NewsFlow Details
NewsFlow™, an all-digital tapeless newsroom solution,
reduces costs associated with VTR maintenance and tapes
while
increasing efficiency and control over the entire production
process from ingest, editing, newsroom automation to
networked storage, and playout.
The Video Technics’ Apella™ Media Server
Family is the driving force of NewsFlow, providing a scalable
and robust server for ingest and playout. Apella servers, built
on an open architecture, ingests media without the need
for third party transcoding software by natively supporting OpenDML AVI and QuickTime file formats. New media can
be brought into the centralized database simultaneously
through the VT Scheduler, which automatically ingests feeds
based on a specific date and time, and the record interface
that allows users to log clips “on-the-fly” providing
access to new media for instant playout or available to
editors and journalists for producing teases and packages.
Powerful asset management tools and low-resolution
proxy editing are standard features that truly differentiate
the NewsFlow solution from other tapeless environments.
While DV and MPEG-2 media files are ingested, the Apella
automatically creates low-res proxy clips along with “sticky” user
definable metadata fields that remain with the clips from
ingest, editing, to playout and archiving.
The NewsFlow turnkey solution is certified with leading
storage suppliers to optimize network control and facilitate
a completely shared editing environment where everyone
throughout a facility can browse and edit the same media
simultaneously. This is a truly tapeless workflow and open
environment utilizing the NewsFlow FireWire and Ethernet
connectivity. The production process of ENG media can be
performed remotely from a VT StudioPro Field Editor with
the VT Proxy Editor or with one of the VT News Edit or Craft Edit Plug-Ins, embedded within
a Non-Linear Editor (NLE) such as Adobe® Premiere® Pro and
Final Cut Pro®. At
the broadcast facility, this same footage is immediately
ingested into the centralized database and available for
editing. The Plug-ins for Adobe Premiere Pro allow producers to browse
raw media to drag and drop video and audio files into the
Adobe media bin for editing. Once the package is complete,
the revised media is exported directly from the Adobe Premiere Pro
timeline to an Apella playout server.
For complete playout control, NewsFlow integrates with
popular news automation software through the Apella TCP/IP
API or MOS ActiveX functionality that is embedded within
the newsroom automation client. Directors now have the
ability to browse the Apella database from their automation
application and drag and drop new media directly into a
rundown for instant playout. The Apella provides multiple
channel playout in which PlayLists can be dynamically controlled
through the Apella interface or remotely from GPI triggers,
Apella API, VDCP/MOS automation, remote control panels
or VT Director software.
NewsFlow is a proven solution that has dramatically improved
news station production.
See NewsFlow Key Features for more information.
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