S4M - Solutions for Media GmbH - S4M Provides For Tapeless Production At NDR - one of the better VPMS installations goes abide at German accessible broadcaster

(S4M) Cologne, August 28, 2009 – With the accomplishing of the activity “VPN” (Vernetzte Produktion NDR, translates “linked assembly NDR”) German accessible anchorperson Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) put into operation one of the better installations of S4M´s Video Production Management System VPMS.

Deployed by clandestine and accessible account broadcasters throughout Europe, S4M’s VPMS supports the administration of agenda video assets from accretion through assembly to playout, administration and archiving.

The “VPN” arrangement accomplished at NDR is an chip band-aid that consists of several elements. In this ambience VPMS is a key bore that integrates calmly in added systems and connects them to a connected all-embracing system. For instance, Annova Systems´ newsroom arrangement “Open Media” as able-bodied as several Final Cut Pro alteration suites were chip in the assembly system. This way, television editors can acceptance and adapt video actual on their PC workstations and can calmly forward VPMS generated alteration lists (EDLs) for fine-cut to the Final Cut Pro suites.

“VPN” supports a absolutely file-based assembly for NDR. From blot over articulation over to playout of TV reports, aggregate is able after tapes.

Since all TV ascendancy apartment in Hamburg are affiliated to VPMS so far, and programs such as “DAS!” or “Mein Nachmittag” are able after tapes, all newsrooms are declared to acceptance the arrangement bit by bit. In the future, all television programs produced in Hamburg are declared to be created tapeless with VPMS.

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NDR – Norddeutscher Rundfunk
Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) is the collective bounded accessible broadcasting agency of the German Federal States of Hamburg, Niedersachsen, Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Within Germany’s affiliation of accessible broadcasters (ARD) the NDR counts amidst the three better members. NDR’s advertisement arena includes added than 87.000 km2 with about 14.3 actor inhabitants. The anchorperson provides altered radio programmes for the four covered federal states, four arena advanced radio programs (NDR 2, NDR Kultur, NDR Info, N-JOY) and “NordwestRadio”, a aggregate radio affairs with accessible anchorperson “Radio Bremen”. NDR and Radio Bremen aswell accommodate a collective bounded TV approach (NDR Fernsehen) that includes VideoText service. Additionally, NDR delivers 17.5 percent of the affairs of nation-wide accessible TV approach “Das Erste”.

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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