Cinegy MediaCleaner And MediaMover Answer Requests On Workflow Needs

Cinegy's new MediaCleaner and Media Mover aims to answer the requests from many broadcast customers.
Whether the customer is a government agency monitoring dozens of TV channels, a news channel ingesting dozens of video news feeds or one of the many reality TV productions that use Cinegy for their real-time production needs, they all have one thing in common: they will only ever require a fraction of the ingested material at the end of the day, week or month. This so far has been mostly a manual process of material elimination. With the Cinegy Workflow environment the fact that the material ingested can exist also in as many as five different proxy qualities made this even more complex. The new Cinegy MediaCleaner allows automating of this.
It checks after a predefined timeframe (which can be set individually per production) or can be started manually and finds out which material is really being used and which is not and can be safely deleted. Cinegy MediaCleaner will do so; leave the material that is being used (including all associated metadata) plus a predefined amount of trim-handles for all resolutions of video including all proxy resolutions. In conjunction with the Cinegy MediaMover material can then also be moved from expensive storage to lesser expensive storage e.g. from production storage to archive storage.
Cinegy is now going truly tapeless with the support of Panasonic’s P2. The new version of Cinegy Ingest shown at IBC 2006 adds full support for P2 and the first customers already have received shipment of this version and are already using it for day-to-day production work.
Within minutes, the entire content of a P2 card can be transferred into the Cinegy Workflow system or only selected content can be chosen which is then being transferred. In either case the user can choose to have proxy video copies to be created on the fly and/or additional shot / scene change detection to be applied.
The combination of Panasonic P2 media and Cinegy’s Ingest module shows the ideal workflow. What used to take “real-time” using tape now has been reduced to a fraction, really saving time for that now can be used to bring breaking news to air faster.
Also Cinegy has underscored their commitment to MXF announcing a decision to allow the use of MXF as native internal media format for all its archive, media asset management system, ingest and playout solutions further underscores this.
The MXF format Cinegy has decided to use is the same MXF format as AVID uses with the goal to improve interoperability with AVID’s product range further. The idea here is to avoid the need to transcode any media moving material back and forth between AVID’s NLE’s and the Cinegy Workflow solution.
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