Partners

www.annova.tv

ANNOVA Systems offers software solutions and services for journalists and interactive content producers in both television and radio, to streamline their news and production workflows. ANNOVA’s products are fully-compliant with the MOS protocol, and through this and other cutting edge integration technologies, the OMIS framework facilitates the integration of third-party systems, including video production systems, automation and studio devices.

www.apple.com

Omneon, together with Apple's Final Cut Pro® editing application, provides customers with an efficient nonlinear editing solution. By providing multiple users with access to the Omneon Spectrum media server's file system, collaborative workflow is enabled in the DV format. Because both companies utilize the QuickTime? open standard, file interchange is easily accomplished.

www.ardendo.com

Ardendo is a software company with focus on integrated solutions for the broadcast industry. Ardendo delivers products and services for media asset management, ingest automation, digital archives, desktop media processing and system integration. The key strength of the Ardendo approach is the modular architecture which is built to serve customer requirements for scalability, availability and customized solutions. From headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden, Ardendo supports a growing global customer base. Ardendo has several high-profile reference installations of systems for IT-based processing of digital media. The current customer base covers customers in news, general program production, playout services and post production. Ardendo founded in 1997 and became a part of Vizrt in April 2006. With the roots in academia and high-performance computing, Ardendo maintains an ?extreme competence? corporate culture.

www.s4m.arvato-systems.com

arvato Systems develops and installs the systems VPMS (Video Production Management System) and ClipJOCKEY which support Media Asset Management as well as Studio Production for TV broadcasters. ClipJOCKEY enables you to use the best features of your video server hardware and make it a real multi-channel production tool. Both systems are integrated with Harmonic’s Omneon product line through integration of their product APIs. Significant customers for one or both of the solutions include NDR, MDR, Deutsche Welle, Major League Baseball, QVC US and the University of Texas.

www.aveco.com

Aveco’s ASTRA Suite of Tools controls Spectrum Media Servers and MediaDecks to provide broadcasters with cost-effective and scalable ingest and playout solutions for master control and news/live events. ASTRA CMS supports MediaGrid and Carbon Coder to provide facility wide content management solutions for media transfers, archive, browse and transcoding. Aveco uses the Omneon’s native APIs to obtain the maximum functionality from these devices. Both companies enjoy tremendous success together globally including at one of their largest sites at Televisa (Mexico), WDR, Germany and TV Today in India.

www.avid.com

Now you can fully integrate Avid editors into a highly-flexible broadcast server infrastructure. The Smart Scalability of the Omneon Spectrum media server system lets you add real-time video and audio channels while on-air and increase data connectivity as needed for local and wide area networking, browsing and archiving. The built-in Smart Scalability of the Omneon server also lets you call the shots when it comes to what formats you want to shoot, edit, transmit, and archive.

www.building4media.com

Building4Media's FORK/TV is among the most innovative playout automation systems for TV stations. They focus on creating added value for broadcasters and by investing in state-of-the-art software technologies. FORK/TV offers broadcasters the reliability, functionality, flexibility and efficiency they need. With FORK/TV, broadcasters can grow from a complete playout system on just one computer, to a multi-station playout system with full redundancy. FORK/TV also offers the best integration between editing and playout with its own desktop editing software. The software uses existing playout systems and office computers (saving infrastructure cost), and optimizes integration of high-end edit sets (for video files). When choosing a partner for a playout system, both Omneon and Building4Media are part of the new generation of companies working for broadcasters and using state-of-the-art technologies and open standards. The full power of this innovative team is realized through innovative use of technology and the best price/performance ratio offered.

www.comprompter.com

Comprompter News & Automation? has been a long time leader in integrated digital newsroom automation and sets the industry standard for simplicity, efficiency, and economy in live news operations. For 23 years, Comprompter has been recognized for its innovative approach to integrating newscast preparation and on-air presentation by incorporating your choice of production devices into an efficient and effective workflow.

www.dalet.com

Dalet Digital Media Systems and Omneon, Inc. have teamed up to deliver an end-to-end solution for News and MAM workflows. Dalet solutions enable broadcasters and content professionals to create, manage and distribute media for traditional and new media channels including interactive web and mobile networks. Dalet Enterprise Edition combines a Media Asset Management (MAM) platform and workflow engine to manage News, Sports, Programs, Entertainment and Archives. Purpose-built media production tools are natively integrated, optimizing access to media, collaboration and streamlining production workflows. At the core is an open and flexible MAM platform that tracks metadata from ingest to archive, ensuring media assets are indexed and searchable across the workflow. Delivered with Dalet Professional and Integration services, Dalet provides complete solutions that improve production speed, quality, and value of media assets.

Dalet systems are used around the world by thousands of content producers including major television and radio public broadcasters (ABS-CBN, BBC, CBC, DR, NBC, NPR, RTBF, RFI, Russia Today, RSR & TSR, RT Malaysia, VOA, WDR), commercial networks and operators (Antena 3, Canal+, FOX, eTV, Orange, Prime Television, ThePress Association, Time Warner, Warner Bros., XM-Sirius) and government organizations (Queensland JAG, Canadian House of Commons, The European Commission).

www.dnfcontrols.com

DNF Controls' mission is to be the leading provider of hardware- and software-based control solutions for equipment used in the television broadcast, audio/video production, post-production and graphics markets. By partnering with industry-leading manufacturers and integrating client feedback into product development, DNF provides superior control tools that are innovative, reliable, and easy-to-use, in addition to outstanding technical support and customer service.

www.editware.com

The all new Fastrack hybrid editing controller makes full use of the power of shared video server technology. Designed for use with the Omneon Spectrum media server, it provides the power of a linear editing system, along with the key elements of a non-linear system. Editware has implemented TCP/IP (Ethernet) control for the Omneon server using the Omneon Player API. This frees-up serial ports required for VDCP control, as well as speeding up various data transfer processes. This will also allow Fastrack to enable additional capabilities of the Omneon server in the future. This driver is resident in Fastrack software versions 4.3.23 and higher.

EVS provides video servers, production tools and content management systems for live and near-live sport and news applications. EVS’ well known video production servers XS and XT3 can be integrated with the Omneon’s MediaGrid active storage system using the XTAccess gigabit Ethernet gateway. Media content can be managed and processed directly from the server or from MediaGrid using EVS’ content management system IPDirector. Deployments include BBC sport and the Vancouver Winter Olympics Games for NBC.

www.sienna-tv.com

SIENNA offers state of the art MOS-integrated news and sports workflows. It leverages QuickTime as its native file format for ingest, asset management, Final Cut Pro edit integration, automation and archiving. SIENNA is fully integrated with Omneon MediaGrid for direct ingest and edit-in-place operations and also includes unique Macintosh-based networked automation of Spectrum and MediaDeck. Together the product suite combined with Omneon active storage systems creates the perfect synergy for an end-to-end digital media workflow.

www.hitechsys.co.uk

Hi Tech Systems Ltd develops and manufactures a range of remote controllers for VTR and disk servers. These offer hands-on operation at the production desk to exploit the full potential of the recording media and enhance live action broadcasts. For the most part, the on-air replay of the Omneon video server is controlled by automation systems. But when it comes to inserts into live productions, such as sports, children?s programs and news, or where instant responses are needed in quiz shows, much more flexible control is needed. The actiV Filer-Video server controller offers live control of video with full random access to 1000 clips. This can be from either a play-list or defined on-the-fly. There are VTR-like controls ? with jog/shuttle . The addition of Cart Box play out system offers the controls needed for easy on-air operation of the Omneon video server.

www.ibis.tv

IBIS develops and installs Media Asset Management systems to deliver solutions for integrated media management for fast turnaround production workflows; MOS News playout and content preservation. All IBIS applications are integrated with the range of Omneon storage and production devices using the Omneon API. iFind has installations of varying complexity and number of users with MediaGrid, MediaDeck and Spectrum around the world including ESPN Star Sports, SSVC, KRCR, MegaChannel, BBC Persian, BBC Arabic, WBOC, Turkmenistan TV and The Irish Parliament.

www.ipv.com

IPV is the driving force behind the world's most advanced solutions for video browsing over standard IT networks in a multi-user desktop environment. SpectreView is used for news, asset management, sub-titling, automation and wherever broadcast professionals need exact and frame-accurate access to manage and manipulate content. IPV?s XCode engine delivers faster than realtime transcoding to WM9 and MPEG4 complete with multiple audio channels and resolutions, the combination of Omneon active storage systems and IPV has been selected by major broadcasters to increase the efficiency of their browse-based workflows.

www.marquisbroadcast.com

Marquis Broadcast offers specialist services to the television broadcast industry including project management, workflow development, systems and engineering design, operations training and custom software development. The Marquis Broadcast partnership with Omneon Video Networks provides software integration between third party non-linear editing systems, and the Omneon Spectrum media server.

www.mediaitpro.com

Since 1999 Media IT Profy has been developing modular software for the integration and building of IT solutions. The company has extensive experience in deploying a wide range of production solutions at more than 400 TV stations. Media IT Profy's modular software structure allows it to adapt solutions to individual customer requirements. The open architecture ensures seamless integration with incumbent applications and systems, allowing customers to streamline and extend the existing IT infrastructure. Media IT Profy closely cooperates with Omneon in development of the VPA broadcast automation system running on Omneon Spectrum and MediaDeck media servers.

www.media-alliance.com

Media-Alliance and Omneon products have teamed up to deliver end-to-end solutions for News, MAM and Playout workflows. Media-Alliance solutions enable broadcasters and content producers to create, manage and distribute media for new digital media channels including VOD and IPTV. Deployed systems including MediaXplorer MAM, VIVA Ingestion System, NewsNet Newsroom Production Computer System, ONDA Playout Automation and ORGIN Quality Checkare integrated with Omneon MediaDeck, Spectrum and MediaGrid using the Omneon API. End-to-end solutions are installed at StarHub Singapore, TDM Macau, Channel 7 Kazakhstan and VGTRK Russia.

MXF4mac by Hamburg Pro Media is the innovator for efficient and professional MXF workflows on the Apple Mac OS X platform. The software solutions enable MXF reading and writing with Apple Final Cut Studio in the entire operating system. The tight and reliable integration turns every standard Apple desktop system into a MXF workstation.

www.sgluk.com

Software Generation, Ltd. produces advanced, easy to use archive software for the broadcast and other industries. SGL is a privately held software company headquartered in Southampton, England. SGL has been in business since 1989 and its flagship FlashNet product is installed in over 4,000 customer sites around the world.

www.sony.com

Sony is dedicated to providing customers with the most advanced audio and video equipment and systems for the broadcast, production, business, industrial, government, medical and education markets. Sony also provides support for XDCAM and HDCAM formats. Sony provides specialized equipment and systems for data recording, duplication, electronic photography/publishing, videoconferencing, high-definition video, interactive and security applications. Sony products and systems offer leading-edge digital video technology in acquisition, recording, production, storage, display and projection.

www.tedial.com

Tedial is a software company specialising in Media Asset Management (MAM), Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM), Business Process Management (BPM) and media distribution. Tedial takes full advantage of file-based workflows by optimising and automating operational processes. Tedial offers tight API integration to Omneon video servers and MediaGrid in over 10 reference sites, including Televisa in Mexico. With Tedial and the Harmonic Omneon products, the coveted aim of having an efficient, fully tapeless production facility operating at a low cost is within reach of every broadcaster, regardless of their size.

www.uid.com

UID manufactures tools for broadcast video automation. The Live Broadcast Assistant (LBA) works with the Omneon Server, supporting numerous functions for live or automated playout, recording and clip management. All functions are grouped into easily accessible pages.

www.vizrt.com

The Vizrt Media Asset Management (MAM) solution Viz Ardome, acts as a central repository for all media and metadata and has integrated with Omneon Spectrum Servers for ingest and/or play out together with an Omneon Media Grid for shared/clustered hires storage. The Ardome Xlator interface to the Omneon Spectrum servers is typically used for controlling ingests, playout and metadata-related operations through the Omneon APIs or serial (VDCP). Today, Vizrt has a significant number of deployments, worldwide, linked to Omneon products.

http://www.vsn-tv.com/

VSN develops, sells and installs software solutions for the broadcast and audiovisual markets. With more than 20 years’ experience, VSN system offers broadcasters the most complete end to end, digital automation solution currently available. VSN integrates and optimizes the entire workflow of a TV station. Built on open standard technology and featuring more than 40 software modules, VSN systems allows building a fully automated tapeless TV channel with truly integrated applications from one single vendor. VSN optimizes TV stations’ running costs and increase their programming production. Its full integration with Omneon video servers provides great reliability for the 24x7 ON AIR operations.