News

Middleware solution allows edit while ingest for fastest workflow from live feeds

Pan-African broadcaster, Kwesé, has taken delivery of a Marquis Broadcast Medway system, supplied by Zimele Broadcast, to streamline its sports production and facilitate fast-turnaround coverage of a recent major sporting event in Asia. The Medway middleware was retrofitted to an Avid® NEXIS®/ Interplay®, Oracle DIVA and Dell EMC Isilon infrastructure, to enable Kwesé’s team to edit while ingesting media for the fastest possible turnaround of incoming live feeds. Importantly, Medway enabled this critical functionality without needing to replace any existing systems.

Company launches Premiere Parking software for Adobe Premiere Pro CC, plus demonstrates its latest project integration, backup and cloud offerings

Marquis Broadcast will showcase its world-class disaster recovery and business continuity tools at NAB (booth SU6225), including the new Premiere Parking software for Adobe® Premiere® Pro CC, part of the Adobe Creative Cloud, an Interplay Metadata Export Tool, plus Medway Cloud Workflow. The company will also be demonstrating its newly Avid certified Workspace Tools suite, which uses unique analytics to accelerate recovery to production.

Marquis Broadcast has announced that its Workspace Tools products are now Avid® certified, delivering Avid’s seal of approval for the company’s powerful disaster recovery, backup and business continuity solutions. Marquis is already an Avid Certified Alliance Partner with its Project Parking software, which enables Avid project media to be archived, moved/parked or deleted as required. Now, with Avid certification for Workspace Tools, Marquis has demonstrated how its products operate seamlessly within the Avid environment, providing customers with absolute confidence in a world-class disaster recovery and business continuity solutions.

Valuable Interplay metadata can be saved and searched

Marquis Broadcast is launching its new Interplay Metadata Export Tool at NAB 2018, which will enable customers to take an Avid® Interplay® project and export all metadata for all assets in the project – essential when archiving projects from an Interplay system. Avid Interplay PAM has become a mainstay of many production workflows, relied upon daily by large and small production facilities around the world to find, track, archive and deliver projects. The Interplay Metadata Export Tool (IMET) copies and externalises Interplay metadata, making it searchable via a browser interface by operational staff. Importantly, the source externalised metadata record in Interplay can be safely deleted, thus reducing the size of the Interplay database and thereby improving the system’s performance, stability and indexing speed.

Marquis Broadcast launches cloud capabilities for Medway, with automatic transcoding, download integration and relink functions

Marquis Broadcast will showcase its Medway Cloud Workflow at NAB 2018, providing seamless integration between local and cloud-based projects. Medway is a very powerful and scalable media-centric middleware solution. It uniquely operates at ‘sequence level’, which enables a complete digital workflow to ensure edit platforms, MAMs, video servers and archive systems work seamlessly together. The cloud compute hosted Medway Engine Web Service (MEWS) brings the power of Medway to the cloud and offers a simple and fast way to deploy hybrid cloud/ground integrations.