Due to the dramatic industry changes including the rapidly rising number of channels, content distribution to digital platforms, and the explosion in regulatory requirements, the broadcaster is faced with multiple challenges to compete for ratings and ad revenue. Today s media executives must capture content from many sources, create compelling content, and publish to digital platforms, while increasing ratings, proving performance to advertisers, and monitoring for quality and compliance. The Observer (MIP) provides a unified web based solution available for media stakeholders and partners to respond quickly and efficiently to the need to review, analyze and produce quality content. The Observer is a scalable enterprise grade solution that make accessible content and functionality relevant to each department in the media enterprise. The Is: A platform that records all media: from ingest to play out and includes programming, broadcasts from partners and competitors. A platform that supports a variety of applications and enables different groups in the enterprise to perform compliance, quality assurance, competitive analysis, production and repurposing tasks. A platform that allows multiple users to collaborate from any place at any time with a web based interface. Professional, Volicon Observer Enterprise, and Volicon Observer are trademarks of Volicon, Inc.
The MIP : Record and store all Broadcast content (multiple interface/qualities) Support a variety of input broadcast signals, with storage built to scale, different encoding qualities and proxies. Collaborative platform to exchange content between colleagues Professional Multi player display Easy access to channels and groups of channels, with dynamic searches, and PIP, full screen and split screen features. Enhanced player Professional frame by frame (even with live content) and various plan and fast forward and rewind speeds to allow for maximal efficiency. On screen Metadata display with multi language, various metadata and visuals of alerts and more. Content Exporting with client based and/or centralized servers Web-based user access with multi browser and multi OS support. Enterprise large scale Easy to configure and maintain system with Access Control ad auditing, design for high availability, tools to ease administration and built to scale. The Observer responds directly to broadcaster needs with a complete solution that allows users to: Capture incoming media for content creation Share to web and social media platforms Review on-air content, ad placement, and competition Comply with regulation or licensing requirements Monitor broadcast quality to review error impact Professional, Volicon Observer Enterprise, and Volicon Observer are trademarks of Volicon, Inc.
Observer Capture Share Review Comply Applications: Capture Whether it s for sports, news, or editorial programs, broadcasters, networks and program producers need to be able to quickly and easily capture and repurpose live or linear HD content from many sources to succeed in today s competitive landscape. Legacy capture and ingest solutions are expensive and hard to use while legacy cable capture solutions are unreliable, awkward, and not quick to air. To maintain their competitive edge, producers need easy-to-use ingest solutions that can handle the diversity of their feeds, from cameras to cable, and are accessible anytime, anywhere. The, equipped with the Capture application, provides an easy-to-use live or linear acquisition solution that works across the diversity of sources: baseband, MPEG-TS or post-stb. The Capture solution can encode live, network contribution, and cable/satellite/iptv feeds for fast easy clipping into an editing workflow. Users can review content as it is captured, immediately clip highvalue content, and push it directly to editing and media asset management speeding their time to air. Share The need to deliver content to a multitude of linear and digital platforms and destinations has become the new standard. Today s broad-caster must deliver new content to multiple linear channels, web, cell, and social media platforms. The Share application provides convenient workflow for dissemination of captured assets to multiple distribution channels. The broad-caster can clip and export segments of existing content or repurposed content complete with accurate captions. One-button publishing profiles facilitate rapid processing of content to meet appropriate container and encoding requirements for an array of platforms, including target websites, YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook. Observer Share also makes use of existing closed captioning text to publish content that is compliant with government regulations. Specifications subject to change without notice. Copyright 2015 Volicon, I nc. Volicon Observer, Volicon O bserver Professional, Volicon O bserver Enterprise, and Volicon Observer Media Intelligence Platform are trademarks of Volicon, Inc. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. Monitor
Applications: Review The power to monitor what other channels are doing, review ratings, and analyze content is essential, especially in the world of competitive news and sports. In the newsroom, where time is always of the essence, broadcasters want the ability to compare, review, and analyze program content of other channels, or multiple channels, within a particular area or across networks. Television networks, stations, and cable networks use Volicon s Review application for this purpose. Promoting collaboration between producers, editors, sales, and research departments, Review provides the tools needed to create winning content strategies for in-creased ratings, insightful competitive analysis, and improved strategies for escalating advertising revenues. Comply More than ever, broadcasters must be able to demonstrate to net-works, corporate executives, and government agencies that compliance standards are bring met and exceeded. The Comply application continually and automatically captures, stores, and streams on-air feeds, offering simultaneous users 24/7 access to live and recorded broadcast content from desktop computers or smart devices. An intuitive, streamlined user interface gives authorized users the ability to access, play, pause, and search recorded content conveniently and with ease. By automatically recording broadcasts, Comply greatly simplifies the ability to respond to public inquiries regarding loudness, closed captioning, and decency and comply with the regulations for content archiving. Professional, Volicon Observer Enterprise, and Volicon Observer are trademarks of Volicon, Inc.
Applications: Monitor While realizing new outlets for distribution and added opportunities for revenue generation, content providers and distributors also must deal with complex new delivery infrastructures and the task of assuring the integrity and quality of content through distribution to the target device. With Monitor, broadcasters and other content providers can incorporate digital video monitoring and logging technology to their multiscreen, multiplatform delivery models most effectively and economically. With 24/7 monitoring and notification capabilities, you ll be able to monitor broadcast quality, report faults, respond to and fix is-sues, and use full recording to instantly review the impact of detected errors. Monitor will measure loudness and DPI; alarm and record quality impairments such as black screen or static screen and more. Overview: Volicon s s suite of applications will transform the way you create, share and monitor your broadcast product. It will allow you to create and distribute high-quality content faster; and immediately respond to the competition, your advertisers and regulatory entities. Most importantly though, the enables you to provide an improved broadcast product that will increase approval from all your audiences. Volicon is the leading provider of enterprise media intelligence solutions serving the needs of broadcasters, networks, cable operators, and governments worldwide. The Obs erver Media Intelligence Platform provides powerful tools for content creation and repurposing, compliance monitoring, ad verification, competitive analysis, and quality of service monitoring. Volicon solutions are used by allstakeholders inthe mediaenterprise from engineering to the executive suite. Professional, Volicon Observer Enterprise, and Volicon Observer are trademarks of Volicon, Inc.