Media-office

The Media Office is a multi-component system which tightly integrates several OB vans and a MMCR to ingest, log, edit, store, transfer, archive, search, restore, and playout both HD and SD video content, under time-sensitive conditions, in support of the television coverage of some of Russia’s, and the World’s, largest and highest profile sporting events.

• Encoders for ingest of baseband HD and SD video for both
  high-resolution and low-resolution (“proxy”) video.
  Ingest automation for scheduling and controlling the encoding devices
  for recording baseband feeds.
• Central shared storage consisting of multi-tiered storage pools
  supporting multiple production users and distributed across multiple
  locations in support of those users.
• Media asset management (MAM) system for providing end-user
  functionality for areas such as media management, tape-based ingest,
  file imports, search, browse, proxy-based rough cut desktop editing,
  logging and workflow management.
• Proxy-based desktop player and rough-cut editor for supporting the
• High-resolution nonlinear editors (NLEs) for craft editing of clips.
• Production workflows, including remotely.
• Newsroom Computer System (NRCS) for creating scripts, viewing news
  wires, and creating and managing rundowns.
  Playout automation building and managing playlists and controlling
  control room playout devices
• Playout devices for playback of HD and SD high-resolution video.
  Transcoders for the creation of proxies from high-resolution files
  and, potentially, for conversions between formats/wrappers across
  system components, as well as perhaps the creation of formats
  appropriate for non-broadcast distribution (e.g. for the web or mobile
  coverage).
• WAN acceleration for high-speed file replication and transport
  (including of growing files) between locations of the system’s
  components.