NAB Show: Aveco To Show New On-Prem/Cloud/Hybrid Automation & MAM

Aveco, an independent provider of automation and MAM for media companies, will be at NAB Show (April 16-19 at the Las Vegas Convention Center) in Booth W3012 with three new innovations debuting at the NAB:

• ASTRA V, a new platform for news and sports production automation (ASTRA Studio)
• Master Control automation (ASTRA MCR)
• Second-generation media asset management (GEMINI MAM).

ASTRA Studio, Aveco’s award-winning news studio production automation system, “offers a great deal of flexibility in producing and broadcasting live news and sports. It does not restrict or dictate the workflow. Users can start with minimal features and grow into ASTRA Studio’s full capabilities or jump right in and take full advantage to reduce costs and improve quality. The ability to work in existing infrastructures with existing equipment and applications makes for a lower initial investment than competing solutions. Aveco has the industry’s largest library of interfaces and implemented APIs in production, graphics, playout and MAM. Aveco lets you decide your workflow and equipment,” according to the company.

ASTRA MCR is described by Aveco as “the industry’s most advanced master control system, provides for on-premises, in the cloud and hybrid operations. Aveco’s ASTRA MCR playout automation has a 30-plus year reputation for reliability, dependability, consistent innovation, 24/7/365 operation and support.”

Systems can expand from a single on-premises channel to encompass numerous on-site and cloud-based channels — all in the same unified Master Control Playout Automation user interface. There are special automation tools for news channels, sports channels, music channels, movie channels, government/legislative channels, pop-up channels.

Located across the aisle from Harmonic’s booth (W2801), Aveco and Harmonic will be demonstrating how their Aveco’s ASTRA Master Control Room (MCR) solution seamlessly integrates with Harmonic’s VOS360 dedicated end-to-end video cloud Solution platform. At the Aveco booth, attendees can operate several playlists. At the Harmonic booth, attendees can see the ASTRA-controlled VOS360 service, see how to make changes to the playlist and apply them to the VOS360 timeline interface, as well as view the streaming output.

GEMINI, the new generation of MAM, is engineered for on-premises, in the cloud and hybrid operations, using a range of devices:  iPad, Android tablet, notebook or desktop, and in your favorite web browser. GEMINI MAM is an open system for integration with third-party media processing devices, third-party systems and appliances.

Aveco says: “Media operations are quite complex and to build a real solution that addresses the needs of today and the future does not require nor should it rely on an isolated system. It means integrating with the outside world. The openness of GEMINI scores high. GEMINI also offers third-party AI-enriched metadata, timeline annotations, editing, scheduling and distribution, media processing, complex search algorithms and much, much more.”