56 TVBEurope NAB 2012 Headline News
Ahead of the NAB game for broadcast and post
Quantel By Dick Hobbs
AT NAB Quantel unveiled two new software architectures: one for broadcast, one for post. A new broadcast architecture enables COTS (Commercial Off The Shelf) storage to support
fast turnaround workflows. It delivers instant access to years of online content. This software technology is open, standards-based and delivers ingest, editing and instant file delivery on a global scale.
Brevity: Accelerating file-based workflows
VENTURE-BACKED NYC start-up Brevity has introduced V3, its technology that delivers simultaneous transcoding and highly accelerated transport of high-resolution video as an integrated process on any network. V3 delivers this capability through a web- based enterprise video management solution that uses automated project- driven workflows, advanced algorithms, virtual storage, web-based interfaces, and teraflops of computing power, writes Jake Young. Tested by North American broadcasters, Brevity V3 moves securely encrypted files over internet, fibre, or data satellite while maintaining high quality resolution and support for leading industry codecs and formats such as Avid DNxHD, EVS MXF, Final Cut Pro, Sony Cameras and others. Brevity has been tested successfully on uncompressed, high bit rate video, 2K
Chyron
New social media protocols to Shout about and Engage
By Fergal Ringrose
AT NAB Chyron launched Shout; a stand-alone software application that enables broadcasters to bring social media commentary into their live broadcasts quickly and easily, and Engage a second screen and social TV platform. Shout gives one or more users
the ability to monitor, select, adjust, and route social media conversations to broadcast graphics systems either for on-air playback or for storage as data files for later use. Shout’s built-in playback
controller eliminates the need to write scripts or data-bind templates on the playout devices.
In addition, the software enables users to save a playback list as a data file, which in turn, allows additional third-party devices to data-bind to the playlist. Because Shout can control many devices and multiple regions on a single device, it supports many different workflows. Chyron and ConnecTV have
partnered to integrate ConnecTV’s second screen app with Chyron’s broadcast graphics platform — uniting the on-air and online experiences for instant viewer polls and a realtime social TV relationship with the audience. Newscasters can now offer an on-air survey, prompt an instant vote, and chat on
ConnecTV. The poll results quickly loop back on air for display on TV, as well as on ConnecTV, simultaneously. Leveraging Chyron’s new
Engage second screen and social TV platform along with Chyron on-air graphics systems, a station’s news, sports, and entertainment producers can easily create interactive initiatives that begin with calls- to-action on television. The TV graphics and newscaster prompt drives users to ConnecTV, where they can interact with the television poll. The poll results then automatically appear on both screens with dynamic info-graphics.
www.chyron.com
and 4K DPX files, as well as compressed HD and SD files. “Our goal has been to enable anyone who works with large volumes of media to work smarter, faster and more intuitively than ever before,” said Jake Bronstein, co-founder and CEO, Brevity. “Our clients have achieved massive acceleration in transfer speeds with no compromise to image quality and they’ve also eliminated hours of additional time that would’ve been spent transcoding files. We are transforming file-based workflows and opening up new opportunities for the entire industry.”
Within V3 there are two core algorithms, Data Warp, which is bit for bit lossless, and Image Warp, a customised algorithm for video that is visually lossless. Image Warp has been
based on pre-set profiles. V3 also has open web-services interfaces that enable integration and connections with a wide range of existing applications and tools.
Brevity’s industry partners include Avid, with support for all Avid DNxHD formats and EVS, with support for the proprietary legacy EVS
tested successfully against ProRes 4444 and Avid DNxHD 220 in a recent Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR) test, scoring at over 60 decibels, which is an objective industry measure of quality. The Brevity solution also includes Graphical Processing Unit (GPU) based video routers to provide teraflops of computing power to handle the compute intensive algorithms. V3 is based on a powerful project paradigm that allows for approved
users from one or more
organisations to access project files virtualised across storage arrays, private clouds, or public clouds like Amazon. If a file is ingested, there can be a set of rules associated with the video that sends it to users
automatically via accelerated transport and simultaneous transcode. The video moves with speed to all locations, arriving at the destination already in one or more requested formats
Merging
The future of networked audio
By Melanie Dayasena-Lowe
MERGING TECHNOLOGIES has fulfilled backorders for its Horus Networked Audio Converter. Horus is a compact audio converter in a small 2U form factor with extremely low power consumption. Digital audio input connections are MADI and AES/EBU with optional analogue mic and line inputs and for outputs there are MADI, AES/EBU and optional analogue line. Additionally there are connections for LTC, MIDI, RS-422 and GPIO. The final
socket is the RJ-45 that connects the RAVENNA IP Audio stream. Once Horus becomes part of a network, the options for control of the audio and routing of channels are increased. Connected to other RAVENNA enabled devices, a system can be connected between any of the units, which then become nodes on the network. Merging President Claude Cellier said, “We believe that the future of networked audio is very bright and will dramatically reduce the cost and complexity of large installations.”
www.merging.com
MXF format as well as the EVS OpenCube suite that wraps files in OP1a or QuickTime formats. It also offers complete support for ProRes including the ProRes-DNxHD conversions. Brevity also announced a strategic partnership with TRANZXL, a bi-coastal company that is launching the first Brevity-based service bureaus and on-location rentals to accommodate the growing need for time and cost savings associated with HD media.
www.brevityv.com
The new software Pablo
delivers real choice to high-end post. Taking advantage of multi-GPU processing, the new Pablo will be available as both software-only and COTS-based turnkey systems in a range of configurations
to match the requirements of post today.
All systems are fully Stereo3D
capable and support the Neo panel and the new Neo Nano panel that was unveiled at NAB. They will also support new high frame-rate and productive Stereo3D finishing workflows. Quantel’s Enterprise sQ fast turnaround production system was at NAB with a comprehensive new user permissions and management system. New Orad graphics integration makes it simple to add Orad-produced graphics into the Quantel timeline. This tight
integration between Quantel and Orad is a perfect example of the kind of interoperability that broadcasters require today. The QTube is already in full
swing, enabling broadcasters to view and edit live production content anywhere. At NAB, the focus was on making QTube Edit a more flexible production tool. QTube Edit now supports disconnected operation, so users can edit packages together offline, and simply connect to the server (via the internet) to access content or upload locally produced work.
www.quantel.com
www.tvbeurope.com May2012
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