iNEWS, Grass Valley Group Announce Tight Integration Between Media Browse 2000, Vibrint NewsEdit, Profile XP Media Platform, ContentShare—Delivers the industry's most capable newsroom solution for up-to-the-second broadcasts on line, on air—Unlike other newsroom solutions, the iNEWS and Grass Valley Group newsroom products go beyond the simple task of enabling journalists and editors to integrate text with editing through the iNEWS Media Browse software and Grass Valley Group's NewsEdit. Now, powerful editing capabilities are automatically available on journalists' and editors' desktops; news content providers can now simultaneously browse incoming feeds, work with video, script stories and manage running orders all from the same workstation. And, they can consolidate their material on Vibrint NewsEdit and Profile XP Media Platforms for mixing with archived material or fresh local field tapes, enhancing with wipes or dissolves, and providing ready access to anyone, anywhere, and at any time in the organisation — even for immediate re-purposing to the Web. The combined products give journalists more control in initial story production and enable editors to focus on developing more refined packages. "In the competitive and fast-paced news environment, workflow flexibility provides an important advantage to newsrooms," said Mike Cronk, vice president of marketing, Grass Valley Group. "With the combined Vibrint digital news group products, the Profile XP Media Platform and ContentShare media access and management software, and the unique iNEWS Media Browse, newsroom professionals will be unstoppable." "With the exponential growth in media assets, search solutions are critical to helping producers, editors and journalists find the media assets that they need, access them - and utilise them instantaneously," said matt danilowicz, ceo and president of inews. "The addition of Media Browse 2000 as a low-resolution browser for the Grass Valley Group's comprehensive digital news production systems and software will give newsrooms superior browse/edit technology for delivering up-to-the-second broadcasts." Changing Newsroom Workflows Acknowledging the extreme pressures introduced by the need to purpose content for both television and the Web with essentially the same staff resources, the combined Grass Valley Group/iNEWS newsroom hardware and software solutions are ushering in a new era of speed and flexibility to newsrooms worldwide. Media Browse 2000 offers news content providers enhanced functionality and features such as the ability to initiate and manage video recording on high- and low-resolution servers, management of media assets and feed schedules, and generation of video output for easy streaming to the Web. News organisations can air late-breaking news immediately from real-time line feeds, raw footage and field coverage—all recorded directly to the server for the entire news team. With iNewscasting™ tools, broadcasters are empowered to stream video to the Web or post searchable video clips to a Web site, reaching the widest possible audience. As with all iNEWS products, Media Browse 2000 is based on open, industry-standard software, hardware and network technology. Bringing faster hard news production to newsrooms worldwide, the Grass Valley Group's Vibrint Digital News Production line of powerful, PC-based software solutions, now available in PAL (50/625) format, gets breaking news to air faster at less cost than traditional tape-based production gear. Leaders in the top US television markets, including New York, Los Angeles, Boston and San Francisco, now use Vibrint's solutions for interactive feed capture and selection, digital editing, and playback solutions. With Vibrint FeedClip, producers can create clips on the fly, send them to an edit bay over the newsroom's existing network, and continue to monitor a feed without interrupting the recording process. With Vibrint NewsEdit, editors can edit from tape to disk without pre-digitising. Other key NewsEdit features include audio/video punch-in, frame-accurate editing, splice edit mode for inserting a new clip between existing ones without having to re-edit previous work, simple effects, and fit-to-fill for inserting pre-produced graphics, variable-speed clips or still frames into an existing story. Built to easily scale as broadcasters transition to digital and the Internet, the Vibrint solutions are powered by an Intel Pentium platform relying on standard MPEG-2 video, Microsoft Windows NT file and operating systems, and standard networking and storage technologies. The Profile XP Media Platform is the industry's most popular video server, with more installed and storing more broadcast content than any other server. It is also the most open solution, supporting both the high-quality standards required for broadcast television and low-resolution required for the Internet, as well as MPEG, DVCPRO, HD and MPEG Transport Streams (MTS). While traditional servers typically offer only playback and storage capabilities, the Profile XP Media Platform, with its Microsoft Windows NT architecture and standard networking and storage technologies, is extensible to new applications inside and outside a broadcast facility, including news production. The ContentShare software holds the key to easily linking video with its related text, audio and graphics assets. Built with Internet-standard technologies, the ContentShare platform uses the Java development language for platform independence with the eXtensible Markup Language (XML) and eXtensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) standards for describing and formatting data. Using ContentShare, only one interface is necessary to provide Internet or Internet access to applications. iNews uses the ContentShare software platform to enable Media Browse 2000 to manage assets across platforms. Grass Valley Group and iNEWS will demonstrate the integration between Vibrint and Media Browse 2000 at IBC in Amsterdam on the Grass Valley Group Booth (1.110) and on Grass Valley Group's booth (1529) and the iNEWS booth (1113) at RTNDA (Radio and Television News Directors Association) in Minneapolis, Minnesota. About iNEWS iNEWS (formerly Avstar Systems LLC), is the primary portal for the majority of the world's TV and radio journalists. Dedicated to supporting the international community of purveyors of rich media news content—TV, radio and Internet journalists — through technological innovation, iNEWS ensures the continued independence of news media by developing tools that are content-independent. Headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin with additional offices worldwide, iNEWS products are installed in the world's leading broadcast and Internet facilities serving more than 80,000 journalists and webcasters. For more information, see the iNEWS Web site at http://www.inewsroom.com or call +1-608-274-8686. About Grass Valley Group The Grass Valley Group knows more about high-quality video than anybody else—especially as video goes digital. Interactive television. Digital cinema. Data-enhanced broadcasting. Internet. It's a world of Digicasting™—of Media Without Bounds™. Whether online or on the air, the Emmy® award-winning Grass Valley Group, a privately held digital media leader, has the hardware, software, and new media technologies necessary to get content wherever it needs to go. For the latest Grass Valley Group product information, visit www.grassvalleygroup.com. # |
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