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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
For information on the advantages of Medway's functionality please
click
here
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