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Channel 7 Sydney on air with IBIS SprinTx
IBIS SprinTx is now live in Sydney, the latest addition to its series of regional digital newsrooms for the Channel 7 Network in Australia. Sydney follows successful SprinTx installations in Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane and Perth where the move from tape to online storage provides a new flexibility and speed in the preparation of news and sport packages.
Specifically designed for the News and Sports environment, SprinTx provides a series of modular applications for the control of ingest, playout, editing and media management, all of which operate on standard IT based open architecture.
Sydney is unique in being the first site in the Channel 7 network to run a complete suite of IBIS SprinTx CORBA applications integrating with the Quantel sQ server range. Additionally, the system supports a number of Quantel applications including 20 QCuts, 100 PCs for journalist editing, 10 QEdit applications for more advanced desktop editing and 7 QEdit Pros.
Sydney news and the early morning show ‘Sunrise’ will be broadcast from the new Martin Place facility, with news updates broadcast regularly through out the day. Additional news and the current affairs show ‘Today Tonight’ are sent back to the Melbourne site and are broadcast from there.
The SprinTx applications in Sydney operate as follows: ServerLoad manages ingest from tape or line feeds either manually or by using the timed scheduler function. There are twelve ingest applications - four into each of the Quantel SQ production servers. Four of the ServerLoads are continuously ingesting long form foreign material from overseas on a constant loop record, using the Shot Grab function which allows required material only, such as sports highlights, to be stored on the servers.
ServerBase core media management capability manages the stored media allowing the monitoring and deletion of clips as well as the viewing of Archive material. ServerMirror automatically mirrors high-resolution clips to and from the video servers, providing resilience on air, while ServerArchive lists all media available on the server and is used to archive chosen clips to tape.
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