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Dear ladies, our congratulations on International Women`s day! We wish you happiness, love, good humour and cloudless sky over your head! Congratulations on the holiday of spring!
Have a happy Women’s Day!
We’re glad to inform that MOS-protocol integration with 3rd party graphics is now available on AutoPlay sites that do not have the NewsHouse NRCS installed. From now on it’s possible to send on-air playlists to external devices via MOS from the main Air playout module as well.
One of our biggest customers is already using an integration between our AutoPlay playout automation and Carrot Broadcast on-air graphics. In this project we successfully preserved a workflow inherited from a legacy Imagine ADC system, where on-air playlists are sent to external devices once every 24 hours. This way we were able to reduce staff retraining time and the number of operator errors to a minimum.
In this workflow the Air module connects to the Carrot MOS device when an AutoPlay/Azimuth playout channel is created, according to the settings in AutoPlay Admin. The on-air playlist in Air highlights the readiness status of graphics events on the Carrot server, with a possibility to manually refresh MOS playlists if required. All standard Air redundancy capabilities are also available for this integration.
In this particular project the CG templates are filled in Carrot’s web application, and the AutoPlay automation sends commands for frame-accurate playout of the finished graphics using ExtID.
Our partnership with Carrot Broadcast is constantly developing, and new collaraborative workflows with their solutions will soon be offered to our customers for all sorts of usage scenarios.
The availability of this mechanism also paves the way for the rapid validation of integrations with any other on-air graphics solutions that use the MOS protocol.
Answering our customers’ requests we’re now offering the DataBase Web MAM client as a built-in Adobe Premiere panel. As well as facilitating media asset search, this solution also streamlines the following workflows for video editors:
If the imported clip contains markers, for example on black frames detected by AutoPlay automatic quality control, the markers will be transferred into Premiere and shown on the timeline.
If the customer’s site runs NewsHouse (an NRCS add-on to AutoPlay), a journalist can add a clip into his story in the NewsPlan module, “cut” it with in/out markers in the Media Player and give it a new name. After the source clip is sent to Premiere for editing, it will be imported with this segment highlighted by markers, with its name inherited from the NewsPlan story.
If a proxy file in a supported format exists in the AutoPlay MAM for the imported clip, it will be used in Premiere. It’s easy to see which files are in use in the clip’s properties in the “Media browser” of the Premiere’s project.
It’s possible to select Adobe MediaEncoder when exporting, for example, to use a dedicated server for rendering. .EPR files containing encoding profiles for it are stored in our extension’s folder and can be prepared in advance, distributed to several NLE workstations etc.
Export is performed onto a network path specified in the extension’s config file. From there media files are automatically imported into AutoPlay by the FileImporter module, which attaches them to MAM clips by means of ExtID when the “Export to existing clip” option is selected.
For example, if a journalist presses the “Export to NLE” button in the NewsPlan module, an empty clip is automatically created. The video editor can export the result of his/her work to this clip and the journalist will see the finished video inside his story.
Clips imported from Premiere automatically receive markers showing which source files the segments used in the edit came from.
The columns and their order of the clips table displayed in the extension are set in the full DataBase Web client and saved into the user’s profile, safeguarding against unwanted changes made in the panel itself.
A separate slider in the panel allows you to quickly change the font size in the clip list, which can be handy when using high resolution monitors. And the “~” default Premiere hotkey can instantly maximize the DatabaseWeb-Premiere or any other panel.
As well as all of our next-gen products, DatabaseWeb-Premiere is rapidly evolving, providing our customers with the functionality they want. For example, the panel will soon allow working with projects from our NLE NewsBase which are stored in the AutoPlay MAM.
The extension is available for all Adobe Premiere versions starting with 2022. Please contact our system integration partners for compatibility and licensing details.
Our flagship product, the AutoPlay media workflow automation system, usually ships as part of a turn-key solution that includes high-performance production storage servers built by Azimuth Soft.
But quite often a customer would have an existing hi-end storage system, which can be repurposed as the main production storage, or an auxiliary storage location like an exchange folder or an NLE shared space. The legacy storage can also be kept in the new/upgraded facility while the media files are gradually transferred to new systems when the site is already on-air.
These storage systems typically have the SAN (storage area network) architecture, connect to other servers via dedicated high-speed network interfaces and present their resources to operating systems as locally mapped drives using specialized file system drivers like Quantum StorNext.
The AutoPlay MAM now offers complete support both for general-purpose SAN storage and for specialized media file storage solutions. SAN volumes can be added to an AutoPlay site as main and auxiliary storage paths in the same way as with common network locations.
Our customers are already using StorNext volumes for import, export, quality control, NLE and rendering in AutoPlay sites that are currently on-air.
It’s also now possible to build playout and ingest workflows where playing and recording of media files takes place directly from/to a SAN storage.
Our NewsHouse NRCS is directly integrated into AutoPlay, so our customers running news departments and channels were the first to appreciate the advantages brought by faster data access and media turnaround speed possible with direct SAN access.