Mediacorp chooses Dalet Media life for project ICE
Published: ASIA
SINGAPORE: Singapore national broadcaster MediaCorp has recently chosen Dalet Media Life as the enterprise MAM platform for the migration of its entire operation to a fully file-based workflow. TSL was awarded the contract for the integrated content-centric file-based exchange system (ICE) after an extensive tender process.
The first phase of this project will involve the integration of file-based systems with existing studios, video and audio post and transmission systems, in addition to the digitisation of MediaCorp’s 60,000-hour archive. The company expects to transmit all free-to-air-channels in HD digital format by December 2013 under the DVB-T2 television standard.
The Dalet Media Life solution will offer content lifecycle and workflow management within a fully integrated, SOA-based architecture to unify the many different IT and broadcast systems at MediaCorp’s Caldecott broadcast centre. The installation will also mean that MediaCorp will be able to leverage the investments already made in its existing systems, including the IBS traffic and playout system, Harris automation, EVS production and studio servers, amongst others.
‘Dalet is very pleased to have been selected by MediaCorp for this important project,’ commented Arnaud Elnecave, director of Asia Pacific, Dalet. ‘Our experience with MAM best practices in programme preparation, promo production, compliance editing, news library and archiving environments melds perfectly with the stringent requirements for MediaCorp’s broadcast and multiplatform production and distribution needs.’
‘We evaluated all the key players during our evaluation process and we were very impressed with Dalet’s expertise and with the flexibility of the Dalet offering,’ said Kelvin Ma, vice president, media technology, architecture and support at Media Corp Technologies. ‘Even during the pilot, we saw how easy it was to configure workflows and create metadata sets on the fly that exactly met our operational and data model requirements.
‘Dalet’s open architecture with SOA-based integration was particularly important, as it allows us to maximise our expenditures in existing systems while moving to this more flexible file-based workflow,’ he continued. ‘With all the content, metadata, and processes managed by the Dalet MAM, we expect to increase output and realise dramatic workflow improvements. We especially look forward to the second phase of the plan, when we will upgrade to the new Dalet Galaxy MAM platform with its powerful business process management capabilities, which will add even greater efficiencies to our operations.’
Dalet ingest tools will also be used for live feed scheduled ingest, Flexicart ingest, VTR crash recoding, dedicated P2 and XDCam imports, watch folder-based imports and web-client file uploads. Metadata exchanges and updates will be provided between several systems including the traffic planning and playout systems, and Over-the-Top (OTT) systems.