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Volicon Demos Products And
Applications At CCW
At CCW, Volicon will demo five powerful
new applications within the company's
Observer Media Intelligence Platform...

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he Media Intelligence Platform
boasts an enterprise-wide
solution that records a station's
media from ingest to playout, as
well as multiple on-air broadcasts.
In addition to enabling multiple
users to stream, analyse, and
review content from anywhere at
any time, the platform supports
a range of applications including
compliance, quality assurance,
competitive analysis, production,
and repurposing for multiple
platforms and social media outlets.
With these tools, Media
Intelligence Platform users are
equipped to capitalise on new
opportunities to create compelling
content, raise viewer ratings, and
generate new ad revenue.

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recording, both local
and remote users of the
Observer Media Intelligence
Platform - remote staff,
partners, consultants,
outside talent, and reporters
in the ﬁeld - can quickly and Media Intelligence Platform boasts an end-to-end solution
easily collaborate to access,
review, and clip content to create
websites, YouTube, Twitter, and
Comply
valuable footage for distribution.
Facebook. Share also makes use
Volicon's new Comply application
of existing closed captioning text
enables users to record, clip,
Share
to publish content that is compliant
and export their broadcasts to
Broadcasters today need an
with government regulations.
meet regulatory and licensing
agile way to publish exciting and
requirements. Addressing a
compelling content to a multitude
Review
complete array of regulations,
of digital platforms including the
The new Volicon Review application
ranging from decency to closed
Web and social media outlets. This
provides broadcasters, networks,
captioning to loudness, this
scalable and highly reliable
typically is a cumbersome and
and playout service providers
expensive process, but Volicon's
with a fast and intuitive solution
application allows users to respond
new Share application allows the
for reviewing on-air content,
quickly and unambiguously to
validating ad placement, and
compliance requests. Leveraging
performing competitive analysis.
Volicon's proven compliance
monitoring technology, Comply
This application facilitates rapid
lays critical A/V metadata over
access to broadcast content for
users working centrally and across
frame-accurate video to create a
geographically distributed sites,
clear visual afﬁdavit of compliance.
thus giving all key stakeholders the
ability to keep an eye on their own
Monitor
broadcasts - as well as those of
Built on Volicon's acclaimed digital
their competitors - and associated
video monitoring technology, the
ratings data within a single GUI.
new Monitor application allows
users to monitor video quality,
Making high-resolution live
respond to fault reports, and
and historical broadcast content
available locally and lower-resolution
use a full recording of the on-air
proxy versions available on any
broadcast for instant review of
The Capture application supports a fast, simple edit workﬂow
device, the application gives users
errors and their impact.
the ability to review and analyse
While continuously analysing
Capture
broadcaster to repurpose existing
their broadcasts at any time, from
logged content for a variety of
anywhere. The application interfaces
Today's broadcaster must capture
content quickly and efﬁciently and
faults such as black or static
with the playout automation system
media from a variety of sources
subsequently push it to digital
screen, loss of video or closed
to provide as-run log data for
to produce compelling content for
platforms and social media sites.
captions, and incorrect audio
comparison with the frame-accurate
viewers, whether delivered via onOne-button publishing proﬁles
levels, this application provides
recording of the broadcast output,
ﬂexible, individually conﬁgurable
facilitate rapid processing of content
air broadcast or a digital platform
thus making it easy for users to
alert thresholds, with notiﬁcations
such as Web, mobile, streaming,
to meet appropriate container and
show advertisers what they're
delivered via email or SNMP traps.
and OTT services.
encoding requirements for an
getting for their money.
Quality measurement thresholds
Serving as a cost-effective
array of platforms, including target
can be configured per channel
alternative to expensive and
to optimise performance and
cumbersome capture stations,
Volicon's new Capture application
error reporting.
allows broadcasters to capture
To further simplify network
media from any source at any time,
monitoring and troubleshooting, the
ingesting media according to a
application provides an integrated
multiviewer feature that enables
schedule in real-time and/or via
24/7 recording.
Observer Media Intelligence
The application supports a fast,
Platform users to use their standard
simple edit workﬂow by enabling
displays as multiviewers or record
the user to review content as it is
the output of a traditional multiviewer.
captured, immediately clip highWith multiple streams presented on
value content, and push it directly
a network wall, users can respond
to editing and MAM systems without
immediately to any issues, instantly
time-consuming transcoding steps.
grabbing the suspect stream via
Because a low-resolution proxy
their desktop interfaces to begin
is created along with the true HD
resolving the problem.
The Share application allows quick and efﬁcient content repurposing

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