Sparrowhawk Turns To Pro-Bel To Solve Multichannel Audio Automation Challenge
Melville, NY, US - November 11 2007: Sparrowhawk Broadcast Services (SHBS), the playout and transmission service specialists based in Englewood, Colorado, has turned to Pro-Bel in its pursuit of increased multi-channel audio efficiency for a new Master Control facility.
Challenged with providing up to 16 channels of audio on a single transmission path, SHBS took the opportunity to design a brand new Master Control facility using the latest technology. The aim was to be able to receive, store and re-transmit single video channels with up to 16 separate audio channels, depending on which international region the content is being sent to.
Brett Pierce, SHBS’s Director of Engineering, explains: “With our old system this was accomplished by storing a separate copy of the video content with each different audio version. This was obviously a very inefficient method as the video takes up a huge amount of storage. Now we can ingest and store multiple audios for just one video.”
SHBS has installed a four-channel Pro-Bel Morpheus automation and media management system, with one channel - KidsCo - now being played out from the system. Three more are scheduled to be added shortly. KidsCo has multiple language versions including English, Hungarian, Russian and Polish all using the same video content. SHBS is also using Sirius routing technology from Pro-Bel.
“We selected Pro-Bel’s Morpheus for many reasons: flexibility, support, the overall architecture as well as vendor integrations. However, it was the company’s willingness and ability to quickly develop an Omneon Spectrum Audio Track Tagging API that really attracted our attention,” adds Pierce.
Neil Maycock, President of Pro-Bel Americas, comments: “Pro-Bel has actively pursued a path of integration with other leading industry players, as we are fully aware of how important this is given the complexity of modern installations. We work closely with multiple vendors to help customers save both time and expense, and we are very pleased to be working with Sparrowhawk on this project.”
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Katharine Guy
Pro-Bel Ltd
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katharine.guy@pro-bel.com
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Manor Marketing
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