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Produce » Post Production » Editing and Finishing » Non-linear editing »

 Hive content management Plug-in to Adobe After Effects
 Search / query by various metadata
 Preview Hive clips
 Import clip to Premiere Project as direct access to Hive storage (by link).
 Single click to trigger Adobe media encoder rendering premiere sequence and register the rendered clip back to Hive content management via Hive Plug-in
 Save and share Adobe AE project in Hive

Produce » Post Production » Editing and Finishing » Non-linear editing »

 Hive content management plug-in to Adobe Premiere
Search / query by various metadata
Preview clips by Source Viewer
Import clip to Premiere Project as direct access to Hive storage (by link). All clip markers with metadata are inherited and displaying on premiere timeline
 Efficient editing workflow with Hive Content management Plug-in
Single click to trigger Adobe media encoder rendering premiere sequence and register the rendered clip back to Hive content management via Hive Plug-in
Register consolidated files to Hive Rundown and to Hive central storage
Save and share Premiere project in Hive for collaborative editing

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

 Support multiple archive mediums, e.g. HDD storage and Sony ODA Library
 Flexible archiving policy to achieve variety of archiving workflow
 User can set customized archive policy based on metadata to trigger automatically archiving workflow in Hive system, e.g. archiving by clip created date, archiving by certain folders, archiving only high-res and so on
 Support manual retrieving by Web Content Management or Hive Material List
 Support auto-retrieving while rendering

Produce » Post Production » Editing and Finishing » Non-linear editing »

 Mixed editing with variety of formats
 Most of the industry’s broadcast native media support, from 4k to virtual reality to smartphone including XAVC 10bit
 Share programs with 3rd party NLE system via AAF, FCP xml
 Seamless working with MBH Material List
 Customized keyboard shortcut
 Edit efficient with great workflow
 Edit while SDI ingesting
 Edit while file importing
 Single click to register timeline to a Story
 Automatic retrieving clips while starting to render
 Variety of default effect templates
 Open to integrate with 3rd party graphics, e.g. VizRT, Ross (requires custom integration)
 Flexible to switch local rendering or background rendering

Produce » Post Production » Editing and Finishing » Non-linear editing »

 Connect In-House system via VPN
 Search and preview both In-House and Local clips
 Mixed Editing both In-House and Local clips
 Manually select to synchronize field editing sequence back to In-House
 Automatically uploading the corresponding local clips used in the
sequence back to In-House system. (Only upload the partial pieces used
in the sequence)
 Download In&Out piece of clip from In-House system to local field editor
 Transfer clips back to In-House
Support local rendering and send the rendered clip back to In-House system by FTP transferring

Connect » File Transfer » File & Object Delivery » File transfer and delivery »

 Open API for 3rd party system to integrate
 Direct importing and exporting files with 3rd party system by hot folder
 User can choose non-transcoding or transcoding for the importing / exporting policy

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

 Support multiple professional devices, e.g. SxS / XDCAM / P2 / XDS
 All import tasks can be monitored and controlled by Task List window
 Multiple importing modes
 Import all clips on one medium to be one clip in Hive
 Import all clips on one medium to be separated clip in Hive
 Partial importing
 Multi-selection importing
 Support to preview clip(s) before importing on Import Terminal
 Synchronize NRCS planning information and use for importing metadata
 Open to integrate with 3rd party NRCS, e.g. iNews, ENPS and Open Media
(requires custom integration)
 Write NRCS planning information to XDCAM dics to be XMPilot and then all
imported clips are inherited with the XMPilot metadata

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

 Provide virtual panel to control A/V Router on ingest terminal  VTR batch digitizing  SD / HD mixed recording  Growing file workflows end-to-end. Any feed ingest to content can be used by production editing and rundown broadcasting as quickly as possible  Generate High / Low-res simultaneously while recording  Multiple ingest modes, e.g. Crash recording, Scheduled recording, Periodic recording and Loop recording  Support to import excel file to create batch of scheduled ingest tasks  Live streaming signal monitoring  Preview recording clip by Clip Trimmer  Synchronize NRCS planning information and use for ingest task metadata  Open to integrate with 3rd party NRCS, e.g. iNews, ENPS and Open Media (requires custom integration)  User-friendly operations of Ingest Terminal

Publish » Linear Playout » Linear Playout Systems » Playout automation »

 Fast to AIR
 Playout while transferring
 Playout while ingesting
 Playout mode for Rundown
 Auto/Manual channel assignment
 Loop playback the whole Rundown
 Flexible story playback mode
 Replay story while On-Air
 Go to play any story while the rundown is On-Air
 Openness for 3rd Party NRCS
 Capability of integrating with any NRCS, e.g. ENPS, iNews, OpenMedia and
other 3rd Party NRCS ( by MOS protocol)

Publish » Internet Distribution » Internet Distribution » Internet distribution platforms (incl. social media) »

 Publish to Social Media  One clicking to transcode and publish to multiple platforms, e.g. Twitter, Facebook, Youtube and 3rd party CMS or Website (requires custom integration)  Multiple aspect ratios (1:1,9:16,16:9) and formats publishing

Support » Monitoring, Control & Communications » System Monitoring & Control » Network management, monitoring and orchestration »

Monitoring the system from metrics to insight
 Dimensional data
 Cluster (Hive core) status
 Cluster performance
 Tasks status
 Services status
 Database transactions
 File statistics
 Storage usage
 Windows server status
 Great visualization
 Simple Operation
 Precise Alerting
 Mail notification
 Infinite Expansibility
 Easy log collection

Produce » Real-Time Production » Video Production » Newsroom production management and automation systems »

Hive’s omni-media content platform takes care of the storage, management and sharing of content. Using the most appropriate tools this unified content environment is key to generating efficient, productive and streamlined workflows.

With the latest HTML5 editing tools and the ability to integrate other best of breed toolsets onto the platform, Hive delivers an unparalleled user experience to rapidly process any content for any medium and deliver it whenever, where ever and how ever it is needed.

HIVE has been built on a cloud native distributed services architecture, therefore it is quick to deploy, easy to maintain and cost-effective to provision as workloads change. HIVE can be deployed on premise, in private or public cloud, or as a hybrid mix of all three, enabling ultimate commercial flexibility in the business.

Uniquely for a broadcast production system HIVE has been architected, from the ground up, on data centre class technologies that are not yet capitalised on in the media broadcast industry.

HIVE utilises the advantages of data centre focused and open source technologies (object storage, containers, NoSQL) as opposed to traditional industry configurations of dedicated systems running resources in silos. Thanks to this HIVE leverages internet methodologies to deliver a dynamically scalable, highly scalable and highly available system which can be deployed either on premise or in off-site data centres. See figure 1 to show the architectural differences and key benefits.

Hyper Convergent Node technology enables HIVE to grow (or shrink) with the business performance required. Complex broadcast systems can, for the first time, be designed for a customer’s current level of performance, secure in the knowledge that additional storage and processing can be added at any time in the future whilst the system is live. No down time. No significant project expenditure. No investment in under-utilised assets.

Future expansion of the system into new production areas with different applications is also supported through the use of a common Platform/Toolset architecture with a highly scalable core and industry standard APIs.

With these core technologies embedded in the Network Production platform it is not difficult to see the opportunities:
• Acceleration of the Capex to Opex trends
• Outsource of commodity IT practises – data centres or on premise service
• Centralsiation of multi tenanted platforms
o Either as a SAAS model
o Or a National Broadcaster providing a platform as a service to local
broadcasters
As an omni-media network production system, HIVE, supports the fast and efficient creation of content for Internet, VoD and Broadcast applications. Key integrations with a number of market leading Newsroom Computer Systems and Graphics Platforms ensure that the journalists and operators work within the tools they are used to.

Key customer benefits include:
• Streamlined camera-to-archive production workflow
• Fully Integrated solution to support efficient planning to publish operation
• Internet/mobile first workflows that flex with digital trends
• Common content management platform with the ability to optimize the
repurposing of assets through a single system
• A recognized toolset designed for journalists/users
• Proven and future proofed ROI with tested, delivered and improved workflows
following ten years of experience
• Dynamic “pay-as-you-go” system for scaling and functionality
• Ability to flex with the business requirements - scales down as well as up
• Adaptable and Open solution that can be expanded into new production areas

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

 Browser-based tool to make user access to preview contents anywhere and anytime
 Manage all materials in Hive
(Video/Audio/Image/Document/Project/etc)
 Metadata modification
 Basic operation on material(s), e.g. Cut, Copy, Paste and Delete
 Upload local files to Hive
 Powerful searching / querying function
 Boolean search
 Condition search
 Support customized metadata for different types of materials
 Clip preview and simple editing by Clip Trimmer
 Preview clips
 Trim clips
 Create and modify markers
 Easy to distribute clips to multiple platforms
 To broadcast rundown
 To 3rd party archive system
 To hot folder for sharing with 3rd party system
 To social media (Facebook, Twitter and Youtube)
 Flexible Content Access rights management
 Friendly user experience

Produce » Post Production » Editing and Finishing » Non-linear editing »

 Browser-based workflow to allow users editing anywhere and anytime
 Direct distribute videos to broadcast Rundown , and social media
 Unlimited video and audio tracks editing
 Editing while ingesting
 Voice Over recording and graphics templates e.g. Adobe After Effects integration
 Repurpose video in multiple formats including 1:1 and 9:16 video with text on video
 Timeline exchange with Hive editor, Adobe Premiere with markers and metadata