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A complete media assetmanagement solutionMedia Asset ManagementViz Ardome covers the whole workflowfrom ingest, transcoding, media management,browse editing, and annotationtools. Through an easy-to-use graphicalinterface, you can control ingest and importfrom digital files, feeds and tapes, quicklypreview the content, and attach metadata.Media collection runs smoothly in thebackground, providing the user with quickeringesting. Inside Viz Ardome, low-resolutiondesktop editing ensures fast access tomedia, where hundreds of users have accesssimultaneously. Viz Ardome integrates withnumerous newsroom systems, as well asAVID, Final Cut Pro, Liquid, Quantel,and AutoDesk.VIZ ARDOME IS A HIGHLY scalable solutionwith extensive rights and metadata functionality.Leading media companies useViz Ardome to address cross-format storageand management, from small work groupsto enterprise wide systems across multiplesites. Viz Ardome is designed to meet avariety of requirements, ranging from fastpaced news production to long term preservationof media assets and full length films.A Viz Ardome system can be configured tohandle thousands of simultaneous usersand hundreds of concurrent media operations.The system can also be scaled up byinstalling multiple Viz Ardome instances.The instances can exchange media,metadata and workflow tasks in accordancewith configured policies. This method ofscaling the system is used to implementwork in progress libraries and to cross bothgeographical boundaries and multiple-sitemedia installations.SPEED UP YOUR NEWSROOM productionwith automated ingest processes and acentral point of access to all content, regardlessof editing platform. All ingest operationscan be monitored simultaneously.Applications for browsing, cutting andediting empower journalists with storytellingtools at their desktop. Integration withthe newsroom computer system speeds uppublishing, and eliminates typical copypaste work. Media sharing and publishingwork is simplified through the use of craftediting plug-ins for publishing and metadataentry.CORE AND COMPANION PRODUCTS. TheViz Ardome core product delivers the mediamanagement and archive foundation. Corefunctions include storage management,metadata handling, search, workflows, usermanagement and security management. Anumber of companion products which entaillicensed functional and connectivity optionscan be used to extend the capabilities ofViz Ardome.Viz Ardome Key Features:• Large-scale media asset management• Multi-user interface allowing simultaneouswork production• Archive capabilities including configurablemetadata, search, policies and work flows• Rich feature set for production of newmedia – mobile, broadband, etc• Drives incremental revenue from repurposingof content• HD support including integration withleading video servers and craft editors• Large tool set for proxy video browsing,logging and editing• Flexible configuration and customizationoptions and Open APIs• Desktop video editing in low-res, with timecode accuracy• Integrates with Vizrt’s non-linear editingtool, Viz NLE, for adding graphics to videos• Traffic systems integration• Newsroom systems integration• Delivery to a variety of play out servers• Access restrictionsViz Capture ENABLING INGEST AND OUTGEST.Viz Capture is a tool for digital contentacquisition from video tape recorders orfrom live feeds. The Viz Capture GUI allowsfor remote ingest from live, tape based andvideo server. It produces frame accuraterecordings that can be fetched whilst datais still being recorded and simultaneouslyallows the editing of such data during ingest.It also supports batch-ingest from Video TapeRecorders (VTR), Copy-to-Tape functionality,and multi-channel play-out.Viz Capture provides open interfaces forintegration with media management solutions,ensuring simple integration with newand existing workflows. Viz Capture cannotify other systems of actions, performed bysending XML formatted events to interestedparties. Viz Capture can be integrated with VizDart to ensure efficient resource allocationand router control.Viz Dart THE DIGITAL AUTOMATED recording tool,Viz Dart, has a web based interface forhandling recording of video from a widerange of live and feed sources and makingit available for immediate use. It provideseasy drag-and-drop style graphical editingof scheduled recordings. Viz Dart is capableof automatically ingesting from any numberof video servers and media channels into amulti-server environment; for replay and editingon demand.Supported video server protocols:• VDCP• MVCP• AMP• Vortex• Quantel• Omneon API• CORBASupported video routers, including:• Nvision NV9000 • Quartz Q16XX• Grass Valley 7000 • Utah 300 and• Philips Jupiter Aurora versionsCart machines, such as Sony Flexicart orOdetics Cart machine, can be integratedto automate and visualize bulk ingest ofarchived or purchased material.Viz Media Porter MEDIA INGEST from desktop PCs is handledeasily with the Windows-based applicationViz Media Porter. Viz Media Porter allowsfor importing video clips into the Viz Ardomesystem from devices such as P2 and XDCAMcameras as well as card readers. Viz MediaPorter is useful in production environmentsthat require high-speed workflows, such asnews production, where a wide range of usergroups need to import material directly fromtheir workstations and have the imported materialrapidly available to other users. As partof the upload process, metadata is addedto clips that are being imported. When thematerial is imported, it is saved as an item inthe Viz Ardome archive.Viz Media Porter can also be used to browsethrough clips that are on the devices attachedto the workstation, or that are queued to beimported, and can be used to create mergedclips for importing.The workflow is simple and clear, while keepingthe complexity transparent for the user.The Vizrt Catalogue 2011 105