Craig Russillroy
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Hi Bouke
It took our company years and years to develop and integrate with all of the broadcasters – and me supplying that information would impact on our core business to the broadcasters 😉
Adstream London, England
4 x Mac Pros, FCP7, 4 x Flip Factories, 35 x Rhozet Carbon Coders, Offices Globally
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Hi There
I have found that Episode does a MUCH better downscale then Rhozet and Flip os much that we use this exclusively in our Spanish office – as for HD to HD the top 3 I have mentioned are very similare as Episode 5 used the Main Concept Codecs for H.264 and MPEg Epside 6 uses FFMpeg Codecs … Rhozet mow bought by Harmonic is an obvious choice if you want OMNEON files …
Adstream London, England
4 x Mac Pros, FCP7, 4 x Flip Factories, 35 x Rhozet Carbon Coders, Offices Globally
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Great question, unfortunatly i dont have a short answer 😉
Let me explain what we do- our goal is to offer a delivery system with multiple tools for the agency and broadcaster -we use both flip and rhozet at a API level and drive them via XML and also watch folders – they both need to deliver to platforms and ftps.
We do around 1 million commercials are for each of those commercials they need to go to Broadcasters and delivery platforms so it is into the millions, globally.
In 2000 we started with flip as it was the ‘groen up’ of transcoders back then and came with the price tag to match – the main issue with flip was you paid per codec, so yu want MPEG422 thats £2500, you want MXF, that’s another £2500 and so on – it can come to 70k all up.
The benefit for flip back then was also the API integration and support – flip is a great product and it can serve so much for your needs, we still use flip today and with the ProresHQ encoding on a PC platform it is very attractive to us – we have just installed to FLIP HD PRO – this has lots of broadcaster plugins and tools to tailor to their needs, there is Vantage which is a more GUI experience then flip but has the bare bones code of flip just with a sexy front end – great for creating workflows
Episode – is basically awesome, the 3 models – episode – episode pro and engine, engine is the fastest encoder i have seen and now with API and XML intergration is very attractive to us – with a price tag of 4kUS WITH ALL THE CODECS it is a no brainer, it is multithreading and is super quick.
Rhozet, we went with this cause we needed to install al LOT of these and it came with all the codecs onboard for a great price, that model is changing – they have a server version to farm out jobs, as does flip – it doesn’t allow you to send to a ftp – which baffles me – you can via XML coding but for a simple – pick up here and drop there – it only can read a ftp but needs to drop to a local network – I believe Rhozet(now bought buy OMNEON) are looking at a different pricing structure or support plan that is not interesting to us – due to the massive volume of LIC we have in the field.
So it really depends on your volumes of files and what you need to do with them, I am seeing more and more people in North America sending direct to Broadcasters – this doesn’t work in Europe and ASIA as the broadcaster require a XML to be imported into their automation system and also there are so many suppliers int eh USA/Canada TV stations are trying to filter down the suppliers, we use 3rd Party people in USA/Canada – Extreme Reach is really good.
So what do I like best – I love flip but it is very restricted on changing things which is good or bad depending on how you look at it – Rhozet is good but the output is what you need to see is important to you – neither export to Viemo – you tube etc – Episode for my eyes is the best bang for buck – Engine is truely amaing and placed on a fast server this would do any ones needs – when you download the traial it is the Engine version – so beware – when you purchase the PRO it only does 2 at a time – the Episode Basic does 1.
So what are you doing for trans-coding ?
Adstream London, England
4 x Mac Pros, FCP7, 4 x Flip Factories, 35 x Rhozet Carbon Coders, Offices Globally
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hi Mate
Have you looked at the products ?
Has 8 Channels and a phase metre …
https://www.blackmagic-design.com/products/ultrascope/software/
Adstream London, England
4 x Mac Pros, FCP7, 4 x Flip Factories, 35 x Rhozet Carbon Coders, Offices Globally
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Hi Patrice,
Yep thats the plan – get the min requirements on the PC – Hang a LED 40-50inch off and have it as a monitor station – the good thing at my job is it is not client attend but what this shows is it can be adopted to each seat f need be – this allows us to use the Micro Videohub with the ethernet software and you are ready to go – what i did forget the mention was the storage .. Schoolboy error
Promise Pegasus R4 4TB (4x1TB) RAID System
per suite – all thunderbolt – Loop through.
Adstream London, England
4 x Mac Pros, FCP7, 4 x Flip Factories, 35 x Rhozet Carbon Coders, Offices Globally
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Sorry Guys – more info …
IMAC -> thunder out -> SDI OUT 1 to UltraScope SDI 2 out SmartView 17In or
IMAC -> thunder out -> SDI OUT 1 -> SmartView 17Inch -> SDi IN – SDI Out LOOP -> UltraScope
RS422 will be done with the breakaway and a Micro Videohub for switching if need be …. oh yeah a cheap PC with the correct graphics Card – All can be done with the best reseller in London NMR.com
I am astonished on what can be done now …
Adstream London, England
4 x Mac Pros, FCP7, 4 x Flip Factories, 35 x Rhozet Carbon Coders, Offices Globally
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Very simple -)
IMAC -> Thunderbolt -> UltraStudio 3D – > SDI OUT -> Blackmagic UltraScope SDI IN
Adstream London, England
4 x Mac Pros, FCP7, 4 x Flip Factories, 35 x Rhozet Carbon Coders, Offices Globally
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No worries – if you need anything in the future I am here to help 😉
Adstream London, England
4 x Mac Pros, FCP7, 4 x Flip Factories, 35 x Rhozet Carbon Coders, Offices Globally
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Hi Jeremy,
Your right we have a variety of deliverable codecs and we have to send material all around the world – what the issue here (UK) is the Broadcasters are not receiving HD Commercial Content from us and other suppliers – there is a whole lot of issues with the coding of material (ISCI/SLATE Duration) and we have been active over the past 24 months working with the Broadcasters on this.
The Specs you have pointed out (I did them) are for our SD delivery Chain and as we are aware DNxHD is a HD only Codec, in the coming weeks we are hopeful the UK industry will be ready for the HD deliverable and this will include
MPEG2 422 100i Transport Stream
DNxHD 185 1080i
ProresHQ
and MXFthe main challenged we have is the multiple audio channels – not only the 7.1 but different languages for the European sector.
As Adstream is a complete global company we need to tread carefully into all regions so we have formality in all of our offices, I am currently working out of our Madrid office, after spending 3 months in our Miami office looking at LatAm and European roadmaps for HD.
When it comes to the deliverable of material to Adstream there are a few factors that we need to look out for;
Closed Caption / teletext
HD – 1920×1080 no Progressive at this stage BUT Japan are looking at adopting this
SD requires to be 720×608 / 720 x 512 (VBI) for all the mPEG2 4:2:2
Correct audio configuration – USA use wall to wall but UK requires mute 12 frames at top and tail and also require a 10 sec freeze at the endI can bore you all with this but we are here to help you all!!!
The White Pages don’t specify AVID Merdian but we accept that and we also receive Digital Betacams still – so if you are working on Vegas, Premiere, FCP, FCPX, AVID, Flame – smoke we are here to help for FREE 😉
Adstream London, England
4 x Mac Pros, FCP7, 4 x Flip Factories, 35 x Rhozet Carbon Coders, Offices Globally
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Hey Ben !
Happy to chat to you on your requirements – we mention ProresHQ on our delivery spec but work hard on integrating with you.
I have been at Adstream for 10 years now and we have seen a lot of codecs come and go – coming from a Post Production background myself I am always keen to test technologies, but on the other hand we need to rope in all the codecs we accept or our tech specs would be 1000s of pages !
As Adstream has 40 offices around the world what neck of the world are you in ?
Adstream London, England
4 x Mac Pros, FCP7, 4 x Flip Factories, 35 x Rhozet Carbon Coders, Offices Globally