Etere Media Manager

Etere Media Manager is a highly effective digital content management solution designed to move video files from one level to another based on customizable workflow rules. It integrates with Etere Transcoder to provide encoding and decoding between media formats, conversions of bit rates, and change of video resolutions to meet lower resolution screens. Etere Media Manager is an all-in-one software with features including:

  • Multi-Device Connection
  • System Fault Tolerance
  • Multi-media Library Management
  • Low-Res Video Transcoding
  • Proactive Cache Management
  • Scheduling/MAM Prefetch
  • Newsroom Integration
  • Watch folder management

Key Features

  • Distributed processing with the use of an independent agent per data transfer
  • Available in 64-bit Data Mover for faster performance, up to 264 memory RAM and enhanced security
  • Concurrent processing for simultaneous performance of different instances of a single data transfer
  • Integrates Etere Transcoder to convert bit rates, provide encoding and decoding between media formats, change video resolutions to meet lower resolution screens
  • Delivery over different media, playback over various devices, or simply generating proxy files (e.g. wmv, mov)
  • Based on configurable workflow actions
  • Copy video files from one video server to another, even for files located in different remote locations

Data Storage and Retrievals

Etere Media Manager plays an important role media management. The advanced data storage and retrieval system establishes automatic root-path relations between devices and video content. At the correct time, clips are sent to the dedicated device to broadcast or display. With consequent resource optimization, files are automatically deleted when no longer needed, so the hard disk is always ready to receive new clips. It is also integrated with an integrated mirroring solution and a backup manager to cope with fault-tolerant systems based on two video servers with playlist mirroring. In addition, Etere’s distributed concurrent approach is based on a ‘divide and conquer strategy in which Etere Media Manager delegates tasks to separate agents working concurrently.

Etere Archive Manager

Etere Archive Manager is the perfect solution to manage digital archives proficiently. Archive Manager expands the video server capacity by deploying innovative high-speed technologies at competitive prices. The software can remote control digital and tape libraries (i.e., deep archives). Videos are moved from the video server to the digital library and vice versa according to their respective metadata. Etere Archive Manager is a must-have when broadcasters adopt disk-based libraries. It integrates with Etere solutions, providing Etere Media Asset Management (MAM) features while adding browsing and preview capabilities to the archived video materials. Archive Manager allows the configuration of various parameters, including:

  • Assets
  • Check workflow function
  • Codecs
  • Copies
  • Destinations

Etere HSM

Etere HSM integrates with the Media Asset Management SQL database and can be configured to tapes or video clips so MAM can eventually link metadata to any single video clip frame. With the MAM indexing, a complete video or a part of it can be easily retrieved. Etere HSM can handle multiple copies of a tape (up to three copies that can be held in the library or stored in different locations for safekeeping). Etere HSM, as well as all other Etere Software Solutions, has its own MS Windows drivers to remotely control most of the libraries on the market. Etere HSM enhances the management of libraries by controlling the mechanical movements through the following utilities: Robotic arm manager and data pump manager, which can run several data pumps on different machines.

Deliver to any PlatformEtere Media Manager is compatible with a wide variety of protocols, including,

  • NTFS
  • NFS
  • CIFS
  • SMB
  • FTP
  • SFTP
  • FTPS
  • UDP

Special delivery to the platform as:

  • LinkedIn
  • Facebook
  • YouTubeOther than delivering to leading content providers as
  • Netflix
  • Appletv
  • Medusa

For more information, please visit our website at www.etere.com or contact us to schedule a personalised consultation. 

Etere ETX-G

ETX-G manages the live commercial graphics workflow from proposal to planning, graphics management, invoicing, playout, and delivery. It supports SDI, real-time previews, automatic invoice logs, and instant addition or deletion of graphics up to 30 seconds before playout.

With ETX-G, real-time preview control helps ensure every playout’s accuracy and efficiency. ETX-G manages the live commercial graphics workflow from proposal to planning, graphics management, invoicing, playout, and delivery.

Etere ETX-G is an extension of Etere ETX and can be used as a standalone graphics software in any playout.

  • Pre-set and real-time preview features enable preliminary checks on the graphics
  • Allows instant addition or deletion of graphics up to 30 seconds before playout
  • Automatic and accurate invoice logs for both automatically and manually triggered graphics
  • Trigger the insertion and playout of graphics manually for live playout
  • As soon as the graphic has appeared on-air, it will be automatically removed from the playlist
  • View the list of graphics that were already broadcast and refresh the data at the touch of a button
  • NDI or SDI fill and key

Key Features

  • Full 4K, NDI, IP support, and SDI connectivity
  • Cloud-ready
  • Supports multiple uploads and layers of graphics, squeezes, text crawlers, logos
  • Pre-set, preview, and program allow preliminary checks of graphics before playout
  • Create alternative playlists of programs and switch between different playlists
  • Ability to link up graphic objects such as texts, videos, and pictures to multiple data sources
  • Multiple video card compatibility with a single output
  • Supports popular graphics editors such as Adobe
  • Load balancing capabilities for a fault-tolerant and fault-resilient performance
  • Graphics engine that enables the overlay of static/animated logos and crawlers
  • The advertising list and the scheduled playlist will be displayed when stations and programs are selected
  • Preview the advertising list before uploading
  • Manual insertion and playout of graphics
  • Refresh the data instantly for a real-time display

Invoice Integration

ETX-G’s seamless integration with Etere Airsales supports logging invoices for automatically and manually triggered graphics. Once the commercial graphics invoices are approved, you can send real-time information directly to Etere ETX for editing multiple layers of graphics, squeeze, and 3D graphic animation. A collaborative workflow solution like Etere keeps all your resources connected, reduces costs, increases collaborations across interdisciplinary departments, and reduces manual operations. With complete visibility across your entire workflow from a single interface, Etere offers a smoother workflow and increased operational efficiencies.

Etere Ecosystem Integration, Graphics MAM and Archive Management System

ETX-G is part of the Etere Ecosystem that connects Etere modules to integrate all company information and facilitate the flow of information between all departments. ETX-G includes MAM for graphics. An effective graphics management library minimises time wasted searching for suitable graphics for playout. Operators can view all available graphics in a single location, and changes can be previewed in real-time.

  • Simplifies graphics planning and placement
  • Real-time graphics preview with every schedule in Etere Executive Scheduling
  • Preview real-time graphics with visible alpha channel in asset form without dedicated hardware; users are also able to make some adjustments to the graphics
  • Streamlined graphics planning: STMan automatically reads the automation file to determine the ETX-G mode. If the ETX-G mode is active, STMan automatically triggers object management that determines the selection algorithm
  • Management of AVI/MOV for alpha channel
  • Real-time sharing of data with the ability to select, delete and view multiple graphics on the user-friendly interface without hardware

For more information, visit www.etere.com and contact us for a personalised consultation.

Etere News Playout

In a fast changing newsroom environment, having an integrated and cohesive workflow is essential for a smooth operation. Etere news playout integrates seamlessly with the NRCS system to manage multiple news channels.

Manage NDI, SDI and IP playout of news feeds with speed, precision and ease

Etere News Playout allows you to manage NDI, SDI and IP playout with speed, high availability and reliability. Etere news playout supports all industry-standard control protocols and runs as a studio playout for news stories as well as a Media Object Server (MOS) gateway to communicate with Newsroom Computer Systems (NRCS). Etere also supports SD, HD and 4K playout. With its support for virtualised environments, you are able to implement Etere Playout into any workflow easily. The playout controls multiple video server channels in rundown via Etere ETX or any external video servers. If you have multiple players, Etere allows you to play multiple videos files in a single rundown by assigning each video to a player. On top of that, the playout allows you to broadcast the completed rundowns instantly from Etere Nunzio Newsroom. Besides Nunzio Newsroom, Etere News Playout is also integrative with most NRCS systems and standard video servers in the market.

Etere News Playout is able to manage the playout of multiple news channels simultaneously. It is designed to handle the playout of complex news stories including

  • Play a story and individual secondary video elements in a single rundown
  • Toggle between playout of video elements and story on-air with simple shortcuts
  • Have multiple clients to connect to a single playout engine. The clients can control multiple channels with different graphical interface configurations
  • Manual/automatic playout through multiple channels

Etere News Playout is fully integrative with Etere Media Asset Management (MAM) and Etere T-Workflow, making it easy to manage and move media files from the database to the broadcasting workflow from a single interface. Etere streamlines the process to take your news stories from the storyboard to on-air.

Etere News Playout, together with Etere Nunzio Newsroom empower users with results-proven software solutions to manage the complete newsroom lifecycle from the story development to the playout. Etere provides a complete news management and playout system for newsrooms of all sizes, whether you are a single channel start-up or an established news production house with multiple channels and playout requirements. Etere software solutions have been designed to simplify your workflows and enhance your efficiency. With its unbeatable software engineering and renowned reliability, Etere elevates your workflow capabilities so that you can focus on producing great content.

Etere Promo Placement

Etere Promo Placement is a cutting-edge and robust tool that manages promo placements to increase your audiences.

The promo activity is, after advertising, the heaviest activity of any TV station, transmitting hundreds of them daily to enhance its image and increase the target.

Etere provides an effective Promo Placement solution, a robust and integrated tool that can effectively manage the entire promo activity, including campaigns. Etere is the software that empowers media enterprises to maximize the use of their promotional inventory. Etere Promo Placement tracks the promo production lifecycle and enables integrated control in a single environment.

Key Features

  • All-in-one management of promotion campaigns, assets, and version control
  • Define campaigns for various targets (programs, series, episodes, etc.)
  • Optimize reach and frequency by splitting promotional avails to increase delivery
  • Change campaign material or parameters at any time (without having to re-import/export)
  • Real-time visibility of data
  • See how your campaigns are performing against targets with intuitive performance reports
  • Produce proof-of-performance reports in a few clicks
  • View performance levels as you fill the log and make adjustments on the fly
  • Boost the ratings of promoted events to increase sales revenues
  • Maximize the utilization of your promotion inventory
  • Increase campaign precision by deploying a wide range of campaign requirements
  • Ensure accurate proximity to the promoted event using automated scheduling
  • Keep the schedule integrity and prevent violating rules and regulations
  • Apply pre-scheduled time restrictions

Error Proof

Etere Promo Placement is entirely error-proof. Its user-friendly interface shows the operator all the programs with all the info and related promos. A dedicated screen alerts the operator in case there are schedule limits, promo placement errors, missing programs, wrong time slots, or wrong placement concerning the program. The intuitive interface of Etere Promo Placement allows channels to fluidly optimize the placement of their self-promotions, billboards, and bumpers.

Automatic Placement

  • Allows monitoring and placing the correct promos across the broadcast schedule
  • Placement of appropriate promotion accurately in the broadcast schedule
  • User-defined rules validate the accuracy of your schedule
  • Ensures that the correct version of the promotion is associated
  • Applies the relevant criteria to prioritize spot placement during the finalization of the playlist to achieve your overall marketing objectives
  • Users can place promos before their video exists with last-minute manual adjustments with easy selection menus
  • Prioritize spot placement during the finalization of the playlist
  • Ensure you adhere to campaign parameters

Etere Ecosystem Integration

As part of Etere Ecosystem solutions, Etere Promo Placement can connect with other Etere modules such as:

  • Etere Media Management, promos are saved using the MAM database and also checks parental guidance limitations
  • Etere BMS, simultaneous insertion in Promo Placement, BMS saves time and maximizes the placement opportunities
  • Etere Airsales, to create a promo schedule in the traffic grid and share materials, programming, orders, and scheduling: practically the seamless scheduling and workflow
  • Promo Crowding, to always take control of the promo crowding
  • Etere Executive Scheduling, to create the schedule from traffic placement
  • Etere Automation systems, frame-accurate playout

Etere Logging

Etere equips users with the software tools to analyze audience data, insert logos/timecodes, view/edit recordings, and log clips for compliance with regulatory requirements and delivery to OTT, VOD, social media platforms.

Etere Solutions manages the end-to-end media lifecycle of broadcast and media enterprises. Under the reliable web of the Etere Ecosystem, streamline your entire workflow with Etere solutions that feature seamless integration and useful operability. As the world’s first producer of software-only broadcasting solutions, Etere Solutions will declutter your control rooms, increase productivity, and encourage a better range of adaptability and scalability. Take the first step to achieving the results-driven success that you want. We can help you attain results that are tailored to your success.

Broadcasters must ensure their aired content is logged and available online to comply with regulatory requirements and export content easily. With Etere, users can record any and all content broadcasted from multiple mediums and platforms, archive it, and enable simultaneous users to monitor the live or archived content. Etere MemoryEtere Memory provides broadcasters with a reliable compliance logger that records and stores all transmitted video and audio in a low-resolution format (Mpeg4/WMV). This enables operators to fulfil all broadcast recording laws. It also allows content creators to repurpose their content cost-effectively and easily. EPG/As Run log integrationIntegration with any EPG or As Run Log from any automation system provides alternative tools for searching and finding specific content. These files can be automatically loaded into the system, manually loaded, or taken from the Internet. It allows playing or clipping the relevant content directly from the EPG or As Run Log. Automatic import of common as-run logs simplifies finding content for ad verification and compliance purposes. Closed caption/SCTE/DVB-Subtitles/Teletext/Multiple audio tracksRecording of DVB subtitles closed captions, or Teletext and being able to monitor them are requirements of broadcasters to comply with regulations and maintain quality of service. Key Features

  • HTML5 player for web/desktop browsing and H264 (MPEG-4) compatibility
  • Compliance logger that complies with all the TV regulatory requirements, such as the FCC, in one platform
  • Streaming out of content for remote control of video
  • Live clipping for OTT and social media
  • Video-on-demand (VOD) clipping
  • HTTP, UDP, RTSP & RTMP streaming to the flash media server and Wowza Media Server
  • Supports analogue and digital video capture boards
  • Data protection and advanced redundancy to record files on remote servers
  • Unlimited and simultaneous clients/recordings, multiple viewings and editing
  • Embedded time code on recorded videos
  • Automatic detection and SNMP notifications for black and frozen video issues
  • Metadata marking to identify and search key video parts
  • Audience data insertion into logged video files and competitors’ record checks
  • Supports insertion of logos and timecodes, supports annotation on video
  • Includes Etere HSM archiving at no additional costs
  • Integration with loudness check and preview with Etere Audience
  • Works from different devices: PC, MAC, iPads, smartphones
  • Web-based broadcast logger – no client installation is needed; access from anywhere

For more information, please visit our website at www.etere.com

Etere QC

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

Etere QC is able to speed up, automate and streamline the operational efficiency of file-based quality controls performed via workflow across the entire content life cycle. Etere QC is the best solution for checking audio/video either prior (e.g. playout, repurpose, archiving) or after (e.g. encoding, ingest, editing, transcoding, archiving) media operations. It is able to check all the main videofile codecs and wrapper of any resolution including 4K.

Key Features

  • Works on any Windows computer, without dedicated hardware
  • Multi-processing on the same computer is supported
  • Highly efficient, processes only selected issues
  • Up to 50 times faster than real-time speed
  • Fully customizable detection profiles
  • Results are stored in the database using standard format
  • Thumbnails are generated for each detected issue
  • Fault tolerant, load balanced architecture

Etere Ecosystem

Etere Quality Control is part of Etere Ecosystem, the framework that covers all processes of the broadcast management and brings tight integration benefits such as:

Etere Ecosystem

  • Provides business visibility from a single platform
  • Cross-platform, multi-format and multi-channels
  • Real-time interaction between different systems
  • Etere is the only company to offer an integrated end-to-end workflow solution
  • Combines cost-effectiveness with high reliability
  • Streamline operations and increase efficiencies across departments

High Speed Quality Checks

Etere QC high-speed solution for automatic quality check is able to detect:

  • Scene changes
  • Black frames
  • Freeze frames
  • Audio silence
  • Audio level
  • Anti-phase audio
  • Audio loudness

Easy to Use

  • 100% file-based without the need for dedicated hardware
  • Multi-processing on the same computer is supported
  • Fully customisable detection profiles
  • Results are stored in the database using standard format
  • Thumbnails are generated for each detected issue

For more information, please visit our website at www.etere.com

Etere T-Workflow

Etere T-Workflow Orchestration: Optimize Your Media Workflows with Precision. Etere T-Workflow Orchestration provides broadcasters with a powerful suite of software tools to visualize, optimize, and seamlessly orchestrate workflows across the entire media lifecycle. From content creation to delivery, Etere T-Workflow ensures every process is streamlined for maximum efficiency and productivity.

Etere T-Workflow is a complete solution that empowers broadcasters with the software tools to understand, optimize and orchestrate workflows to manage the end-to-end media lifecycle.

Etere T-Workflow is the most powerful product on the market. Instead of being based on an external workflow engine glued with the Etere Media Asset Management (MAM), it is a part of Etere MAM, and MAM cannot work without the workflow. Etere does not use an external engine; instead, it integrates with SQL to manage the flow of information. Writing and reading data in SQL tables is used to process a workflow. This unique approach results in a more effective workflow. It can start 100,000 workflows in less than one second and create a robust system. If SQL and workflow are active, it will not fail. If the SQL is redundant, the workflow is redundant. Furthermore, hardware is not needed.

Etere T-Workflow provides a unique, fast and efficient user experience. It is an essential part of the broadcasting process because it enables operators to set broadcast management rules and, more importantly, depicts how the broadcasting process is executed and the connectivity between workflow actions to make it happen. Etere T-Workflow Orchestration establishes a simple, fully personalized, and reliable way to create or modify distinct broadcasting procedures.

Key Features

Etere’s fully integrated file-based archive revolutionizes media management by allowing users to access and work with video materials from long-term archives to online servers effortlessly, anytime. This powerful system ensures smooth operations and adaptability for today’s fast-paced media environments.

  • Clear definition of each complex step of the broadcasting process
  • Prepares content for multiple screens delivery, transcodes media, and converts metadata for broadcast, internet, mobile, or other platforms
  • Each step of the workflow is mapped out digitally in a workflow diagram
  • Set of mandatory instructions and authorizations
  • Complete log of all steps involved in a specific operation
  • Simultaneous execution of multiple independent actions

Monitor and Manage Your Assets Easily 

Running and completed workflows can be monitored from many different places. Still, the one supervisors use the most is the “T-Workflow Monitor” tool integrated into the “Etere Monitoring Console” solution.

The T-Workflow Monitor is a handy tool that permits supervisors to monitor all workflows executed on a specific station. It also allows them to manage their assets and related operations such as transfers, checks, requests.

Automation

In addition to manual execution, Etere workflows can be seamlessly set to automatically trigger based on various predefined actions, eliminating the need for manual intervention. These automatic triggers ensure smooth, uninterrupted operations across the media lifecycle.

Etere Ecosystem Integration

The Etere Ecosystem framework allows you to configure workflows in any module, including:

  • Etere HSM to store assets in long-term libraries and restore them on demand
  • Etere Datamover to transfer files with enhanced redundancy and load balancing
  • Etere Resource Management to assign and track operations
  • Etere Automation to ensure file availability in required servers

UHK-X750

Sharing the CMOS sensor with the global shutter and the digital signal processing technology with the UHK-X700, the UHK-X750 brings a naturalness to the uncompromising 4K image quality. The robust housing and the optimally placed and easy-to-use switches make it comfortable for the camera operator to perform their tasks, especially live coverage with super-telephoto zoom lenses.

UHK-X750

Sharing the CMOS sensor with the global shutter and the digital signal processing technology with the UHK-X700, the UHK-X750 brings a naturalness to the uncompromising 4K image quality. The robust housing and the optimally placed and easy-to-use switches make it comfortable for the camera operator to perform their tasks, especially live coverage with super-telephoto zoom lenses.