Ross Video Unveils Streamline Asset Management for News at NAB

New asset lifecycle workflows and support for video proxy are designed to simplify news production and do more with less.

Friday, April 10th, 2015 [Iroquois, Ontario, Canada] – Today, Ross Video announces that their recently launched asset management solution, Streamline will be showing version 2.0 on booth N#3906 at NAB 2015 – including new workflows designed specifically to improve news production and asset lifecycle management.

In addition to Streamline’s established order management, reporting, ingest, and searching capabilities, v2 adds support for video proxy and thumbnail generation, as well as an end-to-end MOS workflow supporting placeholders, status, and an HTML5-based plugin for browsing assets directly from the newsroom.

“When we launched Streamline at IBC 2014, we wanted a product that interfaced exceptionally well with our XPression graphics system, and we achieved that,” said Shawn Snider, Marketing Product Manager for Inception, Streamline and EZPrompt. “Streamline’s search, order management, and reporting tools for graphics workflow have been very well received.  Now, Version 2.0 takes the next step with the addition of a wealth of new features designed specifically to extend Streamline into news clip production.”

Streamline increases the speed and efficiency of teams by giving reporters and producers direct access to browse and search assets, and easily link them to story content in a simple drag and drop interface. Streamline provides new asset lifecycle management capabilities, with the ability to dynamically move assets from its database onto playout servers, switchers, graphics, or master control by simply linking an asset to a story in the newsroom. Once a production is completed, any expired assets from the playout devices once no longer required are automatically cleaned up by Streamline., This eliminates the labour intensive manual cleanup required by many systems in use today.

About Ross Video
Passionate about live production, Ross Video designs, manufactures and delivers dependable technology and services that power exceptional live video productions seen by billions of viewers around the world every day. Ross Video’s goal is to make it easy for customers to create compelling news, weather and sports broadcasts, engaging material for sports stadium screens, legislative assemblies, entertainment shows and rock concerts, and inspiring content for houses of worship.

Relentlessly innovating, Ross Video delivers the world’s widest range of products and services for augmented reality and virtual sets, mobile live-event solutions, real-time motion graphics, robotic camera systems, social-media management, production switchers, routers, infrastructure products, video servers, newsroom systems, terminal equipment and more.

Ross products and services are designed to offer the best system integration and unmatched customer choice by both working together seamlessly and integrating tightly with third-party solutions.

Ross Video has offices around the world, and provides outstanding, free-for-life telephone support staffed by technical experts 24 hours a day, 365 days a year—even for products bought on eBay. Ross employees are authorized to rent helicopters when necessary.

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