Omneon and Interra Team Up to Combine Automated QC
of Media on Active Storage
April 3, 2008
Source: Omneon
Omneon, Inc. and Interra
Systems today announced that they have worked together to
deliver the industry's first
grid-powered quality assurance application, the Interra Baton.
The Baton application harnesses the inherent media processing
capabilities of the Omneon MediaGrid™ active storage
system. Employing the Omneon MediaGrid
Processing Framework, the Baton software is now able to use
the MediaGrid system's many CPUs in parallel to deliver automated
quality control of media files, while eliminating the need
for separate QA hardware and additional external storage to
perform the quality control (QC) function.
"With the advent of file-based operations in the media
world and the proliferation of formats and delivery methods,
quality control has become a very important and demanding
function," said Ashish Basu, vice president,
sales and business development, Interra Systems, Inc. "Using
the parallel processing power of MediaGrid, Baton provides
a simple and elegant solution.
The user already has the necessary
hardware and processing power so no further investment is
needed. The entire QC operation is set to automatically run
in the background completely transparent to the user."
MediaGrid was designed by Omneon not only to meet the storage
capacity and bandwidth demands of large media files, but also
to play an active role in the workflow of a facility by enabling
the processing of media files while
they reside in the storage system. By combining grid storage
and grid computing, MediaGrid delivers the necessary storage
while offering processing power for applications that run
on it, such as Interra's Baton system.
With MediaGrid as the central active storage running Baton,
facilities can institute a highly efficient QC function that
is automatic, integral to the workflow, and able to perform
checks at all stages of the content life
cycle. For example, post production facilities can use Baton
to confirm that content has been encoded correctly and conforms
to quality and format standards before delivery to customers.
Likewise, broadcasters can check
quality at ingest, after editing, and before playout for every
delivery method including Internet and mobile TV.
"The Baton content verification system is a perfect application
for MediaGrid active storage," said Geoff Stedman, vice
president, worldwide marketing for Omneon. "Other QC
systems require additional hardware and become an additional
step in the workflow. Baton, on the other hand, is a seamless
fit, providing this necessary function automated and in the
background while content resides within the MediaGrid system."
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