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www.inbroadcast.com | Vol: 5 - Issue 11 | November 2015

InMedia

Metadata & Workflows cont'd...

Hollyoaks (Lime Pictures)
employs an EditShare
ingest to archive workflow
Primestream FORK
supports Matrox DSX
LE4 LP video I/O cards

to deliver high-quality productions
efficiently," adds Susan Skidmore,
Head
of
Partner
Relations,
Professional Video at Adobe. "With
Adobe Premiere Pro CC and Xchange
v4.5, users can produce more
substantive content more quickly - a
clear advantage when it comes to
getting good stories to air before the
competition."
Primestream in co-operation with
Matrox Video has also announced
support between the Matrox DSX
LE4 LP video I/O card and the FORK
Production and FORK Playout software
suites. The Matrox card can be used
with FORK for high-density ingest,
playout
and
edit-while-capture
workflows with Adobe Premiere Pro,
Apple Final Cut Pro X and Avid Media
Composer.
Dalet Digital Media Systems has
confirmed the worldwide availability
of Dalet AmberFin v11. Shown at IBC
2015, Dalet AmberFin v11 combined
with the Dalet Workflow Engine, which
leverages a Business Process Model
& Notation (BPMN) 2.0-compliant
workflow designer, greatly simplifies
orchestration and automation of
complex media workflows.
New graphical and textual reporting

capabilities
give visibility
into
day-to-day
operations, enabling users to
quickly identify and correct
inefficiencies and improve overall
performance. In addition, Dalet
AmberFin v11 brings native support for
caption manipulations, UHD support
on playback and more.
"Dalet AmberFin has always been
the benchmark for video quality
in transcoders, but with version
11 we have set a new standard in
approachable workflow tools. The
BPMN 2.0 standard, which is a highly
intuitive way of designing workflow
chains, is widely used across a number
of industries and is very familiar
to anyone with an IT background,"
comments Ben Davenport, Director of
Marketing, Dalet. "The combination of
best possible picture quality, intuitive
workflow orchestration, and the whole
host of other enhancements available
in this release genuinely puts Dalet
AmberFin ahead of the pack."
TMD's award winning Paragon offers
a fast install, easy to use archiving
solution. It uses the power of LTFS it
creates a digital content store that is
device independent.
TMD say that archives written to
today's LTO tape formats can be
migrated to future generations,
or even new storage media like
holographic
stores,
without
loss of essence or
metadata.
TMD CEO Tony
Taylor says: "As
the
proliferation
of digital media
content continues
and the content
archive repository
Dalet AmberFin v11
aims to simplify orchestration and
automation of complex media workflows

becomes a central resource, the
challenge facing media organisations
today is how to efficiently manage and
secure content throughout the entire
media lifecycle whilst maximising the
opportunities to access and repurpose
them.
"At TMD, we have addressed this
issue with our new, standalone
archiving product, Paragon. Paragon
is a Hierarchical Storage Management
(HSM) platform for any media
producer, post-production, broadcast
or archive organisation that costeffectively scales from systems for a
single user/ small workgroups to large
national archives with petabytes of
storage.
"It is an open architecture, media
aware storage management system
that utilise the LTFS standard to
control LTO data robots and is
powered by TMD's world-renowned
Mediaflex platform."
Paragon uses the LTFS tape
format standard ensuring all tapes
created within a Paragon system
are self-describing and can be easily
exchanged with other Paragon or LTFS
compliant systems or accessed from a
PC with a mounted LTO drive.
Paragon maintains a full audit trail
for both the media assets and the
physical tape media recording all tape
operations, it supports comprehensive
rules driven lifecycle management
processes that can for example retire
tapes once their read/write count
reaches a configurable value, switch
of tape drives if error values exceed
a pre-set value, and automatically
migrate between legacy tape formats
and future LTO generations.

Paragon
includes
media
integrity verification at every
stage of the archive process, for
example as part of an AS11 / DPP
compliant file delivery workflow.
Paragon verifies content as it is
written to tape, using the LTO
read after write functionality and
after every tape restore or duplication
operation.
The system is already in use with a
number of broadcasters.
EditShare is taking control of 4K
and remote editorial workflows
with the latest release of EditShare
Flow, the company's production
asset management platform. The
new Flow v3.2 capabilities include
scan and proxy support for 4K and
image sequences, enhanced remote
editing options, and new automation
capabilities for transcoding and file
delivery workflows.
"The new watch folder triggers and
FTP tasks in Flow Automation add
tremendous value to the Flow toolset,"
says Jeff Herzog, Flow Product
Manager, EditShare. "With the ubiquity
of file-based cameras today, even a
single production can end up with an
unmanageable number of incoming
video formats. Watch folders allow
you to build distributed transcoding
pipelines to standardise this material
automatically as it arrives, without the
need to deploy costly and complicated
standalone transcoding solutions.
"In addition, the FTP delivery
task allows you to take the results
of any Flow Automation workflow
and automatically upload them to
any internal or external device that
supports this protocol. These new
abilities help to firmly establish
Flow not only as a superb creative
content management tool, but also a
participant in complex facility-wide
workflows where media and metadata
are exchanged between many different
products and platforms."
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