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www.inbroadcast.com | Vol: 5 - Issue 9 | September 2015

InMedia

Encompass Selects
Danmon Group To
Integrate Automated Ingest
E

ncompass Digital Media, a leading
global provider of media capture,
process and distribution services,
has selected Danmon Group | United
Kingdom to provide an integrated
ingest solution for its UK network
operations centre.
Located in central London, the
facility serves as a 24/7/365 broadcast
hub for tier one multi-national
media companies, broadcasters and
corporations.
"We required an efficient way to
digitise archives containing hundreds
of thousands of tape assets for
storage as digital files at the highest
quality," said Keir Shepherd, Director,
Technology Strategy at Encompass
EMEA.
"Danmon Group | United Kingdom
proposed a solution that would
seamlessly connect with our Sony
Flexicart automated tape robots. They
have designed a complete mobile
ingest station based on six systems
working as one solution. It performs
very well - operationally it is simple,
fast and reliable. Most importantly, it
creates high quality encoded files."
"We designed, integrated, supplied

and installed a complete solution
based on Dalet's AmberFin Ingest
software and Broadware's Flexis
control software products," added
Danmon Group | United Kingdom
Product Sales Manager Chris Elson.
"Encompass chose this solution for
its operational efficiency and proven
ability to deliver the best possible
image quality. There are six ingest
servers arranged in pairs, all of which
are housed in the Encompass EMEA
tape archive.
Each pair is easily transportable
and connected to a Flexis controller
ingesting from two VTRs running
inside a Flexicart. Operation is simple
- load the Flexicarts and press the go
button."
For the Encompass tape library,
Danmon Group | United Kingdom found
that the original barcode reader had
limited functionality.
Danmon Group | United Kingdom
designed an upgrade for the barcode
readers in the Flexicarts to support a
far wider range of barcodes, removing
the need to re-label tape assets and
ensuring the asset barcode ID becomes
the file name.

Danmon Group | United Kingdom also
integrated the VTR error data logging
so any ingest VTR errors can be called
using a REST API.

This is especially important when
dealing with tape archives that may
not have been played in a VTR for
some years.

Part of the new integrated ingest solution in operation at
Encompass Digital Media in central London

L-S-B To Present 'theWALL' At IBC
L

-S-B
Broadcast
Technologies
is launching its new product
"theWALL" at IBC 2015. theWALL is
a software tool for setting up and
controlling multiviewers - smart and
easy. With theWALL users can configure
monitor walls, route signals, change
monitor layouts or save and load their
own presets.
theWALL is the ideal solution for
operators and EIC to configure monitor
walls in OBs or studios. In the frantic

live production environment with its
demands for fast changing production
and workflow setups, theWALL enables
the teams on production to change
their monitor wall layouts fast and
on-the-fly.
theWALL is a software based tool
that can integrate with the most
common multiviewers found on the
market. Instead of learning several
specific multiviewer software or
asking the EIC to change a layout,
users of theWALL can
change all kinds of
multiviewers with just
one tool. The product
consists of a software
that talks directly to

the multiviewers and a GUI for mobile
control. The GUI runs on a HTML5
basis, thus being independent from
any mobile device manufacturer. The
users can run the software app on any
device possible, indifferent of its OS -
iOS, Android, Windows, Linux. On this
touch-based GUI all major functions
are available and can be triggered via
drag & drop.
With the slogan "Multiviewer
Control made smart", theWALL offers
major benefits to its users in terms of
efficiency, time-saving and usability as
well as user management.
Visitors can see theWALL in action on
the L-S-B stand at IBC 2015.

Key features of theWALL are:
*	 Easy change of multiviewer
layouts;
*	 Routing of signals via simple
drag & drop;
*	 Automatic calibration of
multiviewer resolution and
aspect ratio;
*	 GUI based on HTML5 - platform
independent;
*	 Save and load presets
from database;
*	 Sophisticated user management
for individualised presets;
*	 Comprehensive GUI with all drag
& drop setup functionality;
*	 Multiviewer control from your
mobile device.
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