VIVA
ENTERPRISE INGESTION
SYSTEM
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Ingestion system is just one task of the many tasks involving a file based Television. ingestion system stays in the middle of processes between MAM and Archiving or Transmission, hence following any other production activities, such as Promo, Newsroom or Playout.
An ingestion system, as standalone solution, can only digitize material; eventually a transcoder can be integrated in the system to convert the ingested files into a frame accurate proxy format or into dedicated formats. However a system without a MAM can’t support a file based workflow: normally MAM is mandatory.
This section describes the new VIVA ingestion system, already deployed in several sites with large numbers of channels. VIVA takes advantage of unique features of AVIO Ingest Video Server, but can be used also with other servers, such as for example Omneon MediaDeck.
VIVA is divided into two separated applications: VIVA Ingestion Manager (VIVA IM) and VIVA SCHEDULER (VIVA SC). VIVA IM is dedicated to VTR ingest while VIVA SC is dedicated to live feeds.
At present VIVA is the best ingestion system of the market or at least second to none.
VIVA IM (Ingestion Manager)
Key and distinguish factors are the following (some features can depend on Video Server used for ingestion):
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Support for SD, HDV, HD |
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PAUSE/RESUME while recording (OPTIONAL) |
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Support most codecs such as: DV25/50, MPEG2 I/IPB, D10/IMX, DVCPRO, MOV, MXF, MPEG2-TS (HDV), DVCPROHD, MPEG2 HD (I frame and IPB), XDCAM HD422, etc. Of course most codecs depend on Video Server |
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Confidence output in HQ (OPTIONAL) |
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Integrated CART support (OPTIONAL) |
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Confidence output in low quality (VIVA XY-Display) (OPTIONAL) |
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Integrated TAPE CLEANER support (OPTIONAL) |
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Integrated real time live and file based quality check (OPTIONAL) |
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RS-422 parameters check (to analyze information coming from VTR and Video Tape) |
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User login and administrative rights (OPTIONAL) |
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One single client station to support remotely multiple VTR, with batch ingest. Multiple client stations are also supported |
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VDCP support (OPTIONAL) |
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Management of virtually unlimited number of VTRs from one single client or multiple clients |
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Concurrent proxy creation together with high quality (OPTIONAL) |
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Complete and extensive input set of metadata |
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Can control various video server brands (Harris Nexio, Thomson K2, Omneon MediaDeck/Spectrum, Media-Alliance AVIO) |
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Multiple A/V Router Control |
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Ingestion system: overall design
VIVA ingestion system is composed by:
One or more ingestion server with one or more ingestion inputs
One or more Remote control PC
One optional composite A/V Router to route VTR for J&S monitoring and an optional A/V Router to route a VTR to the appropriate ingestion channel.
One DEVICE MANAGER SERVER with Serial Controller (VTR, optional ROUTER)
One Central Storage either SAN, NAS or Cluster
Quality Check at input source (optional)
Quality Check file based with own server (optional)
Optional RS-422 parameters check
Optional CART and Tape Cleaner
Gigabit Network and/or FC Fabric Switch
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