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RadiantGrid Multi-Platform Transcoding
By Wohler
www.wohler.com
Wohler’s RadiantGrid – a versatile transcoding engine

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n the history of broadcasting there
have never been more diverse
sets of operational requirements
for monetising content.
Where specialised boxes were
once successful in traditional
broadcast on-air environments,
today there are many more
distribution methodologies that have
necessitated migration to ﬁle-based
production and delivery.
File-based workﬂows are ideal
when supporting a wide array of
formats where a ﬂexible architecture
is required to support rapid changes
to delivery requirements in addition
to basic transcoding or standards
conversion. Versatility is essential and
RadiantGrid’s New Media Automation
Platform was developed speciﬁcally
to manage multiple processes for
transformative workﬂows on a single,

cohesive platform.
Today’s multi-platform content
transformation tools must enable
an increasingly broad range of
capabilities that can be integrated
easily into various workflows. In
addition to transformation of content
from one format to another, attention
must be paid to mandated standards
compliance, management of asset
ageing policies, technical and
descriptive metadata, on-demand
or scheduled job processes, and
so on. In order for any singular
platform solution to be effective, it
must support intelligent automation
of complex workﬂows. In short, it
must automatically detect and
correct content by invoking the
correct workﬂow(s) based on the
desired end result.
In order to keep up with the

insatiable demand for content
delivered anywhere, on any platform,
such a system must be based on
principles for scale, speed and
agility, while eliminating the need for
operator intervention to the greatest
extent possible.
RadiantGrid has been built with an
emphasis on taking versatility to new
levels. By combining an adaptive
grid based transcoding engine with
an underlying content management
fabric, it supports a wide array of
codecs, complex containers, audio,
and ancillary data processes all in
one platform. RadiantGrid allows
users to never have to identify their
inbound media and only deﬁne their
outgoing transformation goals.
RadiantGrid then parallelises
multiple integrated processes while
applying pre-defined strategies

around loudness, audio mixing, video
frame rate conversions, and scaling
of SD to HD workflows.
Its ability to rapidly integrate with
and support best-of-breed partners
like Cinnaﬁlm’s Tachyon high end
image processing capabilities,
Interra’s widely used Baton QC tools,
and Linear Acoustic’s leading AERO.
ﬁle loudness control among others,
put a full range of content preparation
tools at the ﬁngertips of content
providers. This, while managing the
entire process with an intelligent
automation system, simpliﬁes and
expedites transformation of content
for multi-platform delivery.
RadiantGrid is a solution that truly
offers a versatile platform-based
approach prepared to cope with
today’s rapidly evolving content prep
requirements.
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