Education
Educators are embracing media more than ever—both as a topic for education and as a tool for enhancing and extending the classroom. Regardless of the initiative, educational institutions need infrastructure that supports their goals and minimizes complexity. The Omneon media storage and processing platform provides exactly that. By providing an open hardware infrastructure with real-time video ingest and playout and direct access to stored content by almost any media application, Omneon eliminates the need to maintain and scale multiple storage systems and to move content over institutional networks. Read below to learn more about Omneon's solutions for educational institutions and workflows associated with distance learning, shared non-linear editing for Avid and Apple, and multi-camera studio production.
- Explore Related Workflows
- Content Repurposing
- Studio Production
- Video Post Production
Content Repurposing
Educational video production departments now have multiple deliverables. Class material is now delivered over private television channels, campus intranets, and the Internet. Scheduled channels are combined with scheduled streaming media and video-on-demand. Of course, each of these delivery platforms requires its own video format. To make matters worse, producers tend to perfect their edits until the last minute, leaving precious little time for content repurposing and delivery.
By combining high-bandwidth storage, a robust high-bandwidth Ethernet internal network and a high-performance multi-CPU grid architecture into one media storage and processing platform, Omneon presents a unique solution to today's repurposing workflow needs. The platform can perform many file-based quality verification processes simultaneously and transcode content many times faster than real time without burdening the house network or adding digital islands. Content is verified, transcoded and re-verified in place on the Omneon media and processing platform.
Content Quality Verification:
File-based content verification now allows broadcasters to automatically check for a broad range of video standards and quality attributes without incurring the time or potential errors of a manual process. A file stored in the Omneon platform can be automatically checked for blockiness, black or repeated frames, pixelation, oversaturation, and many more errors that can be introduced at almost any stage of content development.
Transcoding & Rewrapping:
Another outgrowth of web and phone delivery platforms is the need to transcode between video codecs or rewrap between media file formats to meet delivery network requirements. The Omneon ProXchange grid-powered transcoding engine handles these conversions automatically and far faster than alternative solutions that rely on separate appliances. That said, the Omneon platform is also compatible with virtually every brand of stand-alone transcoding solution with direct backplane integration that optimizes access to stored content and minimizes traffic on the house network.
Optimized WAN distribution:
The Omneon ProCast content delivery system accelerates, prioritizes, manages, and monitors WAN transfers. Fully integrated into the Omneon media storage and processing platform, ProCast uses either watch-folder or rules-based operations to insure the right content is delivered to the right destination when it's needed.
Studio Production
In complex, multi-camera studio production environments, the core technical requirements are the simultaneous and synchronous capture of the sources and the ability to edit that material as soon as possible in order to guarantee timely delivery of the final program. Given the live and spontaneous nature of the actual production, migrating to a file-based workflow has its challenges but can be well worth it in order to streamline the process and gain efficiency. With its wide support for production video formats and “edit-in-place” capabilities, an Omneon storage and processing platform can satisfy the capture and playout requirements, while simultaneously offering a shared edit environment. This unbeatable combination allows customers to use their best of breed NLEs to access and edit segments of the show even while those segments are still being recorded – a tremendous improvement in efficiency.
Video Post Production
Media studies departments in universities, colleges and schools can reap tremendous benefits from centralized shared storage for editing. Loss of media is an ever present problem but it becomes even more heightened as the end of the grading period approaches. Centrally administered shared storage can greatly reduce the risk of data loss, while eliminating the administrative cost and headache of maintaining many make-shift local storage islands.
With the Omneon MediaGrid media storage and processing platform, administrators and educators can assign individual student workspaces, class material can be put in shared folders, source material can be made sharable or private, quotas can be assigned by student or project and the entire class can get by with a small number of ingest stations – greatly reducing video hardware costs. Students are password protected from each other and can only see their own media and the media that is meant to be shared. All the while, the teacher can review any student's work even when that student is working.
The Omneon storage and processing platform provides centralized storage that can easily scale to meet the bandwidth and capacity requirements of even large media departments. The platform also empowers schools to support Apple, Avid and Adobe edit systems.
