Volicon To Release New Applications At NAB 2014

At this year's NAB, Volicon has announced that it will unveil five new applications within the company's Observer® Media Intelligence Platform (MIP)™.

Observer is a solution that records a station's media from ingest to playout, as well as multiple on-air broadcasts. In addition to enabling multiple users to stream, analyse, and review content from anywhere at any time, the platform supports a range of applications including compliance, quality assurance, competitive analysis, production, and repurposing for multiple platforms and social media outlets.

NEW Volicon Capture
Volicon's new Capture application allows broadcasters to capture media from any source at any time, ingesting media either according to a schedule, in real time, and/or 24x7 recording. The application enables the user to review content as it is captured, immediately clip high-value content, and push it directly to editing and MAM systems without transcoding steps. Because a low-resolution proxy is created along with the True HD (1080i 25/30, 720p 50/60) recording, both local and remote Observer® Media Intelligence Platform (MIP)™ users — remote staff, partners, consultants, outside talent, and reporters in the field — can easily collaborate to access, review, and clip content to create valuable footage for distribution.

NEW Volicon Share
Volicon's new Share application allows broadcasters to repurpose existing content quickly and push it to digital platforms and social media sites. One-button publishing profiles facilitate rapid processing of content to meet appropriate container and encoding requirements for an array of platforms, including target websites, YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook. Share also makes use of existing closed captioning text to publish content that is compliant with government regulations.

NEW Volicon Review
The new Volicon Review application provides broadcasters, networks, and playout service providers with a solution for reviewing on-air content, validating ad placement, and performing competitive analysis. It facilitates access to broadcast content for users working centrally and across geographically distributed sites, thus giving all key stakeholders the ability to keep an eye on their own broadcasts.
The application interfaces with the playout automation system to provide as-run log data for comparison with the frame-accurate recording of the broadcast output.

NEW Volicon Comply
Volicon's new Comply application enables users to record, clip, and export broadcasts to meet regulatory and licensing requirements. Addressing an array of regulations, ranging from decency to closed captioning to loudness, the application allows users to respond quickly and unambiguously to compliance requests. Leveraging Volicon's compliance monitoring technology, Comply lays critical A/V metadata over frame-accurate video to create a clear visual affidavit of compliance.

NEW Volicon Monitor
Built on Volicon's digital video monitoring technology, the new Monitor application allows users to monitor video quality, respond to fault reports, and use a full recording of the on-air broadcast for instant review of errors and their impact.
While continuously analysing logged content for a variety of faults such as black or static screen, loss of video or closed captions and incorrect audio levels, the application provides individually configurable alert thresholds, with notifications delivered via email or SNMP traps. Quality measurement thresholds may be configured per channel to optimise performance and error reporting.
The application also provides an integrated multiviewer feature that enables Observer® Media Intelligence Platform (MIP)™ users to use their standard displays as multiviewers or record the output of a traditional multiviewer. With multiple streams presented on a network wall, users can respond immediately to any issues, instantly grabbing the suspect stream via their desktop interfaces to begin resolving the problem.

"While we plan to unveil a number of important new products at the 2014 NAB Show, we feel that these new applications within the Observer Media Intelligence Platform will also prove to be some of the most powerful and valuable releases since the company first launched," said Gary Learner, Chief Technology Officer at Volicon.
"We are confident that the technology on display at our booth will be recognized by attendees as a significant step forward that Volicon is taking as a solutions provider to broadcast enterprises."
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