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TMD AT RTÉ IN IRELAND
Carlos M. Gomes of TVI on how Snell’s ICE channel-in-a- box playout system suited its logical playout evolution.
SNELL AT TVI IN PORTUGAL
Richard Waghorn on how Ireland’s national broadcaster started the implementation of a project to move all its content management, playout and related broadcast operations from tape to files.
INGEST ENGINE; STORAGE
ToolsOnAir recently completed an interesting archiving project featuring its just:in ingest engine controlled by a custom build interface based on just:control technology. The scope was to ingest many thousands of tapes from an existing tape library by using an XML database as a starting point to trigger the different tape ingests from attached VTRs. The operator chooses an available recording channel, selects the tape from the database listing, clicks on the channel’s record button and
records from the chosen in-point to the end of the tape. After a successful recording an acknowledgment of completion is written back to the database. ToolsOnAir also offers flow:rage, which starts at 4TB and scales up to 126TB per chassis. flow:rage offers a solution to fit a variety of needs and budgets. All flow:rage systems support an unlimited number of clients and come with a five-year bring in hardware warranty. flow:rage can be used as a standalone storage system or in
combination with the ToolsOnAir Broadcast Suite, a qualified MAM or archive systems, database applications, or for web serving.
www.toolsonair.com
MULTICHANNEL STREAMING
STRYME from Austria offers its fourth generation GENESIX. The all-in-one multi- channel video server solution offers professional HD quality and comprises both an advanced graphics engine for real-time graphics feeds as well as multichannel streaming functionality in the H.264 format.
The product supports all industry- standard codecs and formats (DV, DVCPRO, MPEG-2, D10, Sony XDCAM, P2, Apple ProRes, Avid DNxHD, etc.) and can easily be integrated with a broadcaster’s infrastructure and workflows. The graphics engine enables the quick and easy realization of 2D and 3D graphic
ARCHIVE INTELLIGENT AMALGAMATION
LTFS has switched the traditional ingest workflow around by enabling material to be transferred directly into the archive, opening up an array of new workflows and creating substantial time and cost benefits. Taking the next step in this transition, SGL now offers its Notification Service. Using this new subscription service, management of the archive is further enhanced by the addition of intelligent amalgamation services – optimising tape and tape-head usage without limiting access to individual files. The separate elements of an amalgamated archive can still be identified and easily retrieved and the addition of the SGL Notification service means that users can subscribe to messaging about processes, material and hardware for fast and effective workflow monitoring.
www.sglbroadcast.com
MPEG TS OVER IP; FLEXIBLE CONTROL PANEL
Pebble Beach now offers an MPEG-2 transport stream delivered over IP (TSoIP) on both the Dolphin integrated channel device and the Stingray channel-in-a-box solution, adding full resolution IP
functionality to the range, and complementing the IP monitoring output capability of these products. New for Pebble’s Marina automation is the SmartPanel. This user-configurable feature gives customers the ability to design their own control panels within the Marina user-interface, giving the operator, for example, a custom-designed panel to take manual control of both Marina and external devices, or perhaps to have a panel dedicated for controlling live graphics.
www.pebble.tv
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overlays. The fourth generation GENESIX also comes complete with advanced asset management.
www.stryme.com
SCALABLE ETHERNET STORAGE
Harmonic MediaGrid is an easily scalable Ethernet-based shared storage system optimized for digital media, with the performance of SAN and the simplicity of NAS. MediaGrid provides exceptional performance for digital media workflows, is cost-effective scale-out storage, and is simple to deploy, manage and scale. MediaGrid is tightly integrated with media applications for ingest, transcoding, editing, archival and playout to provide a shared storage solution which accelerates file-based workflows while providing the ability to manage the entire asset lifecycle.
www.harmonic.com
SCALABLE STORAGE
The high-performance, scalable EditShare XStream platform represents a new breed of storage offerings. Integrating asset management (Flow) and archiving/back up capabilities (Ark), XStream provides facilities an advanced storage environment. Equipped with superior media sharing features, NLE editors can safely share both media and projects for the ultimate in efficient post-production.
www.editshare.com
LTO NETWORK ATTACHED ARCHIVE
XenData has announced the release of the SXL range of LTO archive systems, which connect to a 1 GigE network and make writing to and restoring from LTO as easy as writing to network attached disk storage. There are five SXL models that provide up to 57.5 TB of near-line LTO and all manage an unlimited number of externalized LTO cartridges.
www.xendata.com
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