EVS intros Sports360° workflow enabling concept
EVS will present its new Sport360° concept to help sports content owners, broadcasters, and facility companies address multiple markets. In today’s sports media environment with rights distribution partitioning, broadcasters must be able to deliver dedicated content on multiple platforms, including TV, Web, mobile phones, tablets, and connected TV, to their respective viewing audiences.
EVS’ Sports360° concept features enhanced live production with high-end replays, on the fly editing, new ultra motion control capabilities, overlay graphic analysis or 3D replay, and super-motion operations; sports highlights and immediate media access and exchange with post-production; logging and statistics integration; mobile, web streaming, and multi-channel delivery; second screen applications; and sports archive management.
EVS will present its range of new packages designed to streamline news and production workflow operations and facilitate media exchange in any broadcast/IT environment, including:
NLE systems integration: Enables referenced proxy media exchange with Avid editors, new Final Cut pro plug-ins to facilitate job requests and file exchanges with EVS servers and storage, and a new V-Drive virtual file system for FCP editors.
OpenCube HD/SD: Format-agnostic platform that supports uncompressed and all standard codecs such as XDCAM, AVC-Intra, Jpeg2K wrapped in metadata- enabled MXF files for genuine interoperability in production and long term asset preservation. EVS IT based ingest server for tape, flexicart, or archive migration.
XFConverter: New EVS media rewrapping and transfer solution for full interoperability of files at any step of production workflow. The application now supports new MXF mastering formats AS02 and AS03 and ensure seamless ingest in Avid/Interplay environment.
New Lynx API and MOS gateway: Allow full interoperability with all types of third-party systems and NRCS, including Avid iNEWS, ENPS, and ANNOVA systems.
XFly Streamer: A new portable storage device for unconnected live to post-production media import is now available with its new streaming module. This allows live streaming for up to 10 HD feeds (@100Mbps). Its embedded on-the-fly transcoding capabilities also guarantee format compatibility between live recording facilities and post-production.
C-Cast: EVS’ “CloudCast” is a designed to facilitate instant distribution of live broadcast content via dedicated web applications direct to home users. Using tablets, mobile devices or web interfaces, C-Cast works in conjunction with EVS’ live production applications allowing viewers to access key sequences, specifically edited packages or multi-angle camera shots.