38 TVBEurope Wrap-Up
Swift Create V8 offers more than 20 new functions
By Jake Young Softel
SOFTEL HAS enhanced the functionalities of its global caption and subtitle creation workstation, Swift Create. Swift Create V8 streamlines the preparation, checking and repurposing of closed captions and subtitles for both traditional and IP delivered video services. With Swift Create V8, Softel offers over 20 major new
functions. They include direct media support allowing for captioning without having to first convert the media, ‘rapid review’ mode, side-by-side caption file compare, and support for a wider selection of captioning and subtitling file formats through the latest generation of the Swift Smart File Handling Engine. Swift Create V8 also provides EDL support, enabling the automated re-versioning of
captions after video editing as well as ‘SmartText’ import, an enhanced text import tool that splits files into viewer-friendly captions, and ‘ProfanityGuard’, a tool that enables users to define dictionaries of questionable words and automatically provides substitutes. “We are very pleased to announce our highest performing
Octopus7 spreads By Jake Young
Octopus Newsroom THE OCTOPUS7 newsroom computer system introduces features to enhance workflow efficiency as well as new tools for working with social media, web and mobile devices. New features in Octopus7 include Topic Bins, Assignment Desk, REST API, and Event-based Actions. Two features updated from Octopus6 are MIS —
Reporting Tool and Social Media Integration. Topic Bins introduces a way
to organise and share newsroom information. Every item in Octopus7 can be tagged with one or more topics, which can then be defined as ‘hot’ or ‘trending’.
The Assignment Desk includes a linking tool, a planning calendar, a chat room for every assignment, and user notifications. Users can attach
local files to assignments, which can contain as many stories as required. Event-based Actions can send
a message to a reporter when they have a new assignment, notifying an editor when a script is ready for review, or automatically move a story to a folder when it is approved as ‘ready for broadcast’. REST API opens an
additional public communication interface
Swift Create V8 checks and repurposes closed captions and subtitles
caption and subtitle workstation yet a workstation that benefits many man-decades of investment and aligns neatly with the latest trends in the global media market,” said Sam Pemberton, president, Softel. “Its ‘best-in-class’
between the NRCS and custom third-party applications. External applications may request any data from the system and receive this data in JSON format. MIS — Reporting Tool,
introduced in Octopus6, tracks the number of stories created by all users or selected user groups over a period. All results can be displayed graphically and saved as external spreadsheets. With Social Media
Integration, users can have all social media posts downloaded to Octopus7.
www.octopus-news.com
features will help broadcasters, content producers and distributors simplify their workflow and accelerate their ability to deliver valuable archived content-over-IP to boost their revenue.”
www.softelgroup.com
Multiviewer series launched
By Jake Young
Miranda Technologies THE KALEIDO-MX and Kaleido-Modular-X multiviewer series enables the flexibility to place any signal on any display at any size without blocking or bandwidth limitations. Sources can repeat on up to four different displays without the need for an additional multiviewer. Available in a range of standalone configurations from 8x1 to 48x4,
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Kaleido-MX: Available in a range of standalone configurations
and up to 64x4 in modular form, Kaleido-MX is equally at home in large studios and outside broadcast trucks. The possible configurations are delivered in either a 1RU or 3RU form factor. The Kaleido-Modular-X series
enables monitoring systems to be created with a combination of input/output cards, used as building blocks to simplify system design within a 3RU, air-cooled Miranda Densité 3 frame. Handling sizes up to 64x4,
Kaleido-Modular-X uses Miranda’s FlexBridge technology. FlexBridge is a coax cable interconnect that enables input and output modules to be connected within a frame or across multiple frames. This additional layer of flexibility enables input modules to be installed in a frame adjacent to the router while the output modules can be installed in a separate frame adjacent to the display.
www.miranda.com
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