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BAYERISCHER RUNDFUNK, GERMANY

Marquis have installed Medway at German broadcaster, BR, where it forms a universal media exchange interface to BR’s new production and broadcasting centre, Sendezentrum Freimann (SZFM) in Munich, enabling media files to be transferred seamlessly between various large-scale systems from a range of manufacturers.

Marquis began working with BR in early 2005 to identify an optimised workflow for SZFM that streamlined production and broadcasting processes without incurring compatibility issues between the systems.

The primary function of Medway within SZFM is to provide an interface between the new shared storage environment, comprising 5 Avid Unity systems networked with multiple nonlinear editing systems, and the rest of the infrastructure, comprising broadcast automation, playout and media management facilities.

Users can locate and access files across multiple systems. For example, journalists can work with sequences of low resolution clips and submit these for craft editing, with Medway ensuring that high resolution copies of selected video clips are accessible and delivered to the appropriate workstation from any location on the new SZFM infrastructure.

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