S4M - Solutions for Media GmbH - MDR chose ClipJOCKEY - S4M’s flat assembly apparatus to be implemented at German Public Broadcaster

(S4M) Las Vegas/ Cologne, April 22, 2009 - During NAB in Las Vegas, German accessible anchorperson “Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk” (MDR) autonomous for a campus licence of S4M’s ClipJOCKEY System.The flat assembly apparatus covers all workflows in TV ascendancy apartment and is declared to be activated to all sites of “Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk”.

MDR has acclimated S4M’s Video Production Management System (VPMS) back 2003. Amongst added things VPMS controls video abduction and manages the complete HiRes accumulator for top resolution advertisement above video. Hitherto, the bore “Playout Control” was activated in adjustment to pilot the processes in ascendancy rooms; now it will be replaced by the new ClipJOCKEY solution. ClipJOCKEY supports the circadian processes agitated out in TV ascendancy rooms, allows to plan throughout aural a file-based ambiance and offers MDR’s users a array of new appearance and functions.

For instance, the arrangement supports all MDR server platforms (Omneon, Grass Valley K2), administers several breath playlists simultaneously, provides a time-delayed playout of video actual while it is still recorded (playout while record) and it enables to acceptation blot lists in altered formats (ALE, EDL).

In accession the pre-production of magazines can be able after tapes. Especially to that end, S4M has developed the “add-on mode” alms the aforementioned abundance that was ahead alone accessible in a tape-based context. A multi approach hotlink affection aswell supports key-fill applications and multi camera productions.

In a aboriginal footfall ClipJOCKEY will be installed in the HD- accessible ascendancy allowance 1 in Leipzig. MDR will use this area to accommodate the 2010 Winter Olympics’ affairs for Germany’s accessible anchorperson bunch “ARD”. As anon as MDR’s capital appointment in Leipzig is able with the system, the bounded broadcasting studios in Dresden, Magdeburg and Erfurt including the “ARD/ZDF Kinderkanal” (kids channel) are declared to apply ClipJOCKEY as well.

S4M – Solutions for Media GmbH
The Cologne based aggregation S4M – Solutions for Media, a accessory of arvato systems and RTL Television, develops and distributes software solutions specialized on the broadcast- and newmedia industry. Today, S4M systems are acclimated in 30 countries about the world. Whether bartering air time sales or video agreeable management; whether affairs planning, rights licensing, ratings appraisal or assembly planning: S4M has got the solution. Furthermore, the S4M portfolio includes able consulting casework to canyon alternating accumulated ability of media and IT to customers.

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