MDR chose ClipJOCKEY - S4M’s studio production tool to be implemented at German Public Broadcaster

(S4M) Las Vegas/ Cologne, April 22, 2009 - During NAB in Las Vegas, German public broadcaster “Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk” (MDR) opted for a campus licence of S4M’s ClipJOCKEY System.The studio production tool covers all workflows in TV control rooms and is supposed to be applied to all sites of “Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk”.

MDR has used S4M’s Video Production Management System (VPMS) since 2003. Amongst other things VPMS controls video capture and manages the complete HiRes storage for high resolution broadcast quality video. Hitherto, the module “Playout Control” was applied in order to pilot the processes in control rooms; now it will be replaced by the new ClipJOCKEY solution. ClipJOCKEY supports the daily processes carried out in TV control rooms, allows to work throughout within a file-based environment and offers MDR’s users a variety of new features and functions.

For instance, the system supports all MDR server platforms (Omneon, Grass Valley K2), administers several active playlists simultaneously, provides a time-delayed playout of video material while it is still recorded (playout while record) and it enables to import ingest lists in different formats (ALE, EDL).

In addition the pre-production of magazines can be accomplished without tapes. Especially to that end, S4M has developed the “add-on mode” offering the same comfort that was hitherto only possible in a tape-based context. A multi channel link feature also supports key-fill applications and multi camera productions.

In a first step ClipJOCKEY will be installed in the HD- ready control room 1 in Leipzig. MDR will use this location to provide the 2010 Winter Olympics’ program for Germany’s public broadcaster consortium “ARD”. As soon as MDR’s main office in Leipzig is equipped with the system, the regional broadcasting studios in Dresden, Magdeburg and Erfurt including the “ARD/ZDF Kinderkanal” (kids channel) are supposed to employ ClipJOCKEY as well.

S4M – Solutions for Media GmbH
The Cologne based company S4M – Solutions for Media, a subsidiary of arvato systems and RTL Television, develops and distributes software solutions specialized on the broadcast- and newmedia industry. Today, S4M systems are used in 30 countries around the world. Whether commercial air time sales or video content management; whether program planning, rights licensing, ratings evaluation or production planning: S4M has got the solution. Furthermore, the S4M portfolio includes professional consulting services to pass along combined knowledge of media and IT to customers.

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