Marquis Supports Closed Captioning with Medway .6

Marquis Broadcast, specialist in content workflows and media integration software, has announced Medway 2.6, the latest version of its flagship media integration product, will support closed captioning. The latest version of Medway, which will be shown for the first time at NAB 2012 on booth SL12205, is a sophisticated software tool kit delivering a seamless and cost-effective integration between leading broadcast content applications. By unifying multi-vendor systems, Medway provides technical and operational workflows that optimise and integrate media clip and sequence transfers, media format conversion and transcoding, and metadata capture and integration.

On 13 January 2012, the FCC issued the implementation schedule and standards for web captioning based on the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010, explains Chris Steele, product manager, Marquis Broadcast. This means captioned content must retain closed captions when broadcast on the internet. Because closed captions have been used over many years, archives of captioned content in multiple formats currently exist and the challenge is to convert this material into web content with the closed captions intact. Further issues are presented if the programmes need to be edited, shortened, or the commercials need to be removed prior to web broadcast.

We are pleased to confirm that the latest version of Medway will support closed captioning, by ensuring that captions created on the Avid data track remain with the media through archive, transfer or transcoding process, continues Steele. This means media destined for the internet and the captions associated with it, can be edited at the same time, allowing easy conversion of material without caption loss, reducing manual operation and saving time.

In addition to supporting closed captioning, Medway 2.6 will now also include Audio Matrixing which allows for detailed control over how the input channels are mapped to the output channels and includes control of the bit depth and gain of the output channels. Extended Panning allows for the selection of either the left or right component of a channel after the channels panning data has been applied.

In addition, Avid users can now also take advantage of the updated Avid Sequence Parking and choose to park the entire original essence of a sequence. This enhancement also enables the archive or transfer of the entire length of each of the clips referenced by an Avid sequence. The original OP1Atom essence can now be parked when this option is chosen. In order to give timely and up-to-date information on media transfers into Avid Interplay, Marquis can also now create a field in Interplay which is updated with the status of a transfer.

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