Blue Order Solutions AG - Blue Order at NAB 2009

Media Archive 3.3Store this angel in big sizeBlue Order, a arch Media Asset Management (MAM) vendor, will be demonstrating their tapeless workflow solution, spanning from blot to distribution, at NAB 2009. The amount aspect of the display will be Blue Order’s Media Archive 3.3, a able MAM band-aid which can calmly be configured and scaled to clothing the needs of evolving Media organisations.

Media Archive makes acceptance to agreeable quick and easy, automates workflows and enables agreeable users to reuse, repurpose and resell their agreeable added efficiently. Media Archive allows for chip and connected workflows throughout the assembly action chain, transforming assembly silos into a absolutely chip action advanced assembly platform.

Media Archive delivers on the affiance of Enterprise Media Asset Management: Content fabricated accessible – anytime, anywhere, in any format. At NAB 2009, Blue Order will bare new additions to Media Archive, already accustomed as one of the arch enterprise-scale MAM systems in broadcasting.

New able basement products

ASP-ready
Media Archive enables Application Service Providers (ASP) to action computer-based casework to their barter over a network. Its accessible architectonics and the all-encompassing aggregate of interfaces to 3rd affair systems abutment ASP providers in alms a band-aid tailored to the needs of their clients, while decidedly abbreviation their absolute amount of ownership. Media Archive’s software architectonics supports multi-tenancy. Based on one individual Media Archive belvedere ASP providers can host and administer the agreeable of assorted audience in alongside while at the aforementioned time ensuring that anniversary client’s hosted agreeable charcoal absolutely defended from added audience on the system. Furthermore Media Archive’s web based user interfaces acquiesce simple acclimation to the specific accumulated architecture of the ASP or the end customer. As the amount aspect of an ASP band-aid Media Archive is already in use at e.g. Astra Platform Services (APS) and Plazamedia (both Germany).

CataLogger
Media Archive’s accustomed Cataloging Client has been revised. The new CataLogger now combines the different and accurate adeptness to actualize an absolute amount of metadata layers alternating the timeline with added acceptance ability and ease. It now supports a array of shortcuts and action keys and added drag&drop functionality has been added to accredit faster and added able editing. The Browse Video anatomy can be scaled to abounding awning admeasurement for bigger acceptance of angel details. The accessible angle are presented in tabs thoroughly facilitating the aeronautics and the abstracts entry. Metadata can calmly be affected amid media altar and metadata pages for accelerated annotation.

Browse editor
Media Archive now offers its own Browse Editor. The new Media Archive Edit PRO is an alteration appliance for journalists and producers acceptance the basal alteration on absolute appointment PCs. The new Media Archive Edit PRO works on proxy video files and comes with absolute video and audio appearance such as transitions, abutment for assorted advance and voice-over. Media Archive supports sending projects to Final Cut Pro and Avid alteration systems. As journalists and producers can do the above alteration by themselves media organizations can account from beneath time and money spent in top achievement adapt bays.

Integrations on affectation at the appearance
At NAB 2009, Blue Order will present the affiliation with best-of-breed industry solutions such as Sony XDCAM, AmberFin iCR, Omneon MediaDeck, Apple Final Cut Pro and Avid Media Composer.

Workflows
Enhancing the absolute account of accepted workflows, Blue Order will appearance new workflows at NAB 2009, such as

Standards & Practices - Whenever broadcasters access agreeable for accumulation to one or added administration channels, they accept to ensure that the agreeable adheres to all standards and practices (S&P) that administer for the specific administration channel. In adjustment to accomplish S&P compliance, the absolute agreeable has to be reviewed, any allotment that requires alteration has to be apparent and added with a hypothesis of accomplishments to be taken. The consistent adjustable adaptation can again be broadcast to the adapted channel. Media Archive, initially committed to abutment workflows for News, Programming, or Sports, can now abutment Media Distribution Centers by allowance them to calmly handle acquiescence workflows as able-bodied as added accompanying workflows such as bankrupt captioning, dubbing, and promo conception in altered languages and for a array of administration channels

Genealogy – Media Archive has the adeptness to clue a media object’s history throughout the assembly process. Media Archive’s Content Genealogy allows you to advertence to or archetype all metadata, all-around and timecode based, including rights advice from the antecedent assets to the anew generated asset.

MXF Support - Media Archive’s able workflow capabilities are added by MXF functionality. Media Archive can blanket video and audio files into MXF Wrappers and bare them from MXF wrappers (MXF adhesive accepted formats: OP Atom, OP1a, b, c, OP2a, b, c, OP3a, b); acknowledging appropriate MXF wrappers such as SONY eVTR, SONY XDCAM (DV, HD and Proxy), Panasonic P2, AVID Atom, and DCP (Digital Cinema Package); account and autograph metadata aural MXF Wrapper files; and partially abating (partial delivery) aloft time codes from MXF files.

Reporting for added able operations
Blue Order introduces a advertisement framework enabling the bearing of specific administration reports. The advertisement apparatus creates graphical letters and allows the consign of letters to Microsoft Excel. Administrators can run letters to adviser the achievement of Media Archive above the absolute workflow. The acquired ecology advice can be acclimated for a media organization’s mid- and abiding planning and to analyze advance potential. Report abstracts can be aggregate a allotment of peers, modified, printed or included into added documents

Furthermore Blue Order has formed on convalescent the user acquaintance with Media Archive. All Web GUIs can now be customized per chump or even per user, accouterment them with a GUI custom-built for their circadian work. The accepted Media Archive adaptation aswell comes with a set of predefined banknote that can calmly be afflicted in the Web GUI while alive with the system.
Media Archive’s Web Retrieval has been added now featuring Hits Highlighting of the seek appellation for adequate examination of hits, alienated time-consuming seek through text.

With “Did You Mean” Media Archive now offers phonetic based autosuggestion, i.e. a spell analysis like functionality, in case a antecedent abounding argument seek resulted in no or alone actual few hits. This affection is agnate to the Google search.

Blue Order is a all-around provider of turnkey Media Asset Management (MAM) solutions. Media and ball companies, corporations and accessible institutions use Blue Order articles to collect, index, catalog, retrieve and deliver acoustic and multi-format content. Blue Order’s ‘Media Archive®’ provides a absolute MAM framework to abutment new agenda agreeable services, optimize workflows and access efficiencies alternating the agreeable amount chain.

Blue Order is headquartered in Germany with subsidiaries in the UK and US. The aggregation has been deploying its articles back 1995 for a ample ambit of chump applications, with a appropriate accent on broadcast, library and media assembly applications. Blue Order has absolute partnerships with technology providers and arrangement integrators to ensure industry-specific solutions and able services. References beset abounding acclaimed companies, including Al Jazeera, Astra Platform Services, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Caracol TV, ESPN Brazil, NBC Olympics, Plazamedia, ProSiebenSat.1, RTM, TNS, VMMa, YLE and ZDF.

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