Actus Digital is the world’s leading supplier of Intelligent monitoring platforms, including six products that stand alone or can be combined into one solution, including: Intelligent Monitoring (compliance logging/quality monitoring), Actus MV (interactive multiviewers), Actus AI, (media insight extraction), Clip Factory Pro (automated content repurposing), OTT StreamWatch (OTT analysis) and Actus RVM (remote post-STB monitoring).
Since 2005, over 800 customers have deployed an Actus solution to help them improve quality, comply with regulations, automate analysis, and repurpose content, addressing requirements for media and entertainment companies, government regulators, and many other enterprises.
Actus Digital on-prem systems and SaaS-subscriptions allow users to address needs for both traditional linear broadcast television and OTT/FAST/IPTV channels, as it reliably records content 24×7 from any combination of a variety of inputs, including: baseband (SDI, HDMI, etc.), Transport Stream (IP, ATSC-1 and ATSC-3, ASI, and QAM), IP (many including SMPTE 2110), and streaming (HLS, MPEG-DASH, RTMP/RTSP, and more).
Offering comprehensive yet affordable tools, Actus provides unlimited simultaneous users with browser-based access to a platform that offers several meaningful and valuable benefits used by one user for one application or shared throughout an organization for many uses.
Actus Digital headquarters is in the United States with superior 24×7 support provided from four worldwide support centers, including in the US, Europe, UAE, and Asia.
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Actus – Advanced AI Workflows… On-Premises and Cloud
Actus – Advanced AI Workflows… On-Premises and Cloud
AI Media InsightEnhance Your Monitoring Capabilities with Our AI-Powered Software
In today\'s fast-paced digital landscape, keeping up with the vast amounts of information generated across multiple channels can be overwhelming. Our advanced AI-powered software offers a comprehensive solution to streamline your monitoring processes, whether for news or political monitoring, regulatory compliance, or commercial analysis.
News Monitoring
Stay ahead of the curve with our news monitoring features:
- Automatic Transcription: Effortlessly transcribe spoken content from any language, ensuring you never miss a critical update.
- Translation: receive the information in your preferred language, no language barriers
- Keyword Search and Alerts: Quickly locate specific spoken words within transcripts and set up alerts for keywords of interest, keeping you informed in real time.
- Summarization and Key Points Extraction: Receive concise summaries and key points, allowing you to digest information faster, even from a large number of sources.
Regulatory Monitoring
Ensure compliance and maintain brand integrity with our regulatory monitoring tools:
- Inappropriate Content Detection: Analyze video content for bad language, indecent material, or any other specified criteria to ensure adherence to regulations and standards.
- Comprehensive Analysis: Monitor content from various aspects, ensuring nothing slips through the cracks: broadcasters exceed the allowed time of ads, do not comply with local/foreign content, receive the PG rating and type of each program, etc.
Commercial Analysis
Maximize your commercial insights with our AI capabilities:
- Brand Logo Detection: Identify and analyze all brand logos appearing in video content, providing valuable insights for marketing and competitive analysis.
Versatile AI Capabilities
Our AI is designed to be flexible and responsive to your needs:
- Content Ratings and Program Types: Quickly determine the PG rating or type of program, helping you make informed decisions and cater to your audience\'s preferences.
- Custom Prompts and Questions: Tailor the AI to respond to any prompt or question, making it a versatile tool for various applications.
Embrace the power of AI to enhance your monitoring capabilities, ensure compliance, and gain valuable commercial insights with our cutting-edge software. Whether you need to keep up with the latest news, adhere to regulatory standards, or analyze commercial content, our AI solutions are designed to meet your needs efficiently and effectively.
Actus – MVPD Remote Video Monitoring
Actus – MVPD Remote Video Monitoring
The Actus Remote Video Monitoring system provides a surprisingly affordable way for MVPDs to monitor their QoS and improve their viewers Post-STB QoE while also providing advertiser verification and assurance of placement.
Actus RVM provides MVPDs with an organized dashboard that provides constant compliance-logging and quality monitoring for higher-value channels with the ability to dial in to their entire lineup at hundreds of geographically dispersed locations to see what their viewers see Post-STB and troubleshoot issues in real time.
It is also used to verify local ads are inserted and timed correctly, and ensure services are running properly.
RVM provides Penalty Box and traditional Multiviewer views and sends proactive alerts 24x7 for channels that violate user-set quality thresholds.
BY IDENTIFYING ISSUES BEFORE THEIR CUSTOMERS, REMOTELY TROUBLESHOOTING THEM, AND QUICKLY REMEDYING THEM, OPERATORS REDUCE TRUCK-ROLLS, SAVE MONEY, AND IMPROVE THEIR PERFORMANCE AND SERVICE.
Actus Advanced OTT Monitoring and Analysis
Actus Advanced OTT Monitoring and Analysis
ADVANCED OTT MONITORING AND ANALYSIS
As the global over-the-top (OTT) services market keeps growing, so to does the demand for OTT quality of service and quality of experience monitoring and analysis.The Actus intelligent monitoring platform can combine OTA and OTT analysis on the same platform or can be implemented as an exclusive OTT monitoring solution, supporting any internet-based protocol, such as HLS, RTMP, RTSP, SRT, ZIXI, NDI, MPEG-DASH, Smooth, and others.
Content can be recorded at several points in distribution chain to compare content ant points before and after various CDNs, with alerts sent on any audio and video issues, including low or missing audio, blue screen, black screen, frozen image, pixelization, missing closed caption, and more.
The Actus Alert Center constantly monitors all renditions of OTT streams in real-time, alerting on any technical issue that impacts the viewer’s quality of experience as well as segments where closed captions or SCTE triggers are missing.
Any exception is logged and reported via multiple methods, including e-mail, SNMP, dashboard, multiviewer, log files and popular group-texting applications.
Actus AdWatch – Auto-Commercial Detection & Sales Lead Generation
Actus AdWatch – Auto-Commercial Detection & Sales Lead Generation
Actus AdWatch offers an advanced audio and/or video content detection solution combined with a robust feature-set allowing detection of recurring content in linear broadcasts such as ads or promos.
Actus AdWatch uses advanced audio-fingerprint technology to monitor yours and your competitors' channels to detect commercials and generate reports including the New Commercial Report highlighting new Advertisers in your local market and the Delta Report that lists Advertisements aired more on competitor channels than you own.
The process begins by defining the reference commercials, either by marking them from the recorded feeds or by importing sample files.
The system automatically computes one specific fingerprints for each of the marked commercials.
AdWatch monitors the live feeds of all selected channels, and compares the fingerprint of the live feeds to the fingerprints of all the marked commercials (ads) or any other content stored in the database.
Adwatch can also detect new ads that have not been fingerprinted and alerts the operators with all the new ads for confirmation.
At the end of the process, AdWatch creates a database of all certified detections.
The user may produce a large set of reports from this database, by date, channel, brands, campaign and many other attributes.
For further analysis, there is a possibility to export any report to excel (.csv)
AdWatch is the optimal solution for Sales Lead List generation, Ad verification with video verification, and competitive ad analysis.
Actus Compliance Logging and Quality Monitoring
Actus Compliance Logging and Quality Monitoring
Reliable 24/7 monitoring and aircheck, recording a variety of inputs from baseband (SDI, HDMI, etc.) to Transport Stream (ATSC/ATSC 3.0 via antenna, IP, ASI, and QAM) and IP (2110, 2022-6, RTMP, RTSP, SRT, ZIXI, NDI, HLS, MPEG-DASH, Smooth) to assure compliance and quality of both linear OTA and OTT broadcasts with alerts sent on Audio and Video issues such as missing video, frozen image, low or no audio, pixelization, and more.
The HTML-5 platform includes an advanced player with fast-forward, fast-backward, slow-motion, scrubbing and pause, as well as Search via CC, EPG, AsRun and PlayList to easily find the content you are looking and stop options.
The Actus platform provides proof-of-airing with bookmarks and clip-sharing, evaluation of original transport stream and easy transcoding to any format, exporting to any destination or publishing to Social.
The low-latency browser-based and software multiviewers display any combination of channels with must-have compliance logging for things such as missing closed captions/DVB subtitles and loudness violations. Additional engineering features like SCTE 35/104 and NAVE detection, TS analysis, playlist to as-run log discrepancy reporting, and many QoE/QoS alerts are all standard on the Actus platform.
Actus Digital – Clip Factory Pro
Actus Digital – Clip Factory Pro
Be First-to-Digital or Repurpose back-to-air
Increasing the viewers’ engagement is a challenge for any content owner. Clips generation and publishing to the online platforms must be efficient, fast, simple, cost-effective, automated, and accessible to anyone, from anywhere, anytime. No need for professional video editors or dedicated workstations. This is exactly what Clip Factory Pro is for. It can be deployed as an on-premise solution, Virtual Machine, Cloud, or as a Hybrid solution.
A COMPLETE WORKFLOW FOR CONTENT RE-PURPOSING
It's an enhanced HTML5 clips generation workflow for digital media and news teams. It includes the recording, advanced editing and metadata enrichment options, a built-in transcoding engine, and direct publishing to social media, OTT, VOD, Web, Catch up TV, etc.
ADVANCED EDITING
It allows you to mark in/mark out multiple segments manually or automatically by using external data such as As run log files, EPG, closed caption, or AI engines. You can easily include or exclude segments, choose to add specific subtitles and audio language, or add a thumbnail. The metadata can be easily customized, pre-defined, or imported.
EFFECTS AND GRAPHICS
Enrich the clip with logos, graphics, animations, mute or blur specific parts, add pre or post-roll, crop a part of the video, and split the screen as a few examples.
EXPORT IN ANY FORMAT TO ANY DESTINATION
It records from any input, including IP, SDI, QAM, HLS, SMPTE 2022-6, ASI, SRT, RTMP, NDI, and Zixi, from any format and resolution, including SD, HD, 4K, 8K. The frame accurate clips are exported in any format. The clips can be exported to social media, such as Facebook, YouTube, OTT platforms, VoD, and more, and integration with third parties transcoding farms is also supported.
AUTOMATIC CONCATENATION AND CLIP CREATION
Automatic export of specific programs, scheduled clipping, automatic ads removal, clipping based on EPG, As Run logs or other external metadata, and automatic AI-based clipping are some examples.
Actus MV – Broadcast Multiviewer
Actus MV – Broadcast Multiviewer
Actus Intelligent Multiviewer software license for monitoring a variety of inputs including OTA, OTT, ASI, IP, baseband, and radio. This software multiviewer platform provides many powerful features such as an interactive penalty box for consolidated alerting of non-compliant channels with video-rewind, an unlimited quantity of mosaics/layouts with minimal delay and no drift over time, a user-friendly mosaic-creation GUI with snap-to grids and many widgets like penalty boxes, clocks, still/animated graphics, and measurement data including loudness and transport stream analysis. Alert notifications appear for audio/video impairments (such as missing/frozen video, low/high audio, pixelization, color bars, blue screens, etc.) as well as metadata issues (such as missing captions, missing SCTE digital triggers, etc.) and can be distributed via email, SNMP MIBs, and through the RESTful API. The integrated Actus Alert and Report Center shows a searchable history of faults that are linked to exportable content recordings that are sharable via links. Actus MV multiviewer interface and full-screen mosaics can be viewed and accessed both locally and remotely, by unlimited simultaneous users via standard web browsers.
Actus Rating Graphs and Competitive Analysis Collaboration
Actus Rating Graphs and Competitive Analysis Collaboration
Integrating Ratings into your Actus platform allows News and Programming to understand the relationship between ratings received and the content your and your competitor's stations are broadcasting
Efficient Actus ratings graphing and analysis tools provide a clear graphical view of ratings alongside the video broadcast on each channel that earned those ratings.
This is a great tool for News to work with graphics and talent and improve performance, as well as for sales to prepare Advertiser Sales Pitches perhaps researching demographic performance as it applies to them. The easy to read graphs are based on data received from rating and audience measurement companies such as Nielsen, Comscore, Kantar, IBOPE, TNS, AGB, BARC, GFKGallup and/or any others data source that relate to performance per channel over time.
The result is better program planning, ad placement, program scheduling and performance. This helps improve your ratings which can significantly increase revenues.
Actus Technical Monitoring – Alert Center and TS analysis
Actus Technical Monitoring – Alert Center and TS analysis
Live Broadcast Quality Analysis with Real Time Alerts
Actus Alert Center checks feeds from TV, Radio, and OTT for any audio or video issues, such as no/low audio, frozen image, blue screen, black screen, pixelization, Loudness violations, missing SCTE, missing captions/subtitles, NAVE and more.
When defined thresholds are violated, alerts are seen on-screen, sent via email, and/or SNMP traps are sent.
A history of alerts can be seen on-screen and exported with reports and graphical representations. When used in a system with multiple locations, alerts can be shown locally as well as remotely from a Central Server and centralized multiviewers.The transport stream analyzer (TSA) highlights TR-101-290 priority 1, 2, and 3 errors from any transport stream source and alert on any QoS issues that may affect viewer QoE.
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