BroadView’s OnDemand software has recently integrated Vantage Media Processing Platform to provide advanced transcoding and automated media workflows.

BroadView Software supplies a comprehensive broadcast management system which includes fully integrated tools for programming, scheduling, VOD, traffic and sales. The integration with Vantage streamlines the operation with workflow automation, reducing manpower and the potential for errors. Everything is controlled from BroadView including the ability to monitor jobs in Vantage in real time.

“Vantage has an excellent API which has allowed us to create an improved media workflow that BroadView can leverage to provide tools for our clients without having to re-engineer that ourselves”, said Geoff Holden, Product Manager of OnDemand, BroadView. “This is an exciting first step in tighter integration with Vantage that will make our customer workflows more efficient and more cost effective when delivering VOD”.

The integrated solution is currently in use at Blue Ant Media. The approvals and QA process at Blue Ant is more formalized and streamlined than before since the QA process now flows directly into transcoding. “When a sequence is built out, it passes on to a supervisor for approval”, said Tristan Irvine, manager of Technical Resources at Blue Ant Media. “Once approved, it is automatically submitted as a job in Vantage”. . “It’s been instrumental to our growth as increased automation has allowed us to avoid adding headcount to perform repetitive and tedious tasks better suited for a computer. For example, inserting commercial blacks used to be done manually – now, that can be automated”.