Management

Content Preparation

As the video landscape continues to shift toward anytime viewing on any device, operators must enhance the viewing experience and expand the types of on-demand assets to encompass not only the movies and TV shows generally available today, but also programming created for Web delivery and user-generated content.

Harmonic’s MediaPrism™ is a powerful suite of integrated content preparation tools ideal for creation of on-demand video assets from any source—tapes, DVD, live broadcast, Web or user-generated content. The MediaPrism suite brings together Harmonic’s CLEARcut™ offline storage encoding, LIVEcut™ scheduler, Rhozet™ Carbon Coder™ universal transcoding solution and Ingest Gateway to offer operators a powerful, unique and easy to manage solution for video-on-demand (VOD) content preparation.

Operators can mix and match from this portfolio to find the solution that meets their unique content preparation needs:

  • For offline content preparation Harmonic’s portfolio includes the CLEARcut™ offline Encoding studio, which utilizes Harmonic’s award winning DiviCom® Electra™ Encoders to achieve best video quality and minimal storage size.
  • LIVEcut™ offers an operator the ability to schedule, manage and control the live content to be ingested into the on-demand servers.
  • Harmonic’s Rhozet Carbon Coder is a universal transcoding application that facilitates the transfer of media between a variety of platforms, including acquisition, editing, playout, archive, the Internet and mobile devices
  • The Ingest Gateway is a simple and intuitive workflow system responsible for ingesting offline content from catchers or encoding stations, processing metadata, interacting with conditional access systems (CAS) and distributing the content to the on-demand servers.