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InMedia
Playout automation
Playout evolves to cloud
Automated content manipulation and delivery systems are getting more sophisticated,
many introducing graphics workflows, ad insertion capability and management of multiple
formats with integrated end to end systems from cloud to prem and everything in between...
By Contributing Editor Adrian Pennington.
ebble recently announced new
configurations and a new brand
for its powerful Pebble Remote
solution, the remote management,
monitoring and control tool for Pebble
Automation and Integrated Channel
deployments.
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" Now more than ever, broadcasters
and service providers need secure,
remote access to their playout
environment, especially when systems
can comprise multiple channels
across several playout sites and in
cloud deployments, " explains Mat
Shell, Head of Sales. " Pebble Remote,
formerly known as Lighthouse, enables
users to securely monitor, manage
and control their channels from inside
or outside the normal transmission
environment. Featuring fully
configurable web-based dashboards,
it provides mission-critical overviews
of upcoming issues across the entire
system, allowing users to react with
ease and agility. "
Pebble Remote is suited to business
continuity applications, with a single
operator able to oversee automatic
playlist synchronisation between
geographically
separate
systems.
Deployments deliver robust security
featuring full HTTPS support with TLS
encryption, protection against brute
force password and username attacks
as well as secure password hashing.
" Pebble's user base has relied on
Pebble Remote to provide continuity
of operation, enabling flexible working
scenarios over a series of lockdowns
and at times reduced physical
access to their playout facilities.
Here the benefits of secure remote
management and control have been
demonstrated time and again. "
VSNOne TV VSN's playout system.
simplifies
A
single
software
that
the management of a TV channel
integrating the ingest of files,
baseband signals and IP streams, as
well as live events, transcoding, device
control and advanced graphics. Each
box of this system allows up to eight
SD / HD playout channels or four UHD
channels, simultaneous SDI / IP / ASI
/ NDI broadcasting and publishing
content to social media.
The latest
release
of
the system
incorporates new improvements like
HLS output stream encoding mode in
playout for Ethernet module: Adding
the ability to issue video segments
and HLS playlists to the file system
for subsequent issuance by a thirdparty
web server and the possibility
to upload those to remote web servers
using HTTP PUT or POST requests.
Furthermore, VSNOne TV has also
improved the support of UHD and
1080P modes and added support for
redundancy
(SMPTE-2022-7)
when
issuing and capturing SMPTE-2110.
" As you can see, VSN are always
developing the latest features to
our products and trying to adapt to
our customer's needs, " says Content
Manager Marcos Cuevas. " Therefore,
VSNOne TV and the rest of our
solutions are available on premise and
for cloud or hybrid environments. In
addition, we provide the opportunity
to choose between a pay-as-you-go
model (SaaS) or a Capex business
model. "
" Chyron is driven by our customers, "
states Carol Bettencourt, VP of
Marketing, Chryon. " We aim to
streamline workflows, without adding
other complexities. Commander is the
perfect solution for automating MOSdriven
rundowns, without a lengthy
installation and launch process. "
For your core production, Chryon's
PRIME Commander executes switcher
ME control of sources, cuts, and
transitions; cues and plays graphics
and clips; and makes audio mixer
adjustments. For higher production
value, PRIME Commander also drives
PRIME Live's AR and Video Walls.
A playlist contains colour-coded
playout status, expandable stories with
scene details and timing, and mouseover
media previews identical to an
NRCS. It will automate 24-hour news
wheel programs with automatic timeof-day
sequences, or for more dynamic
programs,
it
will
utilise
PRIME Commander
automatically
build
manual
controls to trigger sequences at the
perfect moment.
plug-andplays
with MOS 2.8 compliant NRCS
to
and
update
playlists based on your journalists'
rundowns in real-time. Additionally,
Commander leverages industrystandard
control protocols to drive
a wider production ecosystem. The
solution can manage additional I/O
with external router control, control
playout
on
VDCP
media
devices,
and send simple commands to GPIcompliant
devices.
The VSNOne TV playout
automation system
Pebble Remote: Enables users to securely monitor, manage and control their channels
from inside or outside the normal transmission environment
Chyron PRIME Commander
fuses all-in-one production
and automation within a
single platform

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