Post Production Facilities
Whether helping clients to create, manage, or distribute media content, a post facility must be both flexible and efficient. When balancing the demands of editorial, processing, and content distribution projects on a daily basis, facility managers can feel as if they have too many systems and too little horsepower. The Omneon storage and processing platform addresses this issue, combining scalable high-bandwidth storage with high-performance media processing to accelerate and streamline file-based processes. The platform provides easy-to-manage bandwidth surpassing that of today's SAN systems and integrates it with grid-enabled processing for faster-than-realtime transcoding and quality verification. Equipped with this powerful platform, post facilities can quickly configure and implement highly automated media processing workflows.
- Explore Related Workflows
- Content Repurposing
- Studio Production
- Video Post Production
Content Repurposing
Post facilities are called on to perform a tremendous amount of media processing. Whether transcoding and duplicating today's shoot for dailies delivery, preparing acquisition material for production, generating deliverables for client review, or converting television programs and film libraries for international or web distribution – time is of the essence.
By combining easily manageable and 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
Post facilities are finding that with the new compressed production formats from Apple (ProRes422) and Avid (DNxHD) that uncompressed is no longer the holy grail it once was. At the same time, more projects budgets are Final Cut Pro sized. Combine this with the need to reduce infrastructure costs and increase efficiencies and it seems like the perfect time for a shared edit storage solution that can be leveraged across both Avid and Apple edit rooms. And with the cost of 10Gig Ethernet dropping, the time is right to move to a much more manageable and scalable clustered 10GigE solution and away from a complex and limited SAN solution.
The Omneon storage and processing platform provides centralized storage that can easily scale to meet the bandwidth and capacity requirements of mixed edit environments. The platform also empowers editors to share content and leverage sequences between Apple and Avid edit systems. 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.
