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The Vizrt PlatformSpeed / Quality / VolumeIngestThe Vizrt PlatformThere are about as many preferences when collecting content, as there are customers. There aretimes when you need to rout an SDI signal directly to a live transcoder. Later that very same day,files need to be ingested via watch-folders oruploaded directly into a content managementsystem. The Vizrt platform allows a variety ofmethods for ingesting video. Metadata mayfollow through the ingest process, or it can belogged and edited during upload.Vizrt’s focus has always been on what wedefine as our three core values: speed, qualityand volume. Combined, they have becomesynonymous with our success. Being able topublish high quality content – within a fastpaced workflow – is the key ingredient inmaking our customers competitive.The newsdeskEDIT Vizrt’s brings a full toolbox directly to the journalist’s desktop. Searching video or addingelements like maps or graphics can be handled from within our newsroom component. Enjoyfast searching and editing of new videos, and add graphics in an instant. Our video editingtools use proxy video.SEARCH The new Viz Media Engine also includes fast searching, an efficient way of quicklyfinding the content you need right there and then.WEB Build the website of your dreams with EscenicContent Engine’s widget system. With this, the journalistalso has access to other Vizrt tools to producegraphics, video and maps. Videos are served to theweb and transcoded to an array of formats matchingthe requirements of the connecting device.In order to keep any system as scalable as possible – and beingable to handle large volumes when in production – we’ve have hadto think carefully about each step of the way. With these three corevalues as the foundation, our platform is now covering broadcast,media asset management, online, mobile and sports.The Vizrt workflow has expanded a lot over the years. Whatstarted out as a graphics template system for the newsroom, nowcovers the complete workflow both for broadcasters, newspapers, aswell as other participants in the ever-increasing multitude of mobilephones and other handheld devices. Central for handling video inthis workflow is the Viz Media Engine. The approach accommodatesmany ways of bringing video content into the Vizrt workflow. Atcertain times you might need a scheduled SDI workflow with hundredsof incoming feeds. Then Viz Dart is what you’re looking for.Later on you might be in desperate need of ingesting P2 formattedvideo from Viz Media Porter – Or you simply want to upload avideo file through a web interface – directly inside the web CMS. Orsimply drop it to a watch folder? Our ingest methods accommodatefor all of this – and more.News gathering is not only about video. Once inside the Vizrtworkflow, a journalist has access to a large variety of data andimagery. It could be anything from financial data, election data,weather data, map data, to social media feeds being brought intoour systems. When all these feeds are gathered – data, imagery andvideo – the journalist has full access to the material. Without havingto move from machine to machine – or between departments – hecan access it all from applications running on his laptop. Intensiveprocessing tasks will all be restricted to the server side. When jobsare done, the material is instantly accessible to entire teamsworking together.The Internet has taught us how worthless your assets are if no oneis able to find them. The same applies to local storage. The new VizMedia Engine features a radically simplified search, where narrowingdown your approach is essential. The journalist can now browseor rough cut videos in an instant, or open their edit list in their videosuite of choice. Once editing is done, the package is submitted to arundown and all the complex logistics of moving the media aroundto play-out servers or transcoders happen in the background. Theseprocesses are all transparent for the user. He only needs to wait forthe green light. At his desktop, a journalist has a set of storytellingtools that help him search for, produce and publish content. VizContent Pilot provides him with access to video, maps and graphics,all available for publishing to broadcast, web and mobile. Bybundling all processes requiring editorial decisions, the journalistis empowered to work faster and more efficiently – with a very highlevel of quality.In the field of graphics, Vizrt has been strong since day one.While always highly important, modern broadcast trends havemade control of your assets even more important. The traditionalbroadcast workflow, adding graphics in real-time during production,will probably be the most important for many years to come.Simultaneously, it’s interesting to see how this SDI workflow – evenfor broadcasters – requires add-ons. For many of our web andmobile customers, the SDI based workflow is in some cases not evenrelevant, or no longer an option.Vizrt's aim is to use technology to make a journalist’s life easier.At the same time we see an ever-increasing complexity: How todistribute device-adapted content to a large amount of devices. Ourphilosophy is – and always will be – that journalists should onlyhave to do their editorial job once. When published, the process ofadjusting and formatting it to match correct codecs and formats,font sizes and branding, should all be automated. This is what ourViz Media Engine does to distribution. After detecting your device, itserves you the content that best fits your device and bandwidth.Read more about device-adapted graphics on p.20The Vizrt Catalogue 2011 17