics, quota values, financial information, content and all other kinds of information.

Effortlessly stay within legal boundaries Always be sure your scheduling is in compliance with parental ratings, and observes licence conditions and government regulations.

Build your audience Schedule promotions — automatically, manually or combined — based on ratings and targets.

 

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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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Fan engagement is sure to increase for broadcasters when they can deliver better, more vivid graphics resulting from the new integration between SMARTLIVE and Singular’s cloud-based technology for live graphic overlays. Graphics can be inserted into the SMARTLIVE auto-generated EDL, reviewed in the player and then burned in when the EDL is flattened. This major development  gives broadcasters the capability to enhance storytelling by layering graphics on top of highlights.