MEDIA IN THE CLOUD, STORAGE & MAM TVNZ Chooses Telestream Vantage for Transcoding, and File Delivery TELESTREAM, THE PROVIDER of digital media tools and workflow solutions, has announced a major order for its Vantage Media Processing Platform from New Zealand’s leading free to air broadcaster, Television New Zealand Limited (TVNZ). The order sees TVNZ installing multiple nodes of Vantage Transcode Pro Connect with the Advanced Avid option which enables delivery of files and metadata into Avid Interplay. Also, Vantage Array provides peer-to-peer system management with fail-over and CPU-aware load balancing. Throughout the project, Telestream is working closely with regional channel partner, Auckland-based Amber Technology. The system was installed and commissioned in June. “Our partnership with Telestream sets us up to deliver content faster to our viewers. At TVNZ, we have a range of first generation transcoding equipment from various vendors that are all at the end of their supported life. We needed to seed a new transcoding environment that can grow throughout our operations,” explained Greg Montgomery, GM Technology at TVNZ. “Telestream’s Vantage offers us a cost-effective and elegant solution – one that offers the best architecture for future growth and supports our need to use 10-bit formats such as AVC-Intra.” The first application of Vantage within TVNZ’s broadcast operations involves its news production workflows. “Speed is critical in our news operations environment – and that’s where our new technology will give us an edge,” said Greg Montgomery.
Vantage will be used to ingest content from various external sources including field generated content received as files from LiveU enabled cameras, Aspera delivered material from journalist’s phones and agency feeds from Reuters. AP agency feeds will be accommodated in a future integration. Vantage will be used to ingest and transcode this time-critical content and place it as quickly as possible within their Avid Interplay production system. A key advantage for TVNZ is the integration between Telestream Vantage and Avid workflows. “The tight integration between Vantage and Avid is important to us,” explained Greg Montgomery. “It allows us to reduce complexity within our ingest process thereby increasing efficiency and saving time in the news production process.” In addition, it was important to TVNZ that Vantage integrates well with their media asset management (MAM) system. TVNZ employs the VizOne MAM system and, again, Telestream has worked closely with Vizrt on API level integration of the systems. “TVNZ needed a powerful, future-proof, enterprise-scale transcode solution and this is what Vantage offers,” comments Josh McMahon, Head of Sales, Asia Pacific at Telestream. “Whatever content needs to be ingested, converted or exported, we can say ‘Vantage Does That’. We look forward to working with Greg and his team as we progress together.” Visit www.telestream.net
Harmonic and EVS Ink OEM Agreement HARMONIC AND EVS HAVE ANNOUNCED a new OEM partnership that simplifies storage deployments in professional media environments. EVS has adopted the Harmonic MediaGrid system as its new near-line storage solution, marketing it under the XStore brand. The new XStore storage solution increases flexibility and scalability for studios, broadcast centres and major broadcasting facilities via its ‘Grow-as-you-Go’ architecture.
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“Harmonic truly understands the bandwidth and processing demands of video, and our customers will greatly benefit from the MediaGrid system’s fully distributed scale-out architecture and simplified approach to managing storage capacity,” said Nicolas Bourdon, Senior Vice President, Marketing, at EVS. “By leveraging MediaGrid technology, our next-generation XStore product provides broadcasters and other media processionals with a highly reliable, scalable, and high-performance media storage solution that meets the complex requirements of live and near-live production.”
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support the entire media asset workflow, including ingest, playout, archive, edit-in-place, transcoding and OTT adaptive bitrate streaming, with a costeffective solution that is simple to deploy, manage and scale. MediaGrid is purpose-built from the ground up to deliver high bandwidth and consistent low latency for video. “The XStore brand has been trusted in production and sports production markets for many years, and Harmonic looks forward to bringing the powerful capabilities of MediaGrid storage to those EVS customers,” said Shahar Bar, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development, at Harmonic. “Combining the capabilities of XStore and the MediaGrid system is a win-win situation for media professionals working in live and near-live production, as it allows them to do more; scale up or down in capacity instantly, and lower storage-related costs.”
XStore is based on a fully redundant and highly scalable architecture, with solutions starting at 28TB in 6RU and scaling up to 500TB when higher capacities are needed. With its high-density form factor, the XStore platform provides users with valuable space-saving benefits.
The XStore system will be rolled out in a number of installations including several upcoming major global sporting events in 2018. One of the first public demonstrations of the system will be at IBC2017 where the in-house TV channel, IBC TV, will use it for the production of live content throughout the show.
With MediaGrid technology powering the new XStore platform, EVS can now
Visit www.harmonicinc.com and https://evs.com
Object Matrix and Fortium Partner for Content Security OBJECT MATRIX AND FORTIUM Technologies have launched a joint solution offering secure media management for digital content archive storage. It combines security certified solutions from each provider to offer protection of media assets throughout their lifecycle. The solution combines the MatrixStore object storage and Digital Content Governance platform from Object Matrix, which enables immediate, yet secure, access to content with access controls, and Fortium Technology’s MediaSeal, which encrypts all types of media files during the editing and reviewing stages
of post-production to help protect against leaks. The joint solution ensures that media companies can apply access control to all files within their media library to ensure no unauthorised access. Encryption means that should something accidentally be shared with, or accessed by, someone who is not authorised, the media file will be unreadable to that person. Visit http://object-matrix.com and www.fortiumtech.com