The first challenge any broadcaster will face when moving from analog to a digital production environment is finding an efficient way to get content into the system. Containing a cost efficient video server, bundled with easy-to-use ingest applications, Viz Capture is the ultimate tool for digital content acquisition, whether recording from video tape recorders or from live feeds.
Viz Capture enables both the ingest and outgest of a wide range of, amongst other things, tape machine generated content through existing client hardware into the Viz Ardome MAM system and vice versa.
It produces impressive frame accurate recordings that can be fetched whilst data is still being recorded and simultaneously allows the editing of such data during ingest. It also supports batch-ingest from Video Tape Recorders (VTR), Copy-to-Tape functionality, and multi-channel play-out.
Viz Capture provides open interfaces for integration with media management solutions, ensuring simple integration with new and existing workflows. Viz Capture can notify other systems of actions, performed by sending XML formatted events to interested parties. Viz Capture can be integrated with Viz Dart to ensure efficient resource allocation and router control.
Viz Capture can be configured to display site-specific metadata forms to the ingest operators. Metadata entered into these forms are announced, via XML over IP, to subscribers such as media management systems. Ingested material is available via FTP, and tail-mode operation allows clients to fetch the material as soon as a recording has started. Using this feature, the latency between ingest and the file being available on a remote system is measured in seconds.
