Media Management means the the proper clip is in the proper place at the proper time.

AVECO systems have intelligence and comprehensive database power to deliver complete management of all media operations. This includes knowing: where media content is, how to find it, how to capture it, where it needs to be, how to get it there, how to convert it and how to track each version. Tasks can be directed manually or automated to:

Move media

• Transfer media to storage, production, low-resolution and playout devices.
• Transport over SDI, SDTI as well as over networks and multiplexed MPEG streams in accordance to STP, SMPTE or proprietary standards.
• Complex routing sequences are handled internally.
• Simultaneously transfer to multiple devices, even devices in distant locations.

Translate and transcode

• Convert media as needed between native, production, distribution and playout standards and compression ratios.
• AVECO keeps the media network transparent, like coordinating transcoding that allows media transfers between video servers from different manufactures.

Synchronize media streams

• Coordinate multiple media streams during broadcast, like subtitling texts for movies or substituting material in simulcasting when there are licensing conflicts among parallel channels.

Purge

• Delete material from playout servers after broadcast, after date of expiration, by detection of unused material or by other criteria.

Minimize duplication

• Avoid re-recording content. AVECO systems help you optimize use of your valuable videoserver space. For example, there is no need to duplicate sections of a master clip when defining sub-clips. The database keeps track of sub-clips by marking IN and OUT points on the master clip. The media management module insures that the sub-clip plays out frame-accurately during broadcast. This reduces storage and media network bandwidth requirements reducing the cost of infrastructure investments.

Store

• Archive content. AVECO systems can facilitate working with tape libraries by supporting bar code scanning at the VTR and label printing for tape ID. We also automate control of complex robotic archives and SAN systems.

Manage videoserver disk space

The station can create kill lists and delete old media from the videoserver quickly and easily. For example, AVECO systems can delete clips based on last run date or expiration date, or any other criteria based on metadata categories. The system can also can read in lists from programming systems, for example reading a "Promo Kill List" from traffic for purposes of deleting daily promos. Importing media management requests directly from other systems reduces data entry and errors.

Examples of Media management

Example 1

NetMed broadcasts multiple TV channels. Among others, there is large videoserver which is used for ingest and storage. There are two eight-channel playout videoservers which run in a mirrored configuration. All three videoservers are interconnected via Fibre Channel. The media management subsystem makes sure the clips scheduled in the playlists are in both playout videoservers. If any clip is missing, the media management copies it from storage videoserver to the playout ones. If the clip is missing on the storage videoserver as well, the operators are requested to get the source tape and copy the clip to the videoserver.

Example 2

Once of our customers has their sales department assemble all the commercials on their own videoserver and prepare the traffic playlist. The continuity studio is located a mile away and this is where programming goes on air together with the ad breaks. The media management subsystems of their AVECO automation makes sure the ads scheduled for broadcast are transferred from the sales department's videoserver to the continuity room's playout videoserver. Clips are transferred automatically by the media management module from the ad department videoserver through the network link to the continuity videoserver. If the continuity videoserver's diskspace is nearly full, the media management deletes clips which haven't been used for long time and which are not scheduled for playout.