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Launch of IBIS Highlighter
September 2005, IBC Booth 7.310: IBIS Higlighter, an entirely new application with enhanced features and flexibility for news and sports broadcast will be demonstrated at this year’s IBC working with servers from Omneon and Quantel.
The IBIS Highlighter screen layout can be configured for either single widescreen or dual standard displays with thumbnails. Six individual video windows show each incoming feed, providing a choice of viewing from multiple angles. Beneath each video window, a metadata panel permits the operator to title the recording, identify the sport, etc. Recording can be started manually, or events may be scheduled to automatically record within a 72 hour window.
Once recording is underway, the operator may simply “click and drag” the chosen video to the desired video to the Edit Channel, where IN and OUT points can be marked using pre-programmed ‘hot-keys’. Pre-programmed hot-keys are also available for sport-specific metadata descriptions. (e.g. for Baseball: single, double, triple, home-run) and are user-programmable from the system set-up page. As each clip is ‘dragged’ to the Edit Channel, the sport identifier field automatically re-programs the hot-keys with the appropriate labels for that sport. Selected highlights may be saved as individual clips for later editing or may be joined together and saved as a sequence (cuts-only).
Additionally, a single playout channel is available while the Edit Channel is in use. Clips and sequences may be played to air on the playout channel at any time. If two playout channels are required when the sports program is on-air, the Edit Channel may be converted to a playout channel and clips may be played out on either channel in an A/B mode.
An archive module is also available to provide a simple method for laying desired material off to tape, or transferring files over a network to an archive device. Simple management tools are provided to allow deletion of material no longer needed or protection of material to be kept on-line.
Says Andrew Winter, IBIS Director of Marketing “IBIS Highlighter has been designed specifically for news and in particular, sports news. Sports Departments in local stations have had it tough as they are often seen by the News Department as a drain on resources and air-time. With the introduction of server-based digital newsrooms, traditional workflow has become antiquated and inefficient and the Sports department often has to share the resources of input ports and storage capacity of the news system. Covering local and national sports requires the recording of a large amount of material, which can dramatically impact both the port usage and the space available in the news system. IBIS Highlighter has been specifically designed to meet both the needs and the budgets of Sports news departments to provide the most efficient and cost-effective use of resources.”
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