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Busby offered by Squared Paper is a state of the art microservices and ESB toolkit which can be used in a wide variety of broadcast applications:

• monitoring hardware


• software and applications


• workflow orchestration of any complexity


• event recording for SLA reporting and later analysis


• controlling external devices and services


• media manipulation and delivery.

Busby Core Modules

• Configuration, authentication, presentation


• Workflow tools


• Resource scheduling and analysis


• Device control


• Alarms and monitoring


• Dashboards and reporting

Three parts of Busby

• Busby Configuration


• Selector (presentation of the current configuration)


• Busby Admin (an overview of the Busby system status)

Busby Configuration

• Centralized user interface for managing the configuration of your Busby system


• Allows configuration of all available services


• Versioning available for rollback to a previous state


• Secure


• Core system settings


• Various levels of deployments can be assigned to multiple machines or hosts


• All services can be configured through a simple form


• Drivers for connecting to numerous third-party hardware/ software devices

Busby Configuration • Workflows

• Manual steps allow the Busby user to interact with the workflow directly


• Automatic steps might be an action performed on an asset like transcoding or the compilation of a report/schedule


• Multiple paths can be easily created in a workflow by adding ports


• Scripts can be added at any point in a workflow. Written in modern scripting languages and utilising built in libraries, frameworks and functions

Busby Configuration • Boards

• To present a workflow in a meaningful way we use boards.


• They allow for ultimate flexibility when deciding on the what workflow steps should be included and in what order.

Selector • Boards

• Allows for the presentation of a workflow where each vertical strip corresponds with a step in the workflow.


• Each separate job is represented as a card in a column. Behind the scenes a record is kept of the jobs progress and varying ‘states’ as it travels through the workflow.


• ‘Info-block’ metadata can be attached to jobs at any point


• Each board is customisable for  different user groups

Selector • User Interfaces

• Other user interfaces are available


• Each can be displayed depending on the users' access permissions.


• Screens can also be tailored to display different parts of a workflow depending on the users’ requirements

New  features…Some of our latest work includes:

• Creation of a Resource scheduling and diary modules


• OTT/TX chain overview user interface


• Multi-site connections using secure zone trunking


• Additional connectors to third-party system and services

Manage » Prepare » Content Preparation » Transcode and normalization »

Cambria FTC imports and exports widely used professional digital video formats, including H.264, MPEG-2, DNxHD and HEVC.

It is a flexible transcoding software solution that converts video files between formats for editing, archiving, and broadcasting and allows you to produce high-quality media files suitable for broadcast, IPTV, Web, and mobile applications.

Cambria FTC Packager imports multiple offline file formats and repackages them into multiple adaptive streaming formats such as HLS, MPEG-Dash and MSS without re-encoding.

Manage » Prepare » Content Preparation » Access services and localization tools »

Cambria Live works as a standalone, all-in-one live studio encoder or as a part of a network of multiple Cambria Live workstations overseen by Cambria Broadcast Manager (BCM).

Playlist Creation/Import

Create playlists with a group of files for repeated playback, highlight clips edited in Cambria Live, or a playlist to be muxed with a separate audio track.

Powerpoint Input

Users can integrate PowerPoint presentations into a live broadcast for E-learning and seminars.

Cambria Live Controller

Cambria Live Controller integrates seamlessly with your existing playout server and ad scheduling systems while mixing live and file assets. Customizable controllers communicate with these systems and control Cambria Live’s engine via API.

Audio Level Control

Allows users to adjust audio levels on the fly while live streaming.Cambria Live EditCreate multiple video clips on the fly during an event by simply setting in and out points on Cambria Live Edit timeline.

File Recording

Simultaneously stream and record a broadcast as a TS or MP4 file.

Multi-view Function

Cambria Live can replicate the feel of a multi camera broadcast by creating virtual cameras in software that can be cued as if you had multiple studio cameras.

Manage » Manage & Orchestrate » Content & Workflow Management » End-to-end supply chain solutions »

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)

Produce » Post Production » Ingest » Post-production ingest »

Very most often the business processes within the post-production chain do start with the ingest from modern storage media. This can be either disks like Sony's XDCAM or cards like Panasonic's P2. Alternatively source footage is delivered via Internet or on USB hard drives, sticks, DVD's, BluRays or what so ever and moved from here to a central storage. But not all material is relevant. A selection of and within video files is required. For a more practial file handling the relevant shots are desired to get concatenated before moving onwards within the workflow.

This is the are where x-dream-media's Ingest Browser plays. This product allows previewing professional video files within a web browser. Basic technical metadata of the files are displayed. The files can get trimmed and concatenated. Finally automatic processing actions are triggered by human operator. By default x-dream-media’s MXF Sticher and Re-Muxer is called. Alternatively a job can get started at x-dream-media’s Workflow Manager.

Produce » Real-Time Production » Production Services » Outside broadcast and mobile facilities »

Libero Hybrid is a software which can be used to convert multiple IP sources to SDI/NDI video signals to integrate them on an existing system. Software gives you brief information about input stream visualization such as video formats, frame rates, and bitrates. Libero Hybrid offers video and audio previews of multiple streams. It provides different SDI output formats per port via supported capture and playback cards.

KEY FEATURES

• Stable for 24/7 operations


• SD/HD/UHD/4K/8K support(*)


• SDI, NDI, WebRTC, IP Stream or File inputs


• SDI, NDI or WebRTC outputs


• UDP/RTP/RTSP/RTMP/HLS/MPEG-DASH for IP Stream input


• Video and audio preview feature


• Input bitrate chart


• Loop feature for file inputs


• LUFS(Loudness Units Relative to Full Scale) Audio Normalization


• Audio Gain feature to turn up or down the audio level


• Auto-recovery of disconnected or failed streams


• Monitoring inputs to auto-activate outputs


• Frame rate conversion (e.g. 30 fps to 25 fps)


• Up/down/cross scaling

(*) Depending on the type of video cards

Manage » Prepare » Content Preparation » Transcode and normalization »

Libero Igest is a flexible multi-channel ingest, transcoding and encoding software with powerful and user-friendly features. It provides monitoring and controlling all the ingest operations on a single screen.

Libero Ingest has a wide range of file formats and input cards compatibility. It lets the operators record live events by controlling VTRs in a straightforward manner. The system offers freeze frame, black frame and signal loss detection in order to automatically start and stop ingest operations. Libero Ingest is designed to adapt your workflows or 3rd party systems with its own REST API and flexible triggering features.

KEY FEATURES

• SD/HD/UHD/4K/8K support(*)


• Stable for 24/7 operations


• Wide range of file formats compatibility


• Scheduled or crash recording


• Support for dump (as is) record


• Multi-language support


• Multiple input source support (SDI/NDI/SRT/IP Stream)


• SDI/NDI/IP Stream output support


• Support for growing-file editing (Adobe Premiere, GV Edius, Apple Final Cut)


• Audio mapping, level control, dynamic audio scan


• Automatic file transfer and housekeeping options


• UDP/RTP/RTSP/RTMP/HLS/MPEG-DASH/SRT for Stream input


• Freeze frame, black frame and signal loss detection


• CPU, RAM and storage capacity monitoring


• Media panel for trimming, preview and export


• VTR control with RS-422


• Advanced tagging feature while recording


• Customizable tagging buttons


• Simultaneous proxy generation with defined formats


• Support recording same input to multiple formats and locations


• E-Mail and notifications


• Drop frame counter


• Advanced logging


• “Start/stop/split/pause” all sources with one click

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

Libero Multiviewer is designed to take multiple video / audio signals and combine them to monitor in real-time. The system provides attractive and flexible layouts for one or several large screens. It allows to preview the selected video source on the configuration window. This feature helps you to see the source and corresponding video signal. The layouts are customizable according to your scenarios and shows. Static and dynamic elements are available on Layout Designer such as video source or clocks. It analyses each input signal for important parameters to create notifications or warnings and sends them via e-mail.

KEY FEATURES

• Stable for 24/7 operations


• Customizable layouts


• User friendly interface and layout designer


• SDI, NDI or IP Stream inputs


• SDI, NDI or IP Stream outputs


• Multi-display support


• SD/HD/UHD/4K for SDI input up to 60 fps(*)


• UDP/RTP/RTSP/RTMP/HLS/MPEG-DASH for Stream input


• Configurable audio channels


• Threshold-defined signal loss, freeze frame, max/min audio, audio loss alerts via e-mail


• Threshold-defined visual indicator for low/high audio and video loss

(*) Depending on the type of video cards

Manage » Prepare » Content Services » Content management and preparation services »

It is a software-based playout automation system which provides powerful, flexible and user-friendly broadcasting solutions via a client-server architecture.

Libero Play manages from scheduling to playout and switches automatically from rundown items to live sources. It has extensive support for a wide range of file formats compatibility. The system offers frame-accurate synchronization between main and backup video servers. Libero Play guarantees scalability for the addition of an almost unlimited number of channels, operator positions, and devices while the system remains live.

KEY FEATURES

• Client-Server architecture


• Stability designed for 24/7


• NDI 4.5 Support


• Frame-accurate redundancy between main and backup video servers


• SD/HD/UHD/4K/8K support (*)


• Possibility to play between marked IN and OUT points


• MOS Protocol Support for NRCS integration


• Logo insertion including the possibility of automatic logo switching


• Output preview feature


• Wide range of file formats compatibility


• Multi-language support


• Auto-update for commercial blocks


• Ability to loop a single or multiple rundown items


• Multiple input source support (SDI/IP Stream)


• Multiple output source support (SDI/NDI/IP Stream)


• Advanced control panel with speed control


• Ability to insert virtual rundown items (placeholders) with duration


• UDP/RTP/RTSP/RTMP/HLS/MPEG-DASH/SRT for Stream output


• Warnings for a missing clip, scheduled events, storage spaces and updated lists


• Search option from devices, file systems, and 3rd party systems


• Multi-channel control on a single interface with customizable columns and counters


• Indicator for clip validity information to be ensuring all elements are ready to play

Publish » Linear Playout » Linear Playout Systems » Integrated playout (channel-in-a-box) »

The Multi-Format Player is a free and widely applicable tool in file-based environments. Due to its extremely powerful decoding engine it can play the majority of SD and HD video formats. It supports camera, editing, archiving, video server, streaming and download formats. Thus it can be used for the ingest, for review purposes or for quality control.

The Multi-Format Player is equiped with the usual player controls as well as single-frame stepping and looping. Furthermore, a frame-accurate seeking and play back of video files is possible. It also displays LTC and VITC timecode. A special highlight is the ability to output the video through professional interface cards as HD-SDI signal. Another highlight is the side-by-side view. This allows a direct comparison of two video files for instance on two monitors. Thus, the Multi-Format Player is ideal for video quality comparisons.

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ONE GUI gives access to all information and controls that are relevant to the software operators. And it hides all options and controls that a user at his role level should not have access to. Different access levels based on a user/group/role definition can be configured. A login dialogue grants access and gives access to the options according to the user’s role. This said the processing farms “customers” for instance can be limited to watch the status while only operators can change priorities but just supervisors can stop and delete a job within the job list of a processing farm.

Publish » Linear Playout » Linear Playout Systems » Integrated playout (channel-in-a-box) »

SERVUS – (latin “Slave”) is a software-only videoserver that supports a very wide range of IO-Devices as well as IP Stream and File formats as inputs and outputs. It combines the functionality from traditionally distinct products such as Decoder, Recorder, Transcoder, Playout server, Graphics server, Encoder within one engine. Due to its nature it can be deployed on premise, in a remote datacenter or at a public cloud. Therefore it addresses traditional as well as most modern business cases. Some of the obvious and tested use cases are:
•Live feed recording
•Live stream recording
•Multi-cam recording
•Tape ingest
•Studio playout/play-in
•Stream playout
•Graphic overlaying
•Format conversion
•Stream switching



Supported inputs and outputs are:
•Devices ◦Video IO cards: Blackmagic Design, AJA, BlueFish444, Stream Labs, DELTACAST, Magewell and DekTec
◦NDI (Network Device Interface developed by Newtek – SDI over IP) Sender and Receiver
◦Screen Capture, Webcam and other system devices available as Directshow Source

•File formats ◦Nearly any known Container and Codec Format (audio, video and image) is supported for decoding and encoding
◦E.g. IMX D10, XDCAM HD, H.264/MP4, H.265/MP4, MOV, DV, GXF

•Streaming formats ◦HLS, MMS, WebM, MKV, RTSP, RTMP, UDP, WMV as input and output
◦NetTecNDI as input and output
◦WebRTC as output
◦Special support for youtube URL’s as input


Various audio/video processing functions are provided:
•Logo insertion
•Lower thirds, e.g. crawls, animations, graphics
•Video up/down scaling, deinterlacing, standard conversion
•Conversion between any supported input and any output format

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Cloud-based production management software to automate and to centralize end-to-end production process. Designed with the latest web and mobile technologies for today’s digital workplace, Teamium provides extended teams with all the collaboration tools they need to coordinate production work including budgeting scheduling and resource management.

A full, simple and collaborative solution that allows the user to coordinate editorial and production teams, manage in-house or external resources and accurately track costs.

Resource and Talent Scheduling

With a simple, intuitive and interactive interface, Teamium will help you wean off spreadsheets. Simply drag and drop, shrink and stretch your selection, for a single item or a group. Once the resources are scheduled, you can instantly notify one or more members for action from within the application.

Planning & Budgeting

Simplify your task with all the resources you need with your cost and pricing rules. Teamium allows you to build complex multi-variable rate cards for resources and customer specific pricing rules into the system. The interactive tool then allows you to quickly achieve your desired budget. Once the project is green-lighted, the information is automatically saved into a functional work order so you can start scheduling resources.

Resource Management

Whether it is keeping a record of maintenance schedule for a camera or leave management for an employee or availability of a freelancer, Teamium handles it all. Teamium lets you import data from your company systems using our open API. Teamium also supports barcode integration and RFID.

User-defined Business Processes

Increase your team engagement and participation with configurable push notifications, approvals with e-signatures, group chats, task assignments for instant communication. Keep all stakeholders with up to the minute information for making decisions and getting things done. With Teamium’s user-friendly workflow builder, create robust, work processes focused on optimizing your activities tailored to your business rules.

Saas

Get benefits from Teamium® in the Cloud, without actually having to install any software, but rather through a simple subscription to the relevant package.

BYOD

Teamium®, as a scalable and flexible solution, connects you on any devices, and allow you to manage your production from your home or office or on the go.

The following licensing models are available:

• perpetual license with a maintenance contract


• rental license

Manage » Manage & Orchestrate » Content & Workflow Management » Supply chain management and orchestration »

Manual, fully or semi-automated processes are integrated via the WFM system. It provides operators with task-specific surfaces. It has connections to all relevant components within the production environment. These components are controlled, video essences and metadata are transferred between the units. There is a focus on ingest into production, post-production or content management systems, as well as archives, processing systems, non-linear publishing, and delivery systems. Broadcast "onAir" is covered as well. The strength of our workflow system is given by its open for connecting to any software within media IT environments and flexibility to execute any business logic required.

Produce » Real-Time Production » Production Services » Outside broadcast and mobile facilities »

Mobile journalism has been a rapidly developing area of content production for the last decade. The ShareStoryz mobile app is called YourStoryz and is designed to do easy video-production for news-creating companies, brands, sport enterprises and other businesses which take care of the content quality, the public brand-image and the speed of content sharing.

YourStoryz allows you to create, edit, brand and share videos up to 10 minutes in real-time without missing a moment. It gives an opportunity to support and develop close relationships with customers, build brand image through one framework and grow loyal customer base.

Key features:

• Mobile video editing


• Fast content creation on the fly


• Video branding


• Real-time posting on different social media, company’s website, and other public sources (which are directly integrated).


• Real-time upload on the company’s server


• Ready-made templates


• Intuitive interface


• Mobile video editing


• Fast content creation on the fly


• Video branding


• Real-time posting on different social media, company’s website, and other public sources (which are directly integrated).


• Real-time upload on the company’s server


• Ready-made templates


• Intuitive interface

Manage » Manage & Orchestrate » Content & Workflow Management » Supply chain management and orchestration »

Oracle Managed File Transfer (Oracle MFT) enables secure file exchange and management with internal departments and external partners. It protects against inadvertent access to unsecured files at every step in the end-to-end transfer of files. It is easy to use especially for non technical staff so you can leverage more resources to manage the transfer of files. The built in extensive reporting capabilities allow you to get quick status of a file transfer and resubmit it as required.

Manage » Manage & Orchestrate » Content & Workflow Management » Supply chain management and orchestration »

Deliver Customer and Service Orders with Cloud Native Order Orchestration

Orchestrate the end-to-end delivery of customer orders for 5G, fiber, and digital services. Manage customer order orchestration across enterprise systems—fulfillment, billing, shipping, and partners—to fulfill customer orders. Manage service and technical order orchestration across provisioning and assurance systems—inventory, activation, fault/performance, and workforce management—to configure and manage customer services on communications networks and service platforms.

Manage » Manage & Orchestrate » Content & Workflow Management » Supply chain management and orchestration »

Get better results faster by planning your supply chain end-to-end in the Cloud. Effortlessly combine demand insights, supply constraints, and stakeholder input, and apply built-in machine learning to improve profitability while accelerating customer service.

Manage » Manage & Orchestrate » Content & Workflow Management » Supply chain management and orchestration »

Is your source-to-pay solution helping you streamline, automate, and improve your procurement process outcomes? Learn how Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement’s intuitive user experience, embedded analytics, and collaboration simplify supplier management and contracting, reduce risk, increase cost savings, and enforce compliant spending.

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Integrated Service Fulfillment and Inventory

Enable rapid introduction and efficient delivery of network-based services with a functionally-rich and integrated solution that includes customer care, ordering, workflow, trouble resolution, and service and network inventory management.

Manage » Manage & Orchestrate » Content & Workflow Management » Supply chain management and orchestration »

Put Automation in the Hands of Every Employee

Drive business agility with Oracle Integration Cloud's process automation for digital transformation. Go from idea to app in minutes - not months - with Robotic Process Automation, Adaptive Case Management, and best next action recommendations. Limit training by embedding your digital innovations directly in SaaS applications and optimize end-to-end operations with real-time insights into business outcomes.

Manage » Manage & Orchestrate » Content & Workflow Management » Supply chain management and orchestration »

CLEAR™ Media ERP’s Content Acquisition
Portal serves as a secure entry point for all
media and ancillary files remotely from any
geographical location across the global supply
chain, without the need of a VPN. Once
ingested onto the portal, users can either trigger
further downstream actions manually, or
automate these actions based on business
rules. Powered by Work Order Management, the
solution enables users to perform work orderbased
ingest, assign tasks to relevant
resources/vendors and track the status of all
tasks conveniently through a unified dashboard.
It is equipped with best-in-class tools for content
acquisition operations like file transfers (via
Aspera/Signiant), auto QC (pre-integration with
Baton/Cerify), full QC (pre-integrated with
Adobe® Premiere Pro), content enrichment
(cataloguing/subtitling) and archival. CLEAR’s
Content Acquisition Portal can seamlessly
integrate with other, existing IT systems like
Rights Management, BMS, MAM etc.

Manage » Manage & Orchestrate » Content & Workflow Management » Supply chain management and orchestration »

PFT’s CLEAR Digital Lab automates the content
supply chain, connects the production
ecosystem, and acts as the Media Universe for
secure content operations from content
acquisition through distribution and archiving.
CLEAR Digital Lab brings together the various
stakeholders and suppliers engaged in the
production and post production processes with
supply chain vendors for various tasks, such as
editorial, VFX, post production, sound,
localization, mastering, and downstream
distribution to connect the entire ecosystem.
Built around CLEAR Media ERP’s Primetime
Emmy® award winning DAX® Production Cloud
and Cloud MAM software modules, CLEAR
Digital Lab is well equipped to handle scripted,
unscripted, short form and digital content
genres. It has the capability to handle files of
different resolutions, content types, help review
and collaborate, track jobs and manage media
logistics including distribution of varied content
types across the production supply chain.

Manage » Manage & Orchestrate » Content & Workflow Management » Supply chain management and orchestration »

Are you unable to deliver 'TV Everywhere' due to lack of capacity? Are you not using Cloud resources because they need manual intervention? And you don't have additional people to manage that? You have transcode farm on the cloud, yet can't package & deliver? Is the total cost of servicing these making the deals unviable for you? Do you find yourself lacking professional help on how to leverage Cloud?

Don't cloud your mind with such worries. Get Cloudified.

With Operations Cloud from CLEARTM, you don't just store and transcode, but perform end-to-end Content Operations on Cloud. It is ready-to-deploy with a wide range of preset robots (TVE, Customer portal, Netflix, YT, DPP) – you enjoy faster time-to-market at lowest costs. All this with pre-defined SLAs and timely counsel.

ONE Cloud software that does everything, including workflow orchestration – now that's liberating!

It's time to virtualize your content supply chain!

Manage » Manage & Orchestrate » Content & Workflow Management » Supply chain management and orchestration »

Do you have MAM that can't extend beyond BO&E department? Do you have multiple applications within your company and yet can't get them to work together? Does your MAM work well across the enterprise? Do you still have to manage workflows manually in spite of multiple systems? Is your CFO worried about never ending CAPEX and high AMC? Are you being asked 'why not Cloud'?

We believe MAM systems cannot function in isolation anymore – it has to manage not just content, but all activities across the Broadcast enterprise & ecosystem. However, is it possible with just ONE software? We think so.

With Broadcast Cloud, you have access to a Media ERP Suite that enables workflow orchestration across the enterprise, supply chain and partner ecosystems. It provides ONE software on the Cloud for all departments across the enterprise – be it Programming, Legal, Marketing, Syndication, Traffic, Broadcast Operations, Digital, or Promos, along with partner and stakeholder ecosystems. Broadcast Cloud is a one-stop-shop to manage, review, process and publish content across all the platforms and devices of the broadcast universe.

Comprising of Cloud MAM & Operations Cloud modules, Broadcast Cloud is driven by a Hybrid Cloud architecture – you have absolute peace of mind that your content is with you always while the applications run on Cloud – how convenient! No more exclusive dependency on 'on premise applications' – you realize lowest total cost of ownership (TCO). Our aim is to let you focus on what you do best – creating compelling content. Leave the rest to us.

It's time to embrace Digital Transformation!

Manage » Manage & Orchestrate » Content & Workflow Management » Supply chain management and orchestration »

SMART Central is a powerful web-based Business Process Management (BPM) solution for broadcast facilities. At its core, SMART Central offers an array of automated management and reporting tools to give operators and decision-makers immediate access to critical information. The building block solution can be scaled, and apps can be added to help facilities optimize operations and reduce costs. SMART Central is designed for multi-departmental use including Sales, Traffic, and Master Control to help create efficiency. What’s more, SMART Central is permission-based which allows for controlled access on unique user rights.

Manage » Manage & Orchestrate » Content & Workflow Management » Archive and preservation management »

A modular approach to agile business: Manage content, data, workflows, devices and more—with an entire system designed precisely for your business. Our Media Solutions Toolkit offers a library of cloud-native microservices that can combine, scale and deploy across cloud, on-premise or hybrid environments.

Manage » Manage & Orchestrate » Content & Workflow Management » Archive and preservation management »

XDCAM air is the flexible bridge between field-based camcorders and your studio infrastructure, orchestrating the seamless exchange of live video, media files and project metadata. So you can focus on your story, save precious time and cut costs.

Sony’s XDCAM air Professional Cloud Service for News Production delivers live streaming and/or file transfer directly from the field and combines this with advanced cloud-based tools to instantly connect your news production team with the day’s hot stories.

Manage » Manage & Orchestrate » Content & Workflow Management » Supply chain management and orchestration »

Vantage allows content owners, producers, and distributors to quickly, easily, and cost-effectively ingest, edit, package, monetize, quality-check, and distribute their media. It sits above your content and media workflows, orchestrating best-in-class media processing services, on-premises and in the Cloud – to quickly address changing production demands or to test new business concepts. Based on a flexible service-oriented architecture, Vantage is made up of discrete Services, Media Management Tools, and Connectors that combine to create powerful automated workflows – all under unified robust system control. Vantage Services provide media capture, transcoding, metadata processing, and media analysis. Vantage Management Tools provide advanced compositing, assembly and powerful workflow automation. Vantage Connectors enable seamless, API-level integration with third-party systems and our own Vidchecker QC. Vantage offers scalability from simple standalone systems to complex, multi-server systems to meet growing business needs today and well into the future. Running on standard, off-the-shelf server hardware, or best-in-class Telestream Lightspeed® GPU acceleration servers, Vantage provides disaster recovery, and utilizes all of the capabilities of today’s enterprise-level IT infrastructures and best practices. Where cloud deployment is preferable, Vantage can flexibly run in private or public clouds solely, or in addition to your on-premises systems. Vantage utilizes the latest technologies to deliver pristine quality, exceptional processing speeds, plus the industry’s most intelligent and scalable workflow automation system. We offer a broad range of enterprise-class transcoding and workflow solutions based on the Vantage media processing platform to ensure flexibility and scalability to meet your business needs well into the future.

Manage » Manage & Orchestrate » Content & Workflow Management » Archive and preservation management »

Bare Metal Cloud, BMC, makes bare metal servers available on demand. BMC combines high-performance computing with cloud-like flexibility – it’s the best of both worlds.

• Dedicated
  
  
  
  • Dedicated servers reduce latency by up to 40% vs. virtual machines
  
  
  • Eliminate “noisy neighbor” effect
  
  
  
  


• Interconnected
  
  
  
  • Connect all 60+ bare metal PoPs via Zenlayer’s private backbone
  
  
  • Directly connect to public clouds such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, etc.
  
  
  
  


• On demand
  
  
  
  • Activate in 10 minutes
  
  
  • Add bandwidth/IPs as needed
  
  
  
  

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

WO On Demand is a cloud-based, SaaS platform that simplifies management, monetization, and measurement for on-demand audio content, including podcasts. With dynamic server-side ad insertion, robust ad templates, podcast hosting, download/impression/revenue reporting, broadcast-to-podcast functionality, a dynamic RSS engine, and powerful programmatic capabilities, WO On Demand includes everything audio publishers need to drive revenue.

WO On Demand can also be paired with WO Streaming to provide side-by-side management of your digital audio inventory across channels, and with WO Ad eXchange to provide holistic yield optimization across your direct sold and programmatic channels.

Manage » Manage & Orchestrate » Content & Workflow Management » Content data analysis »

Newsboard is a web based browser interface that enables journalists and editorial teams to organise their story production process directly from anywhere featuring a fully customisable and open widget architecture allowing newsrooms to stay flexible to workflow adaptations at any time. Newsboard’s ability to act as a common planning system avoids the pain points of multiple and parallel research efforts and creates synergies in planning and production. By facilitating the coordination and agreement of work tasks and topics between departments, and across the entire company, it further enables story centric production methods.

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dira Medox from CGI is an organisation system for radio production which seamlessly supports all types of cross media delivery. All audio, video, image, and texts can be stored in one place and accessed quickly and easily with an integrated search engine. Furthermore, users can easily edit metadata and compile different types of content into coherent multimedia stories. Medox also has an integrated web browser-based single-track audio editor which allows journalists to work remotely, as well as on platforms that haven’t been supported before. Cloud friendly and service oriented, Medox is designed for multi-site workflows for optimised collaboration between any member of any team, anywhere.

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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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Vidiflow is a new generation, dynamic architecture for interoperability of your media enterprise. Providing a stable, secure, scalable and high-density “operating system” along with an object reposi-tory and flexible metadata model.

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Based on the same switching and video processing used in its renowned KVM and video matrix switches, the 4K Multiviewer offers single-box switching and display selection of up to four single- or dual-head inputs onto two or four 4K displays.

The multiviewer is designed for installations that require simultaneous interactive control of several computers using keyboard and mouse or other HID devices.  Typical applications include broadcast installations and production suites.

• Combined 4:2 KVM switch and flexible multiviewer


• 4:2 KVM switch - 4 inputs, 2 outputs


• 4K60Hz 4:4:4 input and output


• Variety of multiviewing operation modes


• Single-and dual-head operation


• Low latency image transmission


• Combined audio and acoustic alarms


• De-embedding to 8-channel digital and stereo analog audio


• 8-channel digital audio via video interface


• Redundant PSU


• Intuitive shared keyboard and mouse control


• GPIO interface


• USB2.0 support


• Blockable USB2.0 transparent and switching


• SNMP monitoring and reporting


• 1U Rack mount


• Integrates into Draco tera infrastructure

Inputs and outputs are handled at 4K resolution with sub-100ms propagation delay, allowing the Multiviewer to meet the demanding requirements of control and incident rooms in all sectors whilst offering instant interactive control from operators.  Outputs are suitable for multi-screen workstation applications as well as multi-window large screen videowalls.

Internal image processing provides display splitting (dual and quadscreen modes) as well as adaptable scaling, tiling and picture-in-picture display.Video synchronisation between input and output channels eliminates image flickering and allows images of greater than 8K and above to be handled and displayed.

A single keyboard and mouse can be used to interact with all source images displayed on an output screen.  This reduces the desktop clutter and operator confusion associated with multiple keyboards and mice on a desktop.  Simply rolling the mouse over a different source activates that control path.

A simple keyboard GUI control, also derived from the Draco tera KVM control methodology enables user source and preset selection.In addition integrated 8-point GPIO module and IP control enable external switching by network or push-button mechanisms as well as LED indication of active status and sources.

As with all IHSE products, the 4K multiviewer incorporates extensive redundancy and backup features and SNMP options to meet every operational reliability scenario.

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Cloud-based production management software to automate and to centralize end-to-end production process. Designed with the latest web and mobile technologies for today’s digital workplace, Teamium provides extended teams with all the collaboration tools they need to coordinate production work including budgeting scheduling and resource management.

A full, simple and collaborative solution that allows the user to coordinate editorial and production teams, manage in-house or external resources and accurately track costs.

Resource and Talent Scheduling

With a simple, intuitive and interactive interface, Teamium will help you wean off spreadsheets. Simply drag and drop, shrink and stretch your selection, for a single item or a group. Once the resources are scheduled, you can instantly notify one or more members for action from within the application.

Planning & Budgeting

Simplify your task with all the resources you need with your cost and pricing rules. Teamium allows you to build complex multi-variable rate cards for resources and customer specific pricing rules into the system. The interactive tool then allows you to quickly achieve your desired budget. Once the project is green-lighted, the information is automatically saved into a functional work order so you can start scheduling resources.

Resource Management

Whether it is keeping a record of maintenance schedule for a camera or leave management for an employee or availability of a freelancer, Teamium handles it all. Teamium lets you import data from your company systems using our open API. Teamium also supports barcode integration and RFID.

User-defined Business Processes

Increase your team engagement and participation with configurable push notifications, approvals with e-signatures, group chats, task assignments for instant communication. Keep all stakeholders with up to the minute information for making decisions and getting things done. With Teamium’s user-friendly workflow builder, create robust, work processes focused on optimizing your activities tailored to your business rules.

Saas

Get benefits from Teamium® in the Cloud, without actually having to install any software, but rather through a simple subscription to the relevant package.

BYOD

Teamium®, as a scalable and flexible solution, connects you on any devices, and allow you to manage your production from your home or office or on the go.

The following licensing models are available:

• perpetual license with a maintenance contract


• rental license

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Busby offered by Squared Paper is a state of the art microservices and ESB toolkit which can be used in a wide variety of broadcast applications:

• monitoring hardware


• software and applications


• workflow orchestration of any complexity


• event recording for SLA reporting and later analysis


• controlling external devices and services


• media manipulation and delivery.

Busby Core Modules

• Configuration, authentication, presentation


• Workflow tools


• Resource scheduling and analysis


• Device control


• Alarms and monitoring


• Dashboards and reporting

Three parts of Busby

• Busby Configuration


• Selector (presentation of the current configuration)


• Busby Admin (an overview of the Busby system status)

Busby Configuration

• Centralized user interface for managing the configuration of your Busby system


• Allows configuration of all available services


• Versioning available for rollback to a previous state


• Secure


• Core system settings


• Various levels of deployments can be assigned to multiple machines or hosts


• All services can be configured through a simple form


• Drivers for connecting to numerous third-party hardware/ software devices

Busby Configuration • Workflows

• Manual steps allow the Busby user to interact with the workflow directly


• Automatic steps might be an action performed on an asset like transcoding or the compilation of a report/schedule


• Multiple paths can be easily created in a workflow by adding ports


• Scripts can be added at any point in a workflow. Written in modern scripting languages and utilising built in libraries, frameworks and functions

Busby Configuration • Boards

• To present a workflow in a meaningful way we use boards.


• They allow for ultimate flexibility when deciding on the what workflow steps should be included and in what order.

Selector • Boards

• Allows for the presentation of a workflow where each vertical strip corresponds with a step in the workflow.


• Each separate job is represented as a card in a column. Behind the scenes a record is kept of the jobs progress and varying ‘states’ as it travels through the workflow.


• ‘Info-block’ metadata can be attached to jobs at any point


• Each board is customisable for  different user groups

Selector • User Interfaces

• Other user interfaces are available


• Each can be displayed depending on the users' access permissions.


• Screens can also be tailored to display different parts of a workflow depending on the users’ requirements

New  features…Some of our latest work includes:

• Creation of a Resource scheduling and diary modules


• OTT/TX chain overview user interface


• Multi-site connections using secure zone trunking


• Additional connectors to third-party system and services

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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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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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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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NEXT-TT is a hybrid platform operating both with web and desktop data. The Platform overcomes the limitations of the programs using only local or only online resources. It saves user’s time and avoids the inconvenience of switching numerous applications to access various information. NEXT-TT is a powerful binary solution bounding together enterprise trends with common user’s convenience. NEXT-TT can operate on the web and locally. It can access online resources instead of uploading/downloading them first.

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Along with compact design and low cost the Draco tera flex family incorporates features from the Draco tera enterprise series of switches; including SNMPv3, LDAPS, multilingual on-screen display, encrypted communication for maximum security (for API, Draco tera configuration tool and Matrix Grid) and fast booting. Draco tera flex devices can now be interconnected easily in a decentralized matrix system using matrix grid technology.

Freely configurable devices

The Draco tera flex is available in three housing variants (1, 2 and 4 U) with between 16 and 160 ports. All ports can be used flexibly as inputs or outputs. 8-port expansion modules can be mixed between Cat and fiber optic types, with either 1 Gbit/s or 3 Gbit/s bandwidth; thus almost all customer-specific requirements can be achieved. The Draco tera flex is equipped with integrated power supply and redundant network connection as standard.

Scalable and future-proof

 

The modular structure permits simple interchange of individual components and prepares for future expansion. The Draco tera flex series is fully compatible with all Draco extenders and Draco tera KVM switches. It is ideal for cost-effective expansion of an existing Draco tera enterprise system or as an upgrade to existing Draco tera compact installations.

Key features

• High-density KVM-Matrix platform


• Cat X, Fiber and Hybrid 1G/3G models


• Scales from 16-Port (1RU) to 160-Port (4RU)


• Custom design for highest flexibility


• Enterprise feature set (SSL, Dual NIC, SNMPv3)


• Field-expandable / repairable


• Supports complete Draco extender line


• Options with integrated Grid interface


• Multilingual OSD support


• Offline configuration

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A specialized software module for importing playlists from 3rd party playout automation into the AutoPlay system. Provides integration with external systems, and migration of existing content when transitioning to AutoPlay.

Features:

• Automated 3rd party playlist ingest into the AutoPlay enterprise media workflow system


• Separate import settings for each source folder


• Comprehensive playlist format support


• Automatic creation of new AutoPlay MAM objects if none existed previously


• Configurable autoupdate of existing AutoPlay playlists when importing new versions – including playlists currently set on-air

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BPM4Media is a solution oriented towards managing business processes in the M&E industry, unifying its many audiovisual production systems around a business standpoint, and consequently it integrates agnostic applications. This way the entire lifecycle of audiovisual content can be administered.
BPM4Media orchestrates manual tasks to help operators manage their tasks and integrates them with automated tasks common to the industry (transcoders, QC, MAM, BMS, video servers, automations, etc...) What’s more, traceability is employed in all actions, guaranteeing the security of these operations.

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BLAM Blue Lucy Automation for Media is the PaaS production & Content Supply Chain Management Solution for the Media Industry

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.

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Three Media's XEN:Pipeline is a new generation Business Content Management System that will drive transformational change across the content supply chain.

Sitting at the heart of operations, its automated workflows and business processes are designed to discover, transform, curate and manage your metadata and content throughout its lifecycle, from concept through to distribution.

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Maestro Orchestration System

Insite Analytics

VistaLink Network Management System

PHASE - Serving the Brazilian Television Market Successfully since 1980

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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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The Carrick-Flow orchestration tool allows companies to optimize and rationalize the handling (transform, check, move, ...) and storage of video files. It allows them to fully operate the company's existing infrastructures by using all types of paid or open-source products.

Without modifying user workflows, Carrick-Flow can dynamically integrate and bring to your door any cloud resource and its infinite potential while controlling costs and uses.

For a comprehensive processing, specific features include virtual farms of heterogenous resources, peak activity detection and anticipation, fine task prioritization management and update and smooth support and error recovery modules.

A complementary specific module called Carrick-Stor will allow companies to enhance their storage policies by using multiple storage as a unified cross-tier storage ecosystem. Policies can mix multi-site systems, on prem' and cloud storage and business-related rules.

Local, cloud and hybrid workflows :
Cloud capabilities offer many opportunities and Carrick-Flow was designed for these. Managing activity peak is also one of the key functionalities. A dedicated module allows the detection of future overloads based on deadlines and estimated processing times. Cloud resources can be dynamically activated and will handle some of the tasks without modifying user workflows. Cloud ressources are then automatically disactivated once peak activity is passed.

Virtual farms :
If you host heterogeneous dedicated equipment such as several transcoding farms with different brands or version, Carrick-Flow allows pooling and sharing so you can gradually eliminate the silos. Processing more with less resources is one of the key objectives of Carrick-Flow! Mutualizing resources is a worthy goal provided that each user can be guaranteed the resources he needs to manage his emergencies. Carrick-Flow is equipped with a priority engine able to ensure that at all times a launched task is the one with highest priority. To share ressources, you have to adapt to all the players. Carrick-Flow exposes open interfaces at all levels so that each tool can be interfaced at the best level regarding its operationnal process.

Storage:
The Carrick-Store module provides an abstraction layer for archiving and unarchiving processes. It provides a unified repository of the storage content within the enterprise of all local and cloud storage. As if an HSM would have become matrix, Carrick-StoR handles files securing, manage their life cycle and their integrity across multiple heterogeneous storage systems. Archiving and redundancy policies may be related to the intrinsic characteristics of the files or be linked with customer-specific editorial metadata. Based on the processing capabilities of Carrick-Flow, it allows limitless indexing and migrating of storage while preserving the bandwidth necessary for the business to go on.

Independancy:
Carrick-Flow claims its independence from MAM suppliers and from media manipulation tools: storage, transcoders, transfer… But independence is not an end in itself. It creates value only if it brings real freedom! Carrick-Flow offers you teh freedom:
- To fully integrate and exploit the existing resource base
- To change tools, to let cohabit different generations of tools,
- To try, compare and finally change again…

Scalability:
Carrick-Flow has been designed to be virtually insensitive to load peaks. Media manipulation infrastructure may not deal fast enough with everything that needs to be done, but Carrick-Flow will not be affected. It continues to store and unstack the orders, always executing the ones with most priority, without saturating the resources, without being affected by the volume to be processed... In the event of a major infrastructure outage, Carrick-Flow resumes where it stopped, with no loss of performance due to the unusual number of tasks or workflows to relaunch. All Carrick-Flow components are designed to allow easy load distribution without a single SPOF.

SaaS billing:
With Carrick-Flow there is no upfront license to buy: you pay when you use it. The subscription is based on the components of your ecosystem. No license and no commitment on volumes. Your needs increase, your costs follow, your needs decrease, your costs adapt.

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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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Manual, fully or semi-automated processes are integrated via the WFM system. It provides operators with task-specific surfaces. It has connections to all relevant components within the production environment. These components are controlled, video essences and metadata are transferred between the units. There is a focus on ingest into production, post-production or content management systems, as well as archives, processing systems, non-linear publishing, and delivery systems. Broadcast "onAir" is covered as well. The strength of our workflow system is given by its open for connecting to any software within media IT environments and flexibility to execute any business logic required.

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Acquire, distribute and route live B2B video streams via M2A CONNECT and harness the power of the global AWS network.  M2A CONNECT offers point-to-point security, the flexibility of unlimited scale, reduced set up time, global distribution and all of this at a fraction of the cost of satelitte or fibre networks.

Fully integrated with AWS Elemental MediaConnect, MediaLive and MediaPackage, M2A CONNECT delivers the peace of mind that comes with M2A Operations' best-in-class 24/7 support.  Setting up and securing events, enabling last-minute changes and eyes-on-glass monitoring are all covered in the M2A CONNECT managed service, assuring faultless end to end transmission.

We're continually updating useful features to M2A Connect including integrating M2A Capture to output live video streams to AWS S3 storage for VOD, archive or regulatory compliance. Additionally, we've developed Cloud Frame Rate Converter alongside InSync Technology and Hiscale, allowing you to convert live feeds between frame rates using market leading, motion-compensated technology.

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Ateliere Connect is a fully cloud-native platform for content servicing that centralizes geographically-distributed workflows, allowing content owners full control and visibility. It’s designed to operate natively in the cloud to scale up and down automatically depending on volumes and urgency. With Connect, content owners can efficiently manage and store assets, create versions, and deliver content to countless broadcast endpoints from one unified platform. Our proprietary parallel-scaling technology, made possible by the cloud, enables efficient and high-quality production workflows.

Connect is fully provisioned to manage workflows for over 100 platforms, which means every step can be handled within our platform, from ingest to delivery. End-to-end supply chain workflows can be completely automated with AI-driven microservices within Connect.

FrameDNA™ is an AI image recognition tool within Connect that scans multiple versions of content, identifies the frames that are similar and different, and automatically deduplicates the versions, allowing users to consolidate multiple versions into lightweight, nimble IMF packages. By running their content libraries through FrameDNA, companies have been able to reduce their overall storage footprints by an average of 70%. In addition, their titles are now ready to be rendered out in any localized or conformed version quickly and efficiently for global distribution to any platform endpoint.

FrameDNA works in tandem with Deep Analysis, a media probing tool within Connect that rapidly analyzes video files, identifies various elements, including scene changes, color bars, blacks, texted scenes, slates, and essences, and displays them on a graphical timeline view without the user having to watch the file back. For a 54-minute 2K HD ProRes show, this process happens in about 10 mins--that's a time savings of 80%. Deep Analysis can also detect when subtitles overlap with on-screen text. The push to bring legacy libraries into global streaming services requires language/caption support in 26+ versions. All major streaming services immediately reject a show if there’s an issue with caption/texted scene overlap. The quality assurance task once only performed by humans is now fully automated with Deep Analysis. It can detect instances of timed text/texted scene overlap with around 40% more accuracy and 80% faster than manual QC methods.

Connect affords studios and post houses maximum flexibility under their control. Companies can choose the model that works for them--SaaS or PaaS-- and use our modular framework to select only the components of the platform that they need. They don't have to build an entirely new supply chain from scratch to take advantage of the benefits. Connect seamlessly integrates with existing partners and systems via a fully accessible API.