## **The long-lasting partnership between MOG and BCP keeps on bringing results on the joint mission to design and supply effective solutions for the media and entertainment industry to the Polish market**</center>
This time, the goal was to provide a system based on automatic watch folders to streamline video file ingestion for various applications.

 
 

## **<center>The Costumer</center>**

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[Telewizja Polsat sp. z o.o.](https://www.polsat.pl/) is the largest terrestrial commercial broadcaster in Poland, established in 1992. It belongs to the Grupa Polsat Plus, with 38 own channels, and is one of the main providers of digital multichannel television in Poland. It is the 4th largest digital platform in Europe and the largest in Central and Eastern Europe. The service is distributed over the Hotbird satellite and includes a mix of free-to-air and encrypted channels for 4,5 million subscribers.

 
 

## **<center>The Partner</center>**

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Established in the Polish market in 1997, [BCP Sp. z o.o.](https://www.bcp.com.pl/) is a distributor of professional audio and video equipment that sells both individual devices as well as integrated sets. Its range of customers is the central television station, production studios and post-production, and other reputable institutions of the Country, because of the quality of service they offer. With almost 20 years of experience, BCP has the exact knowledge of the needs of the audio-visual market in Poland

 
 

## **<center> The Challenge </center>**

The challenge was to create a file base solution based on an AVID environment to ingest many video files into an Avid PAM (Production Asset Management) system from Telewizja Polsat – one of the largest media companies in Poland and all of Central Europe. 
 
Due to the nature of this request, the best solution was MOG's mediaMOVE Grand A which can ingest and transcode all kinds of media files from Avid, Sony, Panasonic, and many others, with the possibility of scheduling automatic jobs and create watch folders on multiple applications.

 
 

## **<center> The Solution </center>**

The chosen solution was mediaMOVE Grand A, a compact 2RU server that allows ingesting **files based on watch folders; into Polsat’s Avid PAM systems, along with specific metadata, while also giving the possibility to have the containers rewrapped and audio tracks remapped.**

 

_“The key element was the positive impressions obtained from the analysis of, among others, features, ease of use, and performance ratings, backed up by a series of tests before purchase..." - Stated **Principal IT/TV Engineer Mr. Michał Łaptosz from Telewizja Polsat** - "...This overlaps with our awareness of MOG's experience in building programming libraries for handling the MXF format, which ensures that the files created by their systems meet all the requirements of the SMPTE standard.”_

 

MediaMOVE Grand A is a turnkey appliance that can perform up to 4 simultaneous ingest operations. It supports Quad Full-HD, Full-HD, HD, and SD video gateways to ingest and transcode all kinds of media files.

 

**Some of MediaMOVE’s main highlights are:**
- Operation modes: manual, scheduled, and automatic;
- Ingest and/or Transcode contents according to the destination format;
- Support for spanned clips (Sony XDCAM EX, Panasonic P2, Panasonic GH5, GoPro, and Canon);
- Flexible file renaming engine;
- Enable edit-while-ingest;
- Metadata preservation and enhancement;
- Burnt-in options: text, timecode, overlays (images and videos), and LUT;
- Full-featured local and remote user interface.

 

mediaMOVE can also bring additional options for multiple OTT output generation, social media publishing, and simultaneous proxy creation, which can complement its ingest capabilities on a comprehensive combination of workflows. 

 
 

## **<center>Topology</center>**

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Simplifying Polsat’s file-based workflows with mediaMOVE Grand A

MOG has provided with its partner Tera Adria an automated production solution for RTCG Montenegro, that consisted in a smooth HD-SDI 6 channel recording and card ingest, with playback and quality control, directly integrated in AVID’s Interplay check-in and Nexis. The workflow required an additional layer of central management and automation, fully boosted by MAM4PRO. Read the Full Case Study below.

 
 

## **<center> The Costumer </center>**

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[Radio and Television of Montenegro](https://rtcg.me/) is a public service broadcaster of Montenegro. A state-owned company with its headquarters in Podgorica, it is made up of Radio Montenegro (RCG – Radio Crne Gore) and Montenegro Television (TVCG – Televizija Crne Gore). 

In July 2001, RTCG became a joint member of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), and became a full member of the EBU upon the declaration of Montenegrin independence in 2006. 

RTCG has three TV channels: two terrestrial, one international; it also has a radio station, with two radio channels.

 
 

## **<center>The Partner</center>**

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[Tera Adria](http://tera-adria.com/) Technology was founded in Jun 2016 in Belgrade. Its main goal is to bring to broadcast market of Adria region new ideas and solutions in the field of TV and Radio production. 

Tera Adria’s focus is in field of integration of IT business solutions for modern needs of media business. Its engineering team have more than 20 years of experience in a field of IT based production. 

Experience gained while working on the biggest public service of the region, while working on a position of leading experts, bringing technology available to everyone.

 
 

## **<center> The Challenge </center>**

As a public broadcaster, RTCG Montenegro is quite accustomed in working with multiple projects at a time, thus needing a flexible solution to keep up with the demand, without significantly increasing production costs and physical space for production equipment. 

It was requested a unified solution able to record multiple channels simultaneously with proxy generation, delayed playback, and card ingest, to be directly delivered to AVID’s Interplay and Nexis for post-production. 

It was also essential to have the capability to playout the media in the same system, and, finally, be able to control all those operations from the same GUI, in collaboration with remote users.

 
 

## **<center> The Solution </center>**

In order to answer to the customer’s requirements, MOG, with the help of Tera Adria, has installed on RTCG premises **tree mediaREC servers with Loop Recording**, able to perform two recording operations each, resulting in an acquisition of six HD-SDI Input/Output channels. **Two mediaMOVE servers** were also acquired to ingest media from cards **in XDCAM HD**, and **tree mediaPLAY** servers were also integrated into the system, to ensure a smooth delayed playback and quality control of the entire operation. 

All of those sources were directly delivered to **AVID’s Interplay** check-in, while supporting the generation of **simultaneous HI-Res and Low-Res formats**, giving AVID users immediate access to the media, either for management (PAM) or editing (edit-while-ingest). Additionally, the media was also automatically stored in AVID Nexis, for further workflow continuity. 

Another useful addition to RTCG production workflow was **MAM4PRO’s management system, deployed on an Xpress server, with additional automatic scheduling capabilities boosted by mediaSCHEDULER.** 

The result was a unified system, able to record, transcode, ingest, playback and schedule from a single User Interface, accessible from a browser, that facilitates the control and management of the entire operation.

 
 

## **<center>Topology </center>**

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Boosting RTCG’s Production Workflows with a Unified Multi-Ingest System

## **<center>The Customer</center>**

**[Extra TV](https://extratv.com/) is an American entertainment television news program, with a fresh and unique approach to breaking entertainment news, celebrity interviews and the headline making stories that America is talking about.** With correspondents and producers around the globe, the show offers a half-hour edition every weekday and an original hour-long weekend instalment. Seen in more than 95% of the country, “[Extra](https://extratv.com/)” airs on major market affiliates, including the key NBC Television Owned-and-Operated Stations. “[Extra](https://extratv.com/)” is produced by Telepictures Productions and distributed by Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution.

 
 

## **<center>The Challenge</center>**

On a day-to-day scenario [Extra TV](https://extratv.com/) needs to face every news program challenge: publish content as fast as possible, by minimizing the time from capture, to editing and distribution. The network was upgraded into a file-based HD workflow, which includes an automation system that controls several recording channels and handles the recording metadata; an Omneon Spectrum system, to record XDCAM HD 422 at 50Mbps in MXF OP1a; an Avid Unity ISIS for storage and Avid Interplay system as a Media Asset Management. This production workflow had a major issue to solve, regarding the ingest of growing XDCAM HD 422 50Mbps MXF files with metadata exported by a third-party automation system. Without the growing file ingest, it would mean that [Extra](https://extratv.com/) would have to wait for the recording to finish to be able to initiate an ingest operation, and even after that, wait for the ingest to finish before they are actually able to work with the recorded material.

 
 

## **<center>The Solution</center>**

### **<center>Edit-while-recording from Omneon server files</center>**

Using mxfSPEEDRAIL F1000 file-based system, [Extra TV](https://extratv.com/) is able to handle growing file ingest and simultaneous transfers. The Omneon Spectrum system generates a MXF OP1a XDCAM HD 422 50Mbps file that is ingested by mxfSPEEDRAIL F1000 VS model as OPAtom files into the Avid Unity ISIS, while the recording is still in progress. Besides growing file ingest, the mxfSPEEDRAIL F1000 VS also allows editing while the video server is still recording, saving time and money to the network, while increasing production performance. To allow the flowing of metadata information, the automation system, that is managing all Omneon Spectrum channels, also writes a very simple XML file with metadata, such as the tape name, which is then used by mxfSPEEDRAIL F1000 VS to automatically check-in assets into Avid Interplay, with the appropriate ISO name in the Avid field “Tape Name”, and allow the editors to edit while the content is still being recorded.

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Edit-while-recording from Omneon server files

**With the current health concerns and travel restrictions related to COVID-19, a lot of events were canceled.** 
At the beginning of the confinement, a lot of companies decided that doing virtual events was just posting videos online and there it is an online event. Wrong. That paradigm change, and right now, staying home, no one wants any more videos, people want interaction and to participate in conversations and discussions, face-to-face, even if it is virtual.

 
 

## **<center> The Challenge </center>**

With the transition from in-person to virtual events, and the cancellation of big shows like NABShow or IBC, shows where MOG goes every year, we decided that not doing anything wasn’t the solution and just posting videos doesn’t work anymore and so we started working on a solution to continue showcasing our new developments and improvements and solutions, in a unique way. 
When we decided we wanted to create a Virtual Event, we knew we had to have “something special” to show, otherwise it would be just another digital event.

 
 

## **<center> The Solution </center>**

### **<center>Building a new and unique video experience</center>** 

With **Vizzi Interactivity**, throughout this past year, MOG has been working on **innovative solutions** that **offer different**, **unique experiences**. With an **OTT-TV platform** that stands out from the crowd, providing distinctive and interactive moments to the consumers, MOG wanted to make sure we had the right tools to present our content in a way that was different from the norm. 

With **Vizzi Virtual Screen**, MOG’s motto was to **create the ideal tech tool to make online TV a social and interactive experience**. That means developing innovative ways to help companies reaching their online targets. Virtual Events is just one of the many applicability options. 

**Virtual Screens** allows multiple sources of content to be arranged on the screen in almost any way imaginable. With a Virtual Screen, **MOG is able to control the “room”** where the content will be, meaning that MOG has the power to decide what will be streamed, with the advantage of having the audience seeing the exact same thing, at the same time. A successful OTT platform needs to provide an experience that’ll keep its audience wanting to come back for more. 

With the **Watch2gether feature**, the public can **communicate with each other**, **share media** in real-time, presentations, static images, and combine multiple types of media simultaneously, with a **simple and intuitive interface**. 

The core tech is Rooms in which the remote participants have the capability to enjoy a Livestream together, where they’re all synchronized to the same point in the video and see the action at exactly the same time. 

Vizzi Virtual Screen **gives the possibility to interact with the audience via WebCam or voice**, in the virtual rooms. Customers can **benefit from a personalized interaction, ask questions**, and see it for the first time what they’re interested in. This comes as the perfect solution to host not only virtual events but also internal meetings, one-on-one talk sessions, training, and so on. 

MOG Virtual Screen allows multiple sources of content to be arranged on the screen in almost any way imaginable. Administrators can create custom-sized screen overlays to design “composite applications” from available content on any device. That comes as the perfect solution to make available different types of engaging content simultaneously, and give the users the power to pick what they want to see. It’s a much-need shift in control. 

Vizzi’s interactive video technologies empower to create hyper-relevant and personalized content that makes it even easier for us to follow up with more relevant material. It’s all about being where the audience is, and today, more than ever, we need to focus on what is relevant for the public. Interactive video is an innovative way to reach online targets and with Vizzi interactive video technologies, we now have the power to **create personalized content**, right for our audience.

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Boosting Virtual Events with Interactive OTT

## **<center> The Customer </center>**

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**[RTP (Rádio e Televisão de Portugal)](https://www.rtp.pt/) is a Portuguese state-owned company founded in 1955 that includes the main country’s public radio and television. Its first transmissions began in 1956 from Lisbon and nowadays it is officially the leading broadcasting television and radio network in Portugal.** Being one of the most watched channels in Portugal, Azores and Madeira, RTP is also transmitted in Portuguese-speaking countries, such as Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Sao Tome and Principe, Angola, Mozambique, East Timor; in the Special Administrative Region of Macao in China; also including countries where there are many Portuguese communities: France, Germany, Switzerland, Luxembourg, United Kingdom, United States, Canada, South Africa and Venezuela, through RTPi. Therefore, RTPi is currently present in almost all countries and regions of the world, including, for example, Helena (Island), Reunion (Island), Seychelles, Curaçao, among many others territories, being its slogan “for each and every one”.

 
 

## **<center> The Challenge </center>**

For RTP – Portugal, the aim was to increase the system performance, supporting all the major broadcast formats and transcoding them on-the-fly, saving time and resources with immediate delivery of the contents.

 
 

## **<center> The Solution </center>**

### **<center> Edit While Growing in Final Cut Pro-Environment </center>**

At the broadcaster facilities MOG has installed the mxfSPEEDRAIL F1000 system enabling ingest from MXF OP1a files on-the-fly and faster than real time. While ingesting the contents the system enabled to automatically merge the OP1a files, saving storage space and simplifying contents management. As for the SDI Recorder, the system was capturing from codec XDCAM HD, wrapping it into MXF OP1a and QuickTime reference files. Using QuickTime as an output file enabled the Final Cut Pro editors to support edit-while-growing, saving time and resources with on-the-fly editing, having the files immediately available for distribution. Added to all the mxfSPEEDRAIL centralized capabilities was an 8TB internal storage, provided by MOG, to increase the overall system performance.

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Transcoding on-the-fly or immediate delivery at the Olympics

## **<center> The Customer </center>**

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**[Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR)](https://www.ndr.de/) is part of DAS ERSTE the nationwide public network German TV ARD.** It covers northern Germany’s regions Hamburg (where it is based), plus the states of Lower Saxony, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Schleswig-Holstein 24 hours a day with ambitious, high-quality programmes which are characterised by their journalistic competence and diversity. It is not only the programmes, but also the local events that the [NDR](https://www.ndr.de/) hosts that has made the [NDR](https://www.ndr.de/) an essential part of cultural life in northern Germany.

 
 

## **<center> The Challenge </center>**

To cover the mentioned territories, [NDR](https://www.ndr.de/) has two SD and one HD OB trucks, four SNG trucks and four small editing mobiles. Currently, this broadcaster is upgrading its OB trucks to handle HD and at the same time introducing a tapeless workflow. In doing this upgrade, [NDR](https://www.ndr.de/) has run up against ‘wrapper’ compatibility problems between its EVS video servers and its Avid Media Composer standalone editors. The reason: EVS uses in association to the XT2 video server the X-File that does not provide the right wrapper and index reference to allow editing while recording in Avid stand-alone editors in both [NDR](https://www.ndr.de/) SD and HD workflows. [NDR](https://www.ndr.de/)’s EVS XT2 servers are instrumental for sports programming providing a quick-turnaround of highlight editing and slow-motion video clips. However, it is not possible for this broadcaster’s Avid editors to access video while it is being recorded in real time by EVS. To do so would require stopping (or chunking) the recording, so that the MXF video files could be finalized and loaded into the Avid MediaComposer. In addition to this wrapper constrain, EVS ingest server records the media as SD using the IMX video codec but for HD does not support the NDR format of choice, the MPEG long GOP XDCamHD 4:2:2 for Avid to edit while recording. This has limited [NDR](https://www.ndr.de/) to use it in the SD Vans and with closed files (editing after recording).

 
 

## **<center> The Solution </center>**

### **<center> Upgrading OB trucks to handle HD in a tapeless environment </center>**

[NDR](https://www.ndr.de/) has resolved its SD and HD dilemmas through the installation of MOG’s mxfSPEEDRAIL F1000s within the broadcaster’s SD OB trucks and with MOG’s mxfSPEEDRAIL S1000s for the HD OB’s. The mxfSPEEDRAIL F1000 is capable of capturing incoming MXF OP-1A video –HD-SDI or SD-SDI – while it is being recorded, converting it to Avid OP-Atom on the fly, and importing the converted video directly into an standalone Avid editor while the EVS continues to record ([NDR](https://www.ndr.de/) uses this workflow only in SD with IMX-50). In addition to this, the editors will be provided with a reference file (AAF) that will allow them to simply drag and drop it into the video bin as one master clip and manage all the several Avid OP Atom wrapped files that are generated in each take.

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Upgrading OB trucks to handle HD in a tapeless environment

## **<center> The Costumer </center>**

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**With a long, proud history of producing excellent television, radio and online content our customer has a dedicated and highly skilled craft base with years of experience across a range of productions including large network shows.** The construction of a new production building in order to deliver a high-definition production infrastructure with a full range of facilities including television and post-production studios forced the channel network to install reliable equipment based on the most innovative technology.

 
 

## **<center> The Challenge </center>**

When deploying its new post-production file-based environment, our customer wanted to achieve the maximum production efficiency with a cost-effective tapeless environment, where tunneling the planning metadata through the workflow and reducing the volume of high quality material in the post production storage played a key part in the requirements. The main goal of the channel network was to have the proxy quality material available at every editor seat with high resolution audio quality. Then, and after editing, have the high quality sub-clips used by the editor sequences available in the post production storage. This would save both time and hundreds of storage space both for the post-production and archive areas. Streamlining Metadata from planning to editing and ultimately archive, without any data loss, was also extremely important.

 
 

## **<center> The Solution </center>**

### **<center> Streamlining Planning metadata and XDCAM to Post-Production and Archive </center>**

With the introduction of the mxfSPEEDRAIL F1000 Ingest Solution, the production team was able to ingest Native XDCAM Proxy video Files with the original audio into their Unity Isis, checking the media into Interplay. This process allows the original media to be sent to a NAS system that is used not only as an archive, but also as a way to consolidate the material after the editing process is finished. On a typical day-to-day scenario the discs are ingested using the mxfSPEEDRAIL F1000 pre-set to automatically pick up any media inserted in an XDCAM device and then send a proxy version with hi-res audio to ISIS (checking into Interplay) and a full integral copy of the disc to the NAS archive. The editing team then uses their Media Composers editing suites to finish the editing process. By then, the editor drags an AAF file into a watch-folder monitored by the mxfSPEEDRAIL and once the system detects this AAF file, it crawls the NAS storage searching for the original media. When the original is found, the material is then ingested using the information in the AAF File, thus ingesting to the ISIS just the high-res bits it needs for the finished sequence. This process is done in the background by the mxfSPEEDRAIL without the need of any other tool, meaning that the ingest process is still being held; the editing software is still editing; and the storage space and bandwidth usage are efficiently used.

 

### **<center>Batch Ingest</center>**

After finishing the edition, ingesters can easily relink the hi-res material previously stored in the NAS with a simple gesture: the user drags its sequences (compositions) from the editor onto a hot folder monitored by F1000. The mxfSPEEDRAIL F1000 system will keep the tracking of which discs are stored in the backup NAS, as well as the sequences dropped in the hot folder. In a user-friendly view, F1000 shows the sequences requiring processing; which discs it refers to; and the availability of each disc’s material (ready or not). Then, as soon as the discs are ready, user can choose the sequences to be ingested and F1000 automatically ingests only the hi-res material referred by the sequence, keeping the original metadata as planned in the beginning of the whole process. Planning Metadata Tools allows user to process several practical tasks like: setup new series of recordings with the relevant information; Set Up individual recording for a single recording session; Set Up daily recordings; edit the existing series.

 

### **<center>Planning a metadata tool</center>**

A crucial part of the workflow is the Planning Metadata Tool. A software application created by MOG in order to plan the metadata to be carried out by the clips and that can be running on any computer. The weekly plan of the shots is inserted into the Planning Metadata Tool. The information is then loaded into USB drives with the Metadata shots specifications, being able to populate a clip name with that same metadata. The tool assists in creating an entire series of planning metadata files for several VTRs, in one step, easily saving the files onto USB drives allowing the operator to plug each USB drive into the respective VTR and loads the metadata. Then, each VTR records the several clips according to the planning metadata.The cameraman, for example, inserts the USB drives into the cameras before the shooting begins and the system will allow that the metadata information is carried through the previously described ingest workflow, from acquisition to the editing process of the clips. As part of the implementation of the XDCAM HD recording capability it is possible to automate the inclusion of a limited amount of planning metadata in clips recorded on the XDCAM discs. **With the recorded discs, ingesters use mxfSPEEDRAIL F1000 to, automatically, save the hi-res material to a backup NAS and ingest the proxy media to the “Avid environment”. In both steps, the planning metadata (namely the clips and discs names) are preserved.**

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Streamlining Planning metadata and XDCAM to Post-Production and Archive

## **<center>The Customer</center>**

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**Sharjah Television started its transmission on 11-2-1989 in order to become a major source of knowledge and culture, while emphasizing the core values of the UAE and the region. Later on 22nd of March 1997, one more channel was introduced to broadcast religious programs in different languages.** Sharjah TV was inaugurated by His Highness Sheikh Sultan Bin Mohammad Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah to add value to each and every house in the area, and it is to Sharjah TV’s credit that it kept going on the same track up until today. More than 85% of its programs are locally produced. Sharjah TV is also a regular participant in ‘Cairo TV and Radio Festivals’ since 1997 and it won many golden, silver and bronze medals and certificates on many occasions. In August 1997 Sharjah Satellite channel was credited with the title ‘The Arab cultural channel’ by the Higher Committee held in Beirut to discuss the coordination between the Satellite channels. Sharjah TV is part of Sharjah Media Corporation, which was established in 2009.

 
 

## **<center>The Partner</center>**

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**SkillTech is a leading IT and broadcast professional services and solutions provider and Trading Company.** It was founded in Iraq in 2006 and had established its UAE-based branch in Dubai in 2008 with the goal to provide total IT and broadcast solutions to businesses across the Middle East. The company emphasis is in providing ‘the best of the breed’ products and services to its customers. SkillTech provides a variety of cutting-edge products and services to the IT and broadcast fields; this includes products for professionals within the Audio/Video, Media and Broadcasting Industries, as well as turnkey solutions from complete system design to installation and consultation. With a solid partnership, SkillTech represents MOG in the UAE market and provides full consultancy and support to MOG systems’ integrations in the region.

 
 

## **<center>The Challenge</center>**

Sharjah TV workflow environment is based on AVID editing suites and MAM. The broadcaster was manually exporting AVID sequences into the web directly through the editor, meaning more time spent on non-creative tasks and a greater exposure to errors. While doing so, the operator was freezing the editor for export tasks rather than its main purpose: editing!

 
 

## **<center>The Solution</center>**

In order to maximize its digital delivery efficiency, Sharjah TV has installed mxfSPEEDRAIL O1000 for the direct export from AVID into Sharjah TV online platform in a web video format. 
mxfSPEEDRAIL interfaces Sharjah TV AVID interplay environments with its web platform enabling the automated background export of simultaneous AVID sequences as MP4 H264 files.

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Maximizing the Digital Delivery efficiency

## **<center>The Customer</center>**

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Outside Broadcast Vans play a major influence in the coverage of live and outdoor events. They represent a valuable tool for either small or larger broadcasters that need to ensure the coverage of local and onset productions. When well equipped, they can bring a lot of versatility in the workflows in production. With major live events driving demand, OB vans play a major importance in the coverage of Live events in remote places, where it’s difficult to have fixed installations. With events like the Olympics or the World Cup always going around, OB Vans needs to always be on the top of their game, to ensure the highest quality to their productions and material. This type of event requires OB Vans to be ready to the latest developments and trends so they can incorporate those changes and be up to date. One of the biggest goals for the OB Vans is to set up a modern broadcasting complex that will provide TV a good coverage of those events. With the 2020 Olympics coming, OB Vans needs to have an advanced and complete setting allowing the best technical and environmental performances for broadcast operators. To this type of events, OB Vans needs to feature a layout that enables to maximize the space allowing interoperability among the different production areas. To produce images and sounds of all competitions and Ceremonies and to ensure the broadcast efficiency for billions of viewers worldwide to watch, events like the Olympics need to adapt to meet the requirements of new technology. With the new trends arising like IP transmissions over satellite, OB Vans need to update its facilities, while following the market trends. Reducing the rack space inside of an OB, freeing up space for editors and saving on costs and operational time are the primary goals for broadcasters. The demanding for smaller and inexpensive solutions is increasing, so does the need for the broadcast industry to do “more with less” without compromising the final quality of content and although the market progresses, OB vans continue to be an important key, since they enable to work on multiple production using one unique unit. 

### **<center>The main question is, how to equip an OB with future proof equipment able to adapt to the workflow changes?</center>**

mxfSPEEDRAIL has been playing an important role when it comes to equip OB vans with the most profit, powerful and cost-effective solutions. The unique mxfSPEEDRAIL technology allows the usage of the most innovative equipment in the smaller space, while using the most efficient automation tools. The German market is an example of how the company has been filling the media gaps from broadcasters, production houses and rental houses. There is a solid customer’s portfolio using mxfSPEEDRAIL in their OB vans. Why? Mostly because mxfSPEEDRAIL solutions are always tailored to meet the specific needs of different workflow environments. One of the most recent channels using MOG technology is RT1.tv, represented in various locations all over German. RT1 is among the leading providers of satellite-based live transmissions in Europe. With full coverage services, the company brings events to life with various equipment of mobile units. To equip these units, RT1.tv was searching for a flexible solution able to quickly automate capture tasks and reduce operating costs. RT1.tv selected mxfSPEEDRAIL mediaREC due to its seamless connectivity, collaborative edition, access to real-time content, support of professional formats and resolutions, ability to capture multiple simultaneous feeds, the generation of real-time proxies and the ability to edit-while-capture. This way MOG central ingest system can help RT1.tv with a profitable and powerful solution, and together adapt their equipment to future costumers, providing quality, above-average services and technical innovation. For MOG, the main factor of success is to understand the potential uses of the OB vans, and provide solutions able to suit customer’s requirements while ensuring the ability to adapt the modular equipment to future changes. Bringing all the broadcaster needs into a central and intuitive interface gets the cost of the equipment down, helps to shrink the unit size and reduces operation costs. Seamless connectivity, collaborative edition and access to real-time content are the key elements that turns mxfSPEEDRAIL in the essential technology to implement in an Outside Broadcast facility. The ability to suit to different formats and resolutions, and to capture multiple feeds from the same event, while using future-proof technology, explains why the German market is an example of how OB vans are significantly increasing their efficiency and decreasing production costs.

 
 

## **<center>The Partner</center>**

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**As a valuable corporate partner, Media Online played an important role while ensuring that MOG correctly understood the customers production needs.** Media Online is based in Frankfurt and distributes, installs, manages, trains and supports the integration of systems from the major manufacturers in the market. Media Online can easily adapt to the customer perspective and provide consulting services about the best technologies to implement into its facilities, while guaranteeing the best performance and cost-effective solutions.

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Increasing OB Vans flexibility while saving costs

## **<center> The Customer </center>**

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**[Thailand Television Channel 3](https://ch3plus.com/) was Thailand’s first commercial television station. It launched in Bangkok in 1970 and has broadcast 24/7 since January 2005. [ThaiTV3](https://ch3plus.com/) is one of the leading television stations and forms part of the largest media group in Thailand known as BEC-TERO.** [ThaiTV3](https://ch3plus.com/) has revolutionised local Thai content thanks to its innovative production teams. The station has become a trendsetter, able to produce quality local programming that attracts the loyalty of the Thai audience. Furthermore, the station broadcasts a balance of quality foreign movies, dramas, comedy, documentaries and sports. The station maintains a strong market position and strengthens its brand awareness amongst its audience through regular on air and local events. [ThaiTV3](https://ch3plus.com/) invests in the continuous upgrade of its equipment for both production and transmission. It also provides its employees with continuous exposure and training within television production. These are two important factors that enable [ThaiTV3](https://ch3plus.com/) to maintain its premier position within the Thai TV market.

 
 

## **<center> The Partner</center>**

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Founded in February 2005, [Advance Digital Tech Group Co., Ltd. (ADT)](https://advancedigitaltech.com/) imports both Video Servers and general Broadcast Equipment. It also acts as a distributor to TV stations, Video Production Houses, Educational Institutes, and Governmental Offices. [ADT](https://advancedigitaltech.com/) has been MOG Technologies corporate partner and system integrator since 2011 and has been responsible for many successful implementations within the geographical area. As a partner, [ADT](https://advancedigitaltech.com/) represents MOG by providing a full consultancy service, support services for mxfSPEEDRAIL solutions plus integration services within the Thai market.

 
 

## **<center>The Solution</center>**

### **<center>Capturing multiple channels while integrating it through all the workflow environment</center>**

When capturing multiple live feeds in different formats, broadcasters need to consider a solution able to handle all the ingest, transcoding and storage tasks in a simple, but efficient process. [ThaiTV3](https://ch3plus.com/) needs to capture multiple channels both in SD and HD and be able to wrap the outputs into MXF OP1a files. Furthermore, the channel needs to back up all the content and seamlessly integrate with all third-party systems throughout their workflow. This ensures the highest performance and quality. ADT supported MOG by installing 3 x dual channel mxfSPEEDRAIL S1000 units able to capture 6 channels of live-feeds. The solution included both AVC-Intra 50 HD and DV25 SD codecs delivering to a 24TB (RAW) NAS storage platform that was also supplied by MOG. Also included was a redundant power supply plus RAID 5 storage protection. The mxfSPEEDRAIL S1000 captures content both for Crash and Scheduled recordings which are monitored through two web browser clients via a 1Gbps Ethernet connection. With mxfSPEEDRAIL S1000 new clips can be opened into the NLE timeline while the new files are still being recorded and not closed. In this case, [ThaiTV3](https://ch3plus.com/) is able to rely on the scheduled recording capabilities of the mxfSPEEDRAIL S1000 and its edit-while-capture feature to simultaneously capture the video signal into an MXF format. The mxfSPEEDRAIL S1000’s innovative capabilities have proven to be essential for [ThaiTV3](https://ch3plus.com/) news and live sports programs coverage. By installing mxfSPEEDRAIL, [ThaiTV3](https://ch3plus.com/) was able to simplify its production workflow by reducing costs and saving time on the capture and storage process. With MOG’s innovative central ingest technology, the channel was able to ensure automation of the whole production workflow including scheduled capture, live-feeds recording, storage, multi-camera control, edit-while-capture and remote monitoring through a web-browser.

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Generating multiple resolutions with Interplay Check-In

## **<center> The Customer </center>**

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**[Thoroughbred Racing Productions (TRP)](http://www.trpbroadcast.com.au/) is a premium sports company that provides exclusive High Definition production services to the Victorian Racing Industry, producing broadcasts for more than 525 thoroughbred race meetings conducted throughout the State.** These broadcasts are provided for Free-To-air and Pay-TV channels in both Australia and overseas, to On-course Patrons and importantly the Stipendiary Stewards who manage the integrity of Racing. That means delivering premium sports vision that not only captures the spectacular excitement of thoroughbred racing but also the finer detail. When [TRP](http://www.trpbroadcast.com.au/) commissioned Sony to develop its new fleet of High Definition Outside Broadcast Vans, it wanted only the best. The result is a racing production machine that can cut it with any sportscasters in the world. [TRP](http://www.trpbroadcast.com.au/) expert team ensures that each project is delivered at optimum quality. To make broadcast coverage of Australian thoroughbred racing a world leader, [TRP](http://www.trpbroadcast.com.au/) produces over 3500 hours of High Definition live thoroughbred racing outside broadcasts each year. That’s a track record that’s hard to beat.

 
 

## **<center>The Challenge</center>**

**[Thoroughbred Racing Productions](http://www.trpbroadcast.com.au/)** workflow environment requires the most solid technology, able to achieve the maximum efficiency with a fast turnaround of content. The nature of the services provided by [TRP](http://www.trpbroadcast.com.au/) includes a range of professional and broadcast formats and demands the most interoperable systems, able to answer to its customers’ specific needs. To maximize the live viewing experience of the audience on and off the course and offer a review system for the steward’s team, helping them in their judging decisions, [TRP](http://www.trpbroadcast.com.au/) had the need to acquire equipment able to meet the following requirements:
- Compact equipment, suitable to OB vans;
- Dual SD and HD Channels Support
- High Resolution and Proxy Capture;
- Immediate availability of contents for stewards revision;
- Integration with third-party MAM;
- Mobile Contents through Removable Disks and USB Pens.

 
 

## **<center>The Solution</center>**

### **<center>Providing instant tapeless production and immediate review</center>**

Acquiring mxfSPEEDRAIL S1000, TRP has increased the power and flexibility of its services. MOG’s SDI Recorder generates MXF OP1a high resolution and proxy MP4 files simultaneously, making it a perfect fit for such a complex and competitive production workflow. Delivered in compact units, the system is also completely scalable, decreasing the need for extra automation systems and making it the perfect fit for OB vans. With 4 OB vans shooting all the excitement and colour of the races, before, during and after the event, [TRP](http://www.trpbroadcast.com.au/) needed a powerful and flexible recording system able to reduce the complexity of multi-camera environments. Thus, mxfSPEEDRAIL S1000 is used to capture the High Resolution and proxy files into a removable e-SATA disk, then transferred directly into [TRP](http://www.trpbroadcast.com.au/)’s MAM system. Specific file material is captured at the same time on USB pen drive for racing officials to take away directly from the track. The drive contents are easily transported to [TRP](http://www.trpbroadcast.com.au/)’s headquarters and uploaded, so all the racing days footage is accessible to the steward’s either on the track, in the office or at home via PC tablet or smart phone if required. The stewards can also review specific sequences of the race, using selected timecode and metadata fields. Using the Low Resolution version of the clips, also allows them to load past race clips in a faster and easer way. When dealing with Australia’s premium racing code, [TRP](http://www.trpbroadcast.com.au/) required a workflow that not only delivered reliable and repeatable performance, the quality had to be of the highest order for the long term preservation of the code, this then provided the platform from which the file material was instantly available for the editors, production department, other stakeholders and very importantly the stewards panel. Using mxfSPEEDRAIL has dramatically increased the performance of [TRP](http://www.trpbroadcast.com.au/) Production workflow, allowing staff to concentrate on delivering value to all stakeholders.

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Providing instant tapeless production and immediate review

**Our customer is responsible for delivering the [2014 Winter Games](https://olympics.com/en/olympic-games/sochi-2014) to billions of viewers around the world.** Its main responsibility consists in developing a reliable approach across the Winter Games workflow processes, while optimizing resources to continually improve the efficiency of the overall operation among the Right Holders Broadcasters (RHBs). MOG’s contribution to improve this customer efficiency was already proved during the [London Summer Games 2012](https://olympics.com/en/olympic-games/london-2012), when mxfSPEEDRAIL F1000 was selected to take part of their operational workflow by ensuring the preparation of convenient material for the footage archiving.

 
 

## **<center>The Challenge</center>**

In such a major event like the Winter Games, our customer needs to ensure that the video and audio signals are correctly controlled, processed and distributed without any kind of failure or delay. With a huge amount of hours to cover, there is the need to choose a reliable and solid technology, able to increase performance and speed up ingest, transcode and delivery processes. Planning to have several distribution channels for the RHBs, with different daily schedules and different feeds to distribute according to the competition agenda there is no space for failures or delays. Our customer needs to deliver high resolution versions of the digitized material to the Right Holder Broadcasters center. Additionally, there is also the need to archive all media for future re-purpose back at the customer facilities at Lausanne, Switzerland.

 
 

## **<center>The Solution</center>**

### **<center>Ensuring reliable ingest and archival process among different locations</center>**

MOG is responsible for ensuring the archival process of the material distributed to RHBs. This includes transcoding the original AVC-Intra 100Mbps MXF OP1a files into MPEG LGOP @ 70 Mbps MXF OP1a onsite (Sochi, Russia) and then delivering both the media files and BDF data to Lausanne (Switzerland) over dedicated fiber lines. The solution implemented is composed of 3 different sections:
- **Local Section** – deployed at Sochi, is responsible for transcoding AVC-Intra 100Mbps MXF OP1a files into MPEG LGOP @ 70 Mbps MXF OP1a and store them in a temporary central storage (NAS) until they are sent to final destination;
- **Remote Section** – deployed at Lausanne, consists of a central storage server (NAS) responsible for accommodating all archival assets produced during the games;
- **File Transfer Section** – responsible for the daily intercontinental delivery of archival assets from Sochi to Lausanne.
 
 

mxfSPEEDRAIL **role at the Winter Games** There are 11 mxfSPEEDRAIL F1000 connected to the SAN storage server, through several 1 Gb Ethernet connections, that ensures access to the original AVC-Intra 100Mbps MXF OP1a files while they are still being created. The connection between mxfSPEEDRAIL F1000 servers and the central storage is made through two 1 Gb Ethernet connections. These connections are used to write the transcoded MPEG LGOP @ 70 Mbps MXF OP1a. The operator has access to every ingest system through a single access point, using a dedicated monitoring server. Additionally, the user is perfectly able to perfectly control the video contents sent to the production area, by using mxfSPEEDRAIL F1000 clip preview, trim and merge capabilities. Each mxfSPEEDRAIL F1000 is responsible for transcoding several simultaneous files (from AVC-Intra to MPEG LGOP @ 70 Mbps MXF OP1a) into the temporary storage server. The transcoded files are preserved and stored into a specific folder structure that varies every day according to our customer’s well-defined and strict naming conventions. The broadcaster is able to quickly identify its contents due to a well-organized file and folder structure that’s aware of each footage dates, time, venues and sport discipline. After the files are sent to Lausanne, they are flagged as delivered and erased from the temporary storage at Sochi. As a contingency backup plan against unexpected connection issues (imagine a network connectivity break between Sochi and Lausanne) the temporary central storage at Sochi has an internal storage capacity that can handle the parking of up to 3 days of footage, plus each mxfSPEEDRAIL F1000 also has some internal storage that can be used for parking non delivered contents. In total the system can park a total of up to 10 days of footage in the event of unexpected connectivity issues and quickly resume the delivery process once connections are re-established. For transfers between Sochi and Lausanne, mxfSPEEDRAIL F1000 is perfectly interoperable with FileCatalyst software ensuring file delivery at full line speeds regardless of typical network impairments, while granting to the operator the ability to monitor transfer progress, speeds and logs. The solution is deployed in both sites in a typical point-to-point architecture ensuring file upload from Sochi to Lausanne.

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Ensuring reliable ingest and archival process among different locations

## **<center>Streamlining Live Remote Acquisition of the Premier League for the Icelandic Audience</center>**
 

MOG’s streamlined production workflows have been helping broadcasters worldwide ensure a smooth acquisition and distribution of **UHD/QFHD/FHD/HD/SD feeds in multiple formats and resolutions**, with its **powerful cloud software applications**. 
Recently, MOG and its Partner [Exton](https://www.exton.is/) has been selected by [Síminn](https://www.siminn.is/), the Icelandic Broadcaster, to ensure the smooth recording of 4 simultaneous HD 3G-SDI channels of the [Premier League](https://www.premierleague.com/) to fans across Iceland, with an intuitive but powerful remote software.

 
 

## **<center>The Customer</center>**

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Síminn hf. is a leading Icelandic telecommunications company that offers communication services for both private and corporate clients, including mobile, home phones, Internet connections, and television. Síminn also runs its own TV channel and streaming services.

 
 

## **<center>The Partner</center>**

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Exton ehf. is a knowledge company. The company’s most important sales product is the knowledge of its staff, whether it is the equipment they work with or the customers’ needs. The team counts on years of experience in production and post-production workflows of theatres, events, concerts, broadcasting, and audio/video distribution, and it has been a valuable and efficient MOG partner for the Icelandic market, for years.

 
 

## **<center>The Challenge</center>**

Síminn sought to acquire an ingest system to cover its acquisition needs with a solution that was simultaneously powerful, flexible, and cost-effective. One of the requirements was to have the media recorded locally, or to their SAN (Storage Area Network), with additional web preview functionality, so they can guarantee a constant and smooth overview of the incoming signals. 
Considering that the acquisition was for a Live Sports workflow, one of the most crucial requirements was to minimize the editing time, as well as the transferring time of the assets. It was also necessary to provide editing and highlights capability while still recording (edit-while-growing), in order to assure a faster distribution on-the-fly.
 
 

## **<center>The Solution</center>**

MOG’s 4PRO mediaREC software, from the MAM4PRO branch, was chosen to guarantee a broadcast-quality acquisition of 4 HD channels in 3G-SDI. The software can be accessed through an intuitive remote html5 UI, thus guaranteeing constant monitoring of the incoming signals. 
The operation eliminates the need for a dedicated video recorder hardware while ensuring high-quality video encoding, that can be ready for edit- while-growing – through simultaneous proxy generation – and be ready for distribution in no time. 
Each source can have its own separate setup, thus guaranteeing the correctly synchronized multi-camera playback sequence with all the associated media. 
4PRO mediaREC is a powerful, cost-effective video recorder that can support UHD/QFHD/FHD in **up to 12 SDI/IP** Live video in Avid, OP1a, QT, MP4, XDCAM, XDCAM EX, XAVC, FLV, HLS, MPEG-DASH, WebM, MPEG-TS, Matroska, NDI and IMF formats. It is available as a software-only, or in a compact 2RU rack, depending on the customer’s needs.

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Streamlining Live Remote Acquisition of the Premier League for the Icelandic Audience

MOG has been providing high-quality, cost-effective solutions for OBVans Production for years. More than ever, Broadcasters and Media Companies need to optimize rack usage, without compromising video quality, while still ensuring its multiple distribution and storage needs. 
Able to perform multiple operations in a single box, mDECK is the ideal match for an OBVan environment, as it guarantees a smooth ingest, transcode, and playback of multiple channels in any formats, simultaneously. 
MOG deployed a custom solution based on CyBC’s (Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation) requirements, based on P2 structures. Read the Full Case Study below.

 
 

## **<center>The Customer</center>**

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[Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation (CyBC)](http://cybc.com.cy/) – is Cyprus’s public broadcaster which started its operation in 1953. It transmits island-wide on four radio stations, two television channels – and one satellite channel for the Cypriot diaspora.

 
 

## **<center>The Challenge</center>**

CYBC reached out to us to upgrade their OBVans Production ecosystem. 
Their main goal entailed having a P2 structure as an output, and get P2 structures rewrapped from mxf Op1A, 2 to record AVC-I 100 and DVCPRO50 from OB Vans productions, for compatibility issues with existing infrastructure. 
It’s worth noting that it’s standard to have P2 structures as an input, but not as an output, so customization was required. 
**The list of requirements consisted in:**
- A newly updated workflow solution for their OBVans – meaning a compact and powerful infrastructure – that allowed MxfOP1a as an input, and having an output of P2 MXF;
- Automatic jobs – an automated process, that allows for the network watch folder to rewrap for Op1a to P2 structures;
- Automatic deletion of the output file when the job is complete;
- Different P2 structures should be created equal to the number of input files dropped.

 
 

## **<center>The Solution</center>**

Powerful and compact, mDECK Densu A-2 was the chosen model to help our clients with all the challenges they were facing. 
Completely prepared to capture, file-based ingest, and playback, this product was the most inclusive solution. 
An optimal configuration, mDECK Densu A-2 gives the ability for quality control and feed monitoring, while offering a total of four media operations which in this case, was defined to be three file-based operations and one playback operation, working simultaneously. 
As mentioned, for compatibility issues with existing infrastructure, the main intention was to have P2 structures as an output, but also get P2 structures rewrapped from mxf Op1A, 2 to record AVC-I 100 and DVCPRO50 from OB Vans productions. 
mDECK Densu A-2 is the perfect compact professional media deck appliance to ingest, transcode and play FHD video streams and multiple formats. 
Having unique output structures is not a standard input requirement, which made for an interesting project and deployment. We were proud to deliver a customized solution, fully adapted to CyBC’s needs, and we’re excited to follow-up on mDECK’s new developments and features for the future.

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Optimizing OBVans Production Workflows with full support for P2 Structures as an Output

MOG and BCP have been working together for many years now in a joint mission to design and supply a wide range of solutions for the media and entertainment industry on the Polish market. 
This time, the goal was to provide an efficient video recording scheduler with router control solution for Poland’s most-watched Television Channel, Polsat – one of the largest media companies in Central Europe. 
MOG’s **mediaSCHEDULER**, a micro-service from the **MAM4PRO** product line was the chosen product to match Polsat’s requirements, with a few customizations designed to achieve their goal. Read the Full Case Study below.

 
 

## **<center>The Customer</center>**

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[Telewizja Polsat sp. z o.o.](https://www.polsat.pl/) is the largest terrestrial commercial broadcaster in Poland, established in 1992. It belongs to Grupa Cyfrowy Polsat S.A ., with 38 own channels, and is one of the main providers of digital multichannel television in Poland. It is the 4th largest digital platform in Europe and the largest in Central and Eastern Europe. The service is distributed over the Hotbird satellite and includes a mix of free to air and encrypted channels for 4,5 million subscribers.

 
 

## **<center>The Partner</center>**

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Established on the Polish market in 1997, [BCP Sp. z o.o.](https://www.bcp.com.pl/) is a distributor of professional audio and video equipment that sells both individual devices as well as integrated sets. In its range of customers are the major television station, production studios and post-production, and other reputable institutions of the country, because of the quality of service they offer. With almost 20 years of experience, BCP has the exact knowledge of the needs of the audio-visual market in Poland.

 
 

## **<center>The Challenge</center>**

As a key player in the Polish Television Industry, Polsat is used to record hundreds of hours’ worth of content a week, often managing multiple productions at the time. In order to maintain workflow continuity, they required a solution that would allow the scheduling and control of all their recording jobs in a unified interface, to be accessed anytime, anywhere. 
Additionally, Polsat was also looking for a more efficient and cost-effective way to automatically control its legacy Grass Valley Jupiter Routers, and its multiple recording servers (16 channels), with extra backup redundancy in case of critical failure.

 
 

## **<center>The Solution</center>**

For this project, MOG and BCP sought to develop a custom solution that would give Polsat the flexibility they needed when working with multiple third-party hardware. 
MAM4PRO’s mediaSCHEDULER was adapted to match those needs and was deployed in a single, high-density and high-performance Xpress R2 Server, with **two individual nodes**: node one would have **Scheduling Automation of current HD-SDI Feed Recordings; Automation Control of current HD-SDI Router** (Grassvalley Trinix 5122, CM4000 Router Control with Jupiter v8.0.1 P2) and **Automation Control of current HD-SDI Recorders.**
 

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##### <center>The second node would serve as a backup, in case of a failure on any of the components of the Active Main Server, by replicating the current database. (Cold Standby) </center>
 

In conclusion, the deployment on MOG XPRESS R-2 High-density and high-performance server (with two nodes in a box) allowed for an optimal combination of a **multi-channel recording scheduler with router control**, and extra redundancy that allows for **higher flexibility and workflow continuity**. 4PRO mediaSCHEDULER is a micro-service software from the MAM4PRO product line, that efficiently unifies in a single rollout view all ingest activities while enabling quick access of the media while manages all ingest processes. 
Another useful addition to RTCG production workflow was **MAM4PRO’s management system, deployed on an Xpress server, with additional automatic scheduling capabilities boosted by mediaSCHEDULER.** 
The result was a unified system, able to record, transcode, ingest, playback and schedule from a single User Interface, accessible from a browser, that facilitates the control and management of the entire operation.

 
 

## **<center>Topology</center>**

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Offering a Reliable Video Recording Scheduler with Router Control, in a single box

Over the years, MOG has been developing and improving its SaaS Video Cloud services to offer the best digital media technology solutions, from Vizzi OTT-TV Platform to MAM4PRO Digital Media Production. 
There’s now a huge need for companies and organizations to improve their online presence and engagement with their public. An OTT platform gives every brand or organization the chance to stay relevant in this new digital era and offers the power to reach their public everywhere. 
Vizzi OTT-TV platform is the perfect solution for media companies, broadcasters, content creators, and niche industries, such as houses of worship or education that wants to see their business grow. 
For Coimbra’s Town Hall “End of the Year: Special Edition at Home” MOG’s goal was to deliver an efficient and immersive digital experience to the Portuguese audience, on multiples devices, and on social media, simultaneously.

 
 

## **<center>The Customer</center>**

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Localized in Central Portugal, Coimbra is a riverside city, mostly known for its historic University. [Coimbra’s Town Hall](https://www.cm-coimbra.pt/) is the Government administration of the city, that employs 1000-5000 people. 
Coimbra’s Town Hall is notorious for all the festive events that they do around Christmas time: From concerts to street shows, kid’s activities, guided visits, exhibitions, theatre performances, fireworks, and more. 
But with the pandemic, all these events were canceled, and the Town Hall had to prepare these festivities a little bit different from the years before and decided to organize an innovative and interactive event, where everyone could participate in the comfort of their homes.

 
 

## **<center>The Challenge</center>**

As mentioned, the goal for Coimbra’s Town Hall was to find a different path to continue its tradition of organizing an end-of-the-year festivity for Coimbra’s residents and visitors. It was decided that the event – that counts with multiple music-shows from various artists – would be initially streamed just to social media. However, further on, the Town Hall decided that a more personalized experience was in need, to guarantee an uninterrupted streaming experience, with broadcast quality in mind. 
Coimbra’s Town Hall relied on Live Events at the end of each year as a way to generate revenue and attract new visitors, so the development of a platform that could be monetized further on with advertising or other monetization models was also a plus. Above all, by Broadcasting an entire show online, Coimbra’s Town Hall wanted to make sure that everyone could enjoy the event at home, across all standard devices. 
**Some of Coimbra’s Town Hall requirements were:**
- Stream the event directly to Facebook and Youtube;
- Develop a platform able to guarantee a personalized experience, customized with the event’s branding and message (logo, brand colors, web fonts, thumbnails, etc);
- They were expected to receive 2.500 simultaneous views, thus needing a scalable and stable stream;
- Allocated traffic of up to 5TB (about 15.000 hours of transmission);
- Integrated analytics: gather data of the stream’s performance, number of views, total consumption, viewer’s demographics, and more;
- Support for multiple resolutions and bitrates.

 
 

## **<center>The Solution</center>**

From the platform configuration to its distribution on the web and social media, MOG successfully delivered a turnkey solution to Coimbra’s Town Hall, with full technical support during the setup, and on the day of the event. 
It was set that there would be no user limit to the platform access, and it was assured a stream capable to support 100.000 hours of transmission, so the event could occur without any issues. The video transmission quality standards were also established to 4 Mbps, 1Mbps, and 500kbps resolutions/bitrates. 
The preparation included the feed’s reception (RTMP) that was transferred to a local storage deployed on a Virtual Machine, where the media would later be delivered to the right channels: the web video platform, and social media, simultaneously. 
When trying to publish the content on social media, the event’s production team identified some difficulties in generating the ideal format for lossless video quality, so to solve that, MOG used MAM4PRO to directly convert the stream into a compliant format, and publish it on the desired channels in multiple resolutions. 
MOG’s goal was to guarantee a seamless stream configuration to publish on the event’s customized platform, meaning that Coimbra’s Town Hall only needed to supply the stream source.
 
 
**In a nutshell, the instance preparation included:**
- The feed was received by MAM4PRO (deployed in Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine), and directly streamed to social media in the optimal format and resolution;
- MAM4PRO guaranteed multiple resolutions and adaptative bitrates, designed to match the viewer’s internet connection without interruptions;
- The Live feed was stored in a local storage within the VM, and then transferred to Vizzi web platform through a secure and reliable CDN, assured by MOG;
- Generation of multiple resolutions;
- MOG delivered an end-to-end workflow that goes from media preparation, passing through a self-configured CDN, and ending in a synchronized streaming experience through a customized video front end and social media;
- Assured support for multiple devices and OS, including Microsoft, iOS, and Android, as well as all major browsers.

 
 

With Vizzi’s OTT platform analytics, Coimbra’s Town Hall was able to benefit from a diverse range of consumer data, such as the number of stream views, traffic consumption, page visits, and audience demographics (preferred devices, gender, age, location, and interests) designed to give them a deeper overview of the show’s success, and a better prediction of improvements for future events. 
Coimbra’s Town Hall will continue to invest in their online presence, with their own OTT platform with the full support and assistance from MOG.

 
 

### **<center>Why Vizzi OTT Platform?</center>**

With Vizzi OTT platform, it’s easy to manage, deliver and engage with your audience with a highly personalized platform, fully tailored to fit your brand’s needs and help you reach the public you want. 
Vizzi’s analytics allows for deep insights about your audience so you can optimize your offer around the data these reports give you, with extended management tools that’ll give you full control of how you want to display your content and monetize it. 
By using Vizzi, Coimbra’s Town Hall could create a new way of boosting their online presence, keep the show on the road, and reach a broader audience.

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## **<center> The Costumer </center>**

**[Vietnam Television](https://vtv.vn/), also known as “VTV“, is the national television broadcaster for Vietnam and was launched on 7th September 1970 in Hanoi.** Nowadays, [VTV](https://vtv.vn/) is the largest television network in Vietnam, broadcasting through 9 FTA channels and internationally available via satellite. [VTV](https://vtv.vn/) also operates the largest cable network (VCTV) and a DTH satellite service. [VTV](https://vtv.vn/)’s regional broadcasting centers are located in Ho Chi Minh City, Huế, Da Nang, Phu Yen, Nha Trang, Cần Thơ, Vinh and Tam Dao.

 
 

## **<center>The Partner</center>**

<center><img src="https://m0storage.azureedge.net/website-upload-container/assets/mog_customerstories_tekcast_highlight_d626a00341.png" alt="ingest-web" width="50%" height="auto"/></center> 

**TekCast is MOG’s integrator partner for Vietnam region. The company operates in several technology and broadcast fields, such as: radio, television, cinema, culture, printing equipment, security equipment inspection and various events.** It provides installation, technology transfer systems, production equipment TV, storage systems, radio programs, video tapes, lighting systems for many broadcasting stations across the country, especially for Vietnam TV Radio (VTV), Hanoi Radio and Television, Radio City TH.Ho Chi Minh, Film Production Centre Vietnam Television (VFC), Radio and Television Quang Ninh, Hai Phong Radio and Television, and many others. TekCast’s support was crucial for MOG to implement a centralized ingest workflow at Vietnam TV.

 
 

## **<center> The Challenge </center>**

[Vietnam TV](https://vtv.vn/) represented MOG’s first customer in APAC using AVID’s workflow environment. The broadcaster needed to accelerate its production workflows, by migrating their archives and news production processes into a completely tapeless and flexible system. The project main goal consisted in providing a high quality-centralized, multi-format and metadata-rich ingest system that starts the whole ingest process through an automated method.

 
 

## **<center> The Solution </center>**
### **<center> Accelerating production workflows with a tapeless system </center>**
 
The broadcaster is using MOG’s powerful file-based ingest system – mxfSPEEDRAIL F1000 – which provides a centralized approach to automatically ingest any type of media files. For this specific case, the files being ingested were: AVID MXF OPAtom, XDCAM EX, XDCAM HD, P2 and MOV formats. When the ingest process is over, the files need to be unified into AVID MXF files, enabling the harmonized distribution of contents for editing suites and archive systems. The ingested media is also immediately available at the new Avid ISIS 5000 and ISIS7000, allowing a collaborative editing among Avid editors. The check-in is also made directly into Avid Interplay Media Asset Management.

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Accelerating production workflows with a tapeless system

## **<center>The Customer</center>**

<center><img src="https://m0storage.azureedge.net/website-upload-container/assets/mog_customerstories_cnnindonesia_galleryimage2_dfc9ffbafb.png" alt="ingest-web" width="50%" height="auto"/></center> 

**[CNN](https://edition.cnn.com/) is among the world’s leaders in online news and information delivery. In August 2015 Turner Broadcasting formed a partnership with PT Trans Media Corporate to launch [CNN Indonesia](https://edition.cnn.com/) as a 24-hour news channel and website in Bahasa Indonesia. [CNN](https://edition.cnn.com/) is now reaching millions of Indonesians, being the first local-language channel on Southeast Asia.** 
The [CNN Indonesia](https://edition.cnn.com/) TV Channel is also supported by CNNIndonesia.com news portal. Predictions state that over 100 million people in Indonesia will have access to the Internet in 2016, so the presence of a multi-platform brand became very important and is supporting the programs that are aired on television. TransMedia is now operating [CNN Indonesia](https://edition.cnn.com/) from its facilities in Jakarta, while [CNN](https://edition.cnn.com/) provides the software and outline the broadcast aired.
 
 

## **<center>The Partner</center>**

<center><img src="https://m0storage.azureedge.net/website-upload-container/assets/mog_customerstories_cnnindonesia_galleryimage1_779c756633.png" alt="ingest-web" width="50%" height="auto"/></center> 

**[Ideal Systems](https://www.idealsys.com/) is an industry leading, multi-national, systems integrator headed in the Asia Pacific that provides innovative solutions to the broadcasting industry, telecoms, and enterprise.** 
As MOG corporate partner, [Ideal Systems](https://www.idealsys.com/) covers the consultancy and conceptualization, helping in the complete design, build and after support of mxfSPEEDRAIL systems installation. 
Over the last years, [Ideal Systems](https://www.idealsys.com/) has made a reputation for innovation in system integration and providing clients with future-proof solutions that meet their needs.
 
 

## **<center>The Challenge</center>**

**[CNN Indonesia](https://www.cnnindonesia.com/) workflow is based on Avid solutions: editors, storage and media asset management. Therefore, the broadcaster needed a completely interoperable solution able to work with AVID workflow environment seamlessly.** 
[CNN Indonesia](https://www.cnnindonesia.com/) also needed to unify its media into the format XDCAM HD 35Mbps, for Hi-Res versions of the material and H264 800 Kbps for Lo-Res versions. The media was distributed among Avid ISIS 7500 and 5500, with the requirement to delete the Hi-Res material that was controlled by Media Manager once this has been moved into the archive while keeping the Lo-Res available for posterior usage.

 
 

## **<center>The Solution</center>**

### **<center>Ingest Services integrated with third-party vendors. </center>**

The broadcaster proceeded with the installation of 4 mxfSPEEDRAIL F1000 systems, enabling an automated workflow with support for ingesting multiple-formats and multiple-resolutions into the AVID environment while ensuring a solid performance and great interoperability between platforms. 
With mxfSPEEDRAIL, the assets are now immediately ingested into the news production division that uses Avid editors and MAM. The ingested files are wrapped from MXF and .mov files into the in-house format XDCAM HD 35Mbps for HiRes and H264 800Kbps proxy by mxfSPEEDRAIL F1000, that immediately sends it to Avid ISIS 7500 and 5500 respectively. When the Hi-Res is sent to the archive, the Media Manager has the privilege to delete it, keeping the proxy version in Avid ISIS 5500. 
**By using mxfSPEEDRAIL the customer has the contents immediately checked-in into Avid Interplay in multiple resolutions.**

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Ingest Services integrated with third-party vendors

A broadcaster that had several unilateral facilities and services at the [2012 Summer Games](https://olympics.com/en/olympic-games/london-2012) event.

 
 

## **<center> The Challenge </center>**

This customer from MOG had a very specific demand: to ensure that video and audio signals were correctly controlled, processed and distributed without any kind of failure or delay. With more than 600 hours of coverage planned, this broadcaster had the need to choose a reliable and solid technology, able to increase performance and speed up ingest, transcode and storage processes. Reducing the Need for Extra Automation Systems.

 
 

## **<center> The Solution </center>**

### **<center>Automated Ingest with removable e-SATA disks</center>**

Onsite, MOG has installed 6 mxfSPEEDRAIL F1000 units able to handle ingest from input source Video Servers AVC-I 100, transcoding it into MPEG2 LGOP 70 Mbps on-the-fly. The support for growing files ingest as well as the simultaneous ingest of several files allowed the broadcaster to save time, assigning resources into other essential tasks. Using mxfSPEEDRAIL has reduced the need for extra automation systems, once it included an internal storage supporting 32 hours of AVC-I 100. Putting the 6 systems together, the broadcaster was able to ingest and transcode 192 hours a day, with capability to automatically erase the contents from the internal storage after the processes were completed. Removable e-SATA to Easily Move Contents After this stage, the contents were saved into an e-SATA removable disk that was easily transported into any other venue. This feature presented itself as crucial for MOG customer, as they have the need to easily ship the footage between different geographic areas.

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Automated Ingest with removable e-SATA disks

## **<center>The Customer</center>**

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**Südwestrundfunk is a regional public broadcasting corporation serving the southwest of Germany, specifically the federal states of Baden-Württemberg and Rheinland-Pfalz.** The corporation has main offices in three cities (Stuttgart, Baden-Baden and Mainz) with the director’s office being in Stuttgart. It broadcasts 24 hours per day from the three main offices of [SWR](https://www.swrfernsehen.de/) and ARD-TV-Cannels, as well as from the 8 radio channels, the online swr.de website. The SWR is responsible for a programing offer with a clear profile: timeliness and regionality. [SWR](https://www.swrfernsehen.de/) is the second largest broadcasting organization in Germany, with a coverage of 55 600 km2, and an audience reaching estimated 14,7 million.

 
 

## **<center>The Challenge</center>**

[SWR](https://www.swrfernsehen.de/) has built a new building in Stuttgart where a completely new HD file-based workflow infrastructure was required. The new facilities were designed to accommodate and join together the departments of Video, Radio and Internet, all of them with different requirements in terms of production. The challenge consisted in implementing a new file-based workflow, more efficient and with a faster turnaround of contents for news, live-shows and magazines, in a fully monitorized environment. One of the most crucial requirement was to minimize the editing time, as well as the transfering time of the material between different areas in only a single format. It was also necessary to provide editing and highlights capability while still recording. MOG’ systems integrator Wellen+Nöthen was commissioned with the realization of this ambitious project. As general contractor, Wellen+Nöthen took over the responsibility for the creation of an infrastructure, which made it possible for around 500 editorial staff, cutters, graphic artists and other production personnel to jointly produce file-based studio, news, sports and magazine contributions in a system covering all editorial groups and locations.

 
 

## **<center>The Solution</center>**

### **<center>Building a Complete File-Based Infrastructure</center>**

The goal for [SWR](https://www.swrfernsehen.de/) workflow implementation was to have the media files available for post-production in a shared storage (ISIS7000 from AVID), as well as for Interplay Production while the media is being recorded or transferred into the central storage from Omneon MediaGrid, managed by a S4M Media Asset Management. To maximize the number of simultaneous accesses to the media and minimize both the post-production storage and network load, a low bandwidth H264 long GOP@ 1 to 2 Mbps proxy with AAC audio was generated at the same time of the transfer and recording into the central storage in case the media arrives from the XDCAM disks or other transcoded format into MPEG long GOP 50 Mbp MXF OP1A files using Amberfin iCR transcoders. This wrapper and video codec usage allows a high video and audio quality at a low bitrate with frame accurate seek access while the proxy file is being created. Through another path and for different productions, at the same time of recording, Omneon Spectrum will record and generate simultaneously the HD and proxy version files. Using S4M Media Asset Management, journalists will make the pre-selection of the media and basic EDLs using the proxy resolution version. As soon as the story is pre-cut and/or pre-edited, the journalists can submit them to the editing rooms for finishing in Avid Media Composer editing suites. At this time, the mxfSPEEDRAIL F1000 controlled by the MAM through its SOAP API, will sub-clip and transfer the original and associated MXF OP1A high-quality media files and make them available in the post-production area as native Avid OP Atom. Both pre-cut and live media can be transferred while the source files are being generated with a minimum latency of less than 30 seconds, ready to be edited in frame-chase mode (before completion of the file transfer). Journalists can also take advantage of pre-checked in information and EDL sequence mapping from S4M pre-edition into Interplay production MAM before the actual media is requested to be available in the Avid post-production area. The pre-check-in of assets is performed through a MOG module allowing the assets to be re-linked to the media files as they start to be transferred into the Avid ISIS. Upon finish of the editing and rendering of the Avid, Boris and Sapphire video effects, editors would submit their jobs to be automatically transferred and ready to be published as MXF OP1A using mxfSPEEDRAIL O1000. **The mxfSPEEDRAIL O1000 would sub-clip, stitch, join and re-wrap the OPAtom into MXF OP1A Long GOP MPEG video files. These new MXF OP1A files upon creation would be ready to be broadcasted and played out though Omneon Spectrum video servers, again with a minimum latency and while the files are being generated at the beginning of the workflow chain.** At the same time, a proxy version would be generated via Amberfin iCR and feedback to the system workflow.

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## **<center>The Customer</center>**

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**[Thailand Television Channel 3](https://ch3plus.com/) was Thailand’s first commercial television station. It launched in Bangkok in 1970 and has broadcast 24/7 since January 2005. ThaiTV3 is one of the leading television stations and forms part of the largest media group in Thailand known as BEC-TERO.**
[ThaiTV3](https://ch3plus.com/) has revolutionised local Thai content thanks to its innovative production teams. The station has become a trendsetter, able to produce quality local programming that attracts the loyalty of the Thai audience. Furthermore, the station broadcasts a balance of quality foreign movies, dramas, comedy, documentaries and sports. The station maintains a strong market position and strengthens its brand awareness amongst its audience through regular on air and local events. [ThaiTV3](https://ch3plus.com/) invests in the continuous upgrade of its equipment for both production and transmission. It also provides its employees with continuous exposure and training within television production. These are two important factors that enable [ThaiTV3 ](https://ch3plus.com/)to maintain its premier position within the Thai TV market.

 
 

## **<center>The Partner</center>**

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Founded in February 2005, [Advance Digital Tech Group Co., Ltd. (ADT)](https://advancedigitaltech.com/) imports both Video Servers and general Broadcast Equipment. It also acts as a distributor to TV stations, Video Production Houses, Educational Institutes, and Governmental Offices. [ADT](https://advancedigitaltech.com/) has been MOG Technologies corporate partner and system integrator since 2011 and has been responsible for many successful implementations within the geographical area. As a partner, [ADT](https://advancedigitaltech.com/) represents MOG by providing a full consultancy service, support services for mxfSPEEDRAIL solutions plus integration services within the Thai market.

 
 

## **<center>The Solution</center>**

### **<center>Capturing multiple channels while integrating it through all the workflow environment </center>**

When capturing multiple live feeds in different formats, broadcasters need to consider a solution able to handle all the ingest, transcoding and storage tasks in a simple, but efficient process. [ThaiTV3](https://ch3plus.com/) needs to capture multiple channels both in SD and HD and be able to wrap the outputs into MXF OP1a files. Furthermore, the channel needs to back up all the content and seamlessly integrate with all third-party systems throughout their workflow. This ensures the highest performance and quality. [ADT](https://advancedigitaltech.com/) supported MOG by installing 3 x dual channel mxfSPEEDRAIL S1000 units able to capture 6 channels of live-feeds. The solution included both AVC-Intra 50 HD and DV25 SD codecs delivering to a 24TB (RAW) NAS storage platform that was also supplied by MOG. Also included was a redundant power supply plus RAID 5 storage protection. The mxfSPEEDRAIL S1000 captures content both for Crash and Scheduled recordings which are monitored through two web browser clients via a 1Gbps Ethernet connection. With mxfSPEEDRAIL S1000 new clips can be opened into the NLE timeline while the new files are still being recorded and not closed. In this case, [ThaiTV3](https://ch3plus.com/) is able to rely on the scheduled recording capabilities of the mxfSPEEDRAIL S1000 and its edit-while-capture feature to simultaneously capture the video signal into an MXF format. The mxfSPEEDRAIL S1000’s innovative capabilities have proven to be essential for [ThaiTV3](https://ch3plus.com/) news and live sports programs coverage. By installing mxfSPEEDRAIL, [ThaiTV3](https://ch3plus.com/) was able to simplify its production workflow by reducing costs and saving time on the capture and storage process. With MOG’s innovative central ingest technology, the channel was able to ensure automation of the whole production workflow including scheduled capture, live-feeds recording, storage, multi-camera control, edit-while-capture and remote monitoring through a web-browser.

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## **<center>The Customer</center>**

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**[bTV](https://www.btv.bg/) is the first private-owned national television channel in Bulgaria.** It is owned by [bTV Media Group](https://www.btv.bg/), a part of Central European Media Enterprises, and is reportedly the Bulgarian television channel with the largest audience. [bTV](https://www.btv.bg/) offers a wide selection of thematic programs, covering a wide range of formats – serials, shows, reality shows, talk shows, comedy, movies, among others. [bTV](https://www.btv.bg/) news provide the most important and reliable information and perspectives in the country and is crucial for [bTV](https://www.btv.bg/) success.

 
 

## **<center>The Partner</center>**

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**[Bulcomp](http://www.bulcomp.com/), MOG Technologies’ partner, has been the responsible company for the deployment of mxfSPEEDRAIL system and has assisted bTV in the whole process of planning, integrating and configuring mxfSPEEDRAIL system.** 
[Bulcomp Ltd](http://www.bulcomp.com/) was established in 1997 and provides professional video equipment, digital recording systems, storage and archiving solutions and networks development for the broadcast market.

 
 

## **<center>The Challenge</center>**

The challenge consisted in the migration of [bTV](https://www.btv.bg/)’s archive and news production processes into a completely tapeless and flexible system. In order to accomplish this challenge, bTV has installed 15 mxfSPEEDRAIL units for SDI recording, file-based ingest and publishing of media directly from its editing islands. The main goal of the project consisted in providing [bTV](https://www.btv.bg/) with an overall control of every step of the production workflow. By acquiring the mxfSPEEDRAIL product family, [bTV](https://www.btv.bg/) was able to accelerate its production processes allowing a smooth transition to HD production with the new mxfSPEEDRAIL file-based capabilities. The installation was made with other brands and systems which strengthens mxfSPEEDRAIL’s full interoperability.

 
 

## **<center>The Solution</center>**

### **<center>Migrating archive news to a completely tapeless system </center>**

mxfSPEEDRAIL S1000 – **SDI Recorder** MOG’s HD/SDI recorder mxfSPEEDRAIL S1000, has offered [bTV](https://www.btv.bg/) the ability to digitize its tape archive into AVC-Intra high quality video codec, thus allowing editing the media immediately while digitizing. In order to simplify an accurate identification of the material, mxfSPEEDRAIL S1000 also has a practical and powerful annotation engine that allows metadata addition to the digitized clips, in order to easily keep track of the assets. mxfSPEEDRAIL F1000 – **File-Based Ingest** Working in parallel with S1000, MOG’s powerful file-based ingest system – mxfSPEEDRAIL F1000 – provides a centralized approach to automatically ingest any type of media files. After the ingest process is completed, the files are normalized into AVID OPAtom format which enables the content distribution for editing and archive systems. The ingested media is immediately available at the new Avid ISIS 5000, allowing a collaborative editing among Avid editors. [bTV](https://www.btv.bg/) editors can start editing while the video server is still recording with the possibility to pre-select, trim or merge the ingested material. The system is also able to check-in directly into Avid Interplay Media Asset Management. mxfSPEEDRAIL O1000 – **File-Based Outgest** Upon editing in Avid suite, the EDL sequences are directly stitched and published by mxfSPEEDRAIL O1000. Working in the background to free the editor, mxfSPEEDRAIL O1000 publishes the media directly to playout video server as MXF OP1A and to [bTV](https://www.btv.bg/)’s website as MPEG-4/H.264 files.

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Migrating archive news to a completely tapeless system

## **<center>The Customer</center>**

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**[NBC (National Broadcasting Company)](https://www.nbc.com/) is one of the most important broadcasting television and radio networks in the world.** It is headquartered in the United States – New York City’s Rockefeller Center, in the GE (General Electric) Building. Formed in 1926 by the RCA (Radio Corporation of America) and acquired by GE in 1986, [NBC](https://www.nbc.com/) has nowadays 10 owned-and-operated stations and nearly 200 affiliates in the United States, Canada, South Korea, and Germany. [NBC](https://www.nbc.com/) is the oldest major broadcast network in the United States and covers many events, such as The Golden Globe Awards, the film industry’s second most important award ceremony. [NBC Universal Media](https://www.nbc.com/), LLC is a subsidiary of [NBC](https://www.nbc.com/) and has several divisions, such as [NBC Universal Television Group](https://www.nbc.com/), NBC News and NBC Sports Group. It is responsible for the production and marketing of entertainment, news, and information products and services to a global customer base. The company owns and operates American television networks, numerous cable channels, and a group of local stations in the United States, as well as motion picture companies, several television production companies, and branded theme parks. [NBC Universal Media](https://www.nbc.com/), LLC is headquartered in New York City too, in the Rockefeller Plaza – Midtown Manhattan.

 
 

## **<center>The Challenge</center>**

Back in the 2012 Summer Games, as in major broadcast sports events, [NBC Universal](https://www.nbc.com/) demanded the use of the most reliable technology, able to ensure a quick and simple way to move and consolidate media with faster than real time speeds, saving time and resources, allowing the immediate distribution of the contents to the eager audience. Thus, the fully interoperable mxfSPEEDRAIL centralized ingest solution from MOG proved to be the ideal system to cover the most exigent needs from broadcaster in such a challenge environment.

 
 

## **<center>The Solution</center>**

### **<center>Fast turnaround of contents at the Summer Games</center>**

mxfSPEEDRAIL was then selected to cover the most demanding needs of [NBC Universal](https://www.nbc.com/), playing an important role in conforming SONY XDCAM material for its posterior distribution for multiple platforms. **With an intuitive and unique interface, mxfSPEEDRAIL F1000 ingest system conformed the captured clips from SONY XDCAM Stations, re-encoding the whole sequence from MPEG2 LongGOP 50Mbps into MXF OP1a, delivering the output to the multi-platform distribution servers. The mxfSPEEDRAIL F1000 has also enabled the handling of growing files, saving time to the editors, when sending their EDL’s for conform, merging sub-clips from several LongGOP sources.** Additionally, the mxfSPEEDRAIL S1000 – MOG’s SDI Recorder – has also been deployed in order to allow a faster access to the media, by capturing simultaneously to the Omneon MediaGrid and Avid Interplay/ISIS, allowing the files to be immediately available in the editing suite, for a fast turnaround of media. The fully interoperable system was integrated with Avid Interplay MAM, which handles the distribution and load-balancing of conforming jobs, and Omneon Media Grid storage, offering a high traffic performance and a great interoperability between platforms, ensuring that the 2012 London Olympics results were captured, produced and communicated in a solid and competitive way.

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Fast turnaround of contents at the Summer Games

## **<center>The Customer</center>**

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**Our customer – [TV AlHijrah](https://www.tvalhijrah.com/) – is a government-owned free-to-air television network in Malaysia, broadcasting in HD from its Digital Broadcasting Centre in Kuala Lumpur. Introduced as the first Islamic lifestyle television station in Malaysia, [TV AlHijrah](https://www.tvalhijrah.com/) marked a new era in the local broadcasting industry with the intention of providing a platform to educate, inform and uniting the Ummah via its creative and universal production adhering to the teachings of Islam.** The TV programming covers social, economic, political, environmental, entertainment and religious themes based on Islamic and universal values. [TV Alhijrah](https://www.tvalhijrah.com/) broadcasts 18 hours daily from 06:00h until 00:00h. [TV Alhijrah](https://www.tvalhijrah.com/) technical team is composed by Suffian Yahya (Head); Wan Khairul Nizam Wan Hussin; Mohamad Hafizal; Mohamad Ariffin; Suhana Roslan; Zulkhairi Ruslan; Zaidi Abu Hussain; Mohd Firdaus. For further details email to: broadcast@tvalhijrah.com | www.tvalhijrah.com

 
 

## **<center>The Partner</center>**

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**[ATP Digital Media](https://www.atp-digital.com.my/) was founded in 2007 in order to satisfy the increasing demands of Malaysia’s Broadcasting IT.** As a partner, [ATP Digital](https://www.atp-digital.com.my/) is responsible for deliver and support MOG on its geographic market. The company fulfills all the requests from broadcasters, from completely setting up a television station from the ground, up to implementing upgrades for an existing broadcast station. [ATP Digital Media](https://www.atp-digital.com.my/) supported MOG in the implementation at TV AlHijrah workflows. First by helping to understand the customer’s workflow and second by representing MOG when integration and installation services were required.

 
 

## **<center>The Challenge</center>**

After the decision to bring [TV AlHijrah](https://www.tvalhijrah.com/) on-air arise, the broadcaster initiated the project and a complete new studio was built in less than 4 months. From the moment it started to broadcast, [TV AlHijrah](https://www.tvalhijrah.com/) has implemented a lot of improvements and received plenty of positive reviews from the viewers that have increased day-by-day. Being a broadcaster, there is the constant need to keep growing and improving its facilities and workflows in order to add new capabilities, upgrading and adapting the system to the rising organizational requirements. MOG and [ATP](https://www.atp-digital.com.my/) worked together to provide a solution able to cover the broadcaster’s daily operations tasks. The main challenge of this project was to keep the existing equipment while maximizing the performance of the production workflow with a perfectly interoperable solution. To manage the capture of contents, [TV AlHijrah](https://www.tvalhijrah.com/) was already using a third-party vendor. The challenge was to automatically ingest and transcode the XDCAM HD422 .mov files into OP1a files, while producing 3 XML files with inserted metadata both for the MPEG 1.5 Mbps proxy and Mpeglop50 Hi-Res assets, sending them into existing MAM and storage systems. At the same time, the broadcaster needed to trim and merge clips in order to prepare the program to go on air. Since the capture was uninterrupted, there was the need to cut parts of the content to prepare it to be distributed to the audience. Along with these changes, operators needed to preview the contents before sending it to MAM in order to check if the final result was according to the expectations. For this project, MOG has also provided on-site support and consulting services. The existing equipment was adapted to a solid and interoperable solution, able to provide effective and faster ingest and automation tools.

 
 

## **<center>The Solution</center>**

### **<center>Full coverage of multiple editing environments. Automatic Ingest with Load Balancing and Proxy/Hi-Res generation. </center>**

The broadcaster has implemented MOG’s powerful file-based ingest system – mxfSPEEDRAIL F1000 – which provides a centralized approach to automatically ingest any type of media files. The current installation is ingesting Quicktime MOV files, wrapping them and unifying the production environment into MXF OP1a files. Although the broadcaster decision on maintaining these formats, mxfSPEEDRAIL is fully prepared to handle multiple formats at any time a change occurs. After transcoding the media files, mxfSPEEDRAIL creates both Hi-Res and Lo-Res versions, sending the contents into different storage systems, while generating 3 XML files and keying the metadata into the existing MAM. In addition, the Hi-Res, Proxy and XML files are sent to an existing Media Asset Management (MAM) watch folder to be later processed by the MAM. Another requirement was to have the 3 type of files (Hi-Res, Proxy and XML files) co-existing at the same time in the watch folder or at the MAM. MOG was able, through the mxfSPEEDRAIL F1000, to efficiently guarantee the delivery of the Media and Metadata registration to the existing MAM, while assuring the maximum quality and performance during the process. When working with several ingest systems, is also extremely important to have a simple and central way to control and manage the production workflow. Therefore, MOG has also implemented the Load Balancing feature which allows the user to manage the workload across multiple ingest systems, ensuring that the workloads processes are adequately balanced.

 

### **<center>Trim, Merge and Preview capabilities to prepare contents. </center>**

Working together with the deployed automatic ingest environment, [TV AlHijrah](https://www.tvalhijrah.com/) also needed a specific Trim & Merge workflow to simplify and reduce time to prepare the contents to be transmitted. With mxfSPEEDRAIL’s Trim & Merge capabilities, [TV AlHijrah](https://www.tvalhijrah.com/) operators are now able to edit the contents by cutting the undesired excerpts of the program. The system plays the captured sequence enabling the operator to manually trim it into different clips. This selection can also be automatic, by using the timecode of the clip to edit the Mark In and Mark Out points. After the trimming process, the several sequences are merged into a full clip, while maintaining the original ID, updating it in the MAM and generating the 3 XML Files. As a requirement, the source media is defined to be automatically backed up to a pre-defined backup folder, for later use, on the eventuality of a problem with the trim and merge operation in which the source media is automatically deleted after the process. With MOG’ mxfSPEEDRAIL system, [TV AlHijrah](https://www.tvalhijrah.com/) was able to maintain the existent equipment, while improving production and post-production processes and ensuring they are seamlessly connected to achieve the maximum productivity.

 

### **<center>Real-Time Playback for enhancement of Quality Control Operations.</center>**

The mxfSPEEDRAIL Real-time playback systems are used for quality control purposes, providing the availability of monitoring and previewing the ingested TV programs before going on air. The SONY XDCAM HD422 content wrapped in MXF OP1A can be previewed after the Trim and Merge operations take place and then safely sent to playout servers while assuring the required quality levels. With Load Balancing capability, [TV AlHijrah](https://www.tvalhijrah.com/) avoids systems with a backlog of jobs to be served. The mxfSPEEDRAIL F1000 systems are grouped in a single cluster, controlled by a master system that effectively distributes the ingest jobs. The master mxfSPEEDRAIL grabs the Quicktime MOV files and distributes the ingest jobs among the other systems. The master machine is also integrated into the cluster contributing to the workload processing. In case of a master or any other systems failure, redundancy will always be ensured by one of the other available servers on the load balancing cluster, which will automatically assume the job, either its master or slave role and depending on the situation. The above workflow main purpose was to unify the broadcaster production environment and keep the contents archived for future usage and history. The generation of proxies enabled operators to have a faster access to the contents while taking also advantage of the remote access to the system with moreover 3 files being ingested by each user at the same time.

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