Government
Governments have long understood the power of media as a communications tool. Now, many governments are embracing media production as a valuable internal tool for historical preservation, legislative transparency, visual documentation, and more. Sharing many of the workflows of television broadcasters, live event producers and content distributors, governments require the same flexible and scalable platform on which to store and process content. The Omneon media storage and processing platform provides government agencies with a highly-optimized system that consolidates storage and provides direct access for a broad range of applications including non-linear editing for both Avid and Apple. Omneon is the only system that offers professional-quality SD and HD ingest and playout, in-system processing such as quality verification and transcoding, and highly scalable near-line storage for media applications. Read below to learn more about Omneon's solutions for governments and workflows such as multi-camera production, shared non-linear editing, searchable content archives, and more.
- Explore Related Workflows
- Content Repurposing
- Studio Production
- Video Post Production
Content Repurposing
Video production operations now have multiple deliverables. The days of being finished when the edit is exported are over. News, programming, and training material is now delivered over private television channels, intranets, the Internet and even mobile delivery platforms. 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, the Omneon storage and processing platform can satisfy the capture and playout requirements along with 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 production facility managers are battling cost and staffing challenges by adding Apple Final Cut Pro edit stations to their traditional Avid edit environments, but they resist ownership and management of separate pools of storage for each application. The Omneon storage and processing platform provides centralized storage that can easily scale to meet the growing bandwidth and capacity requirements of these mixed edit environments.
The platform empowers production groups to share content and leverage sequences between Apple and Avid edit systems. Operations can make the most use of large pools of cameramen and producers working with Final Cut Pro to performing simple or rough-cut edits on Apple Final Cut Pro. And then transition those edits and media to an Avid editor for finish editing. All the while the content stays in one place and is commonly accessible to the entire workgroup, if desired. Password protection allows projects to be shared or protected as appropriate.
While the Omneon platform provides robust ingest of a wide range of compressed video formats, facilities also can work with standard Avid, Apple, or third-party ingest tools. Transcoding and Web streaming applications also can employ the Omneon platform as central storage, further streamlining the storage topology.
