Broadcast asset management
The transition to file-based workflows in broadcast delivery has enabled broadcasters to speed up delivery and reduce costs of tape and equipment. However it brings a new set of challenges in ensuring video quality throughout the delivery chain, as well as new opportunities to save costs through changing processes and open up new sources of revenue through re-exploitation of material.
The more agile environment made possible through file-based working allows customers to go through more workflow iterations to improve quality, as well as better management of deadlines between internal departments and external suppliers.
It is still often the case that file-based workflows are still supported by hand-written notes for editorial and compliance work. An integrated approach to managing this kind of process metadata improves communication between different departments, streamlines broadcast preparation workflows and improves bottom line performance. Mosaic’s workflows can be modified in line with organisational change to support a gradual approach to business transformation.
Although production systems may support the movement of files from end-to-end, the management systems that support them often fail to manage metadata through the same pipeline. Mosaic is data-centric, supporting integration with business management and production systems via open standards and ensuring data integrity through the delivery process.
The Mosaic difference
Among the services that Mosaic offers to broadcasters are:
- Tracking of content preparation workflow from scheduling to playout
- Management of supplier workflows to manage approvals and deadlines
- Languaging: adding audio tracks and subtitles for hard-of-hearing and reduced vision access, as well as foreign language distribution
- Compliance with content regulations in different territories and at different times of day including the delivery of multiple versions to playout
- Transcoding, re-cutting, forensic protection and accelerated transfer of content for online distribution
- Verification of rights to transmit archive material
- Secure, accelerated file transfer to third party playout server or distribution platform
Mosaic supports a variety of deployment options to allow broadcasters to implement the IT and storage management strategy appropriate to their business needs. For example, broadcasters may wish to hold all material up to four weeks from transmission on site: Mosaic’s flexible media asset node options can support this strategy combined with deep archive management in a different location.
Mosaic also supports multiple editing options, including:
- Web-based shot selection
- Web-based frame-accurate cutting to manage segments, ad insertion, promos and bumpers
- Integration with on-line editors such as Avid Symphony and Apple Final Cut Pro to streamline content finishing
Contact Tata Communications to learn more about how we can support your move to the next generation of broadcast technology.