IPV Adds Advanced Managements & Control Tools

A global leader and largest independent supplier of low bit-rate, frame-accurate video technology to the broadcast and professional video sectors, IPV, will showcase its new management and control tools for its Curator and SpectreView systems at IBC in Amsterdam next month (Stand: 8.B67), including a new Process Engine and the XCode Manager Service.
IPV's new Process Engine will bring advanced control for proxy and metadata ingest, device management and metadata services. Administered through a System Administrator's console, the Process Engine enables rules to be defined such as job priority management and completion notification such as SMS and email support. This is managed via a simple and effective graphical drag and drop interface. Devices are monitored and actions assigned, whether to automate the pipeline or to provide notification of system alarms.
Also making its debut at IBC will be IPV's XCode Manager Service. The XCode engine is tuned to provide SpectreView compliant browse proxies with precise frame accuracy and metadata extraction and generation, including scene change analysis and storyboarding. IPV's XCode Manager ensures that multiple devices can be controlled and managed in a group or pool.
The service allows advanced job allocation, load management and priority decisions based on customer requirements. Device assignment, job management and rules based processes are scripted in Curator's System Administrator Console or controlled directly through a web serviced based API.
Nigel Booth, Executive Vice President for Sales and Marketing at IPV, said: "Renowned worldwide, our solutions have enabled broadcasters to provide a cost-efficient means of sharing and managing content in a file-based workflow environment. These introductions at IBC 2009 will further support our customers in their move to reduce costs while increasing productivity and building a return on their investment."
The Curator system is an affordable, proxy-based tapeless workflow environment running on both PC and Apple Mac platforms, that is designed to allow communities of media professionals to add value to their content and efficiently fulfil tasks such as desktop editing media annotation, review and approve and general media browsing. It is a complete solution that can efficiently ingest, encode or transcode, at low bitrate, proxy SDI or file-based media, which can then be used concurrently by multiple users.
Whatever the source of the material, the Curator version is guaranteed to be frame accurate at all times giving an unprecedented desktop experience.
Tools included in the system include shot change detection, closed caption overlays, handling of multiple audio tracks, speeding tasks such as scene-by-scene transcription, review and approval and metadata preparation.
IPV's SpectreView browse solution is seen by many as the de facto standard for browse resolution systems, SpectreView is implemented by a large number of manufacturers of playout automation, newsrooms, asset management and access services.
Key to its success is the incorporation of precision timecode and frame accuracy. This coupled with its advanced streaming server ensures an unprecedented user experience providing a VTR-like performance at the desktop. Content can be encoded using a low bitrate codec, originally MPEG, now MPEG-4 and Windows Media 9 and be accessed by multiple devices on standard computers, even precise timecode control is critical.
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