Broadcast automation systems provides a wide range of hardware and software automation solutions in the broadcast industry. They consist of high quality master control room solutions, playout and ingest servers that automate daily operations, saving time and cutting costs.
Our broadcast automation systems portfolio consist of the following brands:
Imagine communications solutions fuse automation and digital asset management into a powerful enterprise content management system that automates processes throughout the content lifecycle — from acquisition to distribution. The result is a seamless, streamlined environment that enables media operations to quickly and cost-effectively find and re-purpose content for delivery across multiple screens.
SI Media’s automation can work indifferently in IT environments, server branded solutions or mixed platforms. The Broadcast Automation System is fully integrated with the other parts of the system (MAM, Traffic, CG) in order to optimize transfers and copies, and in general the time necessary to execute the requests coming from the automation.
Harmonic helps content and service providers stay ahead of the curve. They offer the industry’s most comprehensive portfolio of video delivery infrastructure solutions, all optimized to make your production, distribution and delivery networks more efficient, less expensive to operate, and capable of delivering superior-quality video to any device.
Pebble Beach Systems has an unrivaled track record for developing and delivering specialist solutions to meet the automated ingest, content management and playout requirements of the international broadcast community. Their systems have been implemented at key sites around the world.
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Stryme all-in-one ingest, graphic and playout solution for small and medium sized broadcasters. Features such as multichannel playout, playout automation, overlay graphics, traffic management, asset management and program scheduling ensure reliable operation and integration into existing infrastructures and workflows.
Managing the growing complexity of playout, automation and file delivery is an increasing challenge to broadcasters. Software-based solutions, with technologies such as high-density virtualization and IP stream I/O, offer the possibility to consolidate complexity into bite-sized elements – particularly as more features can be added to collapse the length of the traditional broadcast chain.
Axel Technology designs and manufactures hardware and software products specifically conceived for radio & TV broadcasting, including audio & video logging, digital signage solutions, and a wide range of tools for business administration and account management.
Playbox Technology EU designes servers with broadcasters, production and post-production facilities in mind. The broadcast server range was manufactured and rigorously tested by PBT EU to meet industry exacting standards.
Power-efficient, they are a tailor-made turn-key solution designed to cater to all areas of broadcast and production installations, including television stations, production studios and post-production companies.
Easy Media Suite is an easy to use module based product that works with both simple and complex applications. Broadcast automation from EMS is an easy to use module based solution, playout, live CG, ingest, media asset management, IP multi-viewer and automation all from the same supplier.
SoftLab-NSK presents a new product line of “Forward T” cards for video production and broadcast automation. The “Forward T” family inherits the best features of thousands of “Forward” systems installed all over the world and their operating experience of many years. As a hardware base the FD322/FD422/FD842 I/O board is used.
The package includes the Forward T board plus the broadcast automation software FDOnAir with the full functionality of Forward TT and playing video clips with audio.
Signum Bildtechnik GmbH engages in digital image processing and archiving and delivers systems and solutions for broadcast/television. It also analyses image sequences. The company was founded in 1995 and is based in Munich, Germany.
PlayBox Technology is an international communications and information-technology company serving the broadcast and corporate sectors in more than 120 countries. PlayBox Technology is dedicated to the research, design, development and provision of the best products, systems, solutions and services.
Magicsoft is a solution built upon a client-server architecture that provides stability and usability advantages. It allows for optimum CPU balancing using today’s multi-core systems; the server controls the video output while the client manages the playlist, cg, streaming and recording. The media files are verified by the client application before being accepted for playout.
Dayang Technology Development Inc. is a world leading manufacturer and developer of broadcast-quality digital solutions for standard-definition, high-definition and web- based products for content creation, ingest, archiving, transcoding, broadcast playout and Media Asset Manage- ment.
JU-SOFT has software and hardware solutions for building TV Stations and Cable TV broadcast systems, IPTV Channels, commercial insertion, satellite uplink and downlink play out automation, Media Assets Management Systems, CG (Computer Graphics) Automation such as Real-time election count CG automation, newsroom automation, Real-time weather forecast CG automation.
Take control of your assets—from acquisition and metadata ingest, to production, editing and transformation, archive and storage, all the way to transmission and distribution. Configurable asset management systems can be tailored to meet your end-to-end needs.
Our Media asset management portfolio consist of the following brands:
Enterprise-class Media Asset Management VPMS – the Video Production Management Suite – comprises of five, individually deployable and scalable products that enables a market leading, enterprise-wide media management for organizations looking to maximize the ROI on their media assets.
Media Backbone NavigatorX can support almost any file format Video, Audio, Graphics or documents and it provides a unprecedented level of Metadata management for the price. The Database can manage up to a million assets and the metadata schema is fully customizable so the solution can be as simple or as complex as your business needs.
A complete content management system, Pebble Beach Systems bridges the gap between content preparation, linear playout, and the creation of fast-turnaround VOD-ready media. Its drag and drop workflow builder makes it easy for operators to create and edit workflows on the fly.
Our solutions fuse automation and digital asset management into a powerful enterprise content management system that automates processes throughout the content lifecycle — from acquisition to distribution. The result is a seamless, streamlined environment that enables media operations to quickly and cost-effectively find and repurpose content for delivery across multiple screens.
Cinegy is able to provide centralized enterprise tools to manage your assets and keep them available wherever your team members are. Take a more intelligent approach by storing your precious data using a product that is scalable and has an open architecture – Cinegy Archive. Cinegy Archive brings your assets to life.
The SI Media Media Asset Management MAM has been designed and developed to be the core of the contents delivery platform. The application suite allows to manage multi-format contents in a deeply integrated and customizable workflow. Our Media Asset Management is the perfect bridge among the different devices that are part of your system
XMAM is the completely new and reinvented concept of MAM, it’s the multipurpose solution to archive and manage any kind of media.
XMAM gives an high added value to your archive, extends its availability from anywhere and expands your power to share, access, distribute and sell multimedia contents, inside and/or outside of the company.
Built to accommodate every size of organization with changing needs, MAM can grow to support everything from a small local workgroup to a global enterprise. Metus MAM is a client server based system. As a scalable system, users can initially host multiple server side components on a single server. As the catalogue and users’ needs develop, each of the server components get be installed on its own server, or shared among multiple servers.
Easy MAM, can be used as a full solution of a television channel. Automatically proxy generation, ingest of files and sources as low and high quality, quality check of imported files, schedule programs, manage contents and user rights. Easy MAM can manage, organize and archive media assets of a TV stations, head ends, telecoms, Web TV, IP TV operators, corporates, educational institutions, production companies, media archives, government, military and security agencies.
Branding can establish your channel’s identity and attract viewers and help bring them back for more. Most viewers will be introduced to your channel through a single video that captures and keeps your viewer’s attention by delivering up-to-the-minute headlines, sports scores, financial data, weather reports and now, social media interaction.
Our channel branding portfolio consist of the following brands:
Whether preparing content for playout, enhancing the on-air look or differentiating a brand, master control, graphics and on-air/channel branding tools are an essential part of any broadcast operation.
Imagine communications integrated portfolio of solutions provides customers with unrivaled choice and flexibility for meeting current needs, as well as the ability to cost-effectively add new functionality as requirements evolve.
CG Live is a professional complete set of broadcast tools for TV that manages from real time playout, live titling and character generation.
CG Live features animated background, movements and effects on character and text, images, analog and digital clocks, animated logos, formatted dates, crawl and news tickers.
The Harmonic Spectrum™ X advanced media server system brings new levels of efficiency, simplicity and reliability to broadcast playout workflows. Designed for mission-critical production and playout applications, Spectrum X combines file, baseband and transport stream ingest with comprehensive integrated channel playout (ICP) capabilities, including graphics, branding, DVE, and live switching of baseband and compressed IP sources.
Cinegy Type allows the addition of multiple layers of automation controlled, template based titles, logos, animated graphics, and more. From simple ticker tapes and lower thirds to multi-layer character animations, Cinegy Type includes a whole range of advanced effects and features. This module addresses simple requirements such as logo insertion right through to complex branding with templated information and animated video plates.
PLAYBOX TitleBox is an interactive Character Generator or graphics slaved under PLAYBOX AirBox Automation mode it provides unlimited layering like Still text, Roll/Crawl; Animations (32-bit TGA sequence, Animated GIF, Flash); Analogue and digital clocks, countdowns, timers; Pictures & Banners; Video Objects Playback, Power Point Presentations; Internet webpage dispay; total on-air graphics control with dynamic speed control.
VRi is a specialized manufacturer of professional on-air graphics solutions with 4K and 3D support, for the broadcast industry. VRi has been providing high-quality and cost-effective real-time broadcast graphics solutions with user friendly production environments.
Forward TT is a hardware-software complex for overlaying multilayer animated titles with transparency on the passthrough video. Includes an I/O board (FD322/FD422/FD842), the software for creating titles, and the broadcast automation software FDOnAir* included in the “Forward TA” product as well.
Easy CG, broadcast quality live graphics solution, is used for creating, displaying and controlling of different multimedia graphics. Graphics can be overlaid on live video in the system input/output as real time, or it gives output signal as Key and Field.
TitleBox Neo is an interactive graphics manager which creates, displays and controls fascinating multi-zone screens with rolls, crawls, animations, clocks, station logos, 3D objects and more. TitleBox Neo delivers on-air graphics which can be controlled interactively. TitleBox Neo provides total control during-air session, including text selection, running speed and transitions.
MagicSoft CG has a GPU-based rendering engine that supports all SD and HD modes. The graphics are 24 bit (TrueColor) with 8 bit alpha channel (256 transparency levels). De-interlacing and anti-flicker display options guarantee the proper output of images and live video.
The engine offers Antialiasing for TrueType and OpenType fonts and Anisotropic filtering for images by using the GPU.
The Microsoft Windows™ based Datavideo CG graphics, titling and character generator software is a powerful multi-layer, real-time solution for live programming and post production.
It is compatible with widely available professional video hardware and supports the flexible play-out of multiple playlists, even while titles are being created. Datavideo CG can be used by for SD or HD news, sports, weather forecasts and entertainment programming.
HQP-1471 and HQP-1472 CG Server are turn-key system with CG-100 HD software installed. CG-100HD is a PC based broadcasting character generator for TV Live studio and master control room. It’s intuitive and user-friendly user interface allows users to edit animated captions or graphics on screen for video programs broadcasting easily and instantly.
BX-100 (The Note CG) is a graphic mixer/character generator that operates with a laptop. A CG software is included in the package to edit and send a graphic to BX-100. No driver installation. Driver is not required as the device runs alone by using HDMI extra monitor signal. Subtitle or graphics designed by the user can easily be inserted on the original picture from input port such as SDI and HDMI, by using the CG software that has similar interface to Power Point.
Fast graphics creation, a multi-layer environment, and comprehensive media management capabilities are necessary to meet the needs of today’s live broadcasting. In order to accomplish these requirements, the Dayang D3-CG product family provides you with a technological breakthrough. It is the ideal choice for superior HD/SD real-time graphic playout. With various templates and effects for sports, weather forecast, news, entertainment, elections, finance, and live events, it has all the features that you need with affordable price – all in a single turnkey system.
Today’s TV sports fans demand better-looking pictures, revealing every instant of explosive on-pitch action with astonishing clarity, colour and contrast. And you need a high performance ultra slo-mo solution that helps directors and camera crews deliver bigger creative returns – faster and more efficiently with fewer operational constraints.
Our slow motion system portfolio consists of:
360p Super Slow Motion in HD
The Sony PMW-F55 has amazed cinematographers with 360 frames-per-second Super Slow Motion in HD. Now you can put that same capability to work for you. You get gorgeous high-quality HD video with 4X slow motion using Sony’s BPU-4000 baseband processor, SCZ-2002 software and PWS-4400 server.
Multichannel Recording and Slow Motion Instant Replay System. Designed to broadcast sports programs with slow motion instant replays.
Includes the “Forward TN” product and additional software ReplayMachine Console, designed for the purpose of multichannel video data capture and preview, simultaneously selecting interesting moments and broadcasting them on air with the required speed (from 0% to 200% of the normal). Control from external consoles is available (purchased separately).
By combining multichannel recording and instant replay system with equipment for obtaining scoreboard information and developing a revolutionary interface for video judging, slomo.tv has created equipment, which is still the de facto standard in the industry.
The world’s first complete video judging system for ice hockey under the trademark videoReferee® was released in 2007. To date, 150 videoReferee® systems have been installed worldwide and their use has significantly expanded. VideoReferee® is used in such sports as football, hockey, basketball, handball, wrestling, boxing, judo, track and field, speed skating, short track, freestyle, fencing.The system records multiple cameras.