NAB 2011: Tedial Products Preview

2011 NAB Show Preview
Tedial
Booth N6506

Tedial is a content management company specialising in media asset management (MAM), hierarchical storage management (HSM) and business process management (BPM) software. Tedial’s technology lets broadcasters take full advantage of file-based workflows by optimising and automating operational processes. Tedial’s solutions are vendor- and hardware-independent, releasing customers from proprietary constraints and thereby significantly increasing productivity and ROI. Tedial’s NAB 2011 product launches include:

Ficus (BPM)—The Its latest enhancements to the BPM (business process manager) include control by multiple operators distributed across different geographical locations and Web interface featuring customizable work orders for each step of the production workflow. Ficus’ grid computing now supports the management of over 3,500 workflows a day.

Media Process Manager (MPM)—The enterprise integration system MPM is based on layered logic. The latest version supports the execution of conditional operations in a workflow. MPM now automatically detects the aspect ratio of a video file that it is processing and is also able to handle video files with multiple audio tracks. Tedial’s integration with Avid now supports ingesting and editing metadata directly into Avid Interplay using the Tedial Capture client. It can also move media and metadata to and from Interplay either automatically or manually performing any required rewrapping “on the fly.” This provides one of the market’s tightest integrations with the Avid world.

Tarsys—This MAM system features integrated HSM software. The latest version is based on object-relational database management technology, which allows the creation of dedicated database models for special events or production areas in an organization. Users can create metadata fields relevant to their own unique requirements—for special events, for example—rather than being restricted by generic fields. It also allows the linking of databases that are traditionally incompatible (e.g., automation, traffic, news, video servers, HSM and MAM) thereby harnessing their combined potential. Tedial will also launch Tarsys’ new Web client at the show.

Capture—The latest version of Tedial’s ingest manager application, Capture, includes simultaneous control of multiple ingest channels from the same client. For live ingest, Capture now allows operators to directly perform media logging and segmentation online using low-res proxy copies.