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Telestream Shares Its Future Vision At
CCW+SATCON
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t CCW+SATCON in New
York, video transcoding
and workﬂow solutions provider,
Telestream, will showcase its
ﬂagship Vantage product family
together with new versions of its
captioning software products, and
Switch, the company's new multiformat media player.
"CCW promises to help attendees
navigate new technology and gain
practical knowledge and creative
inspiration to bring their vision
to life," says Paul Turner, VP of
Enterprise Product Management
at Telestream.
"We are excited to join in that
conversation and share how we
can help them to creatively solve
the challenges of our changing
market. Our digital video tools and
file-based workflow automation
products enable users to transform
video on the desktop and across
the enterprise, allowing them
to streamline operations, reach
broader audiences and generate
more revenue from their media."
Telestream's Vantage platform
provides a diversity of transcoding
and ﬁle-based workﬂow automation
software. It combines transcoding,
media capture, metadata processing,
analysis and content assembly into

a uniﬁed system - that can be run on
premise or in the cloud. The latest
version supports more transcoding
formats across the product family.
Full 4K support and HEVC
encoding are now available in
Vantage Transcode Multiscreen
and Vantage Transcode IPTV VOD.
Further, XAVC decoding and ProRes
4444 encoding have been added to
Vantage Transcode Pro.
Built on the Vantage platform,
Post Producer addresses the
issue of repetitive rendering of
different versions of media. Based
on user templates, Post Producer
automatically assembles multilayer
composites from video and
graphics - enabling the creation
of uniquely-branded versions of
the same package for different
distribution services.
Alternate versions can be
automatically created by simply
substituting the necessary elements
with the ability for editors to design
production templates in Avid, Adobe
and Final Cut Pro.
Telestream will showcase its ﬁlebased captioning software products,
MacCaption and CaptionMaker that
allow users to easily author, edit,
encode and repurpose video closed
captions and subtitles for television,

Telestream Vantage workﬂow automation

web and mobile delivery.
When used together with the
Vantage family of video transcoding
and workﬂow automation solutions,
Telestream's captioning products
provide a solution to transcode,
convert, troubleshoot, modify, and
deploy caption data alongside video.
Telestream's Switch multi-format
media player enables the playing
of professional ﬁle formats such as
MXF, AS-02, AS-11/DPP, as well
as transport streams, HEVC ﬁles
and captions.
While the basic player and

inspection functionality are free of
charge, customers can purchase
Switch Pro if they wish to transcode
their media into a different format,
view advanced application-speciﬁc
metadata, or modify parameters
and metadata. In addition to
switching formats, Switch also
enables packaging and distribution
of content to media platforms,
such as iTunes.
Available for the Mac, a
Windows version will be available
later this year.

Crystal Solutions Launches Video Metadata Analyzer
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rystal Solutions, the provider
of Intelligent Control for
Network Management Systems
and Spectrum Monitoring Solutions,
will demonstrate its new Video
Metadata Analyzer ( VMA) at
CCW+Satcon.
Crystal Solutions' VMA ensures
metadata accuracy by capturing

and logging video metadata, such as
SCTE 104 and SCTE 35 messages,
along the transmission path. VMA
checks for the presence of metadata,
assures it is properly formatted, and
presents the analysis and details
in human readable format. When
issues are detected, the operator
is alerted through multiple means.

Crystal Solutions Video Metadata Analyzer

"Metadata in video content will
become increasingly important
over the coming months and years,
with the likelihood that all content
providers will insert and validate
metadata," commented Roger
Franklin, CEO, Crystal Solutions.
"Inserting metadata enables new
business and revenue models;
the ability to accurately analyse
that metadata and recover from
errors quickly is crucial to ensuring
continued revenue generation."
In addition to VMA, Crystal
Solutions will demonstrate its range
of products and solutions which
simplify the operations of complex
video, satellite and data networks for
broadcasters and media companies,
including its Spectrum Monitoring
and Recording solution (SMR),
Network Managing and Control
System (NMS), and its Carrier ID
Detection System.
While at CCW+Satcon, Roger
Franklin, CEO, will participate in a
roundtable discussion on deliberate
jamming and radio frequency
interference on Thursday, November
13th at 10:15am. The discussion

will explore new approaches to
combating satellite interference.
Crystal Solutions simplifies
the operation of complex video,
satellite and data networks and
systems for companies that include
Fox, CNN, ESPN, Disney, Intelsat
General by installing an Intelligent
Control system that connects
their equipment, and provides
operators with a dashboard view
enabling them to more effectively
and efﬁciently manage the network.
The system is customised to
improve operator workflow and
also execute automated routines,
like failure recovery and geographic
diversity switching, which increases
network resiliency.
Crystal aims to build longterm, trusted partnerships with
our customers which drives
innovation for Crystal's next
generation solutions and our
customers' businesses.
The innovation and solutions
provided by Crystal translates
into greater operational efﬁciency
and higher profitability for
our customers.

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