Tedial Announces Technical Developments To Content Management Suite

Tedial, a leading provider of Media Asset Management (MAM), Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) and Business Process Management (BPM) software has unveiled key enhancements to its complete suite of solutions for content management at NAB on Stand N6506.
Tedial's enterprise level integration platform, based on IT architecture, is made up of four components - AST (HSM), Tarsys (MAM), MPM and Ficus (BPM) - allowing broadcasters to take full advantage of file-based workflows by optimising and automating operational processes.
Ficus, which forms the top component of Tedial's architecture, is the most proven and mature BPM in the broadcast industry. Its latest enhancements include control by multiple operators distributed across different geographical locations and a web interface featuring customisable work orders for each step of the production workflow. Ficus' powerful grid computing now supports the management of over 3,500 workflows a day - a true testimony to the scalability of the solution.
Tedial's renowned enterprise integration system MPM is based on layered logic. The latest version supports the execution of conditional operations in a workflow. MPM automatically detects the aspect ratio of a video file that it's processing and is also able to handle video files with multiple audio tracks. Tedial's integration with Avid now supports ingesting and editing metadata directly into Avid Interplay, using the Tedial Capture client. It can also move media and metadata to and from Interplay, either automatically or manually performing any required rewrapping 'on the fly'. This provides one of the market's tightest integrations with the Avid world.
The latest version of Tedial's powerful MAM system with integrated HSM software is based on object-relational database management technology, which allows the creation of dedicated database models for special events or production areas in an organisation.
Users can create metadata fields relevant to their own unique requirements - for special events, for example - rather than being restricted by generic fields. It also enables the linking of databases that are traditionally incompatible (eg: automation, traffic, news, video servers, HSM and MAM) thereby harnessing their combined potential. Tedial is also launching Tarsys' new web client at the show.
The latest version of Tedial's ingest manager application - Capture - includes simultaneous control of multiple ingest channels from the same client. For live ingest, Capture now allows operators to directly perform media logging and segmentation online using low-res proxy copies.
Rafael Dubois, Tedial's Sales Director, commented: "This year we are celebrating our tenth anniversary and we are very proud of the huge technical progress that the company has achieved. What sets our technology apart from other MAM systems is the ability to deliver media to transmission, editing, archiving or any other area of a facility, whilst automatically carrying out all the media processing, so that it arrives in the most efficient way in the correct format for the device that's going to use it."
(KMcA)