NAB 05: R&S CLIPSTER with complete IMF mastering workflow

NAB 2015: R&S CLIPSTER with complete IMF mastering workflow 02 April 2015

NAB 2015: R&S CLIPSTER with complete IMF mastering workflow

At the show in Las Vegas, the innovative features of the R&S CLIPSTER mastering station will be focused on adding key functions to the IMF mastering workflow to make it production ready. With the new R&S CLIPSTER version for IMF workflows, Rohde & Schwarz DVS offers a complete solution for UHD, 3D, and Rec. 2020 mastering including IMF-compliant closed captions & subtitles, composition playlist markers, and forensic watermarking.

Now offering a complete IMF Workflow: R&S CLIPSTER at NAB 2015

Hanover, April 2, 2015 At this year s NAB, visitors will be able to experience the innovative product features of the mastering station R&S CLIPSTER. Among other functions, Rohde & Schwarz DVS has added key features to offer its customers a complete IMF workflow from a single solution: Timeline marker authoring, captions, subtitles, and forensic watermarking.

The Interoperable Master Format (IMF) can completely replace tape as a mastering or business-to-business exchange format. As such, Rohde & Schwarz DVS has established an SMPTE-standardized successor to tape and prosumer file formats with its end-to-end IMF toolset. By implementing IMF in their workflows, content providers benefit from the flexibility of file-based workflows combined with the reliability of tape-based production. They also have a solution that rescues them from the labyrinth of multi-language versioning. With IMF being the only standardized mastering solution for UHD, Rec. 2020, and HDR, content owners, supply chain vendors, and content providers now have a robust way of storing and exchanging episodic TV and feature-film content using IMF packages created by R&S CLIPSTER.

In line with this, Rohde & Schwarz DVS has added more features to R&S CLIPSTER for efficient workflows and easy content distribution. The timeline can be used as usual to arrange all the content, including captions and subtitles. The integrated IMF delivery tool guides users through all the necessary steps so they are safe in the knowledge they have created a compliant IMF package. R&S CLIPSTER also offers real-time playback of UHD IMF content, thus facilitating assisting the visual quality control process. With support for UHD, captions, and subtitles, R&S CLIPSTER smoothes the transition from legacy workflows to a robust file-based workflow.

R&S CLIPSTER now also supports NexGuard forensic watermarking. Content owners and their vendors can protect pre-release content up to UHD & 4K with forensic watermarking. At the same time they benefit from R&S CLIPSTER's blistering performance and format flexibility. The watermarking process allows content to be traced, permitting content owners to ensure contractual compliance between recipients by enabling them to expose the source of a leakage.

Stephen Birdsong, Product Manager Post Production Solutions at Rohde & Schwarz DVS: "We believe IMF is the answer for those businesses that need to monetize content, and we are committed to it. As market leaders, it is important that we take this step by making IMF ready for production. When it comes to IMF mastering, CLIPSTER is the ultimate solution thanks to its quality, reliability, and performance. With our new option for an IMF-only CLIPSTER, customers now have a lower cost of entry into UHD mastering with CLIPSTER."

Rohde & Schwarz DVS at the NAB: booth SL1105

Rohde & Schwarz

The Rohde & Schwarz electronics group offers innovative solutions in the following business fields: test and measurement, broadcast and media, secure communications, cybersecurity, radiomonitoring and radiolocation. Founded more than 80 years ago, this independent company has an extensive sales and service network and is present in more than 70 countries. The electronics group is among the world market leaders in its established business fields. On June 30, 2014, Rohde & Schwarz had approximately 9800 employees. It achieved a net revenue of EUR 1.75 billion in the 2013/2014 fiscal year (July to June). The company is headquartered in Munich, Germany. It also has regional headquarters in Singapore and Columbia, Maryland, USA, to manage its operations in these regions.

Rohde & Schwarz DVS

For more than 25 years, Rohde & Schwarz DVS GmbH has been very successful in the professional film, video post production and broadcast markets. The specially developed and manufactured hardware and software are applied to the production of popular TV series, Hollywood blockbusters and in Digital Cinema. R&S CLIPSTER was the first system in the world to make real-time 4K processing possible. The future-proof ingest and production server R&S VENICE offers a flexible solution for modern, file-based workflows in broadcast environments. Rohde & Schwarz DVS offers a variety of customized storage solutions that is tailored to deliver best-in-class performance for formats up to 8K. www.dvs.de

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