Octopus News Production System

Viura is a CGI software tool for editors and presenters that provides intelligent camera control in the radio studio. The solution is entirely manufacturer-independent through a combination of video hardware from Blackmagic Design and our specially-designed control software. This means it’s compatible with other dira solutions, as well as with third-party solutions for playout and production.

Triggered by microphone-level detection, fader starts, or by key actions, the software automatically switches to the corresponding configured camera in the studio. Packaging elements, such as lower thirds or broadcast logos, are generated automatically and also can be displayed automatically or by pressing a button.

• Automatic operations with no additional studio staff required


• Event-controlled camera changes (e.g. by microphone input level, fader starts, etc.)


• Individual logos and texts displayed


• Automatic background recording


• Workflow can be implemented with any mixing console using Ember+


• Integrated touch interface

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

• Real-time Collaboration: Seamlessly collaborate with your team members, enhancing communication and efficiency in news production.


• Automated Metadata Tagging: The system automatically tags and organizes content, making it easy to search, retrieve, and reuse valuable assets.


• Integration with Industry Software: Arion NRCS holds full integration capabilities with the most popular broadcast industry software, ensuring seamless workflows and compatibility.


• Customizable Workflows: Tailor Arion NRCS to suit your specific newsroom needs and production requirements, optimizing your operations.


• Intuitive User Interface: Designed with user-friendly navigation and a visually appealing interface, Arion NRCS simplifies training and onboarding processes.

Etere Nunzio Newsroom integrates seamlessly with Newtek NDI to deliver unlimited streams for live productions with savings of up to half the cost of a traditional SDI setup. Upgrade your newsroom to Etere to get more done for less!

With NDI integration, Nunzio Newsroom software delivers and receives unlimited broadcast quality video streams with low latency and frame accuracy. Setting up a live newsroom production for unlimited streams is easy and cost-efficient. Newstek NDI is a royalty-free standard that allows multiple video systems to identify and communicate with one another over IP. It encodes, transmits and receive multiple streams of high quality, low latency, frame-accurate video and audio in real-time. Etere is compatible with Newtek NDI technology since 2014 when it rolled out support for the IT-based Etere ETX Channel-in-a-box system.

Etere NDI Nunzio Newsroom enables the use of virtual machines to manage the complete newsroom workflow. With a virtualised environment, you have the freedom to run unlimited streams without the need to invest, operate and maintain a large number of hardware and cables. In addition, you can save up to half the hardware costs with a smaller footprint using only standard Gigabit cables. Moreover, with the use of standard IP adapters, the system is fully redundant for a fault-tolerant performance.

Etere Nunzio Newsroom is the newsroom management component of Etere Ecosystem. It enhances coordinated multi-media planning and collaboration across different production units and departments with an editorial driven workflow and flexible metadata management. Etere Nunzio Newsroom represents the future of news reporting with a host of features for the modern newsroom. Etere supports complex stories with multiple video elements including video files, live streams, graphics and secondary media files simultaneously. Even in the face of complex workflows, Etere delivers the reliability, flexibilty and speed that is critical in any fast-paced newsroom. Etere Nunzio taps on a common database to provide real-time updates across all workflows. Nunzio newsroom goes the extra mile for your workflows so that you can focus on producing better content.

Etere Nunzio Newsroom is a collaboration tool that was designed to facilitate information exchange between internal and external teams of all sizes. It supports Windows and web interfaces, giving you the flexibility to share resources, run your workflows, plan tasks, schedule news story, create and approve content from wherever you are. With a simple software download, you have access to capabilities including instant chat, E-paper support, website uploads, integration with social media platforms and a mobile interface to take your newsroom with you wherever you are. No longer confined to a single device or platform, you are equipped with the software tools to bring the stories to your audience anytime, anywhere.

Key Features ■ Unlimited creative possibilities for live production, allows multiple video systems to connect to one another over IP

■ Use of virtual machines for unlimited broadcast quality video streams

■ Eliminates the need to invest, operate and maintain hardware equipment and bulky cables

■ Cost-efficiency at its best - Save up to half the hardware and maintenance costs

■ Encodes, transmits and receives multiple streams of high quality, low latency, frame-accurate video and audio in real-time

■ Uses standard IP adapters for complete redundancy

■ Send high-quality and low latency video while simultaneously streaming and capturing it elsewhere on your network

■ Support multiple devices with web, Windows and mobile interfaces

Nunzio Newsroom is a newsroom management software that empowers Media Enterprises with the best tools to develop a story from the initial idea to the final broadcast, all from a single interface. With Etere's mastery of integrated workflows, you can achieve a better performance!

With Nunzio newsroom, you can work better, faster and achieve amazing results. Nunzio Newsroom is a highly-flexible and cost-effective solution with fully empowered Newsroom Computer System (NRCS) capabilities to manage the entire tapeless workflow of a Newsroom environment, starting from the planning of news stories (virtual assets) to the control of on-air playback.

Nunzio Newsroom makes all jobs within a Newsroom easier, helping managers control overall daily operations, guiding journalists to prepare their stories, and enabling editors to quickly edit (e.g. voice-over) and deliver news stories. Nunzio Newsroom is the newsroom management component of Etere Ecosystem, the approach that greatly improves coordinated multi-media planning and collaboration across different production units such as radio, TV or web departments, editorial driven workflow and metadata management. Nunzio Newsroom enables you to develop a story from the initial idea to broadcast. It leverages Etere workflow capabilities to handle requirements and offers ideal integration into the entire existing IT and production environment. Nunzio Newsroom relies on an Etere Media Asset Management (MAM) database and uses the Etere Data Mover engine for transfers and integration of multi site systems. Nunzio Newsroom is equipped with a powerful new instant chat feature that enables quick set-up of group chatrooms; logs favourites list, contact list as well as a history of conversations. Etere Nunzio Newsroom supports E-paper, website upload as well as full integration with Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Youtube directly from Nunzio interface. Additionally, Nunzio is NDI-ready, enabling unlimited channels and live productions with low latency.

Key Features

■ Manage complex stories with multiple video elements including video files, live streams, graphics and secondary media files simultaneously

■ Supports Newtek NDI

■ Supports E-paper and website upload

■ Add/update playlists from social media including Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Youtube directly from Nunzio interface

■ Real-time updates

■ Supports MOS-compliant Teleprompters

■ Flexible and scalable production workflow

■ Fully configurable data model

■ Supports Dante Audio

■ Sophisticated rights, search and communication tools

■ News tickers to create custom carousels

The unique perspective of being the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats helped the Associated Press develop AP ENPS, innovation that was recognised with an Emmy.  The market-leading newsroom computer system (NRCS) runs in over 700 newsrooms around the world, with a storycentric workflow it helps journalists create content and publish it to broadcast, digital and social channels.

During the pandemic, ENPS Mobile, accessible through a browser or a mobile client was a lifeline for many newsrooms who were able to carry on with remote collaboration and production.

Unparalleled integration gives maximum flexibility to the customer in terms of choice of system partners to achieve the desired workflows.  AP ENPS was recognised with an Emmy in 2017 for its contribution to establishing MOS integration as an industry standard.

The latest version of ENPS prioritises security and user access controls while adding greater flexibility to an enhanced UI/UX.  Renowned for its reliability and performance across a distributed network of newsrooms, ENPS remains the solution of choice for news organisations with major TV and digital output.

• On-prem or cloud deployment


• Story or rundown-centric workflow


• Linear or digital publishing


• Light or dark mode interface

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

Watch the IngeSTore product video here

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

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

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

• Multi-cam studio


• ISO recording


• Archive from video tape


• Post-production


• Electronic News Gathering (ENG)


• Uncompressed capture & encode later


• Edit While Record (Growing files)


• Remote production


• Mobile production

• Uncompressed, DV, DVCProHD codecs free


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


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

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


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


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

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


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


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


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

• Control IngeSTore remotely on your network


• Supports multiple servers controlled via a single interface


• Add extra functionality to IngeSTore


• Requires a REST API licence per server

The existing paradigm in TV production of using different ‘appliance’ based products from multiple manufacturers creates layers of complexity which are expensive to purchase, difficult to maintain, hard to integrate and need specialist staff to operate. What if, instead of having to navigate different systems for different parts of the workflow, you could consolidate these all into one, efficient toolkit?

nxtedition is a complete production solution for video and audio - used by broadcasters, publishers, corporates and other industries to create video channels for broadcast and streaming, as well as audio for radio broadcasting, streaming and podcasting.

Being first, fast and accurate with the story is critical to the brand and recognition of the news outlet.

nxtedition encapsulates all the following activities into a single user interface offering to be first, fast and accurate with the stories people want and need to know - be that news, sport, entertainment, or production.

• Channel Playout (TV and Radio)


• Graphics


• Ingest Recording


• Live Streaming In And Out


• Media Asset Management


• Metadata Management


• Music Rotation


• Production Planning


• Prompter


• Publishing To Web, App And Social Media


• Reporting


• Rundown Creation


• Scriptwriting


• Studio Automation (TV and Radio)


• Subtitling


• Transcoding

Dina is a digital-first story-centric newsroom system with an industry-leading web-based linear rundown system. Dina is disrupting incumbent newsroom systems by offering a solution built for collaboration between all editorial departments with out-of-the-box workflows to support planning and publishing to all platforms. Dina uses AI to empower the newsroom the be more efficient and accurate.

Dina customers are, amongst others, blinx, GB News, TV 2 FYN, TVNZ, and ausbiz. Dina has won several prestigious industry awards since its launch in 2019. Visit our website onedina.com