KOIN Streamlines HD Feast And Playout With Grass Valley

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Oct 27, 2011 12:21 PM

KOIN-TV, the CBS associate portion the Portland, OR, civil area, has streamlined the prolongation of its local headlines with the designation of a full element of Grass Valley live headlines prolongation technologies. The rarely rated hire not long ago updated K2 media server and common storage technology to help record and broach its headlines and syndicated content.

KOIN's new eight-channel media server is comprised of a K2 SAN and two K2 Summit prolongation clients. Attached to the K2 SAN are their Sony Vegas HD amend systems permitting editors to share clips and work on projects concurrently inside of a rarely collaborative environment. The formerly commissioned Grass Valley Ignite programmed prolongation network will be used to manage a new four-channel standalone HD K2 Summit media server to fool around out the scheduled lineup of local headlines packages on a every day basis.

Because KOIN reporters fire with Sony XDCAM (MPEG-2) camcorders, the hire is deploying 300 hours of storage at XDCAM 25 resolution, along with Grass Valley AppCenter Pro program to manage the server duct operations, and a Grass Valley BaseCamp Express calm administration program to increase and manage files and metadata, as required, in tandem with a low-resolution substitute encoder. The answer offers a drag-and-drop media executive and full repository support.

In demand to keep the systems up and running 24/7, KOIN has moreover entered in to a four-year service-level consent (SLA) to have Grass Valley engineering and product dilettante skill existing when it's needed.