• Eliminates repetitive inefficient baseband video transfers
• License FREE integration
• Automate File Transfer of delivered contents at any time to local video servers for on air playback
• MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 H.264 support with Splice, Rewrap and Transcode
• Built-in Interface with Multiple Delivery Systems for both SD and HD Content
• Built-in Content migration to specified locations for Desktop Media Prep
• Built-in Automation, Traffic, Nearline Disk Storage and Video Servers Interfaces.
• Built-in Web browser for management, configuration, delivery status and schedule.
• Built-in file converter engine by Masstech
• Optional: Integrated Pulsar-MXL file based QC reports

 

TODAY’S WORKFLOWS ARE HAMPERED BY

  • Manual processes for entering data into and updating automation systems
  • Minimum real time or greater file movement/delivery into desired location
  • Extra material costs including tape stock and tape deck maintenance
  • Extra resource costs including full time media content “jockey”

 

WHAT DOES REPLACING YOUR CURRENT WORKFLOW WITH CATCHBLUE MEAN TO YOU?

  • Eliminates repetitive inefficient baseband video transfers and manual process errors
  • Automates file transfer of delivered contents at any time to local video servers for on air playback
  • MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 H.264 support with Splice, Rewrap and Transcode
  • HQS (High Quality Scalable) inline transcoding engine for high definition H.264 to Long GOP MPEG2 at 4x real time
  • Built-in automation, traffic, nearline disk storage and video servers interfaces
  • Built-in Web browser for management, configuration, delivery status and schedule
  • Achieves huge savings in terms of time & resource costs (content “jockey”, tape stock etc)
  • Prep content before it hits your valuable “online” storage
  • Automates virtualization of content for your whole station or facility

  • “Not all transcoders are created equal, so it is essential when transcoding HD content to maintain quality, and Masstech’s box does it at lightning speed with great efficiency. We are thrilled to continue our partnership with Masstech because their system works so well and their project engineers have attended to every detail. We are very happy with the high quality transcodes that Masstech provides.”

     

    Del Parks, VP of Engineering & Operations for Sinclair Broadcast Group

  • “The CatchBLUE workflow allows us to highly automate the ingestion of file-based content. CatchBLUE is essentially the ‘aggregator’ of all of the content and eliminates the labor intensive, repetitive, manual processes associated with content being delivered from multiple sources.”

    Joe Addalia, Director of Technology Projects for Hearst Television