28 TVBEurope IBC2013 Show Preview Primestream
Improving workflow management tools
By Carolyn Giardina
PRIMESTREAM IS debuting version 4.5 of its FORK Production Suite for managing the automation of broadcast workflows. This version includes FORK Workflow Manager 1.0 for controlling production workflows, as well as integration with Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro, and Avid Media Composer. It supports third-party broadcast and workflow tools with such industry leaders as Harmonic, Quantum and Cisco. Also at IBC, Primestream
is showing version 2.5 of its FORK Xchange Suite, the application that gives broadcasters cloud access to content on their FORK Production servers from any Windows, Mac, or tablet device. An add-on to Primestream’s FORK software, FORK Xchange Suite 2.5 introduces the Xchange Shot List Editor add- on module, which gives editors a way to edit content living inside the FORK environment via a proxy with Xchange for web
Pixel Power
Innovative products and pricing power
By Carolyn Giardina
PIXEL POWER’S Pixel Factory and Pixel OnDemand are having their international launch this week at IBC. Pixel Factory is a new Clarity
FORK handles: Primestream is showing version 4.5 of its FORK Production Suite
and iOS. Also a dedicated API for streaming URLs, time-limited temporary URLs, hash-encrypted URLs, and session-based crosschecking have been added to Xchange 2.5. Making its European debut is Xchange for iPad 1.0, a native iOS application that allows producers and editors to browse, edit metadata, and create annotations on content while disconnected from the production environment. Also making its European debut at IBC is Primestream
DigIT 1.0, a server-based software application that helps broadcast, government, entertainment, and corporate IT departments monitor broadcast IT operations. The application can monitor individual servers in addition to the FORK production environment. Primestream will also show FORK Logger 1.0, a module for describing content inside FORK Production Suite’s software platform for media asset management and workflow automation. 7.D21
Graphics system for file-based workflow branding of media and interstitial 2D and 3D graphics. A single unit is capable of providing graphics for multiple channels, which the company said breaks the ‘one- unit-per-channel paradigm.’ Running on standard
IT server hardware, Pixel Factory is scalable and can be deployed at discrete locations. Factory can also repurpose existing Pixel Power templates and includes automation capabilities.
Also being revealed at IBC2013 is Pixel OnDemand, which offers the benefits of the new Pixel Factory, including Clarity Graphics, but with the introduction of use-based pricing. Pixel OnDemand puts the graphics engine into a software package that runs on standard IT servers. It could be used for nonlinear, store-and-play content delivery operations such as IPTV channels, VoD services, mobile content, news operations, and second screen viewing applications. According to the company, the output is pixel-for-pixel identical to the output quality of any Pixel Power hardware product. 7.A31
www.tvbeurope.com September2013
Factory worker: Pixel OnDemand offers a user-based pricing model
Aframe
Logger gets IBC debut
By Will Strauss
AFRAME ISusing IBC2013 to debut a new feature called Logger, a stand-alone cloud-based innovation designed to improve and speed-up the often laborious process of logging footage. Accessible via an easy-to-use
web interface, Aframe Logger allows broadcast and production teams to quickly find and log footage to the timecode using the process of specifying In and Out points as well as Shot and Sync. While Aframe Logger can be used in any genre, the company says that it will be ‘especially useful for unscripted productions that must log a lot of footage quickly [such as] factual, reality and documentaries.’ Aframe Logger is on show at the
Aframe pavilion on the Panasonic Broadcast Solutions stand. 9.C45
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