Managing Workflow At Viasat

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Feb 27, 2012 10:21 AM, By Alison Pavitt

The flourishing direction for customers to emanate a singular item that may be used in multi-part geographic markets necessitates being able to increase new denunciation marks to a singular video stream. At Viasat AB in Riga, Latvia, Pebble Beach Systems industrialisation is at the heart of a unique multilingual, multi-site workflow.

Part of Modern Times Group (MTG), Viasat AB is the largest free-television and pay-TV user in Scandinavia and the Baltic regions, and the principal shareholder in eccentric Russian broadcaster CTC Media. As segment of a leading modernization module concurrent by Luxembourg systems integrator Broadcasting Center Europe (BCE), the user not long ago inaugurated to centrally control its 3 existing playout centers in Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania. It asked BCE to erect a new flexibly configured middle playout heart formed at TV3 in Riga to succeed all the existing channels and soak up enlargement ability is to future.

As well as representing a total ascent of the setup, this plan updated an active standby capacity of 8 channels to deed as a full catastrophe liberation trickery is to principal Viasat announce core located in London. To achieve this, BCE incorporated a digital calm repository that mirrors the repository of the operator's London playout. The network connects the London and Riga sites, together with operations in Tallinn and Vilnius, and allows the use of calm originally ingested in London or Riga to be noticed or copied to the other sites. Crucially for this multilingual region, it moreover permits new audio voiceover marks to be updated to ingested content, enabling a file-based workflow is to local prolongation of promos in add-on to locally constructed content.

In add-on to the Neptune industrialisation and Anchor calm management, the designation incorporates 6 Harmonic Media Director servers for ingest, principal TX and backup TX in Riga, together with two 6-channel Media Decks in London to deed as feast and TX disaster-recovery servers.

Based on Neptune automation, the designation involves a intricate workflow that handles calm transformation between 3 sites (London, Riga and Vilnius). The transformation of calm between London and Riga is rubbed in conjunction with Front Porch Diva automation, with Neptune tracking properties via the whole network to make sure that the scold versions, containing the apt audio tracks, are existing at the right time and in the right place.

Once properties are tagged as QC passed, a low-resolution substitute record is automatically generated using IPV XCode transcoders. These low-resolution copies may be used for promo production, where operators using Razorfish, Pebble Beach Systems' own cuts-only editor, are able to emanate rough-cut EDLs. Completed promos, discriminating using Apple Final Cut Pro editors, are returned to a Harmonic server before being archived, transcoded and changed to playout.

Most of Viasat's media properties have multi-part related audio files to agree with denunciation variants. New language-variant audio files may moreover must be updated to the item once it has already transfered by the QC process. To agree with this, Neptune's audio follow tagging software will automatically agree to the attainment of new audio files, increase them to the initial item and present the outcome for QC previous to adding them to the archive.

The feast GUI accommodates the imprinting up of not similar audio files and enables users to increase tagging data to the Harmonic header. A new application, Track Tag, is linked right away back to the Pebble Beach Systems database and handles instances in that data is improper at the feast indicate and needs to be changed. Neptune will agree to the differences between element that is ingested from London and element that already exists in the Riga Diva repository to make sure that the ultimate duplicate of the calm is always used.