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15 febbraio 2018

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INTERVIEW: Daniele Saretta, SI Media R&D Manager

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SI Media at Nab Show: web proxy editor and artificial intelligence.

Also this year SI Media is going to present at Nab the latest news of its portfolio. We have taken this occasion to collect some previews with Mr Daniele Saretta, SI Media Research and Development Manager

1) Broadcasting market is rapidly changing. Which trends have come out in the latest months, also considering the different regions where SI Media is present?

Market is heavily pushing towards the IP transmission and management. This process brings several advantages such as the decrease of hardware costs and the possibility to virtualize in-house or through the cloud. It has become a global trend, from Europe, to Asia and North America, with many different shades.
SI Media, besides being one of the few software house able to provide and end-to-end ip workflow, is natively ready for the virtualization and for the cloud. Finally, the experience gained with the social media allow our automation playouts to be multiple endpoints, both towards classic media and new media such as Facebook and Twitter Live, Youtube, Livestream and many more.
Mostly in the Asian Market there has been a strong interest for the 4k contents management.
In this regards SI Media is able to utilize the resources of the latest GPU to obtain the same results in decoding, encoding and graphical enrichment of HD and SD environments.

2) Which are the latest news that SI Media will bring to the forthcoming NAB Show?

SI Media has been adopting ASD (agile software development) for many years, and products are constantly evolving. All our customers get the benefits of these developments and we take this occasion to invite all of them to come to our booth and see themselves the latest improvements of SI Media’s platform, which will be shortly available also for them.
This year’s biggest news will be:
-Web Proxy Editor: a smart and easy to use proxy based editor, now available also on our web client interface, with all the tools to allow journalists and editors to perform video editing from any device at any moment, allowing them to win the race against time of nowadays newsroom environment, being the first to publish a story

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-Integration of SI Media MAM with AI (artificial intelligence): contents are automatically processed and cataloged, audio is recognized and converted into a subtitle which can be directly used by the playout. We have also included tools to recognize explicit contents as naked scenes or simply sequence with smokers for example

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-Studio Automation: one of the latest products added in SI Media portfolio has been empowered with the addition of new functionalities, such as the quick menu to create macro and presets and with a substantial enlargement of the supported devices

3) This variable environment obliges software vendors to be more and more flexible and ready to implement new features and solutions. How SI Media is able to ensure on one side a first level support to the hundreds of customers all over the world and, on the other, a long term commitment to keep investing in research and development in order to anticipate the market demands?

The challenge imposed by this plurality of conflicting requests is a tough one. SI Media is answering increasing the efficiency and effectiveness inside the company and during the deployment of new projects. All the team is constantly involved and updated on customization and improvements so that the know-how is shared at best, and this, as chief engineer, is essential to maximize the result of r&d.
This is one of the most important “secrets” of SI Media. Team building among all the departments allows to generate new ideas and innovative approaches to the comprehensive platform we provide, collecting the different trends coming from our customers around the world and facilitating support activity.

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8 febbraio 2018

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CASE STUDY : Mtrk (Uzbekistan)

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The National Television and Radio Company of Uzbekistan (TVR\MTRK – https://www.mtrk.uz/ ) has selected SI Media as unique software supplier for its automation and newsroom platform.

The project has been awarded to the German systems integrator BFE (https://www.bfe.tv/), and, starting from summer 2017, we have been proceeding with the installation, configuration, tests and acceptance of the system at BFE headquarters in Mainz. After that, all the equipment has been shipped to Tashkent to move forward with the onsite installation, tuning and the training.

The comprehensive workflow SI Media has proposed to MTRK includes 13 fully mirrored automation channels, which control via API Harmonic video servers. SI Media is providing also its base band ingest platform and the scheduling system to arrange daily and advertising playlist, to manage secondary events and control 3rd party devices involved (A\V router, logo and character generator, Master Control\Switchers).

The system includes complete MAM platform, with workflow manager, quality check, transcoder, file ingest, integration with Adobe Premiere Pro and control of a 8-drives and 960 slots HP tape library as deep archive.

About NRCS, SI Media provide application (windows and web-based) for journalists to manage the news workflow, from the ingest of wires, agencies, contributions to the transmission and\or publishing to the web for video on demand, for all the 4 main newsrooms of TVR. Workflow is completed by SI Media studio playout (IT based based on Matrox boards), and the MOS integration with Ross for live studio graphics and Autoscript teleprompters.

The installation at the main site in Tashkent will be followed by a second project, which involves the 12 regional sites of TVR. In an interconnected environment, all of them will be communicating with the main site, while they will have independent MCR (file and base band ingest, scheduling, main and backup automation with embedded character generator, all based on AJA boards).

Workflow for NTRK (BFE) Main Site Project V.2.3

SI Media workflow for Mtrk

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4 ottobre 2017

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SOFTWARE APPLICATION: web proxy editor

SI Media announces Web Proxy Editor!

During the recent IBC, one of the most discussed topics has been with no doubts the cloud. SI Media has been one of the first software house on the market able to provide an end-to-end solution cloud based, from ingest to delivery and publishing of the contents.

In order to make the solution even more comprehensive, we have taken this occasion to announce SI Media web based proxy editor, which will be officially launched at the forthcoming NabShow. In nowadays newsroom environment, the current main challenge is be the first to publish a story, no matter the device or the media. This is the reason why we believe journalists must have a tool, which allow them to cover a press reports all the way from shooting the video to produce the final package. SI Media has already implemented its own APP (IOS and Adroid) for the journalists and, at the same time, our web platform allow them to work from smartphones, tablets, anywhere and anytime.

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Now, the new web proxy editor will include all the features already present in our windows application to perform quick and effective editing, as for example:

-voice over recording

-automated rendering in the desired format

-audio track mapping and level management

-video\audio effects such as overlay, fades, crossfades, wipes

-audio transitions (fades and mix)

-graphics\watermarks

-blur\pixellate
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3 ottobre 2017

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EVENT: coming next exhibitions

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SI Media is waiting for you!
Follow us all over the world, from Moscow, to Jakarta, Cape Town and Tokyo!

After a successful IBC, SI Media will proceed in the next 2 months exhibiting with its own booth in several exhibitions all over the world.

We take this occasion to invite you to stop by our booth and check our latest news and discuss about our recent projects.

First appointments will be 25-27 October, when SI Media will exhibit at the same time in Moscow (for the 8th year in a row we will be present with our own booth, B40), and in Jakarta at Broadcast Indonesia together with Ideal Systems Indonesia (first appearance there).

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Later on, beginning of November, SI Media will participate to two additional exhibitions, in South Africa and in Japan.

In Cape Town, together with our partner Onset Systems, we will exhibit at AfricaCOM, booth K2.

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Finally, from 15th to 17th November, SI Media will be present to the broadcast exhibition of Japan, Inter BEE (Tokyo), with our local system integrator Ideal Systems Japan

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2 ottobre 2017

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CASE STUDIES: Televisa, Inter Channel, Aruji, AACGMMA, CBC

Summer 2017 will be remembered as one of the busiest period in SI Media recent history.

Thanks to the great effort of all SI Media team, from our installers, to the developers and the support, we were able to successfully deploy five projects in the short window of 3 months.

These installations have involved four different continents: from Central American and Caribbean, to Europe, Asia and Africa.

In Mexico SI Media has provided a full digital MAM+NRCS system to Televisa, the biggest media producer in Spanish language in the world. Our platform allows journalists from several interconnected regional sites to send their contributions via web to the main site, where our MAM take care of all the workflow management  up to the transmission from the studios with SI Media playout.

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SI Media studio playout at Televisa (Mexico)

In the meantime, CBC (the national broadcaster of Barbados), has chosen SI Media, together with the American systems integrator BIG, for its traffic, mam and playout system. In less than one month, our technicians have performed the installation, configuration and training of the operators, allowing CBC to be the first broadcaster in the Caribbean area to ever transmit in full HD, for the special occasion of Carifesta (the main Caribbean Festival of Arts, 17th-27th August).

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CBC (Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation Barbados)

In July, our team has been also to Japan, in order to deploy the expansion of 16 additional playout channels for Aruji, one of the most important teleport companies in Tokyo. Now the system is composed by 32 main channels fully mirrored, based on IT technologies, which receives contents from several contributors, importing and integrating the playlist from local software application. Also this second phase has been deployed together with our regional partner Ideal Systems Japan

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Aruji main server room (Tokyo)

Meanwhile, in Italy, SI Media provided also an end-to-end automation system for the thematic channel of Inter FC, another successful reference in that market (already Milan Channel, Juventus Channel and Roma Channel are among SI Media’s customers).

Besides all these projects, in this period SI Media has also completed the deployment of a full SI Media platform (MAM, NRCS, Automation and Traffic), for AACGMMA (national television of Ethiopia), together with our regional partner Onset Systems.

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AACGMMA main studio (Addis Ababa)