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SSVC chooses IBIS for end-to-end digital system
Ranmore, December 2004: Following the successful implementation of IBIS technology for Navy TV, the Services Sound & Vision Corporation’s BFBS Television service has chosen IBIS to provide station automation and workflow management systems for the production and transmission of television services for UK forces stationed around the world. The contract has been won in association with systems integrator, ATG Broadcast.
IBIS controls the ingest and management of programmes off-air or via line feeds into two Quantel sQ Servers. A further Quantel sQ Server under IBIS control also provides clip replay for BFBS produced news and children’s programming.
30 megabit/s D10 files and 1.5 megabit/s proxy files are created in parallel and recorded clips are reviewed using IBIS Vistapoint, marking original channel branding such as voiceovers or end credit squeezes. Clips ready for transmission are then transferred to mirrored Quantel sQ playout servers or to the near-line archive.
IBIS Station automation controls the transmission of downloaded Provys schedules, as well as template recall on the Miranda PresMaster Presentation Mixer to replace original channel branding.
In addition to channel playout, IBIS News applications are handling gallery play-in of BFBS News bulletins. All news clips can be displayed within the newsroom system via an IBIS MOS gateway, with character generator and prompter interfaces allowing dynamic updating of story information.
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