Xchange for iPad Makes European Debut – Enabling Offline Media Asset Management and Rough-Cut Editing

MIAMI — Aug. 27, 2013 — Primestream(R) today announced FORK(TM) Xchange(TM) Suite v2.5, the latest version of its companion application for the FORK media asset management and automation platform. FORK Xchange Suite gives broadcasters instant cloud access to content on their FORK Production(TM) servers from any Windows(R), Mac(R), or tablet device. The latest version contains the new Xchange Shot List Editor add-on module for creating “rough-cuts” as well as the optional Xchange for iPad(R) offline media asset management (MAM) tool, an industry-first professional native iOS application making its European debut at IBC2013.

“We’re continually evolving our products and technology so that we can offer new ways to help our customers work more efficiently, especially in today’s fast-paced, on-the-go, need-it-now work environments. Now, if you can access a computer or tablet, you can access FORK. And if you’re in FORK, you can control your entire operation,” said Claudio Lisman, Primestream president and CEO. “Our Xchange Suite, especially when used with the new iOS application, is an organization-wide solution for managing, sharing, and reviewing a company’s media. With its highly scalable back end, CDN-ready platform, and API-based open architecture, Xchange is positioned to handle the most dynamic and complex workflows in the industry.”

Xchange Shot List Editor is a new add-on module that gives editors a fast and nimble way to edit proxy content that lives inside the FORK environment using Xchange for Web or iOS. An intuitive visual interface allows any user to start editing clips, subclips, voiceovers, and content with various frame rates within minutes. Users can also create subclips and markers, add metadata, and work with multitrack audio and frame-accurate video.

The Xchange for iPad application allows producers and editors to browse, edit metadata, and create annotations on content while disconnected from their production environments. When connectivity is restored, modifications are instantly synchronized directly to the original assets in the production environment.

With Xchange for Web and iPad, professionals get a user-friendly, cloud-based MAM that allows for searching, viewing, editing, managing, triggering automation, and archiving media from anywhere back to their ground operations. The tools extend access to content for producers and journalists, resulting in better stories and a better end product for viewers.

Facilities that use Xchange Suite and Xchange for iPad benefit from:
*Seamless hybrid cloud/ground workflows that connect all technologies
*Highly scalable and CDN-ready platform with an API-based open architecture
*Actions Monitor for detailed tracking of actions throughout the facility workflow
*Improved communication and resolution of process requests
*A global view of the tasks and processes that are underway
*Ability to manage thousands of users across multiple departments, roles, and privilege levels
*Powerful security enhancements such as token-based authentication, a dedicated API for streaming URLs, time-limited temporary URLs, hash-encrypted URLs, and session-based crosschecking for protecting and securing assets from unwanted intervention
*Integration with popular media technologies such as Telestream(R), Quantum(R), Harmonic(R), Cisco(R) Unified Computing System (UCS) server, Adobe(R) Premiere Pro, Apple(R) Final Cut Pro(R) 7 and Final Cut Pro X, and Avid(R) Media Composer(R)

Primestream’s Xchange solution has proven itself by delivering more than 20,000 hours of programming amounting to more than 85,000 assets for industry-leading media organizations. Xchange offers broadcast, government, entertainment, and corporate markets complete control and unmatched portability over production workflows — whether creating news packages, logging reality TV footage, editing, or sending video for review and approval. Xchange seamlessly integrates with FORK’s Media Asset Management environment, allowing producers and editors to work collaboratively both inside the production facility or while on the road.

Primestream will demonstrate FORK Xchange Suite 2.5 and Xchange 1.0 for iPad at IBC2013 on stand 7.D21. Xchange for iPad 1.0 is available now, and Xchange Suite 2.5 will be available in the fourth quarter.

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About Primestream
Primestream(R), a leader in advanced media asset management and broadcast automation software, offers a seamless end-to-end platform for digital acquisition of live and file-based video content, media asset management, editing, logging, control room and master control playback, smartphone and tablet video contribution, publishing to the Web, and dynamic archiving. The company’s portfolio includes the FORK(TM) suite of applications, as well as Mobile2Air(R), ControlStation(TM), DIG-IT(TM) and Xchange(TM) Suite. Deployed in more than 300 broadcast operations across 40 countries, Primestream’s proven solutions are implemented by some of the world’s leading broadcasters, uplink services providers, digital media operations, and production/postproduction facilities. More information is available at www.primestream.com.

Photo Link: www.wallstcom.com/Primestream/FORKXchange2.5.zip

ELIZABETHTOWN, Pennsylvania – A small liberal arts college looking to upgrade the audio system for its 844-seat performance space recently took a huge leap forward with HARMAN’s Soundcraft Vi1 mixing console. Having established the Vi series as a favorite digital desk for touring and installed sound applications, Soundcraft developed the Vi1 for small to mid-size venues like the one at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania.

Barry Fritz, Technical Operations Director for the college, explained how the school uses the venues for a variety of events, including theatrical productions, musicals, college orchestra performances, worship, Christmas events, weddings and national chamber music acts. “Each year the number of events and their complexity keeps increasing, so purchasing the Vi1 has been on the long-term to-do list for a while,” Fritz said.

It is not surprising to see Fritz choosing the Vi1 as the college’s main mixing solution to alleviate the growing strain on the technical staff. While it retains a small form factor, it is packed with an impressive selection of features that one can also find in larger Soundcraft models such as the Vi4 and Vi6. For example, the Vistonics II™ interface is greatly appreciated among mixers in the professional audio industry and is an outstanding feature of the Vi1 console. Furthermore, it maintains a complete console package with 32 channels of analog input to 27 analog outputs.

“Having the analog inputs is a nice feature, plus the stagebox we purchased bridges the gap between digital snake and analog,” Fritz said. “I also love always having the channel displays there. With our old console, we never had enough outputs; now I have more than I know what to do with!”

Spanning only just over a meter wide, the Vi1 includes 16 motorized channel faders with fixed and user-definable layers, eight output/VCA faders and two master faders. More importantly, as a digital console, the Vi1 allows for both massive customization and recallable settings.

“We do have a lot of groups that repeat throughout the year, so it’s nice to be able to recall the cues from our previously saved projects; having that flexibility makes it a lot easier,” Fritz concluded.

Photo Caption: Ginette Slaughter and Ryan Carson, student event technicians at Elizabethtown College.

HARMAN (www.HARMAN.com) designs, manufactures, and markets a wide range of infotainment and audio solutions for the automotive, consumer, and professional markets. It is a recognized world leader across its customer segments with premium brands including AKG®, Harman Kardon®, Infinity®, JBL®, Lexicon®, and Mark Levinson® and leading-edge connectivity, safety and audio technologies. The company is admired by audiophiles across multiple generations and supports leading professional entertainers and the venues where they perform. More than 25 million automobiles on the road today are equipped with HARMAN audio and infotainment systems. HARMAN has a workforce of about 14,000 people across the Americas, Europe, and Asia and reported sales of $4.3 billion for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2013.

Xchange for iPad Makes European Debut – Enabling Offline Media Asset Management and Rough-Cut Editing

MIAMI — Aug. 27, 2013 — Primestream(R) today announced FORK(TM) Xchange(TM) Suite v2.5, the latest version of its companion application for the FORK media asset management and automation platform. FORK Xchange Suite gives broadcasters instant cloud access to content on their FORK Production(TM) servers from any Windows(R), Mac(R), or tablet device. The latest version contains the new Xchange Shot List Editor add-on module for creating “rough-cuts” as well as the optional Xchange for iPad(R) offline media asset management (MAM) tool, an industry-first professional native iOS application making its European debut at IBC2013.

“We’re continually evolving our products and technology so that we can offer new ways to help our customers work more efficiently, especially in today’s fast-paced, on-the-go, need-it-now work environments. Now, if you can access a computer or tablet, you can access FORK. And if you’re in FORK, you can control your entire operation,” said Claudio Lisman, Primestream president and CEO. “Our Xchange Suite, especially when used with the new iOS application, is an organization-wide solution for managing, sharing, and reviewing a company’s media. With its highly scalable back end, CDN-ready platform, and API-based open architecture, Xchange is positioned to handle the most dynamic and complex workflows in the industry.”

Xchange Shot List Editor is a new add-on module that gives editors a fast and nimble way to edit proxy content that lives inside the FORK environment using Xchange for Web or iOS. An intuitive visual interface allows any user to start editing clips, subclips, voiceovers, and content with various frame rates within minutes. Users can also create subclips and markers, add metadata, and work with multitrack audio and frame-accurate video.

The Xchange for iPad application allows producers and editors to browse, edit metadata, and create annotations on content while disconnected from their production environments. When connectivity is restored, modifications are instantly synchronized directly to the original assets in the production environment.

With Xchange for Web and iPad, professionals get a user-friendly, cloud-based MAM that allows for searching, viewing, editing, managing, triggering automation, and archiving media from anywhere back to their ground operations. The tools extend access to content for producers and journalists, resulting in better stories and a better end product for viewers.

Facilities that use Xchange Suite and Xchange for iPad benefit from:
*Seamless hybrid cloud/ground workflows that connect all technologies
*Highly scalable and CDN-ready platform with an API-based open architecture
*Actions Monitor for detailed tracking of actions throughout the facility workflow
*Improved communication and resolution of process requests
*A global view of the tasks and processes that are underway
*Ability to manage thousands of users across multiple departments, roles, and privilege levels
*Powerful security enhancements such as token-based authentication, a dedicated API for streaming URLs, time-limited temporary URLs, hash-encrypted URLs, and session-based crosschecking for protecting and securing assets from unwanted intervention
*Integration with popular media technologies such as Telestream(R), Quantum(R), Harmonic(R), Cisco(R) Unified Computing System (UCS) server, Adobe(R) Premiere Pro, Apple(R) Final Cut Pro(R) 7 and Final Cut Pro X, and Avid(R) Media Composer(R)

Primestream’s Xchange solution has proven itself by delivering more than 20,000 hours of programming amounting to more than 85,000 assets for industry-leading media organizations. Xchange offers broadcast, government, entertainment, and corporate markets complete control and unmatched portability over production workflows — whether creating news packages, logging reality TV footage, editing, or sending video for review and approval. Xchange seamlessly integrates with FORK’s Media Asset Management environment, allowing producers and editors to work collaboratively both inside the production facility or while on the road.

Primestream will demonstrate FORK Xchange Suite 2.5 and Xchange 1.0 for iPad at IBC2013 on stand 7.D21. Xchange for iPad 1.0 is available now, and Xchange Suite 2.5 will be available in the fourth quarter.

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About Primestream
Primestream(R), a leader in advanced media asset management and broadcast automation software, offers a seamless end-to-end platform for digital acquisition of live and file-based video content, media asset management, editing, logging, control room and master control playback, smartphone and tablet video contribution, publishing to the Web, and dynamic archiving. The company’s portfolio includes the FORK(TM) suite of applications, as well as Mobile2Air(R), ControlStation(TM), DIG-IT(TM) and Xchange(TM) Suite. Deployed in more than 300 broadcast operations across 40 countries, Primestream’s proven solutions are implemented by some of the world’s leading broadcasters, uplink services providers, digital media operations, and production/postproduction facilities. More information is available at www.primestream.com.

Photo Link: www.wallstcom.com/Primestream/FORKXchange2.5.zip