Media & Broadcast Technologies

www.mediabroadcast-t.com

The Phoenix suite is premier solution for ingest, transmission and media management. Its modular design allows the suite to be integrated easily into the workflows of any size station. The suite includes the following modules:

Phoenix Media Recorder interfaces with the Phoenix MOS Gateway to receive placeholders from ENPS. It can ingest media from tapes or live events then create new objects in ENPS via MOS.
Phoenix Automation server can be configured to manage production or news playout. It interfaces via the Phoenix MOS Gateway to ENPS to receive Running Orders which can be played as a standalone playlist or inserted into another playlist.
Phoenix OCXLineBuilder ActiveX lets you create graphics and set them on a timeline with a low resolution preview of the video and graphics. The graphics are saved in ENPS stories and transmitted to the Phoenix Automation Server and into ENPS Running Orders.

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.

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.

Media & Broadcast Technologies ActiveX Plug-in

This vendor provides an ActiveX plug-in for ENPS which lets users edit clips and save them back into an ENPS script from within the ENPS user interface.

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