Hope everyone travelled well and has recovered from a very interesting NAB 2016. We wanted to take the opportunity to highlight one of our star features recently released with GV STRATUS 4.5 and EDIUS 8, both with the low resolution (EDIUS XS) and high resolution (EDIUS Workgroup) flavours.
We prepared a video tutorial to walk you through this essential functionality... Enjoy!
Contact me for any questions: beatriz.alonso-martinez@grassvalley.com
So we made it to the last day of NAB 2016 and after a fantastic show so far, we wanted to close this series of posts with one of the most requested and useful new features on GV STRATUS 4.5, together with EDIUS 8: Project Management for EDIUS.
With this functionality, all EDIUS projects created when logged-on to GV STRATUS, are automatically checked-in to a new node on the GV STRATUS folder tree:
Once projects and sequences are part of the GV STRATUS directory, it is possible to search for them with GV STRATUS's powerful search capabilities. Users can open the project and review the sequence metadata on the GV STRATUS object inspector, and see the source clips being used on each sequence.
Further, as well as locating projects and sequences easily (in a busy facility this will save a lot of time navigating for content), sharing EDIUS projects via GV STRATUS allows users to open sequences that are being edited by other users and continue editing in their own project without affecting the original sequence. Equally, they can access other editor's projects (as read-only) and use their source material. These are excellent tools for collaborative workflows, where multiple users need to work on the same material (one editor may be preparing promos, another one is editing bumpers, and a third one is preparing the full edited programme, for example).
And there's more, GV STRATUS protects content from EDIUS projects from being deleted. For as long as source clips are still checked-in as part of an EDIUS project within GV STRATUS, they are protected against deletion until the project and sequence in question are removed from GV STRATUS.
This is just the first phase of our EDIUS Project Management capabilities within GV STRATUS. We will be adding further functionality on upcoming releases, so stay tuned for more announcements.
To see the EDIUS project management features in action, come and see us at the Grass Valley booth SL106. Here's a video preview:
Have a great last day of the show and safe travels onwards!
For questions or comments, contact beatriz.alonso-martinez@grassvalley.com
We're half-way through the show and with more news to uncover. We have been working closely with our partners at Anvato to offer you a tightly integrated solution for Digital Media Publishing using GV STRATUS.
One of the key strengths of GV STRATUS is its comprehensive rules and
workflow engine. Using rules to automate media delivery can dramatically
speed up your production. Combine this with a commitment to open
architecture that allows tight integration with third-party service providers,
and you can quickly and easily build new solutions for different applications.
By partnering with Anvato, you can significantly enhance your live streaming
and VOD capabilities by monetizing digital delivery.
Anvato provides a video software platform to TV broadcasters to monetize multiscreen live
streaming, video publishing and distribution.
First, GV STRATUS adds segment information to the MOS rundown using its MOS-based
segmentation template. Then, Grass Valley's Ignite automated production system inserts markers at
the beginning and end of each segment and into the SDI stream out of the K2 Summit.
This live stream is then fed into the cloud-based Anvato platform, where it can subsequently
be repurposed in a number of ways, including commercial insertion and replacement. Most
importantly, Anvato can read our segment markers to automatically publish to video-on-demand
(VOD), or even to Facebook or Twitter, without any further transcoding.
More details available here and of course, at the show floor, on the Grass Valley booth SL106. See you there!
Any questions? Contact beatriz.alonso-martinez@grassvalley.com
Hello NAB visitors... how are you enjoying the show so far? After an excellent first day, we are eager to meet you at our booth SL106 and give you a full demo of our latest GV STRATUS 4.5.
One of the new capabilities we are offering from this month is integration with Grass Valley's K2 Central TX high performance, shared storage for Production and Playout. Keep all your storage options flexible, from production to playout and benefit from the full range of GV STRATUS asset management and workflow tools.
Of course, you can edit-in-place on K2 Central with Grass Valley's non-linear editor, EDIUS, both in proxy and high resolution. All of the user permissions and metadata flexibility offered with GV STRATUS is now available with K2 Central TX.
And it is certainly possible to combine different types of K2 storage under the same GV STRATUS asset management system. You can have a K2 Central TX and a K2 SAN system, or, depending on your workflow, multiple K2 Solos and/or standalone storage Summits.
K2 Central TX is ideal for quick turn-around production and playout environments, including sports workflows. And now combined with the power of GV STRATUS, for example with the revamped Advanced Logging tool (on the left here) you can enjoy greater flexibility and better collaborative workflows.
Those who work in news can consider our newly-launched News Bundles that now include K2 Central TX as production and playout storage, with GV STRATUS and EDIUS , offering a neat, compact and highly affordable solution. More details here.
You can find out more about our K2 Central TX product range on our website. And of course, come and see it at NAB, booth SL106.
For any questions, contact: beatriz.alonso-martinez@grassvalley.com
Welcome to NAB 2016!! Day 1 is finally here and the show opens, with the Grass Valley booth ready to welcome our visitors and partners in the South Hall, booth SL106.
As well as showing GV STRATUS at our main booth, we happy to work for the second year running with our colleagues at SGL Broadcast and we have a demonstration pod with a full GV STRATUS and K2 Solo system, integrated with FlashNet.
At SGL's booth, SL5306, just a few steps away from Grass Valley's main booth, we're showing our latest GV STRATUS 4.5 fully integrated with SGL FlashNet, as well as new integration features, such as working with FlashNet Infinity.
And not only we will have a full-time GV STRATUS expert at the SGL booth, but we are doing two stage presentations so you can get the full breadth of our collaboration and follow-up with a 1-2-1 demo afterwards. To book your slot, please go to the SGL website.
We look forward to seeing you at the Grass Valley booth and the SGL booth this NAB! Have a great day!
For any questions, contact beatriz.alonso-martinez@grassvalley.com
We wanted to give you a peek preview of our booth in advance of the NAB show opening. Our GV STRATUS system is up and running in a record-breaking set up time of.... a few hours :-)
Keep up to date with all the news and developments for Grass Valley at NAB on our event webpage, where you can book a demo and get your VIP Customer Code.
See you in Sunny Vegas, baby!!!
Contact us at beatriz.alonso-martinez@grassvalley.com
Faithful to our yearly date with our users and industry partners, the GV STRATUS team will be at NAB 2016. Come to see us at the Las Vegas Convention Centre, South Hall. Our booth is SL106.
Systems set up is going smoothly and we're up and rearing to go! We have a lot to show you, with new partner integrations, user-friendly functionality, workflows and features, as well as an expert team at hand ready to answer all your GV STRATUS questions.
Contact us to book a demo slot, or drop by to see all the latest functionality we're offering with GV STRATUS 4.5...
Keep an eye on our blog for daily updates, as we will be publishing a new entry with interesting new from the show floor starting next Monday 18th April and for the duration of the show.
We look forward to seeing you in Vegas!
Get in touch with us: beatriz.alonso-martinez@grassvalley.com
When it comes to sending content from the production environment to remote facilities, GV STRATUS offers a wide range of possibilities
In a 3-part series we are covering various case studies, and we already showed you on a previous post (Multisite and remote workflows with GV STRATUS) how to share content between multiple GV STRATUS sites, what we call MULTISITE sharing. Part 2 covered Sending video from GV STRATUS to a remote file share.
Finally, here in part 3, we show you how you send content from your GV STRATUS / K2 production facility to other locations where they may have a K2 device (K2 SAN, Summit, Classic or Solo) but without GV STRATUS being part of their installation.
In this video, we provide the example of sending from a GV STRATUS production facility located in Singapore, over to a K2 Solo server located in our offices in Sydney.
For any question concerning this subject contact beatriz.alonso-martinez@grassvalley.com
Hi all, today we would like to share with you a video tutorial going through the steps needed to configure the Avid iNews Newsroom Computer System to work together with GV STRATUS.
As well as this tutorial, you can follow the detailed steps as described on our comprehensive GV STRATUS Topic Library.
GV STRATUS integration within iNews, as well as with a wide range of other NRCS (ENPS, Octopus, Annova Open Media, Ross Inception, NCIS....) provides the full toolset and flexibility to manage your media assets, basic editing, approving, sending to playout, etc that you require for your news production workflows. For details on how to use iNews with GV STRATUS, you can check our Topic Library here.
And whilst we have your attention, don't forget to check back in next week, as we will be ramping up for the NAB 2016 show in Las Vegas and we will be introducing new GV STRATUS features and functionality both at the show floor and here at our blog. We look forward to seeing you in Vegas!
Any questions, contact: beatriz.alonso-martinez@grassvalley.com
We are ramping up to NAB and getting all our systems ready! Amongst many of the new features that we will show during the event, our integration with Dejero will help you see how GV STRATUS is bringing the field closer to the production facility: less button clicks, less procedures, quicker access, more creativity!
Read all about it on our press release and come and see it at the show. We are at booth S106.
Any questions or to book a demo at NAB, contact me! beatriz.alonso-martinez@grassvalley.com
Our latest release of GV STRATUS includes seamless integration to send content, either manually or with automatic rules, from K2 storage to Avid ISIS/Interplay. Even all of the GV STRATUS metadata is passed through.
Check out our latest application notes here and here.
We are ecstatic to celebrate that we have sold more than 200 GV STRATUS systems worldwide since it was first launched in September 2011. From New Zealand to Mexico, Japan to Spain, Ethiopia to Canada, we have systems in every continent and from major capital cities to remote corners of the world.
Our customers deploy GV STRATUS in a mixture of workflows: news, live sports production, large venues, reality TV, content post-production, studio production, etc.
To celebrate our bi-centennial, we have written a brief press release.
We look forward to GV STRATUS spreading further across the world and 300 sites very soon!
For any question concerning this subject contact
regis.andre@grassvalley.com or
beatriz.alonso-martinez@grassvalley.com
GV STRATUS has the versatility and flexibility needed for multiple and varied workflow types, and one of the most interesting and demanding is live production in a reality TV show.
We have been working with Tencent in China to cover the high-volume, fast turnaround needs of a live 24-7 show with 15 participants.
Hi again! With our new release of GV STRATUS, version 4.5 we have introduced lots of new features, but we have also listened to our user's feedback and introduced 600+ improvements on the user interface, general availability and performance, back-end processes and tools.
One example is the Advanced Logger, which has been part of GV STRATUS from day 1 and provides excellent live logging and cataloging tools to our users, for sports, current affairs, news and reality TV logging, with the ability to customise your own buttons and panels.
Here's our previous blog entry on what the Advanced Logger used to look like and how it could be used (click here). After hearing from our users how the Logger could be even more useful to them, we made many improvements and showed a peek-preview during last IBC (see here).
Our colleague Alex Lakey has now done a video demonstration to show you all the improvements and new functions of the Advanced Logger. Check it out!
We'll be back for more soon with more news about GV STRATUS 4.5!
For any question concerning this subject contact
regis.andre@grassvalley.com or
beatriz.alonso-martinez@grassvalley.com
Our new GV STRATUS v4.5 release is coming out this week and it's packed-full of new features. We want to introduce you to some of the highlights over the next few weeks, and for starters today, here's a great video describing the new Scheduled Transfers tool, courtesy of our colleague Alex Lakey.
Keep an eye on our blog pages for more new GV STRATUS 4.5 features coming soon!
If you'd like to know more about GV STRATUS 4.5, or would like to plan an upgrade, contact your GV representative or drop us an email.
For any question concerning this subject contact beatriz.alonso-martinez@grassvalley.com
As you know, at GV we are always working on keeping our product offerings open and GV STRATUS in particular integrates with a long list of third party devices, services and tools.
We have been working closely with ROSS, and are happy to announce that we have added their Inception Newsroom Computer System to our existing list of integrated NRCS (you can already use GV STRATUS with Octopus, ENPS, iNews, Open Media, NCIS and Nishi-Com).
As with all our previous NRCS integrations, you can now benefit from the full power and feature-set of GV STRATUS, including all of its tools (and that means ALL!) within the Inception user interface. The workflow is similar to that we have with other NRCS systems, whereby you can create MOS placeholders in advance within the rundown, see status of your video assets (showing ready-to-air as soon as content starts arriving in the playout server), preview live feeds without leaving your newsroom application, and all other goodies that GV STRATUS has to offer.
We are pleased to keep adding more partners to our existing long list, and to offer you, our users, flexibility when it comes to integrating the video production system with the NRCS of your choice.
For any question concerning this subject contact
regis.andre@grassvalley.com or
beatriz.alonso-martinez@grassvalley.com
At IBC this year we announced the availability of system bundles offering the full power of GV STRATUS news production functionality for smaller size operations. The offering provides remote field editing and proxy streaming/editing even using high latency networks.
With our new news bundles, producers can get stories to air faster giving them the opportunity to engage viewers faster than ever before, with compelling reporting and fully edited, ready-to-air packages.
Bundling our solutions makes them more cost effective and easier to implement. GV STRATUS Newsroom Bundles are available in two configurations. Both systems support up to 15 users/editors and they differ only in terms of storage capacity and I/O.
GV STRATUS Newsroom Express: 2 bidirectional I/Os, 600 GB storage (based on K2 Solo 3G portable media server)
You can find out more on our website. To discuss a bundle for your facility, please contact your Grass Valley representative or drop us a mail. For any question concerning this subject contact regis.andre@grassvalley.com or beatriz.alonso-martinez@grassvalley.com
Last day of another fun IBC! Over the past few days we've been telling you about a whole range of new features and functionality that we are adding to GV STRATUS. And as well as new additions, we constantly work on improving and enhancing existing tools taking on board our users' feedback.
We have put a lot of work lately on the GV STRATUS Advanced Logging Panel. For starters, button panels and customised buttons can now be easily managed from the asset list. The logging panel is now a whole Logging Suite, highly customisable and full of nice new functionality.
Buttons can be rearranged, resized and repositioned in such a way that they can mimic a specific formation, for example for a soccer team. And you can add a background picture to help you get closer to the action and log live events more efficiently.
All this new functionality, coupled to the recently-introduced ability to send buttons and whole panels via GV STRATUS Messenger, makes it a lot easier for operators to share their work and save time amongst logging and production teams.The new and improved Advanced Logger is the ideal tool to log all sorts of live events, from sports to press conferences, from reality TV to political debates and from musical concerts to religious congregations. You name it, we provide you with the tools.
Do contact us if you would like a detailed demonstration. For any question concerning this subject contact
regis.andre@grassvalley.com or
beatriz.alonso-martinez@grassvalley.com
Good day from the IBC show floor! We've had an exciting and busy weekend, with our booth being chock-a-block with visitors, clients, partners and friends. See for yourself:
We start the week telling you about a new tool that we are introducing on the already very flexible GV STRATUS tool set: the Scheduled Transfer tool.
You'll see it looks similar to the Ingest Scheduler, and that makes it intuitive and within minutes you'll know how to use it. What is great about the new Scheduled Transfer tool is that it lets you automate daily, routine tasks, freeing you up to take care of more creative tasks. It allows you to schedule asset transfers in advance between K2 bins or onto an external storage location. So if you're recording that all-important live event, and you need to have a specific section of it transferred out to an editor, or to an external customer, or simply send to the playout server, just schedule and forget!
Combined with the GV STRATUS' existing asset management capabilities, you have the flexibility to add metadata, create workflow rules that can archive, notify users, transcode, etc, as soon as the live event has started to transfer.
We will be happy to give you a full demonstration at our IBC booth 1.D11. See you there!
For any question concerning this subject contact
regis.andre@grassvalley.com or
beatriz.alonso-martinez@grassvalley.com
This year's IBC is well underway and we are thrilled to uncover even more exciting and useful new features with our next release of GV STRATUS.
Come by Hall 1.D11 to the Grass Valley booth, and see for yourself how fast and easy we have made it for you to publish directly to YouTube from the GV STRATUS client!
It's a simple as creating a workflow rule on our GV STRATUS Control Panel, where you enter the credentials of your YouTube account. This is totally invisible to all users, and only system administrators need to access this information (and only one time during set up). Once this is done, users simply need to check a metadata field to send to YouTube, they can monitor the transfer from within their GV STRATUS seat....
And as for the video quality and format, you can choose to transcode using one of our well integrated 3rd party transcode engines (again, this is transparent to the user and it just happens in the background, as it's part of the rule set up), or even faster and better, you can choose to send the GV STRATUS natively created proxy (which we will soon offer in three different resolutions to suit varying workflow needs), so that transcoding is not needed and the upload to YouTube can be lightning fast!
Come and learn more at our booth this IBC!
For any question concerning this subject contact
regis.andre@grassvalley.com or
beatriz.alonso-martinez@grassvalley.com
