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Broadcast

Taking completed program material, provisioning it appropriately for regionalized reception and delivering the finished product in either real time or as a file to the distribution point is the goal for any transmission operation. Changes in the marketplace are creating significant upheavals: the adoption of new formats dictates a change in the underlying infrastructure, and the market fragmentation caused by the proliferation of devices on which consumers may view material requires a reduction in cost per channel in order to remain viable. At times, adapting can seem overwhelming. As the world-leader in transmission server infrastructures, offering “plug and play” format expansion capabilities, unmatched expertise in file based workflows and world-renowned reliability, Omneon has made the transition to this new model simple, smooth and painless for companies around the world.

The transmission workflow can broadly be broken down into 3 sections: media ingest, media preparation, and media delivery. The workflow described here details all of these separate steps, and while these steps could take place in separate facilities, they are most often combined into a single facility within a business entity, as this simplifies the internal networks required to move a project from one phase to the next.

These activities will generally also involve some quality control/verification activities, but for clarity of description here, details of those QC steps have been omitted. More information on automated QC in an Omneon environment can be found on the site.

Material Ingest:

Traditionally, finished program material enters the workflow via satellite feed, land line, or in tape form via delivery truck or courier.

Working in conjunction with an automation system or record controller, the Omneon platform ingests the incoming material as a real-time stream. The flexibility of the Omneon platform allows facilities to compress the incoming material in the format of their choice, and browse copies of the ingested material are simultaneously created by the system for use later in the workflow. For “full resolution” material, DV/DVCPRO, Iframe and LongGOP Mpeg and XDCAM formats are supported in both SD and HD, and AVC-Intra and DNxHD are additionally supported for HD scenarios. All formats can coexist on the same server at the same time, offering facilities truly format independent operation. The flexibility of the Omneon architecture allows facilities to add new codec formats to the system as their business needs require.

In addition to the traditional methods for material acquisition, material is increasingly coming into the facility via file transfer. The Omneon platform supports all of the industry standard file transfer protocols natively, so material can be delivered to the ingest stage via standard IT technologies. Advanced features in the Omneon platform will report to the facility's business systems that a new clip has arrived on the file system, so that the business systems can integrate that information into their databases to show the material as present in the facility.

It is usual for ingested material to undergo some form of visual quality control at the end of this stage, and the Omneon platform fully supports that activity, through either proxy or full resolution viewing of the ingested material (and in some cases, file-based QC may also be implemented). Once through this stage, the material moves on to the media preparation stage

Material Preparation:

The purpose of this stage in the workflow is to check and modify the ingested material to ensure that it is formatted appropriately for the target audience. Examples of such adjustments might be to change program segment length to match local broadcast regulations, to add the necessary language track for the intended audience, to add closed-captioning and subtitles to the material, or to edit for content based on broadcast schedule.
The Omneon platform offers unique capabilities in material preparation. The platform supports a number of APIs which allow direct manipulation of content stored on the platform. Interacting with the material in this way offers huge savings in transfer time and network bandwidth, as material no longer needs to be transferred from the platform to the manipulating application server – the application can interact with the material in place on the Omneon platform instead.

Through the Omneon platform's unique capabilities, facilities can add audio channels to an existing video asset for multi-regional and SAP applications, directly on the storage. In this way, a single program asset can contain all of the languages that the asset needs to be broadcast in, which simplifies the archive of the asset later in the workflow. Applications can add or edit closed-captioning and subtitle information directly on the Omneon platform, and that process takes place at the text level, rather than by decoding and encoding the video externally. This higher-level interaction means that applications can simply pass a text file to the Omneon platform, and the platform itself will encode that into the appropriate video stream at many times faster than real time.

The flexibility of the design of the Omneon platform means that this media preparation stage can be performed on any of the platform's locations: on the ingest Spectrum or MediaDeck, on a MediaGrid which is being used as a staging server, or even on the playout Spectrum or MediaDeck – the facility has total flexibility to choose not only its preferred media format, but also in the layout of its workflow.

Material Playout:

Working in conjunction with an automation system or playout controller, the Omneon platform supports all major playout formats in both SD and HD, and can play them “back to back” seamlessly in any order. It will even up-convert SD clips to HD, so a single output channel can now handle all formats on a single timeline – with greater efficiency as clips no longer need to be transcoded and up/down converted to conform to the same standard prior to playout. This flexibility also extends to the management of audio tracks. The Omneon platform has the unique capability of automatically routing the correct language to the desired audio output based on the facility's business rules. Since this is handled automatically, there is no need for human intervention and the associated potential for error.  Many large facilities rely on the efficiency and accuracy of the Omneon platform in their multi-language, multi-region transmission businesses—in some cases, up to 96 tracks per clip.

Typically, playout material is fed to a master control room, where a switcher and channel branding unit perform the final signal processing before material is sent to the point of distribution. This is a well known and tested solution, but the economies of the modern transmission business has led facilities to look for a more cost effective way of adding a complete channel playout solution to their existing infrastructure. For smaller facilities, the cost of the peripheral processing equipment required may make the additional channels too expensive to consider. For these transmission applications, the Omneon platform has been extended to include the MediaDeck GX. This playout system combines the industry's #1 playout server technology with best-of-breed channel branding and master control capabilities to offer the industry's first no-compromise complete channel playout solution. Designed to work with a facility's existing automation system, MediaDeck GX extends the Omneon platform's reach into transmission workflows, by collapsing the external processing into a single, self contained storage, playout and branding solution.

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Corporate Media

Taking completed program material, provisioning it appropriately for regionalized reception and delivering the finished product in either real time or as a file to the distribution point is the goal for any transmission operation. Changes in the marketplace are creating significant upheavals: the adoption of new formats dictates a change in the underlying infrastructure, and the market fragmentation caused by the proliferation of devices on which consumers may view material requires a reduction in cost per channel in order to remain viable. At times, adapting can seem overwhelming. As the world-leader in transmission server infrastructures, offering “plug and play” format expansion capabilities, unmatched expertise in file based workflows and world-renowned reliability, Omneon has made the transition to this new model simple, smooth and painless for companies around the world.

The transmission workflow can broadly be broken down into 3 sections: media ingest, media preparation, and media delivery. The workflow described here details all of these separate steps, and while these steps could take place in separate facilities, they are most often combined into a single facility within a business entity, as this simplifies the internal networks required to move a project from one phase to the next.

These activities will generally also involve some quality control/verification activities, but for clarity of description here, details of those QC steps have been omitted. More information on automated QC in an Omneon environment can be found on the site.

Material Ingest:

Traditionally, finished program material enters the workflow via satellite feed, land line, or in tape form via delivery truck or courier.

Working in conjunction with an automation system or record controller, the Omneon platform ingests the incoming material as a real-time stream. The flexibility of the Omneon platform allows facilities to compress the incoming material in the format of their choice, and browse copies of the ingested material are simultaneously created by the system for use later in the workflow. For “full resolution” material, DV/DVCPRO, Iframe and LongGOP Mpeg and XDCAM formats are supported in both SD and HD, and AVC-Intra and DNxHD are additionally supported for HD scenarios. All formats can coexist on the same server at the same time, offering facilities truly format independent operation. The flexibility of the Omneon architecture allows facilities to add new codec formats to the system as their business needs require.

In addition to the traditional methods for material acquisition, material is increasingly coming into the facility via file transfer. The Omneon platform supports all of the industry standard file transfer protocols natively, so material can be delivered to the ingest stage via standard IT technologies. Advanced features in the Omneon platform will report to the facility's business systems that a new clip has arrived on the file system, so that the business systems can integrate that information into their databases to show the material as present in the facility.

It is usual for ingested material to undergo some form of visual quality control at the end of this stage, and the Omneon platform fully supports that activity, through either proxy or full resolution viewing of the ingested material (and in some cases, file-based QC may also be implemented). Once through this stage, the material moves on to the media preparation stage

Material Preparation:

The purpose of this stage in the workflow is to check and modify the ingested material to ensure that it is formatted appropriately for the target audience. Examples of such adjustments might be to change program segment length to match local broadcast regulations, to add the necessary language track for the intended audience, to add closed-captioning and subtitles to the material, or to edit for content based on broadcast schedule.
The Omneon platform offers unique capabilities in material preparation. The platform supports a number of APIs which allow direct manipulation of content stored on the platform. Interacting with the material in this way offers huge savings in transfer time and network bandwidth, as material no longer needs to be transferred from the platform to the manipulating application server – the application can interact with the material in place on the Omneon platform instead.

Through the Omneon platform's unique capabilities, facilities can add audio channels to an existing video asset for multi-regional and SAP applications, directly on the storage. In this way, a single program asset can contain all of the languages that the asset needs to be broadcast in, which simplifies the archive of the asset later in the workflow. Applications can add or edit closed-captioning and subtitle information directly on the Omneon platform, and that process takes place at the text level, rather than by decoding and encoding the video externally. This higher-level interaction means that applications can simply pass a text file to the Omneon platform, and the platform itself will encode that into the appropriate video stream at many times faster than real time.

The flexibility of the design of the Omneon platform means that this media preparation stage can be performed on any of the platform's locations: on the ingest Spectrum or MediaDeck, on a MediaGrid which is being used as a staging server, or even on the playout Spectrum or MediaDeck – the facility has total flexibility to choose not only its preferred media format, but also in the layout of its workflow.

Material Playout:

Working in conjunction with an automation system or playout controller, the Omneon platform supports all major playout formats in both SD and HD, and can play them “back to back” seamlessly in any order. It will even up-convert SD clips to HD, so a single output channel can now handle all formats on a single timeline – with greater efficiency as clips no longer need to be transcoded and up/down converted to conform to the same standard prior to playout. This flexibility also extends to the management of audio tracks. The Omneon platform has the unique capability of automatically routing the correct language to the desired audio output based on the facility's business rules. Since this is handled automatically, there is no need for human intervention and the associated potential for error.  Many large facilities rely on the efficiency and accuracy of the Omneon platform in their multi-language, multi-region transmission businesses—in some cases, up to 96 tracks per clip.

Typically, playout material is fed to a master control room, where a switcher and channel branding unit perform the final signal processing before material is sent to the point of distribution. This is a well known and tested solution, but the economies of the modern transmission business has led facilities to look for a more cost effective way of adding a complete channel playout solution to their existing infrastructure. For smaller facilities, the cost of the peripheral processing equipment required may make the additional channels too expensive to consider. For these transmission applications, the Omneon platform has been extended to include the MediaDeck GX. This playout system combines the industry's #1 playout server technology with best-of-breed channel branding and master control capabilities to offer the industry's first no-compromise complete channel playout solution. Designed to work with a facility's existing automation system, MediaDeck GX extends the Omneon platform's reach into transmission workflows, by collapsing the external processing into a single, self contained storage, playout and branding solution.

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Education

Taking completed program material, provisioning it appropriately for regionalized reception and delivering the finished product in either real time or as a file to the distribution point is the goal for any transmission operation. Changes in the marketplace are creating significant upheavals: the adoption of new formats dictates a change in the underlying infrastructure, and the market fragmentation caused by the proliferation of devices on which consumers may view material requires a reduction in cost per channel in order to remain viable. At times, adapting can seem overwhelming. As the world-leader in transmission server infrastructures, offering “plug and play” format expansion capabilities, unmatched expertise in file based workflows and world-renowned reliability, Omneon has made the transition to this new model simple, smooth and painless for companies around the world.

The transmission workflow can broadly be broken down into 3 sections: media ingest, media preparation, and media delivery. The workflow described here details all of these separate steps, and while these steps could take place in separate facilities, they are most often combined into a single facility within a business entity, as this simplifies the internal networks required to move a project from one phase to the next.

These activities will generally also involve some quality control/verification activities, but for clarity of description here, details of those QC steps have been omitted. More information on automated QC in an Omneon environment can be found in the site.

Material Ingest:

Traditionally, finished program material enters the workflow via satellite feed, land line, or in tape form via delivery truck or courier.

Working in conjunction with an automation system or record controller, the Omneon platform ingests the incoming material as a real-time stream. The flexibility of the Omneon platform allows facilities to compress the incoming material in the format of their choice, and browse copies of the ingested material are simultaneously created by the system for use later in the workflow. For “full resolution” material, DV/DVCPRO, Iframe and LongGOP Mpeg and XDCAM formats are supported in both SD and HD, and AVC-Intra and DNxHD are additionally supported for HD scenarios. All formats can coexist on the same server at the same time, offering facilities truly format independent operation. The flexibility of the Omneon architecture allows facilities to add new codec formats to the system as their business needs require.

In addition to the traditional methods for material acquisition, material is increasingly coming into the facility via file transfer. The Omneon platform supports all of the industry standard file transfer protocols natively, so material can be delivered to the ingest stage via standard IT technologies. Advanced features in the Omneon platform will report to the facility's business systems that a new clip has arrived on the file system, so that the business systems can integrate that information into their databases to show the material as present in the facility.

It is usual for ingested material to undergo some form of visual quality control at the end of this stage, and the Omneon platform fully supports that activity, through either proxy or full resolution viewing of the ingested material (and in some cases, file-based QC may also be implemented). Once through this stage, the material moves on to the media preparation stage

Material Preparation:

The purpose of this stage in the workflow is to check and modify the ingested material to ensure that it is formatted appropriately for the target audience. Examples of such adjustments might be to change program segment length to match local broadcast regulations, to add the necessary language track for the intended audience, to add closed-captioning and subtitles to the material, or to edit for content based on broadcast schedule.
The Omneon platform offers unique capabilities in material preparation. The platform supports a number of APIs which allow direct manipulation of content stored on the platform. Interacting with the material in this way offers huge savings in transfer time and network bandwidth, as material no longer needs to be transferred from the platform to the manipulating application server – the application can interact with the material in place on the Omneon platform instead.

Through the Omneon platform's unique capabilities, facilities can add audio channels to an existing video asset for multi-regional and SAP applications, directly on the storage. In this way, a single program asset can contain all of the languages that the asset needs to be broadcast in, which simplifies the archive of the asset later in the workflow. Applications can add or edit closed-captioning and subtitle information directly on the Omneon platform, and that process takes place at the text level, rather than by decoding and encoding the video externally. This higher-level interaction means that applications can simply pass a text file to the Omneon platform, and the platform itself will encode that into the appropriate video stream at many times faster than real time.

The flexibility of the design of the Omneon platform means that this media preparation stage can be performed on any of the platform's locations: on the ingest Spectrum or MediaDeck, on a MediaGrid which is being used as a staging server, or even on the playout Spectrum or MediaDeck – the facility has total flexibility to choose not only it's preferred media format, but also in the layout of it's workflow.

Material Playout:

Working in conjunction with an automation system or playout controller, the Omneon platform supports all major playout formats in both SD and HD, and can play them “back to back” seamlessly in any order. It will even up-convert SD clips to HD, so a single output channel can now handle all formats on a single timeline – with greater efficiency as clips no longer need to be transcoded and up/down converted to conform to the same standard prior to playout. This flexibility also extends to the management of audio tracks. The Omneon platform has the unique capability of automatically routing the correct language to the desired audio output based on the facility's business rules. Since this is handled automatically, there is no need for human intervention and the associated potential for error.  Many large facilities rely on the efficiency and accuracy of the Omneon platform in their multi-language, multi-region transmission businesses—in some cases, up to 96 tracks per clip.

Typically, playout material is fed to a master control room, where a switcher and channel branding unit perform the final signal processing before material is sent to the point of distribution. This is a well known and tested solution, but the economies of the modern transmission business has led facilities to look for a more cost effective way of adding a complete channel playout solution to their existing infrastructure. For smaller facilities, the cost of the peripheral processing equipment required may make the additional channels too expensive to consider. For these transmission applications, the Omneon platform has been extended to include the MediaDeck GX. This playout system combines the industry's #1 playout server technology with best-of-breed channel branding and master control capabilities to offer the industry's first no-compromise complete channel playout solution. Designed to work with a facility's existing automation system, MediaDeck GX extends the Omneon platform's reach into transmission workflows, by collapsing the external processing into a single, self contained storage, playout and branding solution.

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Government

Taking completed program material, provisioning it appropriately for regionalized reception and delivering the finished product in either real time or as a file to the distribution point is the goal for any transmission operation. Changes in the marketplace are creating significant upheavals: the adoption of new formats dictates a change in the underlying infrastructure, and the market fragmentation caused by the proliferation of devices on which consumers may view material requires a reduction in cost per channel in order to remain viable. At times, adapting can seem overwhelming. As the world-leader in transmission server infrastructures, offering “plug and play” format expansion capabilities, unmatched expertise in file based workflows and world-renowned reliability, Omneon has made the transition to this new model simple, smooth and painless for companies around the world.

The transmission workflow can broadly be broken down into 3 sections: media ingest, media preparation, and media delivery. The workflow described here details all of these separate steps, and while these steps could take place in separate facilities, they are most often combined into a single facility within a business entity, as this simplifies the internal networks required to move a project from one phase to the next.

These activities will generally also involve some quality control/verification activities, but for clarity of description here, details of those QC steps have been omitted. More information on automated QC in an Omneon environment can be found on the site.

Material Ingest:

Traditionally, finished program material enters the workflow via satellite feed, land line, or in tape form via delivery truck or courier.

Working in conjunction with an automation system or record controller, the Omneon platform ingests the incoming material as a real-time stream. The flexibility of the Omneon platform allows facilities to compress the incoming material in the format of their choice, and browse copies of the ingested material are simultaneously created by the system for use later in the workflow. For “full resolution” material, DV/DVCPRO, Iframe and LongGOP Mpeg and XDCAM formats are supported in both SD and HD, and AVC-Intra and DNxHD are additionally supported for HD scenarios. All formats can coexist on the same server at the same time, offering facilities truly format independent operation. The flexibility of the Omneon architecture allows facilities to add new codec formats to the system as their business needs require.

In addition to the traditional methods for material acquisition, material is increasingly coming into the facility via file transfer. The Omneon platform supports all of the industry standard file transfer protocols natively, so material can be delivered to the ingest stage via standard IT technologies. Advanced features in the Omneon platform will report to the facility's business systems that a new clip has arrived on the file system, so that the business systems can integrate that information into their databases to show the material as present in the facility.

It is usual for ingested material to undergo some form of visual quality control at the end of this stage, and the Omneon platform fully supports that activity, through either proxy or full resolution viewing of the ingested material (and in some cases, file-based QC may also be implemented). Once through this stage, the material moves on to the media preparation stage

Material Preparation:

The purpose of this stage in the workflow is to check and modify the ingested material to ensure that it is formatted appropriately for the target audience. Examples of such adjustments might be to change program segment length to match local broadcast regulations, to add the necessary language track for the intended audience, to add closed-captioning and subtitles to the material, or to edit for content based on broadcast schedule.
The Omneon platform offers unique capabilities in material preparation. The platform supports a number of APIs which allow direct manipulation of content stored on the platform. Interacting with the material in this way offers huge savings in transfer time and network bandwidth, as material no longer needs to be transferred from the platform to the manipulating application server – the application can interact with the material in place on the Omneon platform instead.

Through the Omneon platform's unique capabilities, facilities can add audio channels to an existing video asset for multi-regional and SAP applications, directly on the storage. In this way, a single program asset can contain all of the languages that the asset needs to be broadcast in, which simplifies the archive of the asset later in the workflow. Applications can add or edit closed-captioning and subtitle information directly on the Omneon platform, and that process takes place at the text level, rather than by decoding and encoding the video externally. This higher-level interaction means that applications can simply pass a text file to the Omneon platform, and the platform itself will encode that into the appropriate video stream at many times faster than real time.

The flexibility of the design of the Omneon platform means that this media preparation stage can be performed on any of the platform's locations: on the ingest Spectrum or MediaDeck, on a MediaGrid which is being used as a staging server, or even on the playout Spectrum or MediaDeck – the facility has total flexibility to choose not only it's preferred media format, but also in the layout of it's workflow.

Material Playout:

Working in conjunction with an automation system or playout controller, the Omneon platform supports all major playout formats in both SD and HD, and can play them “back to back” seamlessly in any order. It will even up-convert SD clips to HD, so a single output channel can now handle all formats on a single timeline – with greater efficiency as clips no longer need to be transcoded and up/down converted to conform to the same standard prior to playout. This flexibility also extends to the management of audio tracks. The Omneon platform has the unique capability of automatically routing the correct language to the desired audio output based on the facility's business rules. Since this is handled automatically, there is no need for human intervention and the associated potential for error.  Many large facilities rely on the efficiency and accuracy of the Omneon platform in their multi-language, multi-region transmission businesses—in some cases, up to 96 tracks per clip.

Typically, playout material is fed to a master control room, where a switcher and channel branding unit perform the final signal processing before material is sent to the point of distribution. This is a well known and tested solution, but the economies of the modern transmission business has led facilities to look for a more cost effective way of adding a complete channel playout solution to their existing infrastructure. For smaller facilities, the cost of the peripheral processing equipment required may make the additional channels too expensive to consider. For these transmission applications, the Omneon platform has been extended to include the MediaDeck GX. This playout system combines the industry's #1 playout server technology with best-of-breed channel branding and master control capabilities to offer the industry's first no-compromise complete channel playout solution. Designed to work with a facility's existing automation system, MediaDeck GX extends the Omneon platform's reach into transmission workflows, by collapsing the external processing into a single, self contained storage, playout and branding solution.

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Network Service Providers

Taking completed program material, provisioning it appropriately for regionalized reception and delivering the finished product in either real time or as a file to the distribution point is the goal for any transmission operation. Changes in the marketplace are creating significant upheavals: the adoption of new formats dictates a change in the underlying infrastructure, and the market fragmentation caused by the proliferation of devices on which consumers may view material requires a reduction in cost per channel in order to remain viable. At times, adapting can seem overwhelming. As the world-leader in transmission server infrastructures, offering “plug and play” format expansion capabilities, unmatched expertise in file based workflows and world-renowned reliability, Omneon has made the transition to this new model simple, smooth and painless for companies around the world.

The transmission workflow can broadly be broken down into 3 sections: media ingest, media preparation, and media delivery. The workflow described here details all of these separate steps, and while these steps could take place in separate facilities, they are most often combined into a single facility within a business entity, as this simplifies the internal networks required to move a project from one phase to the next.

These activities will generally also involve some quality control/verification activities, but for clarity of description here, details of those QC steps have been omitted. More information on automated QC in an Omneon environment can be found on the site.

Material Ingest:

Traditionally, finished program material enters the workflow via satellite feed, land line, or in tape form via delivery truck or courier.

Working in conjunction with an automation system or record controller, the Omneon platform ingests the incoming material as a real-time stream. The flexibility of the Omneon platform allows facilities to compress the incoming material in the format of their choice, and browse copies of the ingested material are simultaneously created by the system for use later in the workflow. For “full resolution” material, DV/DVCPRO, Iframe and LongGOP Mpeg and XDCAM formats are supported in both SD and HD, and AVC-Intra and DNxHD are additionally supported for HD scenarios. All formats can coexist on the same server at the same time, offering facilities truly format independent operation. The flexibility of the Omneon architecture allows facilities to add new codec formats to the system as their business needs require.

In addition to the traditional methods for material acquisition, material is increasingly coming into the facility via file transfer. The Omneon platform supports all of the industry standard file transfer protocols natively, so material can be delivered to the ingest stage via standard IT technologies. Advanced features in the Omneon platform will report to the facility's business systems that a new clip has arrived on the file system, so that the business systems can integrate that information into their databases to show the material as present in the facility.

It is usual for ingested material to undergo some form of visual quality control at the end of this stage, and the Omneon platform fully supports that activity, through either proxy or full resolution viewing of the ingested material (and in some cases, file-based QC may also be implemented). Once through this stage, the material moves on to the media preparation stage

Material Preparation:

The purpose of this stage in the workflow is to check and modify the ingested material to ensure that it is formatted appropriately for the target audience. Examples of such adjustments might be to change program segment length to match local broadcast regulations, to add the necessary language track for the intended audience, to add closed-captioning and subtitles to the material, or to edit for content based on broadcast schedule.

The Omneon platform offers unique capabilities in material preparation. The platform supports a number of APIs which allow direct manipulation of content stored on the platform. Interacting with the material in this way offers huge savings in transfer time and network bandwidth, as material no longer needs to be transferred from the platform to the manipulating application server – the application can interact with the material in place on the Omneon platform instead.

Through the Omneon platform's unique capabilities, facilities can add audio channels to an existing video asset for multi-regional and SAP applications, directly on the storage. In this way, a single program asset can contain all of the languages that the asset needs to be broadcast in, which simplifies the archive of the asset later in the workflow. Applications can add or edit closed-captioning and subtitle information directly on the Omneon platform, and that process takes place at the text level, rather than by decoding and encoding the video externally. This higher-level interaction means that applications can simply pass a text file to the Omneon platform, and the platform itself will encode that into the appropriate video stream at many times faster than real time.

The flexibility of the design of the Omneon platform means that this media preparation stage can be performed on any of the platform's locations: on the ingest Spectrum or MediaDeck, on a MediaGrid which is being used as a staging server, or even on the playout Spectrum or MediaDeck – the facility has total flexibility to choose not only it's preferred media format, but also in the layout of it's workflow.

Material Playout:

Working in conjunction with an automation system or playout controller, the Omneon platform supports all major playout formats in both SD and HD, and can play them “back to back” seamlessly in any order. It will even up-convert SD clips to HD, so a single output channel can now handle all formats on a single timeline – with greater efficiency as clips no longer need to be transcoded and up/down converted to conform to the same standard prior to playout. This flexibility also extends to the management of audio tracks. The Omneon platform has the unique capability of automatically routing the correct language to the desired audio output based on the facility's business rules. Since this is handled automatically, there is no need for human intervention and the associated potential for error.  Many large facilities rely on the efficiency and accuracy of the Omneon platform in their multi-language, multi-region transmission businesses—in some cases, up to 96 tracks per clip.

Typically, playout material is fed to a master control room, where a switcher and channel branding unit perform the final signal processing before material is sent to the point of distribution. This is a well known and tested solution, but the economies of the modern transmission business has led facilities to look for a more cost effective way of adding a complete channel playout solution to their existing infrastructure. For smaller facilities, the cost of the peripheral processing equipment required may make the additional channels too expensive to consider. For these transmission applications, the Omneon platform has been extended to include the MediaDeck GX. This playout system combines the industry's #1 playout server technology with best-of-breed channel branding and master control capabilities to offer the industry's first no-compromise complete channel playout solution. Designed to work with a facility's existing automation system, MediaDeck GX extends the Omneon platform's reach into transmission workflows, by collapsing the external processing into a single, self contained storage, playout and branding solution.

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