Broadcast Automation Platform

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The new software platform for professional broadcasting. Stable. Flexible. Automated. Complete. A bestseller!

Overview

Professional broadcast automation platform featuring playout and ingest with Blackmagic Design, AJA and other boards, built-in character generator, scheduling, time shifting and more. Does not require DirectShow expertise. Easily integrates with WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation).

Playout

Powerful gapless multi-format, multi-compression playout engine.
Playout to professional in/out boards (Blackmagic, AJA).
Items with different resolution, frame rate, compression format and container can be played out from a single playlist.
On-air playlist editing.
Simultaneous playout and streaming.
Third-party application integration via "virtual devices" (such as Adobe FMLE).

For MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264/AVC and MXF playback & capture please see our codec packs below.

Automation

Daily and 24/7 scheduling.
Sub-playlists support: interrupt your playlist with a sub-playlist (such as an ad break) on a pre-defined schedule.
CG automation: display clip metadata at scheduled times.

Character Generator Pro

News tickers (crawls and rolls) with automatic file tracking (on-air editing).
Easy management via XML-based configurations.
Graphics overlay.
Tables to display real-time statistics like sports data and stocks.
RSS feeds as sources of ticker content.

Live Source

Playout of live streams as playlist items.
Live video input from professional boards (BlackMagic, AJA).
DV/HDV cams support via FireWire interface.
External device control via DeckLink RS422 (VTR) or IEEE 1394 (for DV/HDV cameras).
Sharing of a single device between several applications via "virtual devices".

Streaming

Receive RTSP, HTTP and RTP/UDP streams.
Stream to RTSP, HTTP and RTP/UDP.

Download Multimedia Bridge/Streaming!

Time Shifter

Time-shifted playout for broadcasting in different time zones.
Time-shifted capture or event-based capture.
Playback during capture.
Replays of live events.

Transitions

Adds transition effects to the Playout module:

Cross-fade
Slide
Blinds
DXTransform transitions (pixelate, RandomBars, RandomDissolve, Strips, Wheel, SMTE Wipe, etc.)

3D (coming soon!)

3D video playback support via DeckLink HD Extreme 3D (SDI, HDMI 1.4).
Overlay over 3D video.
3D video scaling.
3D video capture support.

Character Generator Flash

Add support for Flash to the powerful CG module!

Decoder Pack

Royalty-free playback components:

Compression formats: MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264/AVC, MP3, AAC.
Containers: MP4, QuickTime, MPEG-2 TS/PS.

For other formats see our MXF Reader, DV Decoder, M-JPEG Video Decoder, QuickTime Source.

Capture Pack

Royalty-free encoding components:

Compression formats: MPEG-2, H.264/AVC, AAC.
Containers: MP4, MPEG-2 TS/PS.

Download Capture Pack!

For other formats see our MXF Writer, DV Encoder, M-JPEG Video Encoder and QuickTime Writer.

Supported Development Environments

Visual C++
.NET (C#, Visual Basic)
VB6
Delphi
C++Builder

No DirectShow expertise required!

Why Customers Like to Buy from Us

Easy to use products.
Industry tested quality.
Simple licensing: lifetime license, no royalties.
Friendly and honest support staff.

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