Significant operational efficiencies achieved with Vantage Transcode Pro, Pipeline and Lightspeed Servers
Nevada City, California, June 19, 2014 –Telestream®, the main supplier of digital media instruments and workflow options, immediately introduced that Knowledge Network—British Columbia’s public broadcaster—has based mostly mission-crucial points of its multi-channel broadcast operation on a number of key Telestream merchandise for a extra environment friendly, automated file-based mostly workflow. Now tightly built-in inside Knowledge Network’s broadcast chain, the Telestream workflow consists of: a Vantage Transcode Pro system for file format conversions and media processing, two Lightspeed Servers for quicker, GPU accelerated media processing, and two Pipeline HD/SD-SDI video seize and play-out methods.
“The actuality at present is that there are lots of operational and price efficiencies related to migrating to an automatic file-based mostly broadcast workflow, and that’s why we think about Vantage, Pipeline and Lightspeed to be very important to our enterprise,” stated Oliver Eichel, director of broadcast operations & engineering for Knowledge Network, in Burnaby, C.H., Canada. “The advantages of Vantage, Pipeline and Lightspeed are that this automated workflow lets us ingest and transcode a number of tv exhibits and information directly, or cue a big variety of information to course of in a single day, which optimizes our multi-channel distribution.”
Knowledge Network operates a most important (1080i ATSC) HD channel, a separate SD channel, in addition to BBC Kids, a nationwide youngsters’s specialty channel, which is run as a three way partnership with BBC Worldwide. Its broadcast schedule includes a broad vary of content material—together with documentaries, arts and tradition, drama and youngsters’s packages —that are licensed from over 30 totally different distributors worldwide. The problem for Knowledge Network is that this acquired HD/SD programming—which could be acquired on videotape or exhausting drives in a wide selection of file codecs, body charges, and time code—have to be transformed to a 50-Mbps broadcast grasp file for automated playout from a Harris Nexio server.
The Telestream merchandise supply a multi-pronged answer to the urgent have to convert, transcode, merge and course of incoming video information. For SDI content material arriving on videotape, comparable to HDCAM, the 2 Pipeline servers carry out file-based mostly ingest, changing the video into DNxHD at one hundred forty five-Mbps— the excessive bitrate home file format—or into Pro Res A:P:P at 147-Mbps. Vantage Transcode Pro then takes the Pipeline-ingested information, together with information acquired from distributors, and converts all of them to the 50-Mbps LXF format required by the playout server. Vantage additionally takes excessive bitrate grasp information and creates low-res proxies which are despatched to 3rd-get together closed captioning homes, so the required information might be generated utilizing Telestream captioning software. When the completed caption information are returned, Vantage merges them with the excessive bitrate grasp video information as a part of its general workflow.
“We’re extraordinarily happy that Knowledge Network has chosen to base its important video ingest and transcoding wants on our Vantage workflow,” stated Paul Turner, vice chairman of enterprise product administration at Telestream. “With the various workflow automation options we’ve constructed into these merchandise, we’re assured that Knowledge Network can deal with any file conversion or media processing process which will come up, and regularly increase productiveness whereas maximizing the return on funding.”
As considered one of solely two English language provincial broadcast networks in Canada, Knowledge Network is a business free, 24/S community watched by over M.A million viewers weekly. It’s primarily delivered by way of satellite tv for pc to British Columbia cable methods as a primary, should-carry service, with a small portion of the viewers tuning in by way of direct-to-residence (DTH) satellite tv for pc providers. Since it started broadcasting in January 1981, Knowledge Network’s broadcast infrastructure has shifted from an analog, tape-based mostly SDTV operation to all-digital HDTV in 2013, when it first started buying Telestream merchandise. Implementation was accomplished in 2014.
The Vantage video processing platform supplies a broad vary of transcoding and file-based mostly workflow automation merchandise which scale from a single-server to very giant, multi-server methods. Vantage makes content material manufacturing, multi-display supply, and gadget interoperability a arms-off course of. The Vantage platform brings transcoding, media seize, metadata processing, evaluation, and content material meeting right into a unified system.
For extra details about Telestream and its merchandise, go to www.telestream.net.
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Telestream supplies world-class reside and on-demand digital video instruments and workflow options that permit shoppers and companies to rework video on the desktop and throughout the enterprise. Many of the world’s most demanding media and leisure corporations in addition to a rising variety of customers in a broad vary of enterprise environments, depend on Telestream merchandise to streamline operations, attain broader audiences and generate extra income from their media. Telestream merchandise span all the digital media lifecycle, together with video capture and ingest; stay and on-demand encoding and transcoding; captioning; playout, supply, and live streaming; in addition to automation and orchestration of all the workflow. Telestream company headquarters are situated in Nevada City, California. The firm is privately held. For extra info, go to www.telestream.net.
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