Telestream Vantage enabled improved file-based mostly workflow for NBC Olympics throughout its protection of the 2014 Sochi Winter Games
Nevada City, Calif., March thirteen, 2014 –Telestream®, the main supplier of digital media instruments and workflow options, right now introduced that its merchandise have been used to offer filebased&#thirteen; requirements conversion, transcoding, and workflow orchestration to NBC Olympics, a&#thirteen; division of the NBC Sports Group, throughout its manufacturing of the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in&#thirteen; Sochi, Russia. The announcement was made at present by Darryl Jefferson, Vice President, Digital&#thirteen; Workflow, NBC Olympics and Dan Castles, CEO, Telestream.
"We have been excited to proceed working with Telestream and used their subsequent-era Vantage®&#thirteen; hardware and software program toolset for superior workflow orchestration," stated Jefferson. “We used&#thirteen; Vantage file-based mostly requirements conversion, transcoding, audio re-mapping and down-mixing,&#thirteen; closed captioning extraction, and extra. The GPU-accelerated Lightspeed Server ensured that&#thirteen; processes stored up with the rigorous reside setting, and the workflow profiles allowed us the&#thirteen; flexibility to configure course of intelligence with every step.”
"Vantage was designed to allow refined content material creation and distribution workflows,&#thirteen; seamlessly connecting unbiased units right into a centralized, managed system," stated Castles.&#thirteen; "We're happy that our know-how allowed NBC to shortly scale their system to satisfy the&#thirteen; calls for of this main international occasion. We’re proud to have been related to this effort."
Vantage was utilized by NBC to carry out workflow orchestration between numerous third-get together&#thirteen; manufacturing and encoding techniques, with a particular give attention to getting ready content material for non-conventional&#thirteen; platforms akin to cable video-on-demand, the Web and cellular units. Vantage analyzed&#thirteen; incoming supply materials from Sochi for parameters like body price and mechanically directed&#thirteen; content material-processing workflows with out requiring human intervention.
"Almost each file path for non-conventional TV was coated by Vantage not directly, both by&#thirteen; workflow orchestration, simply checking a file, or precise transcoding," stated Jefferson.
Integration between Vantage and Cinnafilm® Tachyon enabled NBC to carry out excessive-high quality&#thirteen; requirements conversion from 50i to 60i within the compressed area with out decompressing the&#thirteen; content material again to baseband video, a big time financial savings. The Tachyon product shortly&#thirteen; delivered movement-compensated requirements conversion, which Jefferson stated was essential for sports activities&#thirteen; however hadn't been beforehand possible in file-based mostly conversion.
NBC additionally used two different Telestream merchandise to assist put together its cable VOD content material:&#thirteen; CaptionMaker (which Telestream acquired with captioning agency CPC final yr) and the recentlyreleased&#thirteen; Vantage Transcode IPTV VOD product. CaptionMaker automated the retiming of&#thirteen; captions from 50i to 60i, a course of that sometimes would have required a number of disparate methods&#thirteen; and human operation, whereas Vantage Transcode IPTV VOD created closed-captioned SD and HD&#thirteen; CableLabs-compliant information for supply to home cable distribution retailers.
"The huge advantage of Vantage is its 'connective tissue',"stated Jefferson. "Sometimes distributors have&#thirteen; two merchandise which may not have the ability to transfer content material between one another, so we use Vantage to&#thirteen; transfer from Point A to Point S."
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About NBC Olympics
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About Telestream
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Telestream offers world-class stay 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; reside and on-demand encoding and transcoding; captioning; playout, supply, and live streaming; in addition to automation and orchestration of the complete 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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