CASE STUDY : Pat TV (Bolivia)
SI Media has been selected by Pat TV, http://www.redpat.tv/, one of the main broadcasters in Bolivia, to provide a solution for Media Asset Management and Production Playout for 2 studios in their biggest site in Santa Cruz de la Sierra.
The project has been implemented and deployed through our partner NRD and the systems integrator ProLux.
The workflow can be divided into 3 main areas: ingest, media asset management and production playout.
The ingest platform is composed by:
-1 X MediaRec to perform base band ingest from studios, satellites and live sources
-file ingest from portable cards and cameras (JVC and Sony NX5) in MOV format with simultaneous transcode into MXF performed by SI Media transcoder
-file ingest from ftp, drop folders and NLE workstations (20 concurrent Adobe editors working with MediaStore Client)
The Media Asset Management takes care of the transfers between the storages, bringing the contents into the central archive and then to the production playouts (main and backup), generating the low res copies of the video files in order to be browsed by the client sits (MediaStoreClient) and performing the required transcoding.
For the main production playout SI Media is controlling an Harmonic Spectrum MediaDeck7000, while for the backup MediaNewsplay is running on an IT server equipped with AJA Kona 3G.
