USE CASE

Master Control

At a Glance

Master your channel playout with the Ross Master Control solution. It provides a rich set of tools that integrate into a seamless workflow, offering reliability, flexibility, and scalability. This comprehensive set of products allows you to deliver content to your audience without compromise. Ross provides tools to define your brand and protect your revenue stream – from content creation and playout to securing your content and ensuring regulatory compliance.

Integrated Solution

Ross provides a comprehensive suite of Master Control solutions to allow media distributors to deliver their content to their audience. These solutions range from content playout and graphics creation to the underlying plumbing that enables the connectivity and signaling.

Control

Ross solutions work under a unified DashBoard control system and a common remote API. Not only does this provide a single UI umbrella for individual products, but through its intuitive CustomPanel builder, it enables customized workflows that link multiple products together into task-focused user experiences.

Solid Investment

Invest in a solution that protects your channel brand and revenue. Maximize your channel’s economic potential with world-class graphics and branding. Utilize watermarking solutions from Ross to ensure your audience engagement is counted.

Scalable and Flexible

Ross can offer a complete end-to-end solution or just the parts you need to fit into an existing facility. Choose SDI or ST 2110 IP; add watermarking or SCTE-104 triggering. The modular nature of the solution allows easy scaling as needs change.

Channel Compliance

Stay legal and avoid fines. Keep audio levels in check with Ross solutions featuring loudness leveling technology from Linear Acoustic® and Dolby®. Keep your content clean with AirCleaner 2 to protect against profanity infractions.

Rock Solid & Secure

Ross’ robust systems are designed for 24/7 use and include key redundancies and disaster contingency features to ensure your channel stays online. Protect your assets with secure storage and playout. Ross solutions are backed by a legendary 24/7/365 support team to keep you on the air.

SOLUTIONS

Flexible Workflow

Single-Channel Master Control

The system is easy-to-deploy solution for single-channel applications. Build the system you need today, with room for expansion in the future.

Multi-Channel Master Control

Common control interfaces make it easy to manage multiple playout channels, branding, and master control from a single workstation. When you need to grow, it is easy to expand the solution without losing existing investments and workflows.

Downstream Content Insertion

Solutions are cost-effective, reliable, and easily deployed in situations where simple channel branding or emergency alert system insertion are required. This is ideal for localized network pass-through, simulcast, or augmenting existing master control and playout systems.

End to End Solution

Product Line-up

MC1-UHD

Master Control Switcher

  • SD/HD/3G/UHD Master Control Switcher
  • Presmaster Protocol
  • 2x External Keyers
  • 1x 2D DVE for Squeeze Back
  • EAS Insertion
  • openGear Card
  • Dashboard controlled

Media I/O

Ingest & Playout

  • Multi-Channel Playout
  • Live Ingest
  • Scheduling

Air Cleaner 2

Live Event Protection Delay

  • Live Event Production Delay
  • Video & Audio Support
  • HD/3G/UHD
  • SDI or ST-2110
  • Up to 2 user stations
  • Physical push button
  • DashBoard Controlled

XPression Tick-It

Ticker & Branding

  • Browser-based Access
  • Traffic Integration
  • Advanced Scheduling
  • Multi-Channel Scalability
  • Manual or Automated Control

Ultrix

Routing & Multiviewer

  • SD/HD/3G/UHD
  • SDI/ST2110
  • 16×16 – 160×160
  • Software defined
  • Ultriscape Multiviewer with Closed Captioning

openGear

Signal Processing

  • Loudness Processing
  • Dolby Encoding
  • Watermarking
  • SCTE 104
  • Format Conversion
  • Distribution

softGear

Signal Processing (Software)

Broadcast Audio Processor

  • Loudness Processing
  • Dolby Encoding
  • Watermarking

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