Introducing the new all-in-one Emerald version 7.5 Lite Edition for digital archiving, HQS (High Quality Speed) transcoding and content management. Emerald is designed for professionals working in Broadcast, Production or News delivering break-thru price performance.

Qualities that make Emerald a precious asset in your facility
• Broadcast HSM for LTO tape archiving
• ‘MOS’ interface to iNEWS and AP-ENPS
• Avid ISIS, Apple FCP, Unity, Interplay Archive, DET and DHM support
• Built-in HQS Transcoding Engine for Interoperability
• Content Management for Media Lifecycle Workflows
• Unlimited Storage with no License fees for Tape or Disk

EMERALD EMBEDDED HQS TRANSCODING ENGINE

Emerald is equipped with Masstech’s in house developed HQS transcode engine and a full library of format blades. HQS is designed on the Direct Show platform for flexible blade configuration and speed. File transformation occurs automatically inline to virtually any file format. This enables you to easily convert and publish new files in a wide range of formats and wrappers including MXF, QuickTime, MPEG-PS and TS. Owning the HQS technology means we provide record breaking 4x faster than real time HD transcoding. HQS Advanced filtering and de-interlacing technology ensures the highest quality output that leads the industry.

EMERALD MEDIA FRAMEWORK

Emerald will transfer media from anywhere in the environment to the post production system ready for a particular job. In-line transforming, re-wrapping and transcodes of different file types are automatically performed so that content can move between FCP and Avid systems. All the essence media and metadata related to a particular project is saved in Emerald. When required, Emerald restores the hi-resolution source material to the NLE keeping all transfer complexity hidden from the operator. Once editing is complete, Emerald manages the naming, saving and transfer of all the new finished sequences to be ready for presentation, playout and re-purposing.

MEDIA OBJECT SERVER INTERFACE

Masstech’s advanced digital archiving is the industry’s first solution that supports MOS protocol by fully integrating AP’s ENPS and Avid’s iNEWS system with workflow automation. Emerald integrates tightly into popular newsroom computer systems via MOS protocol. Using the iNEWS and AP-ENPS interfaces, newsroom staff can research archived content, search slugs linked to video archives, browse archived content, and quickly make shot selections without moving from their desk.

EMERALD DIGITAL ARCHIVING

With Emerald, locating information is a breeze! Editors and journalists have content at their fingertips. Where archived content used to take hours or even days to locate, it’s now a matter of seconds. Reporters can quickly search news archives using key metadata and capture only the desired footage all from their desktop. Preview stories by browsing a low-resolution proxy and select only relevant and useful footage. Emerald drives efficiency in the newsroom by enabling production teams to meet tight deadlines and conduct research for their stories more efficiently. Journalists can research stories at their desktop for more impact and creative reporting. Quality news is produced and reported in a shorter timeframe.

They also can use Emerald’s companion product XT-Edit to do content preparation and offline editing with features such as timeline zoom, audio waveform, markers, notations and much more. XT-Ingest automates ingest and playback to all popular formats as well as reading XDCAM and P2 SD/HD disks and memory cartridges.

 

 

  • “Emerald offers digital archiving, HQS (High Quality Speed) transcoding and content management all on one common platform. At breakthrough price-performance, Emerald digitally preserves your valuable stories and content with automated workflows in Production, Newsrooms and broadcast applications. Production teams can conduct faster research from their desktop and enhance news stories for far greater impact.”

    Brad Redwood, Vice President International and Marketing