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Broadcast Content & Media Workflows

The workflow buzzwords abound - Solutions, Workflows and now Ecosystems,
but it's the media content that is on the move...

By David Kirk
Contributing Editor

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edia Workﬂows is a subject
which builds on the simple
concept of sharing video, audio
and metadata across a network. A
more accurate description would be
'Content Workﬂows' because it is
the content that ﬂows. The medium
tends to stay in one place unless
carried around inside an iPhone.
Media Workﬂ ows is not a sexy
subject but certainly an important
one. Buzzword Bingo card to the
ready, what is new in this product
area?
Aframe introduced at NAB 2014
the latest version of its cloud video
platform. Aframe 3.0 is claimed
to provide increased automation,
convenience, and control in
broadcast and production workﬂows.
Automated content upload creates
a watch folder which transfers ﬁles
and can be configured to send
ﬁles to networked colleagues as a

streamable web proxy for preview.
When ﬁles are ingested, they can
be automatically transcoded into
a ﬁle type such as Avid DNxHD
XDCAM and AVC Intra, or custom
transcoded for unusual ﬁle formats.
Newly transcoded clips can be
shared with people outside the
project. An HTML5 player provides
control of the edit, including frame
accurate metadata records, pre-edit
feedback and review and approval
of near final edits.
Anevia announced at IBC 2014
that its ViaMotion Packager
multiscreen adaptive streaming
preparation software is now qualiﬁed
for the Akamai Intelligent Platform.
This new advance augments the
inherent capabilities of ViaMotion
Packager to meet the speciﬁc push
mode requirements of HTTP live
streaming and smooth streaming
over the Akamai Intelligent Platform.
V i a M o t i o n
P a c k a g e r
integrates and
secures online
and
offline
content in the
formats required
to address any
device. Sourcing
from smooth
streaming, MPEG
TS for Live or
MP4 for VoD, it
supports all major
HTTP adaptive
Cinegy has announced v10 of its 4K IP-based
Cinegy Multiviewer
s t r e a m i n g

standards plus
an extensive
number of rights
management
protocols.
VideoMotion
Packager also
ensures that
video assets or
live streams are
secured before
distribution
over multiple
CDNs. It is fully
encoder agnostic.
A r c h i w a r e 's
Archive Assistant Playbox Technology TimeShiftBox Duo enables
is a new add- simultaneous programme delay for more than one
SD/HD channel
on for projectbased content restore from the
feeds, playout devices and other
company's Archiware P5 Archive.
sources locally and remotely. Cinegy
New features include partial restore
Route v10 provides the building
of image sequences and advanced
block for IP-based infrastructures,
metadata extraction.
delivering a centralised directory
Aspera's Faspex Server is an
for discovering and securing high
online service-based platform
volumes of programming streams.
enabling individuals and groups
Digimetrics' Aurora 5 Cloud
is a cloud version product of the
to transfer files and directories
regardless of size, transfer distance
company's Aurora 5 file-based
or network conditions. Facilities
QC analysis software. Currently
include drop-boxes for ad-hoc
available on both Microsoft's Azure
content submission, mobile device
Media Services and Amazon's AWS
support and an automated desktop
Marketplace, it can be extended
downloader to ensure members of a
to customers' own clouds. A full
team are aware of content changes.
hardware-conﬁgured Aurora 5 can
Speed is claimed to be up to
analyse 4K ﬁles at faster than realthousands of times faster than over
time (2x real-time for 4K JPEG 2000)
a conventional network protocols.
and up to 6x real-time for HD ﬁles.
The GPU accelerated conﬁguration
Cinegy announced version 10 of
its 4K IP based Cinegy Multiviewer,
also supports perception-based
Cinegy Route and Cinegy Live at IBC
video artefact testing.
2014. IP infrastructures transport
IPV's Metadata Central collects
video data over Ethernet networks
and organises metadata from any
rather than via SDI switches
internal or external source, including
the web, for use within a local
and cables. Cinegy Multiviewer
network. It uses web semantics to
v10 enables broadcasters and
production houses to monitor
streams from satellites, camera
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