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www.solid-state-logic.com Media Production Management System www.solid-state-logic.com Acquisition Preparation Production Monitoring Management Gravity. This is SSL. What is Gravity? The Gravity™ Media Production Management System provides an unparalleled software based solution to the problem of managing increasing amounts and different formats of video in the production process. It is targeted at a variety of users including newscasters, sportscasters and other commercial media operations that need to produce more and/or better content while improving both their publishing speed and their final product. What makes Gravity different? • Gravity improves your workflow process, quality, and speed to air. • Gravity supports HD/SD/WEB, 4:3 & 16:9 and all reside on the same timeline. • Gravity provides multiple live feed ingest and system monitoring over IP. • Gravity enables live editing of incoming feeds within 2 seconds of the start of ingest. • Gravity supports simultaneously publishing in multiple bit rates ranging from streaming media to High Definition. • Gravity is networkable and supports standard web browser access. • Gravity enables remote media production with encoders, storage and decoders located on wide area IP-based networks. • Gravity software is modular and scalable and may be configured to suit your needs. • Gravity uses standard PC servers and networking hardware. www.solid-state-logic.com Gravity is a complete Media Production Management System, offering tools for Content Acquisition, Preparation, Production, Media Management and Monitoring. It features a stream-based, format independent media engine for encoding, cataloguing, indexing, editing and distribution with local or remote access to media via an icon based user interface. Our system uses the latest software and hardware technologies to provide a format and compression independent platform. This flexibility allows users to work in any format, HD, SD or low bit rate streaming media, including mixing multiple resolutions simultaneously. Our TCP/IP based system uses an industry standard SQL database to store content information, including user-added metadata. Gravity provides users the reliability of fully redundant hardware elements and multiple network links to remote sites. What How Who Gravity is a complete content acquisition, Employing the latest .NET, SQL, XML and MOS Solid State Logic customises these components to management and distribution solution providing all technologies, Gravity offers the speed and flexibility meet the specific workflow requirements of our the encoding and transcoding tools required for fast to operate in a wide variety of environments. Multiple clients. Our engineering team has been at the package production to any of today’s media formats and aspect ratios can be used throughout the forefront of computer-based networked video platforms. These software components can be system and users can create specific output files on solutions for more than 15 years. SSL’s software team combined in various quantities or locations across a demand for a specific transmission platform. The has been responsible for some of the main LAN or WAN network, including our MPLS IP network powerful transcoding engine is available at any time. developments in broadcast technology which has to meet the needs of any broadcast or content Our encoders can create up to three separate formats earned them three Emmys and a Technical OSCAR distribution system. simultaneously for use across the network so that no for their achievements in these fields. time is wasted – a proxy copy is generated for all material automatically, in real time, during capture and any modification automatically conforms the high resolution to it. And, it’s fast: there is no rendering time within Gravity. Gravity. This is SSL. www.solid-state-logic.com Asset Manager PPT The Gravity Asset Manager software provides an overview of the entire system and control of the media processes. From this central area, users can monitor the flow of media via the ingest encoders, viewing multiple motion video windows per instance and access a comprehensive suite of content management tools such as the Scheduler, Media Manager, System Monitor and Metadata management. Programme managers and editors can highlight and bookmark material for viewing, editing, searching, logging, and assigning material and projects to teams or individuals. The Gravity Package Production Tool (PPT) is an intuitive but feature rich video editor that has been designed for fastpaced environments such as breaking news. The PPT GUI layout provides a multi-window display that is fully customisable for each user and provides mixed format timeline video and audio editing. The PPT is packed with a comprehensive set of editing, browse, search and monitoring tools and allows the user to edit HD / SD, 4:3 / 16:9 simultaneously on the same timeline. Media is available for edit within 2 seconds of recording. Stories can be cut, published and played out while the system is still capturing/streaming the raw material. Additional information and metadata can then be added. Format information is tracked per clip which provides the transcoder with the correct sizing information for aspect ratio conversion upon completion. Scheduler Encoder & Decoder The Gravity Scheduler provides a streamlined graphical interface for controlling encodes and decodes. The Gravity Scheduler allows the user to set up a series of timed events on a clear graphical timeline, offering a choice of crash, single, one time encodes or regular multiple recurring events. The user can lock resources and visually display and modify router control. The software allows for sorting and grouping of encoders as needed for better monitoring or prioritisation. Encoder creates multiple simultaneous stream files of the source content at three data rates. Gravity has been designed to operate in widely distributed environments by making use of multi-rate encoding techniques. Data rates are user selectable and are tuned to accommodate the desired balance between the number of simultaneous users, picture and sound quality and site bandwidth. By creating multiple data rate versions, users can create several formats for their varied network environments. Gravity allows users to install encoders and decoders at remote locations and automatically acquire and distribute video and audio content to central content servers where it is immediately available for use. Gravity. This is SSL. www.solid-state-logic.com Gravity. This is SSL. Content Server Web Browser The Gravity Content Server is a fully redundant, high availability media storage device. The server provides prioritised, managed media services for ingest and distribution. The Gravity server is a completely scalable system; by adding additional storage and/or Server Nodes to the cluster there is no set limit to the number of user stations that can be added. The Gravity Web Client is a scaled down version of the Gravity Asset Manager and PPT that runs within a standard Web Browser. The Web Client enables remote system access from literally any location using a standard PC with a high-speed internet connection, keeping your team productive no matter where they are. It provides all of the browse, search, sequencing and playback functionality a user needs to get a story to air. Data Server Studio Monitor Gravity data management relies on standard SQL relational database technology to store and retrieve metadata. This includes user metadata such as object ID, story name, bookmark information, notes, embargo and duration, as well as media metadata such as file name, size, location, codecs, track types, aspect ratio and frame rate. Internally, all Gravity components use XML as a data transport wherever possible. Direct SQL requests, are performed generically, enabling them to be vendor independent. Gravity is fully MOS compliant, with a unique MOS ID and Automatic Data Update functionality. Gravity Studio Monitor provides a fully configurable monitoring station that provides a clear visual overview of system activity. It allows the user to monitor multiple devices (encoders & decoders with audio levels) on a single screen. www.solid-state-logic.com NRCS (Newsroom) Newsroom MOS Interface Gravity Ingest Encoders Data Server Web Server Media Production Server System Overview SDI YUV RGB LAN A typical GRAVITY system consists of a central core comprised of multiple encoder, decoder, server, storage, system monitoring and production asset management tools. The core Multiple Output Resolutions Per Encoder system connects to multiple sites located nationally or globally via MediaWAN Backhaul (our private MPLS Network-based acquisition and distribution system) and the Remote Ingest/Output internet. As many remote sites as required Private MPLS Network can be added with the right combination of decode, transcode, server and encode Web Media Redundant Hi Resolution Storage capacity to suit the role of each site. Remote User Redundant Proxy Resolution Storage Output Decoders/ Transcoders SDI To playout automation system SDI User Workstations Web User Gravity. 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