SAT.1 SatellitenFernsehen GmbH. Berlin, Germany
Blue Order has developed an Enterprise Media Management system for news gathering, post-production, archiving and cataloguing for the new SAT.1 Medienzentrum (SAT.1 Media Centre) in Berlin.
SAT.1 is Germany's second-largest private broadcasting station, and now part of the ProSieben/SAT.1 group.
The system was designed to encode production and preview quality material in parallel. Production quality material is stored on a Tektronix Profile Video Server in M-JPEG/DVCPro50. Preview quality material is stored on an EMC_ Celera File Server with a net storage capacity of more than 500 hours of video.
The incoming material is annotated using a custom logging application and imported into the Media Archive system. It is instantly available for retrieval by editors and journalists who can search and browse the stored material from their desktop workstations.
In phase 1 of the project, browse quality material was stored onto a robotic digital tape library system and production quality material was archived on Digital Betacam.
Phase 2 of the project involved the nearline storage of production quality material on the robotic digital tape library system.
Non-linear editing systems from Avid and Quantel are used, and the Media Archive system provides the interface between these editing systems and the Harris Louth ADC 100 studio automation system to control the transfer of content between the various storage subsystems.
The phase 1 implementation was designed to serve 55 simultaneous Browsing Clients. In Phase 2, the system was to be scaled up to 300 concurrent users, although this is now part of the new, much larger ProSieben/SAT.1 System installed in Berlin.
In this project, Blue Order acted as the general contractor and co-ordinator.
Case Study Index Next >
|