Description

Sofia Backstage® Playout Manager products are powerful tools for managing broadcast content and on-screen interactions. Playout Manager is built upon an award-winning product for managing the program chart and scheduling the content using calendar based views. It allows operators to schedule the TV channel content including interactive applications, commercials and infotainment.

Playout Manager Pro is targeted mainly for content owners who want to create some interactivity on top of their TV programming.

Playout Manager Pro includes all the video broadcasting and channel management features that comes with the Playout Manager Lite plus more advanced interactive features that allow interactive programming such as TV chats, voting, newstickers, SMS TV Games, etc.

Features table

Product features

Feature Name	Playout Manager Lite	Playout Manager Pro
Upload files to server	X	X
Add and edit video metadata such as Type, Id, Artist, Song and Aspect Ratio	X	X
Playout Status, View currently playing video’s Meta Id, Artist name, Song name, start time, progress, remaining time and total duration	X	X
Live video control, start next video, select next video / playlist	X	X
Character generation, right to left crawls/tickers from RSS-news feeds etc. Up to 2 simultaneous		X
Character generation, Start and end titles for music videos. Song and artist names from meta data are shown in the beginning and at the end of video music. Animated backgrounds available with Flash.		X
Animated channel logos using Flash, up to 2 simultaneous		X
Channel logos using PNG/JPEG, up to 5 simultaneous	X	X
1 SDI Video Input (NTSC and PAL)		X
1 HDMI / SDI Video Output (NTSC and PAL)	X	X
SMS interactivity	X	X
Video Formats mpeg2 / mpeg4. Additional support can be added by installing the correct codecs	X	X
Video Battle, users can vote the next music video from 4 choices		X
Lower 3rd SMS-chat over video playout		X
Full screen SMS/MMS Chat	X	X
Moderator tool for incoming SMS/MMS messages	X	X
Hosted Music Video application, full screen video playout and hosted live video presentations from studio (with SDI-input)		X
Create and manage video playlists	X	X
Character generation, switch graphics groups and objects on/off independently (for example automatically turn off crawls/tickers and/or logos over videos with type “ads”)	X	X
Schedule the playout of videos and video playlists for years ahead	X	X

Server options

Playout Manager Lite Software

No hardware included, this is a download only package.

Playout Manager Lite PC

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Playout Manager Lite Server

Server backbone is HP DL380
Including: 1* HP 146GB 10K SAS 2.5 HOT PLUG HDD RENEW
Including: 2* CLUB 3D HD 3650 PCIE 512MB DDR2 2X DVI-I (or later models HD 4XXX)
Including: HP PCI-X/PCI-E NHP DL380G5 RISER

Other options

Encoder

AVN-200
S-Video input encoded into mpeg-2 stream
Bit rates from 1.2Mbps (1.6Mbps with audio) up to 7.5Mbps
Supports unicast and multicast, including IGMP Snooping
http://www.stream-video.com/AVN200.htm

Streaming Output

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Video output

SDI-out with Blackmagic Design's HDMI to SDI miniconverter
Supports PAL and NTSC
Embedded audio in SDI-out
http://www.blackmagic-design.com/products/miniconverters/

Showcases

Examples

SBS Voice TV

Animated logo and song title/artist
Features: live studio input, playout automation, overlay ticker (with XML feed), graphic insertion (animated logos and song title/artist), clock/time