Las Vegas, April 11, 2010

IPV, a global leader and largest independent supplier of media, metadata and low bit-rate, frame-accurate video technology to the broadcast and professional video sectors, will showcase the latest tools for its Curator system that accelerate the workflow for live event production including news and sports. New capabilities making a début at NAB include the integration between the Curator system and Teragator data aggregation engine as well as close integration with the Adobe Premier Pro Editor for on-the-fly editing to deliver fast turnaround of news bulletins and sports highlights.

An affordable, tapeless workflow environment running on both PC and Apple® Mac platforms, the Curator system is designed to allow communities of media professionals to add value to their content and efficiently fulfil tasks such as desktop editing media annotation, review and approve and general media browsing. It is a complete solution that can efficiently ingest, encode or transcode, at low bitrate, proxy SDI or file-based media, which can then be used concurrently by multiple users. Whatever the source of the material, the Curator version is guaranteed to be frame accurate at all times giving an unprecedented desktop experience.

Curator comes into its own in a live event environment by providing the facility to immediately browse and rough cut edit at the desktop with live content, efficiently annotate and log media and easily manage high resolution media movement — all on a standard network. Making its début at NAB 2010 is the system’s ability to directly integrate with the Adobe Premier Pro Editor for live editing and voiceover capabilities in a networked environment. This process allows journalists to quickly assemble material for news or highlights packages and conform the output directly to air or craft editing and apply to the high resolution for finishing. The Curator system can also be fully integrated with the leading newsroom systems providing an end-to-end workflow.

Additionally in a fast-paced production environment, Curator can support federated content search and discovery through close integration with IPV’s Teragator relational metadata aggregation and management engine that was first introduced as a technology showing at IBC 2009. Built on Semantic Web Technologies, Teragator is a powerful tool that provides a platform to aggregate disparate metadata sources and data mining services to identify and manage complex relational links between assets and provide a simple visually compelling graphical user interface to represent and interact with these links. In combination with IPV’s renowned low bitrate video technology, users can browse through the contents of any or multiple libraries to identify related, more appropriate content, quickly and simply — driving improved workflow and cost-efficiencies in finding, retrieving and managing assets and associated metadata and maximising earnings from a media asset portfolio.

"IPV has further increased the productivity of the Curator workflow by incorporating tools that improve the speed of ingest, logging and retrieval while at the same time providing an integrated editing solution for live applications right at the desktop," said Nigel Booth, Executive Vice President for Sales and Marketing at IPV. "This desktop performance is what drives operator acceptance as it is easy to learn and navigate, which in turn allows broadcasters to accelerate processing speed, improves the production values of their programs and increases the returns by efficiently reducing overall operational costs."

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