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On-line conference was held on November, 24. The topic on the agenda was «Broadcasting 2020. Competitiveness of Russian equipment». The moderator was Sergey Efimov, the Director of Regional Technical and Production Department with RTR (The Russian Television and Radio Broadcasting Company). The issues discussed included the further development of television and implementation of Russian equipment […]

When in use as a MAM system, AutoPlay now offers clip statuses, which highlight the media asset’s position in the broadcaster’s workflows. Our customers’ favorite use case for this is the control of technical and legal compliance of incoming video files (e.g. loudness levels and inappropriate scenes). Statuses can be changed automatically, when certain operations […]

When used as a MAM system, AutoPlay offers broad archiving functionality, including the management of media files stored on LTO cartridges in robotic libraries. In our new release we’ve removed a possible single point of failure by adding a clustered mode for the library integration servers. Now the robotic library can be connected to two […]

The city of Samara hosted students with degree in Technical Sciences who took part in the second competition for youth «First Step» aimed at revealing the most comprehensive projects in TV and radio industries. Azimuth Soft took part in the competition by sorting out the works of the students, managing, promoting the competition and making […]

All MAM systems manage media files stored on production storage arrays, and the disk space on this fast and fault tolerant storage is quite expensive. To allow you utilise it more efficiently we have added a disk quota system to AutoPlay. Now the administrator can restrict the amount of disk space used for a certain […]

ТКТ Awards’ s Person of the year in Moldova is Vitaly Plemedyale , the CTO with Pro Digital SRL. This award is aimed at honoring the achievements of broadcasters, sound broadcasters film production companies ‘CTOs. Vitaly picked up the honor that acknowledges his impact for the project which has improved the management of broadcast archive. […]

All client and server applications of the AutoPlay broadcast automation systems are (since 7.9) now based on a modern 64-bit software architecture. This allows to fully utilise the onboard RAM of servers and workstations, improves performance on newer hardware and guarantees the absence of any errors or slowdowns under high load.

The AutoPlay 7.10 broadcast automation system has received new extended options for MAM user rights management. Now user and group rights for media assets like clips, files, playlists etc can be finely tuned, even allowing objects to become invisible to certain users. This can help locating material relevant to the tasks at hand, decreases the […]

Different Media Asset Management solutions have different approaches to media files naming. A file naming can be provided either by a user or a system itself. Both methods have certain disadvantages. Ingest operators waste time assigning unique filenames and trying to make them clear and straightforward to colleagues. MAM solution on the other hand can […]

Today we celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise “The Russian Television and Radio Broadcasting Company” (RTR) which is the largest media corporation in Russia. It was founded on July 14, 1990. Azimuth Soft has been cooperating with the company for more than 20 years. Azimuth Soft and RTR Recently regional subsidiaries […]