During NAB in Las Vegas, German public broadcaster Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR) opted for a campus licence of S4Ms ClipJOCKEY System.The studio production tool covers all workflows in TV control rooms and is supposed to be applied to all sites of Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk.
MDR has used S4Ms Video Production Management System (VPMS) since 2003. Amongst other things VPMS controls video capture and manages the complete HiRes storage for high resolution broadcast quality video. Hitherto, the module Playout Control was applied in order to pilot the processes in control rooms; now it will be replaced by the new ClipJOCKEY solution. ClipJOCKEY supports the daily processes carried out in TV control rooms, allows to work throughout within a file-based environment and offers MDRs users a variety of new features and functions.
For instance, the system supports all MDR server platforms (Omneon, Grass Valley K2), administers several active playlists simultaneously, provides a time-delayed playout of video material while it is still recorded (playout while record) and it enables to import ingest lists in different formats (ALE, EDL).
In addition the pre-production of magazines can be accomplished without tapes. Especially to that end, S4M has developed the add-on mode offering the same comfort that was hitherto only possible in a tape-based context. A multi channel link feature also supports key-fill applications and multi camera productions.
In a first step ClipJOCKEY will be installed in the HD- ready control room 1 in Leipzig. MDR will use this location to provide the 2010 Winter Olympics program for Germanys public broadcaster consortium ARD. As soon as MDRs main office in Leipzig is equipped with the system, the regional broadcasting studios in Dresden, Magdeburg and Erfurt including the ARD/ZDF Kinderkanal (kids channel) are supposed to employ ClipJOCKEY as well.