By Brian Galante
AMSTERDAM — The IBC conference’s 2024 event begins Friday and concludes Monday, and at the event ENCO will showcase how its automated video playout and live virtual production solutions offer an immediate return to air when master control and studio productions unexpectedly go dark.
At the conference, ENCO will demonstrate disaster recovery scenarios for these mission-critical TV operations featuring its ClipFire automated playout, Qimera virtual production and EN848 closed captioning encoder, highlighting how each provides “a seamless transition” to a parallel workflow in their respective use cases.
ClipFire allows a single operator to ingest, schedule, edit and deliver media from one unified platform. In disaster recovery mode, ClipFire runs continuously in the background, automatically synchronizing all existing playlists delivered through master control. It also imports traffic logs to ensure ad playout schedules are maintained and revenue streams are protected.
ENCO’s Qimera live virtual production system can similarly support disaster recovery for continuation of studio productions, including live news programming from remote virtual sets.”Qimera’s core server provides the engine to enable the powerful production capabilities and professional presentation qualities required for news and live studio productions on short notice, while also supporting advanced production elements including AR/VR/XR graphics,” ENCO says.
While the enCaption brand has become synonymous with the ENCO name in recent years, IBC marks the first time that ENCO will present the live captioning system as a disaster recovery option. The main reason? ENCO’s new EN-848 Closed Captioning Encoder can generate live captions from third-party sources and failover to its internal, on-premise enCaption engine, ensuring that captions continue to air.
ENCO will also demonstrate automatic failover from a cloud-based captioning service to a fully on-premise workflow for broadcasters.
IBC takes place Friday through Monday, September 16 at RAI Amsterdam. ENCO exhibits at Stand 8.C76.
