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Follow on Google News | Aveco Announces ASTRA Studio 3, the Most Advanced Way to Get Newscasts to AirBy: Aveco The only multi-studio news production automation solution ASTRA Studio 3 uniquely provides multi-studio production automation, an important advantage for larger facilities over “single-studio” Astra Studio 3 includes a host of new features, including floating shots that provide unique flexibility in handling a director’s breaking news requests outside a planned rundown, with the flexibility to handle events across multiple stories (set backgrounds, branding, graphics, etc.). Astra Studio 3 MAM integration allows video search results to get to air instantly outside of a rundown during breaking news, and includes the ability to integrate with multiple third-party MAMs (Avid, ENPS, EVS, Harmonic, Octopus, Orad, Quantel, Vizrt, and others) in a facility. Key to ASTRA Studio 3’s flexibility is a new Template Editor used to develop and modify story templates. These templates specify how a story is presented. Other features include one-button release of CG control during times of breaking news and improved preview capabilities. “ASTRA Studio 3 incorporates feedback from existing ASTRA Studio 2 customers to make this new system even more capable and powerful,” said Pavel Potuzak, Aveco’s founder and CEO. “ASTRA Studio 3 enables our customers to produce newscasts, magazine shows, and other studio productions easier, with more impressive graphics and effects and with lower operating costs. The ability for ASTRA Studio 3 to control a wide range of broadcast equipment as well as our Redwood Studio-in-a- Complete Systems in the Cloud, Rack & Box ASTRA Studio 3 — like all of Aveco’s automation solutions — supports all types of playout configurations, including from the cloud, from an integrated device where everything needed is in one box (Aveco’s Redwood Family), from a rack of dedicated devices, or any combination desired. ASTRA Studio 3 is included in Aveco’s ASTRA Suite of Tools, which includes media asset management, workflow automation, master control automation, news/live assist, ingest, hierarchical storage management, and interfaces to NRCS, traffic system, streaming devices, transcoders, and other applications. Master Control and News Production Automation in One System Aveco’s ASTRA automation uniquely combines master control and news production in one system running on the same hardware and interfacing to both NRCS and traffic systems. Automated cue exchange avoids the routine small switching errors when going between production control to master control to production control during newscasts. The last frame of a video from a spot break, for example, is followed by the next frame of video from the production switcher implementing effects, camera robotic moves, audio mixer control, and lighting control to make smoother looking transitions. This feature simplifies the broadcast of a news program or live event by enabling one operator to control both the program and the commercial breaks without passing control back and forth between two control rooms. In addition to simplified operation, it saves CAPEX and OPEX in terms of both equipment and personnel. Aveco’s Redwood Integrated “In-a-Box” While Aveco has the industry’s largest library of interfaces, including most every piece of broadcast equipment in master control rooms, production control rooms, and studios, it also offers Redwood Studio, the industry’s first news studio-in-a- Redwood Studio, under control of ASTRA Studio 3, is a cost-effective and scalable solution for smaller news studios, for handling breaking news when large news studios aren’t staffed, and for regional news production. It offers high-end production capability that’s easy to afford and easy to use. A bidirectional MOS interface is provided with major newsroom systems including ENPS, iNEWS, Octopus, OpenMedia, and others. Redwood Play, under ASTRA master control room automation control, offers a complete, cost-effective solution for putting a new channel on air. It provides comprehensive on-air branding, integrates with all major traffic systems, and provides local, remote, or cloud-based operation. Both Redwood Studio and Redwood Play include a production switcher, multiple DVEs, a four channel HD video player, graphics, audio mixer, two stereo audio players, four mic and four line external audio, 4 TB of internal storage, optional external storage, a multiviewer, integrated media asset management, and PTZ robotic camera control in one 4 RU frame. Aveco will be exhibiting at NAB 2015 in Las Vegas in Booth N3112. ### Editors Please Note: An ASTRA Studio 3 image can be downloaded from www.silverknight.com/ Caption: An example of ASTRA Studio 3 controlling five large studios with discreet devices and two small studios with Redwood News Studio-in-a- AVECO, based in Prague, Czech Republic and the United States, designs, sells, and supports broadcast automation worldwide. Based on a powerful real time operating system, the ASTRA Suite of Tools provides complete solutions for all aspects of file-based and traditional video workflows including solutions for ingest, browse, master control, newsrooms, and studio automation. A variety of architectures are available from small standalone systems to complex multisite operations. ASTRA is the only automation system built on a Real-Time Operating System. Aveco is a worldwide TV automation provider with over 290 customers throughout Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Africa, including many of the industry’s largest broadcast networks. Since formed in 1992, Aveco has remained a stable, privately owned company with a long-term commitment to steady growth and timely support. More information is available at http://www.aveco.com. End
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