New broadcast facility enhances file-based workflow with IPV browse solution

Cambridge, UK, April 14, 2009

IPV, a global leader and largest independent supplier of low bit-rate, frame-accurate video technology to the broadcast and professional video sectors, has installed its SpectreView browse solution at Dunya Television, the new broadcast facility based in Lahore, Pakistan. Dunya Television went on air in late 2008 and broadcasts two channels - Dunya Entertainment and Dunya News.

At Dunya Television, content is ingested from VTRs and live feeds, using Pebble Beach Systems’ Neptune automation system, while simultaneously being ingest into IPV SpectreView encoders to create low-resolution browse clips. These clips are made available for review and quality control purposes on Pebble Beach’s editing application, Razorfish. The resultant EDLs are then sent from Razorfish to one of ten Apple® Final Cut Pro editors at the facility for more complex editing and finishing.

"IPV’s browse solution is the perfect fit for our fast paced news environment, enabling computer users and reporters to view their footage in low-res and edit their packages quickly as per their program requirement," said Sohail Noor, director of operations, Dunya Television. "SpectreView was seamlessly integrated into our news operation and enabled our engineers to provide the production team with low-res video over a simple Ethernet network."

"We chose to implement IPV's SpectreView system alongside our Razorfish offering at Dunya Television as it provides an integral part of the overall workflow solution," said Rafael Dubois, Sales Manager of Pebble Beach Systems. "SpectreView is a proven low-resolution browse technology and one that complements our own Razorfish solution perfectly. Its ability to provide users with the necessary tools, right at the desktop complete with a compelling user experience, is one of the system’s key strengths."

Seen by many as the de facto standard for browse resolution systems, SpectreView is implemented by a large number of manufacturers of playout automation, newsrooms, asset management and access services. Key to its success is the incorporation of precision timecode and frame accuracy. This coupled with its advanced streaming server ensures an unprecedented user experience providing a VTR-like performance at the desktop. Content can be encoded using a low bitrate codec – originally MPEG, now MPEG-4 or Windows Media 9 – and be accessed by multiple devices on standard computers, even when precise timecode control is critical.

"The implementation at Dunya Television once again highlights our ability to easily and efficiently integrate our browse offering with our partners tools, like Pebble Beach’s Razorfish editor, to provide one of the most effective, user-friendly solutions available in a file-based environment," said Nigel Booth, Executive Vice President for Sales and Marketing at IPV. "Pebble Beach Systems is a long term partner and one with whom we continue to work closely to ensure the ongoing smooth integration of our products."

The entire workflow at Dunya Television - from ingest through to archive, browse review and editing then onwards to playout – is under the control of Pebble Beach’s Neptune automation system. An Omneon MediaGrid™ is used for content archive, with Pebble Beach’s Anchor Media Manager handling all media transfer of ingested, edited, quality controlled and archived files throughout the system. Neptune also supports a comprehensive news workflow through integration to an Apple Xsan server, used as a collaborative editing environment for 10+ final cut pro editors, and an ENPS newsroom via MOS interface.

The sale and implementation of the IPV SpectreView system at Dunya Television was handled by the system integrator, TekSignals.

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