At the SMPTE 2105 Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition, Aveco, a worldwide studio production automation and master control specialist, will demonstrate the IBC award-winning ASTRA Studio 3, the company's third-generation news production automation system in Booth 104 in the Dolby Ballroom.
ASTRA Studio 3 includes many breaking news features that speed up time to air while also elevating production values to help keep viewers engaged. The SMPTE 2105 Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition takes place at the Loews Hollywood Hotel from October 26-29, 2015, with exhibits opening on October 27.
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 automation solutions. With Aveco, studios can easily be combined for major events. When production runs long in one studio, projects can be reassigned with one keystroke to other studios in a facility, with all production switcher settings, graphics, virtual sets, video roll-ins, on-set monitors, camera robotics, audio settings and lighting settings easily available in the alternate 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 (on-site video, 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, EVS, Quantel, InStat, Octopus, 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 that specify how a story is presented. Other features include one-button release of CG control during times of breaking news, an advanced mode for news magazine and episodic studio recording, improved video search and additional local/remote preview capabilities.
ASTRA Studio 3 incorporates feedback from existing ASTRA Studio 2 customers to make this new system even more capable and powerful, says 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-Box - with the same operator interface - makes this an attractive system for both big and small studios, as well as hub-and-spoke networks where regional studios are seamlessly integrated with a central control point.
Complete Systems in the Cloud, Rack, and 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, elevates production values and saves both CAPEX and OPEX.
Aveco's Redwood Integrated In-a-Box Solutions Support Local or Cloud Playout
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-box, and Redwood Play which features the industry's most advanced branding in integrated playout solutions.
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 MCR master control room automation control, offers a complete, cost-effective solution with high end branding. It 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, with Redwood Studio, PTZ robotic camera control.
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At the SMPTE 2105 Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition, Aveco, a worldwide studio production automation and master control specialist, will demonstrate the IBC award-winning ASTRA Studio 3, the company's third-generation news production automation system in Booth 104 in the Dolby Ballroom. 
