Deployed by the world’s top media companies to deliver content to multiple Web formats.
Anystream Agility Web rapidly and reliably repurposes media assets for delivery to online premium services, syndication and emerging content platforms. Agility Web automatically ingests content from any source file, preprocesses it for optimal online viewing quality, simultaneously encodes it into any number of Web formats, and delivers finished files to servers or content delivery networks. With unparalleled reliability, Agility Web is used by the world’s top media companies to deliver Web content for consumer viewing.
Agility Web’s modular design lets users easily scale capacity and extend automation to complementary workflows such as ingesting from tape or live feeds, producing content for mobile, IPTV, or video-on-demand, or automatically converting and exchanging digital media in broadcast production workflows.
Features
Output to most popular Web formats
Constant updates to the industry’s wide array of formats ensures your media reaches the broadest possible audience.
Faster than real-time batch encoding
Be first on the Web with news, sports and entertainment.
Optimized, high-quality preprocessing
Proprietary preprocessing architecture creates stunning output quality.
Unified, automated workflow
Profile system boosts production reliability and output consistency and simultaneously encodes to all popular Web formats and data rates.
Production system integration
Ingests content from Mac- and Windows-based postproduction systems, broadcast servers or asset management systems.
Avid integration
ProEncode integration interfaces with and accepts encoded jobs directly from Avid editors.
Folder Attendant
Automates file and metadata submission from any system.
Metadata preservation
Valuable metadata is carried through the production process to simplify media labeling, categorization, archiving and search.
Server-based architecture
Simultaneously frees multiple expensive talent resources of task-based media preparation, encoding and distribution processes, allowing them to focus on creative work.
Scalability & failover management
Scales to near limitless output volume using intelligent, fine-grained load balancing 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 or all integration necessary.
As your workflow grows, the Agility Web system can scale your output volume with add-on complementary features, including output to mobile formats, CableLabs video-on-demand, and broadcast server format transcoding. 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 SP3, Windows XP SP2, Windows Server 2003
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
Preprocesing & Media preparation
Video
Blur
Bumpers & trailers
Color space conversion
Contrast enhancement
Cropping
De-interlacing and interlacing
Fade-in & fade-out
In/out trimming
Field frame control
Gamma correction
Hue rotation
Inverse telecine
Noise reduction
Saturation
Support for 16x9 and other aspect ratios,
add/remove letter boxing and curtaining
Temporal smoothing
Video frame rate conversion and resizing with anti-alias filtering
Watermarking
Automated thumbnail extraction
Audio
Compression
Fade-in & fade-out
Low-pass & high-pass filtering
Volume filtering
Workflow Automation
Job Submission
Unlimited copies of Client Interface
(for profile building, job submission and monitoring)
Automated Folder Attendant
Avid ProEncode
Output
Windows Media: V7, V8, V9, MPEG4V3, ISO-MPEG4-V1
Windows Media Audio: V2/V7/V8, ACELP.net, DRM support
RealVideo10, RealVideo 9, RealVideo 8, RealAudio 10, RealAudio 8
QuickTime: All supported codecs, Sorenson 3 Pro, QDesign
Music Pro 2, MPEG-4
Sorenson: Spark Pro for Flash MX
On2 Flash 8
MP3
WAV
System Features
Auto job restart
File distribution
Status notification
Optional
Workflow Automation
Ingest & Preprocessing
Tape with RS-422 deck control
Batch capture from tape
VTR emulation
Live feed
XML metadata Folder Attendant
Automated media conforming
Indexing & scene change detection
Scheduling & management
Timed event scheduling
Advanced triggers via IP, DTMF, GPI
Webcast stream failover (with multiple systems)
Output
Live Webcasting of Real & Windows Media
MPEG-1, MPEG-2 4:2:0, MPEG-2 4:2:2
MPEG-2 & Windows Media HD
CableLabs VOD (see Agility VOD)
Mobile - MPEG-4: ISMA, 3GPP, 3GPP2, AAC Audio, AMR Audio,
QCLEP Audio H.264 (AVC Pro)
AC3 Audio
All major broadcast server formats (see Agility Broadcast)
All major non-linear editing formats
(Avid, Final Cut Pro, Pinnacle Liquid)
H.264
System Features
Agility SDK
Scalability & Failover Management
Agility Job Manager
Agility Batch Manager
Agility Resource Manager
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