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Viasat Satellite Services Chooses IPV SpectreView
Browse Solution at New Playout Facility for Baltic Region
July 13, 2009
Source: IPV
IPV, a global leader
and largest independent supplier of low bit-rate, frame-accurate
video technology to the broadcast and professional video sectors,
today announced that its SpectreView browse solution has been
selected by Viasat Satellite Services AB (VSS), to form part
of the its new automated playout facility in Riga, Latvia.
The project is being lead by Luxembourg-based systems integration
company BCE and is expected to go to air in early 2010.
Part of Modern Times Group (MTG), Viasat is the largest free-TV
and satellite premium pay-TV operator in both Scandinavia
and the Baltic regions. The new playout facility is part of
a major renovation program that will enable Viasat to replace
its three smaller local playout centres currently in Latvia,
Estonia and Lithuania - and build a new central playout hub
to manage the existing nine channels and to facilitate future
channel expansion. In addition to the playout of the Baltic
channels, this new centre will provide the disaster recovery
services for Viasat’s UK operation.
The system includes Pebble Beach automation and media management
capabilities as well as Front Porch’s DIVArchive, Omneon
Spectrum and MediaDeck™ servers and Apple® Final
Cut Pro (FCP) editors. The entire workflow is under the management
of Pebble Beach’s Neptune automation and Anchor media
management systems — which includes the movement of media
between London and Riga via the DIVArchive.
Once ingested assets are tagged as QC passed, they are transcoded
using multiple IPV SpectreView Xcode engines to create low-resolution
browse proxy copies. The IPV browse resolution content has
multiple purposes including, the selection of clips for promo
production, content segmentation for advertising insertion,
and the provision of voiceovers and sub-title files.
The content can be viewed on 20 Razorfish clients installed
in Viasat’s facilities in Riga, Tallinn and Vilnius.
EDLs output from Razorfish are used to trigger partial file
restores of high-resolution material from the DIVArchive system
and can also be shared with FCP suites to provide a highly
efficient workflow for final promo production.
“The implementation of the IPV’s SpectreView low-res
browse solution was integral to the whole workflow at Viasat
as it offers the operators all the necessary tools right at
the desktop,” said Tom Gittins, Director of Sales, Pebble
Beach Systems. “SpectreView’s new ability to provide
multi-track audio, with up to 11 stereo tracks, was crucial
to meet the demands of Viasat’s multilingual transmissions.”
”We are delighted to be involved with this project at
Viasat alongside our long term partner Pebble Beach Systems,”
said Nigel Booth, Executive Vice President for Sales and Marketing
at IPV. “The ability to have low-resolution production
proxy material quickly and easily available, at the desktop,
enables Viasat to harness the business benefits — including
speed of operation and accessibility of material — that
come with an integrated file-based process.”
Seen by many as the de facto standard for browse resolution
systems, SpectreView is implemented by a large number of manufacturers
of playout automation, newsrooms, asset management and access
services. Key to its success is the incorporation of precision
timecode and frame accuracy.
This coupled with its advanced streaming server ensures an
unprecedented user experience providing a VTR-like performance
at the desktop. Content can be encoded using a low bitrate
codec – originally MPEG, now MPEG-4 or Windows Media
9 – and be accessed by multiple devices on standard computers,
even when precise timecode control is critical.
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