Rádio e Televisão de Portugal Chooses OmniBus for Major Asset Management Makeover
Tape-Based Workflow Replaced With Powerful Multi-Site Integrated System for Tracking, Archiving and Transmitting Content
DENVER — February 10, 2009 — OmniBus Systems, the award-winning provider of comprehensive automation and content management solutions to the broadcast industry, has announced the installation at Rádio e Televisão de Portugal (RTP) of a fully integrated content management system to provide RTP's Porto and Lisbon news operations with streamlined access to its central content archive. The system comprises facilities for global ingest, production, post-production, transmission, news and archive operations as part of a major new studio and facilities installation for the Portuguese national broadcaster.
The system installation, overseen by main contractor Sony Professional Services and OmniBus distributor Ibertelco Electrónica, includes the OmniBus OPUS digital asset management (DAM) system with the capability of ingesting content locally from tape and interfacing with Quantel and Omneon servers, as well as OmniBus Colossus for transmission. The global ingest system provides control of a Sony Flexicart, an expansion to the video servers in the DAM and additional workstations to facilitate the ingest of content for the complete operation. The DAM system is based on a full OmniBus G3 and core automation system, workflow manager application, and G3 clients managing a Front Porch Digital DIVArchive with Sony Petasite for long-term storage of content. A Microsoft® Windows Media® 9 browse server provides browse viewing for the local DAM users and remote browse for remote news sites in Porto.
"This is a large and comprehensive installation that provides RTP personnel with user-friendly, task-based content management and workflow systems, enabling them to search, browse, annotate and move content throughout their operation and between sites," said David Ball, OmniBus Systems senior project manager. "It completely supersedes RTP's previous tape-based system, and with workflow tasks being tracked at every stage, it ensures the right content is always available for transmission."
More information about OmniBus Systems' digital asset management, automation and transmission technology is available online at www.omnibus.tv.
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About OmniBus Systems
OmniBus Systems provides broadcasting, cable, and satellite organizations with comprehensive automation and media content management solutions that address every area of television-related operations. Its newsroom, content, and workflow automation solutions include acquisition and recording of rich media material, low-resolution editing, media asset management, and playout. OmniBus is a global company with headquarters in the United Kingdom and offices in the United States, Germany, and Singapore. More information is available at www.omnibus.tv.
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