NBC Olympics Production of the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi Used Telestream 有利的 to Provide Workflow Orchestration

Telestream 有利的 enabled improved file-based workflow for NBC Olympics during its coverage of the 2014 Sochi Winter Games

加州内华达城.(2014年3月13日)

Telestream, the leading provider of video 代码转换 and workflow automation solutions, today announced that its products were used to provide file-based standards conversion, 代码转换, and workflow orchestration to NBC Olympics, a division of the NBC Sports Group, during its production of the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, 俄罗斯. The announcement was made today by Darryl Jefferson, 副总统, 数字工作流, NBC奥运会和丹·卡斯尔斯, 首席执行官, Telestream.

“We were excited to continue working with Telestream and used their next-generation 有利的 hardware and software toolset for advanced workflow orchestration,杰斐逊说. “We used 有利的 file-based standards conversion, 代码转换, audio re-mapping and down-mixing, 封闭字幕提取, 和更多的. The GPU-accelerated Lightspeed Server ensured that processes kept up with the rigorous live environment, and the workflow profiles allowed us the flexibility to configure process intelligence with each step.”

“有利的 was designed to enable sophisticated content creation and distribution workflows, seamlessly connecting independent devices into a centralized, 受管理系统,古堡说。. “We’re pleased that our technology allowed NBC to quickly scale their system to meet the demands of this major global event. We’re proud to have been associated with this effort.”

有利的 was used by NBC to perform workflow orchestration between various third-party production and encoding systems, with a special focus on preparing content for non-traditional platforms such as cable video-on-demand, 网络和移动设备. 有利的 analyzed incoming source material from Sochi for parameters like frame rate and automatically directed content-processing workflows without requiring human intervention.

“Almost every file path for non-traditional TV was covered by 有利的 in some way, either by workflow orchestration, 只是检查一个文件, 或者实际的转码,杰斐逊说.

有利的与 Cinnafilm Tachyon enabled NBC to perform high-quality standards conversion from 50i to 60i in the compressed domain without decompressing the content back to baseband video, 节省大量时间. The Tachyon product quickly delivered motion-compensated standards conversion, which Jefferson said was crucial for sports but hadn’t been previously feasible in file-based conversion.

NBC also used two other Telestream products to help prepare its cable VOD content: CaptionMaker (which Telestream acquired with captioning firm CPC last year) and the recently-released 有利的转码IPTV VOD product. CaptionMaker automated the retiming of captions from 50i to 60i, a process that typically would have required multiple disparate systems and human operation, 而 有利的转码IPTV VOD created closed-captioned SD and HD CableLabs-compliant files for delivery to domestic cable distribution outlets.

“The big benefit of 有利的 is its ‘connective tissue’,杰斐逊说.  “Sometimes vendors have two products that might not be able to move content between each other, so we use 有利的 to move from Point Ato Point B.”