Kompas TV opts for GV Stratus solution
Published: ASIA
INDONESIA: Regional broadcaster Kompas TV has announced the selection of Grass Valley’s GV Stratus non-linear media production tools as part of its recently completed newsroom upgrade. The broadcaster was seeking a more reliable system capable of providing faster turnaround times.
Kompas TV has had to recently upgrade its newsroom as the scale of its news and sports production at the channel has increased from three to more than eight hours per day. GV Stratus was selected primarily because it features shared storage that allows the company to utilise collaborative workflows for a faster news turnaround. GV Stratus will be used in tandem with its existing K2 Summit 3G production client, K2 San production storage and Edius Elite multi-format non-linear editing software, to provide editing functionality across all its newsroom operations.
‘GV Stratus allows us to work in a truly non-linear fashion,’ explained Harya Pratama, VP of technology for Kompas TV. ‘We now have a new working area for ingest and archive purposes so that all users can have access at the same time soon after our ingest process begins. Plus, the open nature of GV Stratus allows integration with our existing newsroom computer system, ENPS, which is a huge benefit to us.’
As well as fast turnaround times, the GV Stratus system allows for a ‘create once, publish everywhere’ workflow by providing Kompas TV staff with new tools for ingest, editing, content aggregation, logging, transfer and play-out.
A key benefit of GV Stratus for the Kompas team was its full compatibility with the MOS protocol, allowing it to interface with, and take programming instructions from most newsroom computer systems including ENPS, iNEWS, and Octopus. GV Stratus also provides users a choice of mainstream craft editors – Grass Valley EDIUS, Apple Final Cut Pro 7, Adobe Premiere, and Avid Media Composer.
‘The newsroom market in the Asia Pacific region is very important to Grass Valley and we’re pleased to supply Kompas TV with our GV Stratus solution to help with their increased news production workload,” commented Stephen Wong, Senior Vice President of Asia Pacific, Grass Valley. “We’re especially excited to show broadcasters in the region how GV Stratus can meet the growing challenge of investing in technology for the future while maximising efficiencies, especially when coupled with existing newsroom systems, to fully maximise the value of their technology investments.’