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IPV Installs SpectreView Browse Solution at European
Commission to Support New Archive System
August 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 has installed its SpectreView browse
solution at the European Commission (EC) to provide easy desktop
access to incoming feeds and archive media at the Commission’s
base in Brussels.
As part of an overhaul of its archive system, the European
Commission is in the process of developing its own in-house
media asset management and automation solution called ‘Beluga’.
This is designed to manage 15,000 video archive files, many
hundred thousand photos and also audio files. Several hours
of new video material are added each day.
To manage this material requires an extensive logging process
that ensures that all the descriptive data relating to the
media is captured in a fast, accurate and effective manner,
and in several languages. This accurate data enables users,
both online and in-house, to quickly locate and retrieve material
relating to any aspect of the construction of the European
Union. All the material, the earliest dating from the 1950s,
is available copyright free, under certain conditions, to
programme makers.
The integration of SpectreView through
a custom-built web client will enable users at the EC to access
all of their new material and archive media directly at their
desktop computers, utilising a number of unique features that
allowed the EC to streamline its operations. Automatic scene
change recognition and thumbnail generation makes it possible
to create a visual representation of the media. Advanced shuttle
control (up to 64x fast forward and rewind) from their desktop
and extensive multi-channel audio are also supported. SpectreView
also enables different users at the EC to simultaneously access
the same media.
“The implementation of IPV’s SpectreView solutions
at the European Commission will allow our archivists to log
media effectively then retrieve it quickly and easily.”
said Martyn Jones, Engineering Manager in the audiovisual
unit at the European Commission. “This is another step
in the tapeless production and distribution system, we just
need to convince some of our more traditional clients that
file transfer really does work.”
”We are delighted to be involved with this exciting project
at the European Commission,” said Nigel Booth, Executive
Vice President for Sales and Marketing at IPV. “Our SpectreView
solution is revered around the world for its ability to create
low-resolution production proxies, together with intelligent
metadata that can be quickly and easily available at the desktop.
This provides customers like the European Commission with
broader business benefits and a return on their investment
through enhanced productivity.”
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 different
quality of user experience by 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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