Vantage Video Workflow Design, Automation and Management that revolutionizes Transcoding Analysis Capture Metadata Processing Video File Management Powerful Video Workflow Design and Automation Telestream Vantage combines media capture, transcoding, clip management, analysis, QC, and metadata processing into a unified workflow framework. Vantage also integrates with all the major broadcast servers, edit systems, streaming servers, cable VOD servers, SANs and virtually any network digital device in your facility. Full Automation in Multi-Vendor Environments Vantage automates content ingest, file format conversion, video device interoperability, multi-channel distribution, and other video production workflows. It unifies your video operations into a managed, faster than real-time workflow ecosystem. A revolution in video workflow automation Visually design your complex media workflows with Vantage. Metadata flow, analysis data flow, media file flow, and process flows can be designed independently of one another and of the underlying file format or video systems. Automated decision-making can be incorporated into the workflow. This allows the design of fully automated, self-adapting video workflows, with easy-to-use tools and out-of-the-box support for any video environment.
Vantage Enterprise-Class System Management For mission-critical workflows, Vantage Enterprise system management products provide a higher level of visibility and a deeper level of management and control. Vantage Enterprise is a system management layer and suite of tools for managing multi-vendor workflow environments. It is the only truly scalable solution for ingest, video file inoperability, broadcast operation, and multi-channel distribution workflow management. More Throughput, More Predictability, Fewer Servers With customizable load balancing, automated response to fluctuations in processing or media loads, and tools for analyzing workflow and system bottlenecks and throughput, Vantage Enterprise improves the efficiency of hardware utilization. This results in hardware cost savings, less power and cooling required, and fewer servers to manage. Predictable, Visible Workflow Management Full dashboard view of both systems and processes provides complete visibility of the workflow and underlying systems involved. Team management provides customized visibility into the workflow for different departments within an organization, and reporting allows departmental or client billing. Vantage offers Fully integrated workflow design Automated decision-making Support for best-of-breed, multi-vendor environments Predictable, reliable workflow throughput Key workflows: Content ingest Video file interoperability Multi-channel distribution Faster-than-real-time production
Vantage Vantage Workflow Products Improve your video operations today with the world's most powerful workflow design and automation tools. Vantage workflow products enable the design and automation of video workflows. These products may be used standalone, clustered using Vantage Array, or integrated using any of the Vantage Enterprise system management products. Powerful Workflow Design With visual workflow design and job status views, Vantage provides a powerful yet easy-to-understand way to build and automate video workflows. Integrate Multi-Vendor Environments Vantage includes support for all the major broadcast servers, edit systems, streaming servers, cable VOD servers, SANs and virtually any network digital device in your facility. Remove tape and signal-based steps in your video operations, enabling complete faster than real-time automation across the entire workflow. Automated Decision-Making Using its unique workflow design capabilities, Vantage allows you create adaptive workflows that can automatically make decisions and manage your content based upon incoming metadata and content properties. Further, Vantage allows the creation of selfhealing workflows that can detect and recover from errors in video files. By integrating Vantage analysis, transcoding, file movement and workflow design, you can build automated intelligence into your video workflows. Support for Manual Steps The Vantage Workflow Portal puts the manual steps in your video workflow under process control. Operators can review assets, enter metadata, and forward jobs as part of the entire workflow environment. Powerful Workflow Design Decide Deploy Get Begin Get Web Web? Web Deliver Web Decide Move Get End Get Mobile 1 Mobile1? Mobile 1 Move file Receive Decide Move Receive Job Get KF Time Trim Keyframe Get Mobile 2 Mobile2? Mobile 2 Move file Get Desc. Get Title Thousands of workflow possibilities Content ingest Review and approval File format conversion Operator asset review, metadata entry Video device interoperability Audio analysis and correction Multi-channel and VOD distribution Caption insertion
Transcoding Built upon best-in-class FlipFactory technology, Vantage offers the world's leading enterprise-class transcoding technology Over 120 formats and wrappers supported, including almost every video device in the industry Deep format support including VANC, timecode, captions, multiple audio streams, and metadata Optimized for multi-core servers to ensure the fastest possible results Prioritized pause-and-resume and enterprise-class load balancing and failover automatically prevents bottlenecks or system failure Video Analysis / QC Create smart transcoding workflows that react to content properties and quality checks Feed analysis results directly to transcoding, reporting, web services, and more Design self-healing workflows that find and correct video errors at any step Supports more formats than any other video analysis or quality control solution Vantage workflow design allows analysis results to be used to make decisions, fix errors, update reports, or provide input to downstream video processing such as trimming or cropping Built with industry-leading FlipFactory transcoding technology Transfer / Communicate Capabilities: Identify: Container type, file bitrate, video codec, video frame size, video bitrate, video frame rate, video interlacing, audio codec, audio bitrate, audio sample rate, audio channels, audio bits per sample, aspect ratio Analyze: Letterbox/curtain detection, black detection, slate/bars detection, ITU 1770 loudness measurement, telecine detection, macroblock detection, field order detection, levels/gamut compliance, frame-accurate duration Quality Control: Peak signal-to-noise ratio analysis against reference file Supported Formats: See technical specifications on back Direct file system integration with major video servers and systems Web Service notifications and flexible data modeling allow workflow information to be fed to external systems, at any step in the workflow Notification via email, other protocols at any step in the workflow Allows seamless integration with external systems/technology without the need for custom engineering Capture Combine with Telestream Pipeline to enable network-attached capture Automated workflows start immediately during capture Allows affordable SD and HD SDI capture Operator capture interface can allow metadata input to direct the entire workflow Decision-making and Metadata Unified data platform for analysis results, metadata ingest and export, data entry Computation and decision-making based upon any information in the data layer Vantage Workflow Portal allows operator review, metadata entry, and job forwarding Allows smart transcoding, metadata generation and conversion, and self-healing QC workflows
Predictable Performance Customizable load balancing enables more efficient hardware utilization Automatic adaptation to fluctuations in media characteristics and processing requirements Visual bottleneck analysis tools allow workflow design optimization User-configurable task retry reduces overhead for recovery from any type of failure Team Management Publish customized web-based job status views for end-users of the workflow User accounts for visibility and access of job status Reports can be generated for departmental or client billing Failover and Recovery Peer-to-peer architecture with no single point of failure Recovers from environmental failures (SAN, Internet, external systems) Customizable recovery rules in case of failures Performance and health alarms with customizable alert conditions Enterprise Dashboard Visualizes system status, health and performance Web-based dashboard for remote visual monitoring Single-page summary allows at-a-glance review Scales to support management of hundreds of servers and services Best-of-Breed Ecosystem Process and dashboard integrations for Vantage Workflow products Media ingest and delivery with all major professional video systems Control and monitoring of other products including Telestream Agility Allows unified ecosystem of multi-vendor components
Vantage Vantage Enterprise System Management Products Vantage Enterprise system management products offer unprecedented visibility and management of mission critical video workflows. Combine Vantage workflow products, and other 3rd party products and systems, into a unified multi-vendor workflow ecosystem. Predictability and Visibility With web-based dashboard, customizable load balancing and retry rules, plus reporting capabilities for capacity planning, Vantage Enterprise system management products provide true visibility into the workflow and the sound knowledge that work will be done as designed. Integrate Multi-Vendor Environments Vantage includes support for all the major broadcast servers, edit systems, streaming servers, cable VOD servers, SANs and virtually any network digital device in your facility. With Vantage, remove tape and signalbased steps in your video operations, enabling complete faster than real-time automation across the entire workflow. Scalable, rock-solid server software Processing can take place on one or multiple loadbalanced servers providing high-volume processing to meet your exact media workflow needs. For critical workflows, priority-driven scheduling, distributed control and auto-failover ensure that there is no single point of failure, and no barrier between you and your workflow needs. Best in class customer support You can rest assured that our highly-skilled technical team will be available to provide the quick and comprehensive support and guidance you need to fully leverage the power of your Telestream product. Professional Services Telestream understands the need to ensure that your workflow is designed and developed correctly right from the start. Our Professional Services experts will work with you to fully understand your workflow expectations, develop appropriate solutions and provide continuity between project development, design and installation. Workflow Management Fully scalable from two to hundreds of participating servers and systems System Visualization and Control Agility Bridge Agility 2G System Management and Optimization Peer-to-Peer Resilient Clustering Vantage Vantage Vantage Vantage Vantage N+1 Redundancy Avalon Agility 3rd Party Integrations Avalon Agility Delivery Edit On-air Subtitling Metadata
Technical Specifications Workflow Design and Automation Flexible Design and Automation: Visual process design allows decision-making, the management of dozens of independent files during a single job, and routing of files. Metadata Modeling: Metadata routing to and from media files, XML, and web services can be modeled independently of underlying media file formats. Full XSL support for metadata ingest and export. Workflow Actions: Email, Notify Web Service, Workflow Forward/Receive, Metadata ingest and export, Metadata transformation, Convert Metadata to Process Data, Convert Process Data to Metadata, Attachment Hot Folders, Media Hot Folders, Associate Media, Associate Attachments, Copy/Move/Delete to supported filesystems, Deploy, Transcode and Analyze (requires separate license), Open file support, Decide. Manage Complex Media File Types: Automatic management of complex media file types including P2 Camera, Omneon reference files, Avid reference files. 3rd-party Filesystem Integrations: Avid Interplay, FTP, FTPS, Grass Valley AMP, Leitch, SAN/NAS support, SeaChange, SFTP, Omneon, Windows Networking. See full list of supported systems and devices on our website. Design and Deploy Operator Tasks: Customize operator user interfaces for metadata entry, asset browsing, stitching and job submission. Design your own operator-facing tasks for review & approval, VOD data entry, promo tagging, and more. Operators can then do their jobs using the Vantage Workflow Portal application, installed on their workstation. Analysis Identify: Container type, file bitrate, video codec, video frame size, video bitrate, video frame rate, video interlacing, audio codec, audio bitrate, audio sample rate, audio channels, audio bits per sample, aspect ratio Analyze: Letterbox/curtain detection, black detection, slate/bars detection, ITU 1770 loudness measurement, telecine detection, macroblock detection, field order detection, levels/gamut compliance, frame-accurate duration Quality Control: Peak signal-to-noise ratio analysis against reference file Supported Formats: 3GPP, 3GP2, AAC, AIFF, AVI, Avid OMF, Avid Mediastream, DNxHD, DV, DVCPRO, DV50, DVCPRO HD, FLV, GXF, Harris LXF, H.264, Matrox, MPEG-1 System Stream, MPEG-2, MP3, M2V, M2A, Program Stream, Quantel, Seachange, Transport Stream, VC-1, VP6, WAV, Windows Media, and most other formats supported by the Transcode engine. Transcode Media Processing: Black insertion, Bumpers, Caption Conversion (full 608/708 support), EBIF PID preservation, HD VANC support, SCC caption file insertion, Trailers, Trimming Video Processing: Blur, Color Space Conversion, Contrast, Crop, Curtains, Darken Region, Deinterlacing, Field Order Conversion, Frame/Field Rate Change, Gamma Correction, Hue, Image Overlay, Interlacing, Inverse Telecine, Keyframe Extraction, Letterboxing, Mask,Noise Reduction, QuickTime Movie Overlay, Standards Conversion, Saturation, Sharpen, Standards Conversion, Telecine, Timecode burn-in, Trimming, Up/Down Conversion, Video Fade In/Out Audio Processing: Audio Fade In/Out, Channel Mixing, Loudness Adjustment, Phase Invert, Up/Down Sampling, Mix external audio files Supported Formats: See Vantage format sheet for more details (also available on the Telestream website). System Management Resiliency and Predictability: Automated task retry based upon configurable schedule. Workflow analytic tools for identifying workflow bottlenecks and tracking process branch usage in real-time. Dynamic load balancing customizable to optimize server usage, and responds automatically to changes in processing load and workflow requirements. Job reporting and historical performance metrics for capacity planning. Peer-to-peer architecture ensures no single point of failure (no master control). Team Management: User accounts and customizable web-based job status views. Job reporting for departmental and client billing. Prioritization rules can be set for different hot folders or workflow branches, allowing the requirements of multiple teams to be addressed in a single workflow. System Control and Monitoring: Web-based dashboards of job and system infrastructure status. Alarms for system performance and health. Centralized monitoring and control of Vantage and Agility products. Centralized licensing with support for N+1 redundancy. Products Vantage Workflow Products Vantage Transcode: Automates video & audio transcoding for web, mobile and VOD formats Vantage Transcode Connect: Automates web, mobile and VOD multi-channel transcoding, metadata transformation and distribution Vantage Transcode Pro: Automates the full spectrum of video and audio transcoding, including broadcast, IPTV, MXF, as well as web, mobile and VOD formats Vantage Transcode Pro Connect: Automates multi-channel delivery, content ingest, and device interoperability workflows for all major edit, broadcast, cable and new media systems Vantage Analysis: Media analysis, decision-making and quality control workflows Vantage Array: Binds Vantage Workflow products together, offering easy, cost-effective capacity expansion, failover, redundancy and load-balancing Vantage Workflow Portal: Creation of operator user interfaces for browsing video, entering metadata, and moving media through workflows All models include workflow design and automation software. All models include Local Folder, FTP, SFTP, Windows Network folder watching and delivery. Transcode Connect includes broadcast server monitoring, XML transformation, and web service notification. Transcode Pro Connect includes Avid Interplay receive and delivery, broadcast server monitoring and delivery, XML transformation, and web service notifications. See Vantage format support sheet for more details on Transcode and Transcode Pro (also available on the Telestream website). Vantage Enterprise System Managemanet Products Vantage Enterprise Control: User-configurable task retry rules automate recovery from environmental failures and provide true resilience and predictability. Team manager provides user accounts and customizable web-based job status views. Workflow analytics and customizable load balancing allow system and process optimization, enabling you to achieve more throughput with fewer servers. Vantage Master Control: Web-based dashboards for jobs and system infrastructure provide complete visibility of the entire workflow. Performance and health alarms offer first-line notification of potential system errors. Provides centralized monitoring and control of Vantage Workflow and Agility products in a unified ecosystem. Vantage Master Control also includes all the capabilities of Vantage Enterprise Control. Additional Options GraphicsFactory: Adds timeline-based text, images, QuickTime movie, and audio overlays applied during transcode. Allows template-driven graphics using data feeds. Screen Subtitling: Allows STL, PAC and other subtitle files to be applied either as open (visible) or closed (data stream) subtitles. Dolby E: Allows decode or pass-through of Dolby E audio during transcode. IPV SpectreView: Allows generation of files for the IPV Spectreview edit systems. Avid Interplay Metadata Delivery: Allows customizable metadata columns to be populated in Interplay during Transfer Engine delivery. Supported Devices Non-Linear Editors Adobe Premiere Apple Final Cut Pro Avid DS, Media Composer, Symphony, Xpress, Xpress DV, inews, NewsCutter Avid Liquid & Vortex Servers 360 MAXX Arris SkyVision, HQ Avid MediaStream EVS XT Server, Media Server Grass Valley Profile, PDR, K2, Summit, Solo Harris VR Series, Nexio, DVR Series Cameras Grass Valley Infinity Ikegami GF Panasonic P2 System Configuration Requirements Operating System: Windows Server 2003, 2008, XP Pro SP3 Minimum Server: Dual, Quad Core Processor, 4 GB DDR Memory Dual 100/1000 Ethernet Database: Microsoft SQL Server Express 2005 Client OSs: Server 2003, 2008, XP Pro SP3, Vista, Windows 7 Avid Unity, ISIS, Interplay Grass Valley News Edit, News Browse Media 100 i & ifinish Matrox DigiSuite Omneon Spectrum, MediaDeck, MediaGrid Quantel sq Server SeaChange BMS/BMC/BML, VOD SeaChange MVL Sony evtr, MAV70, MAV2000 Sony XDCAM Sony XDCAM EX Specifications subject to change without notice. Copyright 2010 Telestream, Inc. Telestream and Vantage are registered trademarks of Telestream, Inc. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. April 2011 www.telestream.net info@telestream.net Nevada City, CA USA tel +1 530 470 1300