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Marquis and Tyrell CCT Demonstrate Improved Efficiencies for File-Based Workflows

PBS Chooses Marquis' Medway to Create Seamless File-Based HD Workflow

From Avid to Final Cut and Back Again for Ellen

Marquis Names Neil Attard as Managing Director Following Company Restructure

ARTV, Parliament Channel, Portugal, Choose Medway for Improved Media Delivery

Marquis Broadcast Appoints Digistor as Reseller

Parking and Bridging Catch The Eye at IBC 2009!

Marquis Demonstrates New Product Range At IBC 2009

ITV Chooses Medway for Seamless File Integration with BT Content Store

Medway Integration Brings Workflow Benefits to SGL's FlashNet Archive

RTL-TVI Belgium Installs Medway

RTV Belgium Achieves Fast Media Transfers using Medway

Dalet and Marquis Partner To Optimise Integration With Third Party Systems

Marquis Announces Medway Support for the EVS XT[2] Server Range

Medway Adds Support For Omneon MediaGrid

Harris Integrates Medway

Removable Media For HD Workflows

Final Cut Pro Support From Medway

Marquis Broadcast and Tyrell CCT Demonstrate Improved Efficiencies for
File-Based Workflows at BVE 2010

Marquis Broadcast and Tyrell CCT have signed a partnership agreement enabling them to work together to integrate Marquis' Medway media transfer and format conversion software with a range of file-based broadcast and post production systems. As a result of the agreement, Tyrell CCT will showcase Medway at BVE 2010 to demonstrate the ease with which media can be moved efficiently and seamlessly between systems from different manufacturers.

At the show, Tyrell CCT will demonstrate how Medway creates powerful workflows and metadata integration between Avid editing systems, Interplay, Final Cut Pro and other file based production systems including Isilon storage systems and Grab Networks.

Also on the stand, Marquis Broadcast will highlight the benefits of its Parking and Bridging products. Parking provides a simple and fast 'one click' method of moving sequences from dedicated editing storage to archive or generic low-cost storage. Bridging provides a simple method for Apple Final Cut Pro and Avid editors to exchange timelines between systems thereby improving workflow flexibility in digital post and broadcast environments.

"By integrating Medway with a range of broadcasting and digital post applications, customers have more flexibility in their digital processes to use best of breed systems in the knowledge that they will work together in a highly efficient and reliable environment irrespective of file formats and system architectures," said Nick Soper, Technical Director UK, Tyrell CCT. "Medway also gives customers the freedom to scale workflows to their requirements to meet today's critical business-driven challenges."

"We are very pleased to be working with Tyrell CCT," said Granby Patrick, Partner Director, Marquis Broadcast. "They have a deep understanding of the benefits gained from implementing file-based workflows and have the knowledge and experience to create tight integration between the networked production systems demanded broadcasters and post-production companies."

PBS Chooses Marquis' Medway to Create Seamless File-Based HD Workflow

Marquis has announced that the Public Broadcasting Service's (PBS), Media Operations Center located in Arlington, Virginia has chosen the Marquis Medway interoperability engine to create a unified working environment between its Avid media storage/editing systems and Omneon playout servers.

Following an initial trial last summer, PBS, a provider of high-quality, educational programming to 356 public television stations in the U.S., is now using Medway technology to create a seamless file-based HD workflow, enabling their ever-increasing amounts of HD content to move transparently between two systems.

"Medway allows our editors and technicians to easily transfer and transcode their DNX 145 HD files (OP Atom) to Omneon (OP 1A) files, in a simple and seamless background process, while continuing to work in their editor," said Wendy Allen, Sr. Director Media Operations Center. "The system's ability to transfer metadata and media between systems allows the PBS' Media Operations Center to achieve their full file-based workflow goals."

Medway enables media files from multiple sources to be moved between multiple vendor platforms without incurring the usual workflow bottlenecks. PBS editors and technicians can import HD footage into the Avid ISIS system, edit footage in their Avid Media Composer, Adrenaline and use Medway to automatically rewrap the media and export the sequence to an Omneon playout server.

From Avid to Final Cut and Back Again for Ellen

By Debra Kaufman September 2009 Source: Film & Video

When The Ellen DeGeneres Show started in 2002, it was standard-def and housed on the NBC lot. All the changes came six years later.

“The show was very excited to move to the Warner Bros. lot. It is such a great place to work,” explains Derek Westervelt, the show's executive in charge of production and senior producer. “After Telepictures designed and purchased a technical package we wanted, the studio built the facility from the ground up for us. And it is fantastic.”

Building a new facility coincided beautifully with the producers’ other interest: switching from standard definition to high definition, and from tape to tapeless. That path soon became a journey with a bump in the road and a happy destination.

Readying the new facility for season six, the systems integrator recommended moving from Avid to Apple Final Cut Pro in lieu of Avid. Previously, The Ellen DeGeneres Show had cut with Avid Meridiens, adding the Unity by season three to allow multiple editors to work on the show simultaneously. The thought of switching to another editing system was met with reluctance.

“Our editors were very familiar with Avid and it was such a stable, reliable system,” says Westervelt. “So there was a bit of concern from that point of view alone. Why change?”

As it turned out, says Westervelt, the new facility performed smoothly in many ways. “This complex was built top to bottom, with all the broadcast and post infrastructure,” he says. “We were in very good shape on the broadcast side.”

But stresses showed up in post-production. Once the new editing system was in place, it wasn’t long before everyone had second thoughts. “While Final Cut Pro was good in some ways, it became quickly apparent that it wasn’t the right application for us,” says Westervelt.

‘A Trying Season’

Senior editor Clark Burnett, who started on the show in season two as a freelancer and has been full-time for the last three seasons, says the transition from SD to HD, and from tape to tapeless, was “interesting.”

“We made it work, but it was a trying season,” he says. Because the editing team was so used to Avid Unity as a way to collaborate and share editing duties, it was a rude shock to lose that easy capability. “We were so used to working with a lot of last-minute needs,” says Burnett. “Last season, we couldn’t do that without workarounds — and there were tons of workarounds.”

Westervelt agrees. “The workarounds took additional time that became challenging,” he says. “We didn’t miss deadlines, but we scrambled hard to make it.”

Perhaps no one felt the pain more than Telepictures Productions Engineer Jason Schroeder, who worked through several round-the-clock shifts during the start-up period.

According to Schroeder, one of the problems was that the entire system didn't have enough storage capacity. “Front Porch Digital offered to work with us to achieve the results that were originally promised to the Ellen post department for their long-term data archive, and chose its DIVArchive as the solution,” says Schroeder. “Sitting between the applications and our IBM LTO-4 tape library, Front Porch delivered on their promise. [The DIVArchive] responds well within the system and does a fantastic job."

Re-evaluating Workflow

As everyone struggled through the season, Omneon and HP gave Schroeder the support needed to re-evaluate the workflow. The show's Omneon Spectrum media server could be paired with the Unity by using Marquis Broadcast’s Medway media-transfer and format-conversion software. “With this technology, the staff was looking at a very easy solution on how to integrate their previous gear with an Avid Unity,” says Schroeder. “Their efforts enabled the post department to salvage a majority of the media-asset-management infrastructure and focus entirely on delivering a robust edit solution.”

The Marquis transfer is extremely fast, says Schroeder. “It's so fast that it’s pretty much a real-time record transfer off the Omneon to the Unity,” he says. “Within anywhere from 10 seconds to a minute of the act finishing, the editors have it.” The Marquis transfer engines make the media available on the Unity first, and then the editors used DaletPlus for long-term management on the show’s near-line and LTO-4 data archives. It wasn’t hard to figure out that, with Final Cut, the editors also needed more time to do tasks that had previously been seamless, even in the background. “When I was cutting on the [Final Cut] system and didn’t have to share, I had no problems with it,” says Burnett. “The moment we tried to treat it like a Unity, it didn’t work the way I was used to. I would have to create a new project and copy it into another system. The system just wasn’t a good fit for what we do here.”

“By the middle of season six, we knew we would come back to Avid,” says Westervelt. “It was a matter of how to do it."

Transitioning Back to Avid ... Slowly

How they did it was slowly. While season six was still in production, Avid brought in four edit bays. “We did a beta-test situation where every Friday we would cut one show on the Avids,” says editor Burnett. “We did our teaser as well. We did have issues, but Avid kept stepping up and dealing with them immediately.”

The trick was not only introducing the new Avid system, but using it simultaneously with the existing editing system. That's when Schroeder did something rather unconventional: he swapped out the xSAN storage and put in a Unity. “One of the amazing benefits of Unity today, to Avid's credit, is that it's open to connecting with [other editing systems],” says Schroeder. “We took full advantage of that here. One of my technical challenges was to make sure the editors could finish season six while we were ramping up for season seven. The end result was awesome. I had FCP and Avid editors using the same SAN. Technically, Final Cut can't use the media that Avid creates, but the ability for both platforms to operate on the same SAN volume gave us an enormous amount of flexibility we never had."

By the end of season six, 10 Avid Media Composer Nitris DX systems had moved inside the show’s post-production facility. One of them is used in a unique way: it sits in the equipment room, and is used remotely by StudioCity, the company that produces the show’s promos. StudioCity editors are able to access the Avid with Apple Remote Desktop and a VPN connection, select their shots, and play out the HD clips directly over fiber, compressed using an Evertz JPEG-2000 card.

Plenty of Storage

The show’s new system also has plenty of storage: 64 TB of Avid Unity (online), 100 TB of HP EVA storage (nearline), and 400 TBs of IBM LTO-4 tape storage (deep archive). Considering that Season 6 started with only 16 TB of editing storage and barely 100 TB of LTO-4 tape storage, the post-production staff feels like it has arrived at a system that fits the model of what’s needed.

"Avid’s new campaign is about listening to customers,” says Schroeder, who reports that he’s logged no overtime yet this season. “It isn’t just a slogan. With Avid, they value communication very highly, and that speaks volumes about why we’re reinvesting in that company."

For the editors, the return to Avid editing systems provoked sighs of relief. “The new Avid is slick,” says Burnett. “This is going back to what everyone loved about the Meridiens. It’s a dependable, solid box.” He is also now enjoying the benefits of the tapeless workflow. “The one thing that’s amazing about tapeless is how I can bring back all the media,” he says. “Before, we would output it split four-channel track. I would digitize and cut it. Now all the media is there and it comes back quickly and slickly.”

Westervelt says it didn’t take long to get up to full speed again. “The Unity we have is very quick,” he says. “They can retrieve and shuffle their media effortlessly, so our problems there have been resolved.”

With season seven in its early days, Westervelt looks forward to expanding the show creatively. “We’re starting to branch out and do more live shots,” he says. “We’re exploring ways to do that in a more fun, accessible way. We’ve been doing sequences using Skype and Twitter to connect with the audience, and they love it."

“The show has a lot of components to it every day,” he says. “Some of them are regular—we’re a day-and-date show—we also have music acts, live remotes. Bringing those disparate elements together every day is a challenge. And Avid, in almost every way, makes that do-able for us. When we want to take that challenge to a new level, Avid is a ready tool to take what’s thrown at it.”

Neil Attard named as Managing Director Following Company Restructure

Marquis has promoted Neil Attard, former product specialist and strategist, to the position of Managing Director. In addition, Craig Littlewood has joined Marquis as Senior Software Developer.

Attard takes up the newly created position of Managing Director following the restructuring of Marquis' business operations in which the company's software development and broadcast consultancy divisions have been established as two separate companies. Attard will head up the software business, Marquis Broadcast, which is tasked with the development of the highly successful Medway media transfer and format conversion software.

The changes will provide more time for Granby Patrick, Marquis' Founder and Technology Director, to represent the company more fully in the field, and evolve the technology that has established Marquis' Medway product as a leading media integration tool.

Attard joined Marquis Broadcast in 2006 and has been instrumental in the product management of Medway and the development of the company's two new broadcast products, Parking and Bridging, which were launched at IBC 2009. Attard has also played an important role working with software developers and manufacturers ensuring the successful integration of Medway into their broadcast systems.

Craig Littlewood joins Marquis with specialist knowledge of IT professional services having held senior design engineering and software development positions with companies including ACK, Techland Systems International and Satchwell Control Systems.

"We are delighted to announce Neil as Marquis' new Managing Director," said Granby Partrick, Founder and Technology Director, Marquis Broadcast. "His knowledge of the broadcast industry and his vast business acumen have proven to be valuable resources. We also welcome Craig to the team and look forward to benefiting from his vast experience working with multinational companies on large IT projects."

Marquis recently announced changes to its business structure with the establishment of Marquis Holdings, Marquis Consulting and Marquis Broadcast as separate companies, following continued growth of the software development and broadcast consultancy divisions. The restructure enables their respective business interests to strengthen further while independently seeking additional opportunities in the wider media communities. Marquis Broadcast is now solely responsible for the software development business, focusing on Medway. Marquis Holdings provides marketing and financial services to Marquis Consulting and Marquis Broadcast, thereby providing both companies with valuable shared resources that will ensure operating efficiencies are maintained across the group.

ARTV, Parliament Channel, Portugal, Chooses Marquis' Medway for Improved Media Delivery between Broadcasting Processes

Marquis has announced that ARTV (TV Parlamento), the internal television channel of the Portuguese Parliament, has installed Medway, Marquis' software integration and format conversion software. ARTV chose Medway to improve the delivery of media between the multiple processes involved in its enterprise-wide broadcasting environment.

Medway enables ARTV to select and transfer file-based media quickly and easily from Omneon storage systems to Avid Unity storage networked to three Avid Media Composer Adrenaline editing systems. Operators are able to browse and retrieve content via a Medway interface which is accessible from within the Avid systems.

After editing, the finished sequences are moved to the Omneon systems via Medway and added to the channel playlist ready for playout. ARTV uses an Omneon Spectrum server to record up to six simultaneous ongoing parliamentary sessions and debates, and for continuity playout.

Medway provides a seamless workflow for ARTV by enabling the media files to move transparently between the systems. Medway rewraps media and its metadata in the appropriate formats so that they are delivered ready to use. Media is transferred at faster than real-time speed in a highly efficient workflow environment without file incompatibility delays that frequently occur when media moves between different manufacturers' architectures.

Marquis Broadcast Appoints Digistor

Marquis has announced the appointment of Digistor Pty Ltd as its reseller for the Australian market. Marquis provides a range of software products for the broadcast, digital media and post-production markets. Digistor supplies technical solutions and professional equipment for these markets and will provide sales, systems integration expertise and technical support services for Marquis Broadcast products.

Established in 1990, Digistor is Australia's leading provider of solutions and systems for the creation, management, storage and delivery of digital media. The company has earned an excellent reputation from Australian broadcasters, post-production and media companies as a specialist in the implementation of file-based workflows.

"Our customers are always seeking innovative solutions to complex media requirements," explained Andrew Mooney, Digistor Managing Director. "Marquis Broadcast's products allow us to achieve efficient workflows, uniting diverse areas of the production cycle, media management and play-out."

Digistor provides solutions for all aspects of digital content management for broadcast and post-production including asset acquisition, content management, archiving and process workflow analysis.

"We are very pleased to appoint Digistor as our reseller for Australia as they have a deep understanding of the benefits and challenges of digital workflows and the need for tight integration between processes," said Granby Patrick, Technology Director, Marquis Broadcast.

Parking and Bridging Catch The Eye at IBC 2009!

Marquis gained considerable interest in both new software products Parking and Bridging at IBC. Founder of Marquis, Granby Patrick explains the benefits of both media integration products to IBC TV News on this short video clip.

Marquis Demonstrates New Product Range and Extends Medway Support for Third Party Platforms At IBC 2009

Marquis is demonstrating a new and expanded product range at IBC 2009 (Stand 2.A58) with Parking and Bridging, two new products designed to improve workflow efficiencies for post and broadcasting workflows. Marquis is also demonstrating Medway, its media transfer and format conversion software, with extended support for third party platforms including AVC Intra and XD-Cam HD media formats and the Grass Valley K2 range of servers.

Parking provides a fast and easy method for editors to create an archive file in an open standard format that can be moved from expensive online storage onto lower cost disks or tape archive systems thus saving on local storage. Parking brings a higher level of flexibility to editing workflows in terms of resource management and greatly facilitates the resumption of editing following project delays or future versioning requirements.

Bridging allows easy collaboration between Apple FCP and Avid editing systems by enabling editors to move entire sequence timelines from one editing system to another in a single drag and drop operation. Editors have more freedom in planning and organising projects and there is improved collaboration when a range of different systems is in use.

"Marquis is now in its 11th year designing products to improve broadcast and post workflows through technical innovation," said Granby Patrick, Partner Director, Technology, Marquis Broadcast. "As part of our ongoing commitment to product development, we are delighted to be attending IBC this year with a much expanded product range including Parking and Bridging. Both products provide simple and efficient methods of streamlining the movement of media between different editing systems and also between different editing locations both now and into the future. We also continue to work with leading manufacturers and are proud to be showing Medway functionality integrated into an extended range of broadcasting applications at the show."

Also for the first time at IBC, Marquis is showing its Medway media transfer and format conversion software with support for AVC Intra and XD-Cam HD media formats, and the Grass Valley K2 server. Medway provides interoperability functions for media companies that require fast, efficient digital workflows, without incurring delays that frequently occur when media moves between systems from different manufacturers. By rewrapping files, Medway allows media to be transferred quickly and easily between processes. The system also extracts and manages the metadata attached to media, therefore enabling easy repurposing of content.

By supporting AVC Intra and XD-CAM HD media formats, Marquis is making the benefits of Medway available to a wider range of professionals at the production end of broadcasting. Likewise, Medway's new support for the Grass Valley K2 server range enables Grass Valley customers to improve workflow efficiencies by simplifying and centralising the management of bi-directional media transfers between editing platforms including Avid and Apple systems and the K2 platform.

Medway is being demonstrated on several Marquis partner stands at IBC 2009 including Dalet (8.B77) and IPV (8.B67). Parking is being demonstrated on Marquis' stand (2.A58) and also with Blue Order (3.C40), Quantum (7.G29), Isilon (7.H10) and Omneon, Inc (8.B60) while Bridging is being demonstrated on the Marquis and Omneon stands.

Parking and Bridging will be available from November 2009 from Marquis' network of business partners. Medway support for AVC Intra, XD-Cam HD and Grass Valley K2 servers is available immediately.

ITV Chooses Medway for Seamless File Integration with BT Content Store

ITV has purchased a Medway file interchange system, for use at its postproduction operation at The London Studios (TLS) on South Bank, London. Medway will be integrated with the company's Avid ISIS editing and postproduction operation and BT Content Store media storage service, enabling broadcast quality digital content to move seamlessly between the two systems.

Medway Integration Brings Workflow Benefits to SGL's FlashNet Archive and Storage Environment

April 2008

Marquis Broadcast, specialist in broadcast workflow studies and software solutions, and Software Generation Ltd (SGL), a leading provider of content archive and storage management software for media and entertainment, have announced a technology integration agreement allowing SGL to integrate Marquis' Medway media highway with its FlashNet content archive and storage management systems, including the new FlashBrowse proxy creation system and FlashBox archive management and storage solution.

"The integration of our FlashNet products with Medway brings workflow improvements and more flexibility to critical digital processes," said Bernie Walsh, Sales Director, SGL. "Integration, strong business benefits, system expansion and low cost of ownership are key to the SGL philosophy and this partnership will allow our customers to improve workflows, thereby increasing productivity and ROI."

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RTL-TVI Belgium Installs Marquis Medway Media Highway for Powerful Cross-Platform Postproduction and Broadcast Workflows

March 2008

Marquis has announced that regional Belgian television station, RTL-TVI Belgium, part of RTL Group, has installed its Medway Media Highway. RTL-TVI Belgium is using Medway as the interoperability engine for its broadcasting and postproduction workflows based in its head office in Brussels. Medway has enabled the Company to achieve fast media transfers between its production areas where multiple teams of operators use a range of applications from different manufacturers.

"We chose Marquis as our supplier because having talked through our plans with them, they understood precisely what we were looking for and were able to demonstrate how Medway's capabilities could fulfil our requirements completely," said Thierry Piette, technical director, RTL-TVI. "Medway is very reliable. It has a simple interface which requires minimal training, and can be used by any of our operators including those who do not have specialist technical backgrounds. Also, we do not require transcoding which means the media flows between our various applications very fast. It's a very powerful method of moving data around."

RTV Belgium Achieves Fast Media Transfers using Medway Media Highway for New Tapeless Workflow

March 2008

Marquis has announced that regional Belgian television station, RTV Belgium, has installed its Medway Media Highway. RTV Belgium is using Medway to transfer media files between a range of broadcasting and editing systems in its head office in Westerlo. Although currently broadcasting in SD, RTV Belgium is migrating its workflows to HD broadcasting. Medway will fulfil an essential role in this process, as it already supports a range of HD formats.

"We chose Marquis Broadcast as they have a solid name in broadcasting technology," said Bart Snoeks, head of the technical department at RTV. "Medway is a very powerful system and is particularly fast when exporting Avid sequences to playout. All our operators, including those who are not trained in server technology, are able to use it. With Medway, we have created a highly streamlined, efficient workflow."

Dalet and Marquis Partner To Optimise Integration With Third Party Editing Systems
September 2007

Dalet Digital Media Systems and Marquis Broadcast, specialist in broadcast workflow studies and software integration solutions, today announced that both companies have partnered to optimize the integration of third-party non-linear editing (NLE) systems with Dalet Enterprise Edition and Dalet News Suite platforms. Marquis Medway for Dalet will facilitate the exchange of media essence, Edit Decision Lists (EDL) and associated metadata between Dalet Content Catalogues and external NLEs such as Avid NewsCutter and Avid Adrenaline.

"By working alongside leading solutions developers such as Dalet, we are able to widen the market for Medway media highway and enable more broadcasters and media professionals to benefit from seamless integration between best of breed systems within their production environments," explains Granby Patrick, Partner Director, Marquis Broadcast. "The integration of Medway with Dalet media asset management systems will provide a powerful, efficient and secure solution with the assurance that vital metadata remains preserved throughout the workflow."

"Marquis and Dalet really share the same vision of open broadcast platforms whereby content can be seamlessly exchanged between production systems," comments Mr. Nicolas Hans, Director of Marketing for Dalet. "Our joint partnership will truly serve broadcasters who have been entrapped for too long in proprietary solutions whereby content was entrapped in isolated silos". Marquis Medway for Dalet is currently being implemented for a large European content provider and is planned for release in Q4 2007. Once completed, Marquis Medway for Dalet will be available through Dalet Business Partners and supported by Marquis Broadcast.

Marquis Announces Medway Support for the EVS XT[2] Server Range
August 2007

Marquis has added EVS Broadcast Equipment's EVS XT2 server to the list of products supported by its Medway media highway system. By supporting the EVS XT2 proprietary file export format, Medway brings new functionality to broadcasters by enabling them to read and write DNxHD media between systems based on the EVS XT[2] architecture and Avid Technology's storage and Media Composer editing systems.

Medway Adds Support For Omneon MediaGrid Active Storage System

Marquis Broadcast's Medway universal media highway product now supports the Omneon MediaGrid next generation storage system.

MediaGrid is a storage system optimized for scalable, highbandwidth access to content required by media production and broadcast professionals. The system integrates with workflow and content management applications through open file protocols and APIs. Medway enables media files from multiple sources to be moved seamlessly between a variety of vendor platforms Under an existing OEM relationship between Omneon and Marquis Broadcast, Omneon currently offers Medway in its product portfolio branded as the Omneon ConformTool and promotes it longside Omneon products through its distribution channels. The completion of Medways support for MediaGrid means that Omneon is now able to extend its offering of ConformTool to existing and future MediaGrid customers.

MediaGrid is a storage system optimized for scalable, highbandwidth access to content required by media production and broadcast professionals. The system integrates with workflow and content management applications through open file protocols and APIs. Medway enables media files from multiple sources to be moved seamlessly between a variety of vendor platforms. Media is moved at full capacity network speeds and with complete reliability in any format including DV and 50-Mbps IMX.

The integration of Medway and MediaGrid further extends our range of broadcast solutions, said Jason Danielson, senior director of solution marketing for Omneon. By offering it with our Spectrum server and MediaGrid storage platforms, our customers can achieve improved efficiency in their workflows and at the same time, have the freedom to choose best of breed systems in the knowledge that they will not encounter file incompatibility problems.

As with the existing Omneon Spectrum integration, Medway allows browsing, reading and writing to MediaGrid folders while providing rewrapping of files in appropriate MXF or QuickTime preferences. This can be performed under manual control, via the API.

Harris Integrates Medway Within Its Media Management
Products For Greater Workflow Productivity
September 2007

Harris Corporation has signed an OEM agreement with Marquis Broadcast enabling Harris to integrate Marquis' Medway Media Highway software within Harris' H-Class Intelligent Media Mover and Invenio H-Class Digital Asset Management systems.

By integrating Marquis' Medway within the H-Class Intelligent Media Mover and Invenio H-Class Digital Asset Management systems, the Harris software now supports the seamless transfer of digital media and metadata assets between its own archives and third-party systems such as NLE workstations and video servers.

A user workflow can now be delivered that allows for searching of catalogued content within Harris' Invenio media archives and creates the instruction to move the SD/HD content off the Nexio server to industry-leading production tools such as Apple Final Cut Pro NLE software, Avid editing and Unity storage. This unified integration benefits users by facilitating the access, ingest, transfer, storage, and ultimately, the playout of media to air.

"The OEM agreement between our companies will result in a compelling solution for media companies looking for maximum output from their workflow processes," said Tim Thorsteinson, president, Harris Broadcast Communications. "By integrating Medway within our asset management products, we can offer our customers powerful, transparent media workflows across all broadcasting applications."

Marquis Broadcast has completed the integration of Medway into the Harris asset management product line, and now offers on-going product support to Harris customers. The integrated solution is available now through Harris's global distribution channels, with product installation provided by Harris.

Removable Media For HD Workflows

Marquis Broadcast and Ikegami have demonstrated the world's first multi-vendor HD workflow at the Inter BEE Show in Japan. Granby Patrick, CEO, Marquis Broadcast, explains how the development was instigated by the Japanese market, and looks at the benefits of using digital removable media to achieve practical, streamlined capture to playout HD workflows.

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Final Cut Pro Support From Medway

Medway now supports an extended range of manufacturers’ platforms.

This increased interoperability will give broadcasters even more freedom to choose best of breed solutions for their broadcasting workflows without the worry of data transfer bottlenecks due to file incompatibilities.

Medway will be demonstrated at IBC with full support for a wide range of broadcasting systems, including for the first time, support for Apple’s Final Cut Pro 5 and Sony’s XPRI editing systems, Grass Valley’s ProfileXP video server, and FrontPorch’s DIVA range of archive management solutions.

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