Curator integrates alongside Quantum StorNext Pro and Telestream Vantage to create elegant image capture and distribution workflow Cambridge, UK, 1 August 2016: UK-based media asset management and technology specialist, IPV, has announced the successful integration of its Curator Content Factory Media Asset Management (MAM) system within NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The MAM system is being used within a fully digital solution for launch video capture and delivery systems at the Kennedy Space Center and integrates seamlessly alongside a Quantum StorNext 5 storage system and Telestream Vantage content transcoding. [bctt tweet="There are not very many imaging environments more challenging, or more critical, than the one that supports launches at NASA's Kennedy Space Center - MAM System Revolutionize NASA Kennedy Space Center"] On this project, IPV collaborated with North American channel partner, StorExcel, which worked as a key advisor to the project on content and workflow integration issues. "We wanted to give NASA a state-of-the-art video workflow system based on best-of-breed solutions that we knew would work well together and provide optimal value based on our own experience." said Kurt Clawson, CTO, M&E Technology at StorExcel. There are not very many imaging environments more challenging, or more critical, than the one that...
Volicon to Extend Multiviewer for OTT and Path Monitoring
BURLINGTON, Mass. – May 24, 2016 – Volicon, now part of Verizon Digital Media Services, today announced that it will highlight new OTT and path-monitoring capabilities within the Multiviewer option for the company’s Observer Media Intelligence Platform®. The Multiviewer option unites the platform’s recording capability with multiviewer functionality to give users access to multiple live or recorded programs, complemented by frame-accurate data, on a monitor wall or other display. Using the newly introduced dashboarding traffic-light approach, users can monitor numerous linear and OTT channels, and all their renditions, and quickly identify technical issues. “Today’s broadcaster must manage an increasing number of channels and platforms while simultaneously maintaining the highest levels of service quality,” said Gary Learner, chief technology officer at Volicon. “However, no facility can reasonably monitor all OTT feeds in their many renditions, with various resolutions, bit rates, and formats. Our enhanced Multiviewer option addresses this challenge, enabling users to tailor dashboards to their monitoring roles and responsibilities, with ‘red light’ and ‘green light’ status applied to individual streams or to configurable groups of streams and displayed along with video and metadata windows according to user preferences. With this approach, it’s possible to streamline quality-of-experience OTT monitoring at the...
Why you should remove unused Facebook apps…
As you probably know, Facebook is a vast social media platform that offers numerous ways for people to interact with one another and just generally enjoy have a good time. One of Facebook’s most popular features is the ability to run third-party apps. If you can think of something you’d like to do on Facebook, there’s probably an app that makes it possible. And many apps are indeed quite useful. But there’s something you need to know about Facebook apps: Some of them can be downright dangerous! An app that’s poorly written or written with mal intent can cause all kinds of strange unexplained issues with your Facebook experience: Photos, status updates and comments that you’ve posted will simply disappear without a trace. Photos, status updates and comments that you didn’t post will show up on your Timeline or in your friends’ newsfeeds, making it appear that you’re responsible for posting them. And when that happens they’re usually posts that put you in a bad light. Your friends start receiving Instant Messages that appear to have been sent by you, even though you never sent them. Miscellaneous glitches of all types will have you ready to pull your hair out....
