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Playout from NLE timeline in AutoPlay 7.11
Newsroom operations can be unpredictable; very often breaking news, corrections, footage of better quality can arrive minutes away from a news bulletin’s start. A video editor cannot complete his/her project or render the file in time – and the director has no choice but to break the technological guidelines, switch the NLE station’s output to […]
New DataBase Web MAM client
With the rollout of the 7.11 version of our AutoPlay enterprise media workflow system, the new DataBase Web MAM client is now available to all of our customers. This cross-platform web application offers comprehensive media asset management functionality, including: Manual and automatic (persistent) searching of assets by key works in their names, metadata fields and […]
AutoPlay 7.11 is now on-air with most of our customer base
In November 2021 we premiered the 7.11 release of our flagship product, the AutoPlay media workflow automation system at trade shows across our core markets. This software solution forms a unified production environment for broadcasters, providing file and feed ingest, media asset management, playout automation, on-air graphics, mediafile conversion and distribution, quality control functionality and […]
Technology spotlight: integrating with Adobe Premiere and other NLEs – part 2. News.
The NewsPlan NRCS client allows exporting news stories to NLE. A journalist finds appropriate clips in the MAM and adds them to the story’s “Resources” pane, where he/she can also change mark in and out points for the videos, selecting the sequences he/she needs. The clips selected in “Resources” are displayed as embedded objects in […]
Technology showcase: automated and independent graphics
One of our customers, a regional tv station, had particular requirements for flexibility when working with tickers – the ads and classifieds in the ticker bring in a major part of the channel’s revenue. They especially required the capability to swap out the ticker ads independently from the main automated playout, staying within a very […]
Technology spotlight: integrating with Adobe Premiere and other NLEs – part 1. МАМ.
One cannot imagine a modern enterprise media workflow system without integration with professional non-linear video editing systems from Adobe, Apple, Grass Valley and other international vendors. But unlike many of our competitors, we at Azimuth Soft try our best to meet the challenges of migrating content to and from NLEs by using the most straightforward […]
Subtitle Editor – productivity and convenience
We’re continuing to improve the Subtitle Editor user experience, based on the feedback from our customers. For example, merging projects in Subtitle Editor can now be performed by timecode; a new finished project can be added before or after the current one. Short-time sound preview (“scrubbing”) is now available for per-frame, per-second and per-minute fast […]
Technology spotlight: over-the-shoulder workflows in Azimuth Soft solutions
The “over-the-shoulder” term well known in the movie industry has recently received a new meaning in broadcasting and TV production. It’s now commonly used to describe workflows where personnel connect to colleagues’ workplaces and watch them perform their activities. This way a manager can make sure his staff conform to their best practices, and beginners […]
Subtitle Editor – Productivity and Convenience
We’re continuing to improve the Subtitle Editor user experience, based on the feedback from our customers. For example, merging projects in Subtitle Editor can now be performed by timecode; a new finished project can be added before or after the current one. Short-time sound preview (“scrubbing”) is now available for per-frame, per-second and per-minute fast […]
Azimuth-TT – Better Performance from Backend Optimization
We’ve rebuilt the teletext and subtitle inserter service running on the Azimuth-TT videoservers and enhanced its networking mechanisms. For larger installations even small improvements in power consumption and component longevity can influence the economics of the whole project, which is why we’re constantly working to make sure our software products work as efficiently as possible.