Asia-Pacific Broadcasting (APB) May/June 2016 Volume 33, Issue 4 | Page 37

MANAGEMENT May-June 2016 VSN presents enhanced VSNEXPLORER The VSNEXPLORER media management soft- ware solution suite, which comprises Media Asset Management (MAM), Production Asset Management (PAM), Business Process Management (BPM) and Business Intelligence (BI) modules, is now integrated with Microsoft Azure Media Services. Some of the new services arising from this integration include automatic subtitle creation (speech-to-text), translation in multiple languages, blurring of faces and auto-cataloguing, among others. Through the integration with Microsoft Azure, a new fingerprinting functionality has also been developed for VSNEXPLORER. The new feature allows users to recognise and con- trol content only by their audio elements, in order to ensure that the content being broadcasted is the correct one. Each file has a unique identity based on its fingerprint content, allowing the system to compare and contrast the broadcasted content with the one archived in the user’s own database, so as to ensure that content has been broadcasted when and how it was expected. A new integration with Avid Media Composer also allows the VSNEXPLORER media management suite to download a hotlist in a compatible format with Media Composer (an .aaf EDL file that contains all the hotlists’ cuts). The Edit Decision List (EDL) is a relation that indicates the media file, hour, minute, second and the frame of all points that have been selected to start and finish every take of a video editing. The inte- gration with the Avid EDLs allows VSN users to manage all their materials in an enhanced way, and to use their modules with all the products developed and launched by Avid. Manuel Escribano, CTO of VSN, said: “Thanks to the integration ... we are tak- ing one step further, in order to count on a system as open, flexible and safe as possible, so that users can manage their media with the latest innovations avail- able in the market.” At 2016 NAB Show, VSN demonstrated the capabilities offered by the integration of the VSNEXPLORER media management software solution suite with Microsoft Azure Media Services. Enabling end-to-end programmatic advertising TubeMogul, which offers an enterprise soft- ware platform for digital video advertising, is now integrated with SintecMedia’s OnBoard, a next-generation marketplace for TV and digital advertising sales. OnBoard fully integrates with Sintec­ Media’s sales and traffic systems with TubeMogul PTV, providing TV broadcasters and cable networks streamlined access to demand from the world’s leading brands and media agencies. Amir Lavi, president of SintecMedia Americas, said: “SintecMedia is the system of choice of sales and traffic for the leading cable networks in the US, and TubeMogul is the leading software platform that auto- mates the planning and buying of broadcast TV advertising. “This integration will provide Sintec ­ Media’s clients a better view of demand, and ensure they are maximising their inventory in a private marketplace that is 100% integrated with their sales and traffic systems.” Part of SintecMedia’s sales and traffic solu- tions, OnBoard provides TV broadcasters and cable networks with an automated platform purpose-built to scale demand and maximise yield. Through an API-level integration with the content provider’s TV inventory manage- ment and ad insertion systems, marketers can obtain updated inventory forecasts and execute broadcast TV ad buys, leveraging enhanced targeting and optimisation tactics from within TubeMogul’s software platform. OnBoard’s integration with broadcasters’ traffic and sales systems automates the entire transaction, including scheduling, rights man- agement, placement and execution of the buy. See us at CommunicAsia 2016 31 May to 3 June 2016