10 Sep 2008
Sporto Komunikacijos Selects Pebble Beach Systems Automation for Specialized Sports Channel
Pebble Beach Systems today announces that Lithuanian sports marketing agency Sporto Komunikacijos has installed Neptune to automate their new sports channel - Sport1 is the first dedicated sports channel in Lithuania...
The Neptune system has been deployed to deliver a fast sports production and playout workflow and manages live acquisition, editing, file based delivery and playout. Using Anchor Media Manager, users can also access historic content held in a near line storage system to incorporate clips into their new production. The system receives the majority of its broadcast content via live feeds and operators can immediately start to view and select highlights from the feeds using Pebble Beach's Razorfish application. Neptune routes ingested content to an Omneon server and IPV encoder, allowing an exact low-resolution copy of the high-resolution file to be created simultaneous to ingest. The low-resolution media is instantly viewable before ingest has finished. Neptune also controls IPVs XCode transcoders which create low-resolution files from content that has not been ingested via the Neptune system by identifying high-resolution files on the main server and sending the files to the X-Code to create a low-resolution copy. The cut edits produced using Razorfish can be seamlessly exported to Apple Final Cut Pro NLEs for final finishing or conformed into new high resolution media directly on the Omneon server. A low resolution proxy copy of content held in Omneon storage and also in near line is always available to the operators. The Neptune control system consists of main and backup controllers and Housekeeper/Database servers providing full redundancy of operation.
