Agility Broadcast

Adopt efficient, flexible IT-based digital media workflows without sacrificing reliability or quality.

Anystream Agility Broadcast allows broadcasters to automatically convert and exchange media between non-linear editing systems, play-to-air servers, news production systems, streaming and Web servers in any major digital format - including MPEG-2, DV, OMF, MXF, H.264, VC1 - in SD and HD.

Agility's modular design extends automation to other broadcast workflows, such as ingesting news content from distribution networks or remote journalists, frame-accurate proxy generation, HD up-conversion, Web publishing and more.

Features

Automated, tapeless workflow
File-based workflow eliminates the need for tape, which speeds media exchange and provides consistent results. Job profiles define the media conversion steps and completed media is uploaded to destination servers.

Faster than real-time transcoding
Eliminates analog-to-digital conversion steps and speeds time-to-air.

Re-wrapping of compatible media files
Preserves the quality of original content and speeds media conversion processes.

Closed caption and V-chip ratings
Substantially reduce production time by inserting closed captioning and V-chip ratings into broadcast formats without using baseband video.

Supports SD and HD workflows
Intelligent HD up-conversion and down-conversion enables the transition to HD using the same automated tapeless workflow.

Automatic proxy generation
Streamline production review and approval with time code burn-in to generate frame-accurate proxies.

Advanced scalability & failover management
Efficiently scales output volume while providing the fastest performance across any number of servers. Automated failover provides 24x7reliability.

Extensible to custom environment
APIs can extend automation to other parts of your unique workflow. Anystream Professional Services are available to provide any integration necessary.

As your workflow grows, Agility Broadcast system offers additional complementary features, including live video feed ingest, MXF output and CableLabs-compliant VOD packages. To centrally manage several Agility systems add system-wide job control, load balancing and failover management capabilities.

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Minimum System Requirements System Configuration
Windows 2000 with Service Pack 3, Windows XP

Recommended
Dual Intel® Pentium® 4 Xeon
2 GHz or higher with 1GB RAM
100 Mbps Ethernet or 1 Gbps Copper/Fiber interface
Disk drives capable of supporting 80 Mbps sustained
write speed for tape and live capture

Included

Input

File-based Editing systems
Avid: QuickTime ABVB, QuickTime Meridien, AVI Meridien, OMF
ABVB, OMF Meridien, OMF DV, DS HD, DNxHD
Final Cut Pro DV25, DV50
Pinnacle Liquid DV, MPEG-2
Adobe Premiere AVI
Matrox OpenDML AVI
Media 100: all including Square and 601

Broadcast formats
Grass Valley: GXF MPEG-2
Leitch: MPEG-2, DV25
Omneon: MPEG-2, DV, IMX, MXF
Pinnacle: MediaStream MPEG-2, DV
Quantel: Clipnet MPEG-2, eQ, sQ
SeaChange: MPEG-2, SAF, 4:2:0, 4:2:2, Layer II Audio
Sony: IMX 4:2:2, MXF D-10, VSR2000 High Definition MPEG-2
MXF: IMX, MPEG-2, DV, D10
DV: DV25, DV50, DVCPro25, DVCPro50

Other formats
DVD VOB files
QuickTime: All supported formats
MPEG-1: Elementary Stream, System Stream, Layer II Audio
MPEG-2: Elementary, Program, and Transport Stream;
PCM Audio, Layer II Audio, AC3 Audio
MPEG-4: ISMA, 3GPP, 3GPP2
AVI: All supported formats
DirectShow: All supported formats
WAV
Windows Media, VC-1
H.264-MPEG4 Part 10

Output

Transcoding & Re-wrapping Broadcast Format (Chose one)
Leitch VR & Nexio
Omneon Spectrum Media Server
Pinnacle MediaStream
SeaChange MediaCluster & MediaClient
Sony MAV
Grass Valley Profile

Workflow Automation

Job Submission
Unlimited copies of Client Interface
(for profile building, job submission and monitoring)
Automated Folder Attendant
Avid ProEncode

Review & QA
Proxy file generation

System Features
Upload to broadcast server
Status notification
Auto job restart

Optional
Workflow Automation

Ingest & Preprocesing
XML metadata Folder Attendant
Automated media conforming
Indexing
Tape with RS-422 deck control
VTR emulation
Live feed

Scheduling & Management
Timed event scheduling
Advanced triggers via IP, DTMF, GPI
Webcast stream failover (with multiple systems)
Output
Any format listed under "Included Output"
MXF: DV, MPEG-2, IMX
Raw DV25, DVCPro, DVCPro50
IPV SpectreView MPEG-1
Avid OMF, DV, IMX, DNxHD, TransferManager
Final Cut Pro
Pinnacle Liquid
MPEG-1, MPEG-2 4:2:0, MPEG-2 4:2:2
High-definition output
Web formats (Windows Media, Real, QuickTime, Flash, MP3, WAV)
CableLabs VOD (see Agility VOD)
Mobile (MPEG-4)
H.264 (AVC Pro)

System Features
Scalability & Failover Management
Agility Job Manager
Agility Batch Manager
Agility Resource Manager
*Subject to change without notice

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