re:fine Launches re:io

re:fine has launched re:io, a private online cloud-based content-processing platform for production companies, post houses and distributors involved in the digital-media supply chain.

re:io is a platform for the creation, conversion, processing and delivery of video and audio content, subtitles and metadata. It comes six months after re:fine launched its 24 hour DPP service under the leadership of senior solutions architect Matt Goble, a service that was also created to meet the demands of the new digital production partnership (DPP) file formatting and delivery requirements which launches next month.
re:fine then invested £120,000 in upgrading Telestream Vantage, adding storage and purchasing new licences of Vidchecker, Aspera and EFF Enterprise from Emotion Systems to ensure the 24 hour pledge.
The subsequent launch of re:io is a further step towards a fully digitised service for re:fine clients allowing them to be as involved in the process as they wish to be with re:fine’s usual services accessible through the system. The ultimate aim is to make re:fine's internal systems, expertise and workflows available entirely as an online service to facilitate the flow of content between media-owners, producers, broadcasters and platforms.
Mr Goble commented: "We wanted to present our market with a full suite of digital tools that allow professional content producers in TV or film, advertising or the music-industry to create, convert, process and deliver their video and audio content to any end-user, at anytime, anywhere in the world. re:io fulfils that brief."
As of October 2014 deliveries to UK broadcasters will need to be in the AS-11 format localised to the DPP 4.0 requirements. For many organisations delivering to AS-11 in the DPP specification involves costly investment and upgrades in equipment to monitor such issues as audio loudness, tests for photosensitive epilepsy, transcoding, file QC and high bandwidth connectivity.

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