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Dalet AmberFin is an orchestrated, scalable media processing platform with fully integrated transcode, color conversion, packaging and file transport functionality, enabling facilities to make great pictures in a scalable, reliable and interoperable way.

Dalet AmberFin software runs on cost-effective, commodity IT hardware that can adapt and grow as the needs of your business change.

Whether you need a single application specific product or a large-scale enterprise-class transcode farm, Dalet AmberFin software is built upon unique technology that ensures your media assets retain the highest quality whether standard- definition, high-definition, ultra-high-definition or new media content.

Ingest: Dalet AmberFin enables optimal media ingest from camera card, local, network and cloud locations. Ultra high-quality codecs, color and HDR conversions maintain the value of the original material, with mezzanine formats including JPEG 2000, XAVC, HEVC, ProRes, DNx, AVC-Intra and XDCAM HD. Growing file support and the ability to write directly to shared and cloud/object storage dramatically reduces workflow latency, while flexible Closed Caption/Subtitle and Ancillary Data retention and conversion support offers further time savings.

Transcode: Dalet AmberFin is a completely scalable, fault-tolerant, high-quality transcode environment, including format and standards conversion, with best-in-class image processing, allowing for fast, effortless content delivery and repurposing. Our service-based architecture enables sites to build transcode farms on commodity IT hardware or virtual/cloud machine instances - minimizing downtime, reducing maintenance costs and enabling complete "lights-out" operation.

Media Supply Chain Orchestration: Dalet AmberFin includes a fully capable BPM workflow design and execution environment, enabling media packaging and delivery to be created for multiple endpoints, running in parallel. Media packaging is available for HLS, DASH and IMF directly within the workflow engine. Native integration between the transcode and workflow engines ensures that your existing conversion profiles can be used seamlessly within the BPM environment. Automation plugins are available for third-party file-based QC, forensic watermarking and file acceleration vendors.

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Ingest & playout broadcast quality video in SD, HD, and UHD
Dalet Brio is an innovative and cost-effective platform for broadcast customers looking for non-proprietary hardware to digitize and playback their content, either as a complement or replacement of their existing video servers. Built on an IT-based input and output video platform, it seamlessly integrates with Dalet Solutions to provide a highly flexible and scalable end-to-end solution.

Dalet Brio units are designed to ingest and playout broadcast quality video in SD, HD, and UHD formats. They come in a variety of input/output or local/central storage combinations. Each unit is built on robust IT equipment with built-in redundancy.


Flexible Codec Support
Dalet Brio supports a very wide range of software codecs. In order to ensure broad interoperability, industry-standard wrappers such as Quicktime & MXF are supported, allowing seamless workflow integration with third-party NLEs and Dalet production tools. Dalet Brio can play any supported files, including a mix of SD, HD and UHD on the same timeline, back-to-back with dynamic cross-, up- and down- conversion of the video signal, as well as aspect ratio modifications.

Transition to IP
Dalet Brio is ready for the transition to IP-based video production, with the support of multiple video-over-IP standards from the high-end SMPTE 2022-6/-7 and SMPTE 2110, including NMOS interoperability, to the popular NewTek NDI streams. Dalet Brio supports hybrid SDI / IP workflows, to ensure that the transition to IP production is smooth. Dalet is working together with the AMWA association.

Proven Reliability
With more than 1,000 news, channel automation, MAM & QC, and sports production deployments, Dalet Brio has a successful track record that spans just about every broadcast server workflow scenario. More than its versatility, Brio has proven its load tolerance and scalability capabilities, supporting large content producers and broadcasters.

Third-party support
Dalet Brio can be part of Dalet Galaxy Architecture for Ingest and Playout but can also fit into third-party MAM, NRCS, and Playout control systems with VDCP and BVW protocol. With Dalet Brio supporting FIMS standards, Adobe Premiere Pro CC can control Dalet Brio for ingest as a plugin as well as Ingest to AVID Interplay/ISIS and Apple FCP X.

Produce » Real-Time Production » Real-Time Production Graphics » Production graphics and CG »

Dalet Cube NG is a next generation platform for news and graphics workflows. Fully integrated across the Dalet Unified News Operations solution powered by Dalet Galaxy five, the state-of-the-art, full-featured Dalet Cube NG graphics platform leverages the industry-leading Brainstorm real-time graphics engine to deliver superior 2D and 3D branding and visuals. Suited for both on-air and file-based graphics creation, the Dalet Cube NG unified approach enables news broadcasters to easily create dynamic branding and up-level visual storytelling across traditional, digital and social channels.

Dalet Cube NG offers a redesigned, highly scalable architecture and modern web-based UI. The embedded, high-performance Brainstorm real-time 3D graphics engine significantly expands on-air and file-based graphics capabilities with its support for 4K and user-defined options, added primitives for building 2D and 3D graphics, support for Unicode fonts and languages, and outstanding transition logic. Noted news broadcasters that rely on the Brainstorm real-time graphics engine include CNBC, NHK, RAI, RTHK, RTVE, TVN and many others.

Feature highlights of the new Dalet Cube NG include:

• Advanced Materials and Objects – Thanks to the Brainstorm graphics engine, Dalet Cube NG supports a wide range of objects including spheres, curves and arrows with extensive control over parameters. It also includes a particle generator for creating visual effects such as fire, smoke, rain and more.


• Font and Text Management – Dalet Cube NG offers full control over 2D and 3D text including size, texture, shading and mapping. It also includes support for Unicode fonts and a wide range of languages including Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Japanese, Korean and Thai.


• Format and Resolution Independent – Dalet Cube NG is resolution independent and supports HD, 2K, 4K, 8K, UHD and beyond, as well as digital and social graphics formats and workflows.


• Tweet to Graphics – No story is complete until it’s been posted on social; the moment users transform a tweet into a graphic, that graphic becomes an object within Dalet that journalists can either schedule in a production rundown or play out on-air with the news package.


• Ease-of-Use – Dalet Cube NG features simple-to-use tools and tight integration with Dalet Galaxy five that facilitate the adoption of graphics creation and use across the newsroom.

Dalet Cube NG Designer

Dalet Cube NG Designer is a 3D graphics authoring software, used by graphic designers and artists to create graphics needed by media organizations, especially news channels. Dalet Cube NG Designer provides both the page-based workflow familiar to many designers, as well as the possibility of working with templates. Formatting can be implemented on the template and the changes to the text can still be done on each page. Modifications made to a template will be shown on every page of the project.

Dalet Cube NG with the Dalet Workflow Engine

When managing multi-lingual, multi-channel and multi-platform distribution, the Dalet Workflow Engine enables an efficient process for users to enter CG information once, and this gets distributed to a wide variety of Dalet Cube NG placeholders created automatically.

Dalet Cube NG Ticker

A key module for building advanced tickers, Dalet Cube NG Ticker is embedded in the Dalet Cube Play Controller and supports the same graphic elements configured for other Dalet clients. Graphic elements can be executed with different speeds and together with other graphics. Dalet Cube NG Ticker includes various tools that enable parsing of live data such as XML, spreadsheets, SQL or text files.

Dalet Cube NG Play Web

Dalet Cube NG Play Web is a web application used to prepare data entry templates that will be used by journalists and editors in Dalet Galaxy five, and by graphic playout operators using Dalet Cube NG Play Web.

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

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.

 

Manage » Manage & Orchestrate » Content & Workflow Management » Media asset management (MAM) »

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

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

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

Dalet Galaxy five feature highlights include:

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


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


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

 

Manage » Manage & Orchestrate » Content & Workflow Management » Media asset management (MAM) »

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

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

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

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

Key features of Dalet Galaxy xCloud:

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


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


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


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


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


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

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

 

Produce » Manage Production » Production Software » Newsroom computer systems (NRCS) »

Manage end-to-end TV, radio, digital and social media news production Dalet News Wire is Dalet Newsroom Computer System (NRCS), the only fully integrated news system that meets the challenge of media convergence. In a single system, Dalet News Wire manages end-to-end TV, radio, digital and social media news production.

This powerful module covers all the needs of a newsroom, from scheduling, job assignment, wire ingest, scripting to social media integration. To foster collaboration and offer a cohesive workflow, Dalet News Wire is directly connected to the desktop production tools and shares the same media database. Boasting integration with third-party systems, Dalet News Wire story-centric workflow tools increase productivity and maximize content value through easy content repurposing on multiple devices.

Connect your Newsroom to the World In addition to traditional agency wire feeds, Dalet News Wire allows you to capitalize on user-generated content (UGC) and to engage your audience on a deeper and more personal level. To take full advantage of the incoming value-added content in a way that enhances overall productivity, Dalet News Wire delivers efficient tools that fully integrate into existing workflows.

From capture to multi-platform distribution, it offers a complete solution to leverage social media. Compelling stories are created using a mix of user-generated content and professionally gathered content before being easily distributed to traditional and new media channels.

Scheduling Editors model their timetable with program slots for a given period, insert scripts or blocks based on templates, manage timings and assign studios. Dalet News Wire allows for economies of scales as multiple sites and channels can be managed from a central location.

Planning & Assignment Editors create events on specific subjects for which journalists receive job assignments along with valuable information such as descriptions, associated wires, linked media or PDF, URLs and more. When inserted into a rundown, all related stories created by journalists are automatically inserted pending editor’s validation.

Notifications & Chat Dalet notification engine sends assignments directly to journalists’ desktops. Other notifications can be set up to notify incoming wires, approval or rejection of submitted stories. An instant messaging feature allows for fast information and links exchanges.

Support » Monitoring, Control & Communications » System Monitoring & Control » Resource monitoring systems »

Dalet OnePlay, the next-gen automated studio production with orchestrated multiplatform distribution, helps streamline studio operations, optimizing the resources required to run a show.

An extension of Dalet Galaxy five, Dalet OnePlay not only automates the control of all devices in the studio, it also fully leverages the MAM, NRCS and workflow orchestration capabilities of the platform to open up new forms of audience engagement and revenue opportunities, all the while optimizing the costs of the entire operations

Dalet OnePlay benefits any production of scripted shows, making it an ideal solution for newscasts, sports magazines, live and live-to-tape studio shows.

Modern UI, collaboration and orchestration unleash new opportunities

Dalet OnePlay’s modern, intuitive and efficient UI and UX combined with the agile Dalet Galaxy five News Production and Workflow Orchestration platform enables custom live production workflows with unrivaled operational flexibility, way beyond traditional studio production.

The single shared environment gives way to much smoother and efficient collaboration between show preparation and studio production teams.

More content to more platforms with the same resources

The Dalet Workflow Engine facilitates synchronized multiplatform distribution and automated social media publishing, mitigating operational errors across the board.

This modern workflow allows media organizations to shift their operations forward and get more content to more platforms in a shorter timeframe with the same resources, all while ensuring audiences receive consistent and high-quality experiences across all delivery devices.

Fully Featured and Fully Integrated

Dalet OnePlay controls all device types including video switchers and servers, cameras, audio mixing consoles, graphics, lighting, routers and more. The intuitive, web-based user interface controls all core production devices and is fully integrated with Dalet Galaxy five for seamless workflows, automation and ultra-efficient collaboration between the newsroom and playout.

 

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

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

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

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

StoreFront highlights include:

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


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


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


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


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


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