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Medway

Medway is a sophisticated media transfer and format conversion tool, delivering a seamless and cost-effective integration between leading broadcast content applications.

The Challenge

Complex digital workflows are hampered by expensive and repetitive operations brought on by file incompatibilities. Medway from Marquis provides a transparent and cost-efficient route to removing these bottlenecks.

The Solution

Medway creates a unified working environment for broadcast ingest & transmission servers and post-production editing systems. Acting as a central hub to the facility, Medway transfers media and associated metadata at faster than real-time speeds over standard data networks, transcoding if required.

Medway uses an intuitive drag and drop interface which allows for the exchange of media between a wide range of ‘Best of Breed’ broadcast systems in a transparent and user friendly way.

Medway can be described as an "interoperability engine" that enables a complete digital workflow, ensuring products such as Edit Platforms, either standalone or using Shared Storage, such as Unity, ISIS, Lanshare, Interplay or XSAN and third-party Video Servers can work seamlessly together.

However, Medway offers much more power and flexibility and can be connected to Media Asset Management systems. It can source reference edits from Browse Systems, integrate with Archive Management systems and can supply file registration to, or be directly controlled by, Automation Systems. All these features can be customised to suit the requirements for specific workflow or business solutions.


Medway is also compatible with Removable Media devices thus ensuring maximum benefits are derived from the whole capture to playout process.


For a full list of supported platforms and devices please click here

Metadata Management

With the move to complete file based production workflows, metadata is key to ensuring that you never lose your media. If you do not know what you have got, where it is and if you have the right to use it, then it is of no value to you whatsoever.

To this end Medway has been designed with extensive metadata capture, editing and handling capabilities, covering basic, advanced or customised implementations, to ensure that metadata is created and utilised at every stage of the creative production process.

Media is re-wrapped and streamed during its movement and therefore minimal delay is achieved. The need to produce interim files or go out to tape is totally removed thus minimising errors and significantly improving output quality. Furthermore, by allowing metadata to be moved with its associated media, Medway enhances tracking so that media can never be lost and thus maximising the return on your very expensively produced assets.

The Benefits of Medway

Interoperability between a wide range of 'Best of Breed'
professional systems
Improved performance and efficiency of Broadcast workflows
Both financial and time savings through reduction in manual operations
Enhanced production quality
More effective management of your assets

Avid/Final Cut Pro integration
Migration proof - supports SD and HD

The Results

One Marquis customer has claimed that the efficiencies created by Medway has saved their operation over £150,000 per annum as a result of improved accuracy, quality, better utilisation, reduced staff cost and more efficient use of production devices enabling more work to be retained in house.

Designed specifically to meet the demands of the most challenging of broadcast environments, Medway is suitable for all digital applications, including newsrooms, playout centres, production and post production suites.

Medway Features

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