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  • MOS Version Supported
  • 2.6, 2.8, 2.8.1

  • Profiles Supported
  • Profile 1   Yes
  • Profile 2   Yes
  • Profile 3   No
  • Profile 4   No
  • Profile 5   No
  • Profile 6   Yes
  • Profile 7   No

Etere Automation

www.etere.com

Etere News interfaces with ENPS through the MOS protocol. It is fault tolerant, user-friendly, and easy to learn. Its main features include:

  • Simple browsing integration to record and view high and low resolution synchronized events. Journalists can readily make their own EDL straight from their PCs.
  • Media Asset Management (MAM) provides metadata indexing which lets you retrieve a video or any part of it from the database.
  • A Metadata module analyses video and automatically makes metadata entries based on scene changes, black images, no-sounds parts, subtitles, and MXF metadata. Metadata can be edited for any part of the video.
  • ActiveX MOS integration lets journalists preview low quality video directly from the News interface.
  • Direct feedback status to ENPS for events that are cued, ready, playing or missing.

Supported ENPS Workflow

Running Order Control

This device allows ENPS to dynamically build and control a playlist within the media server. Changes to the Running Order in ENPS result in immediate changes to the sequence of media objects queued for playout by the media server.

Item Status

This vendor sends real-time status information during playback and other functions which is displayed through ENPS writers and producers in real-time. This includes the use of a minimum set of standard status messages which enable color coding and the automated movement of the ENPS timing bar.

Buddy Fail-Over

This product supports automatic redundant operation with both Primary and Buddy ENPS servers.

Media Thumbnails and Preview Video

This vendor provides thumbnail images and proxy video which are closely integrated within the ENPS Story display and editing windows.

Wide Media Awareness

This builds on Media Awareness to include exposing rushes/newly ingested material in addition to produced/approved material to ENPS users and workflow.

Ingest Placeholder Creation

ENPS users can create and name placeholders within this vendor's server into which media can later be ingested or recorded.  The vendor then updates ENPS with duration and other information as the placeholder is replaced with the actual media.  Placeholders can be used to create "reservations" for material rushes, rough cuts or edits - arriving via ingest applications.

NLE Placeholder Creation

ENPS users can create and name placeholders within this vendor's media server into which edited content from an NLE can be saved.

Automatic Placeholder Creation

ENPS can automatically create and name placeholders within this vendor's server into which finished clips ready for play out can later be edited, saved, or recorded.  The name and other metadata used to automatically create this placeholder is drawn from the related ENPS Story and Running Order. The vendor then updates ENPS with duration and other information as the placeholder is replaced with the actual media.

Channel Assignment

This product enables ENPS users to directly assign media play-out channels from the ENPS Running Order.

Story Send

This product uses the full body of text within ENPS documents, including all media pointers and custom metadata. This product also dynamically tracks the sequence of Stories and Assignments within active ENPS Running Orders and Assignment grids.

Media Awareness

This device sends ENPS a description of the media it stores.  The description contains structured metadata and a pointer to the media object. This information is used by ENPS to return media in search results. Pointers are used to link media to ENPS documents, including Stories, Running Orders and Assignments using simple drag and drop workflow.

MOS Redirection

This product works with ENPS to transfer media between machines and locations using instruction and metadata from ENPS.  When stories containing media are moved from one ENPS location in ENPS to another this vendor offers the option to automatically transfer the media contained in the stories without further user interaction.  This can be used to automatically transfer media between servers and NLE's within a single newsroom, or between multiple newsrooms and production servers in different cities.

Open MOS Redirection

This product builds on MOS Redirection and can work with ENPS to exchange media files in a variety of formats, working with a variety of other media server vendors.

Etere ActiveX Plug-in

 The Etere ActiveX allows the user to view and search media.  Users may also drag and drop media to and from ENPS and the ActiveX. 

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