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ASTRA Modules AVECO Americas Incorporated 468 Beacon Street Boston, MA 02115 tel: (303) 588.5528 www.aveco.com Control of VPS The VPS generator control is supported. All the information fields within the VPS code can be independently changed, from date and time up to the parental guidance flag and the audio mode. Control of Logo Inserter ASTRA supports control of inserting/removal of the logo as well as selection of the logo if supported by the device used. Control of Scrambler The scrambler control module allows for controlling parameters of conditional access devices individually for each event on the playlist. Scrambler control capabilities depend on the device's ability to be controlled and typically include scrambled-clear mode, parental guidance level, tiers level and others. Control of Audio Processor The audio processor control allows for controlling various parameters of audio programming devices individually for each event on the playlist. Control of Routing Switcher The control of the routing switcher is supported including automatic routing of the signals to preview monitors. ASTRA's control over the router is typically invisible to the operator who simply selects the device and task to be performed and ASTRA configures the router automatically as required. For example, when recording clips to a videoserver the operator selects the proper source and ASTRA will route the signal to the videoserver input. It is also possible to control the routing switcher manually using the matrix control panel application. The two screen shots shown below represent two different representation of the direct control interface to routers. The image on the left shows a graphical matrix control of a 16x16 router. The image on the right shows control matrix for a 64x64 router. 20
ASTRA Modules AVECO Americas Incorporated 468 Beacon Street Boston, MA 02115 tel: (303) 588.5528 www.aveco.com The ASTRA routing switcher control manages only the outputs dedicated to devices controlled by ASTRA yet it can co-exist with other routing switcher controllers, if this is supported by the routing switcher itself. Subtitling ASTRA has built-in multilingual subtitling support. ASTRA accepts subtitling files in the EBU format. The subtitling can be in-vision or teletext. The subtitle files can be attached to the events in the daily schedule and played back along with the main event. Tape backup ASTRA provides a backup module to direct recording to tape of important media on the videoserver in the chosen format for broadcast in case of an emergency. Blocks, particular commercial breaks or individual clips can be recorded on tape. The tape can be then used in the continuity room for commercial break playout or as the backup media. The TAPE BACKUP modules works like this: 1. Once all necessary commercials have been recorded onto the videoserver 2. And the playlist of commercials are also in ASTRA (input or via traffic interface) 3. And a blank tape is loaded into a VTR under ASTRA control 4. ASTRA can create a back-up tape automatically. The format of this back-up tape has been specialized for customers in different ways. For example, ASTRA will run the tape, will start recording on a VTR (frame accurately), play out color bars and kilohertz for one minute, then black and silence, then first commercial break (including leading jingle, commercials, trailing jingle). The next commercial break will then start recording on the next whole minute with the appropriate amount of black inserted. And so on to the next commercial break etc. up to the trailing ten seconds of black. When ASTRA is used to record a backup tape with fully assembled sequences of commercials, ASTRA can add value: The defined rules, like max/min number of black frames between the commercials, color bars and black, are optional. There can be countdown clips before each leading jingles. There are many options. Several customers chose PROCON (the building block of ASTRA) because their number one selection criteria was capability to create recorded tapes. For example SWR, Germany uses PROCON to prepare backup tapes and then they play out commercial breaks from the tape. What is interesting is this: PROCON must deliver a 5 minute completely assembled commercial break consistently to the same number of frames. SWR's planning system plans the breaks with a target duration of 5 minutes of commercials in it. PROCON imports the commercial playlists. During import PROCON inserts the true durations of the individual commercial clips. The real durations may differ from the planned ones. At the end it may show that the break with planned duration of 5 minutes has only 4'59". 21
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