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WBNS faced rising restoration costs for maintaining decades’ worth of media archives. Material was tape based, requiring manual ingest, transfer and duplication. Access to media was cumbersome, content repurposing limited. Their Dalet Media Library system put an end to that situation. It seamlessly integrates with their Associated Press ENPS computer newsroom system and their Grass Valley Profiles, Thomson NewsEdit and Avid Liquid edit suites. Content is migrated from broadcast servers to an Exanet on-line storage and a Sony Petasite near-line tape library. Low bit-rate proxies are generated on the fly. The whole archiving workflow is automated and fully integrated with production and broadcast operations.
A Dalet MOS Gateway (1) scavenges scripts and rundowns from the MOS compliant Associated Press ENPS newsroom computer system (2) and pushes these to the Dalet Media Library server (3). Dalet Media Library extracts the corresponding clip names from -the script metadata, and downloads the corresponding video files from the existing Grass Valley Profile servers (4) using a Dalet Media Gateway server (5) to an Exanet Network Attached Storage device (6). Low bit rate proxies are generated by a Dalet Conversion Server (7) and the High Resolution material is immediately migrated to a Sony Petasite tape library system (8).
Dalet windows workstations (9) or any newsroom or external PC with Microsoft Internet Explorer (10) can be used to browse archives and make shot selections. The High Resolution material corresponding to a shot list is automatically extracted from the tape library system and pushed to Grass Valley News Edit (11) or Pinnacle Liquid (12) non linear editing systems.