Plazamedia choose Geevs for Bundesliga coverage

In order to provide fast and cost effective production of highlights from the German Bundesliga football matches, Plazamedia have chosen a system based on the Geevs video servers from Gee Broadcast Systems.
The system, now installed at Plazamedia, uses four Geevs servers to capture live feeds of up to nine simultaneous football matches. The captured material is stored on a central SAN Fibre Channel disk array using MPEG2 at 50mbits/sec to maintain picture quality. The GaSSS SAN storage system allows instant access to the recordings for editing.
Eight networked logging stations work with the Geevs servers to produce, simultaneously, sub-clips of the highlights as live recording of the games takes place. The logging stations provide a simple interface to allow the operators to review recorded material as the matches progress and select the best highlights.
They also provide frame grab of selected frames and a facility to create an immediate 'highlight sub-clip' of any dramatic event by simply converting the last 30 seconds of live action into a new clip.
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