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Akatona Technologies have been working together with Stream Labs for more than a year. From the beginning our cooperation was excellent, better than with any other CG hardware supplier. The first steps of integration of their hardware with our IVS CG software were a really simple business, and Stream Labs boards worked perfectly from the start. Our IVS software is compatible with the 5 leading CG hardware for PC, but Stream Alpha Plus card is the best choice for Composite.

Janos Katona, Director (Akatona Technologies, Hungary)

OPLAN v2.3 facilitates the activities of various departments in a broadcasting company

Program management:

• Forward planning;

• Current (week) planning;

• Broadcast planning (preparation of broadcast permits);

• Acquisition of rights and content adaptation.

Commercial management:

• Purchasing services (negotiations);

• Advertising services;

• Commercial services.

Production department:

• Pre-broadcast preparation;

• Preparation of announcements;

• Adaptations;

• Maintaining libraries and archives of video materials.

Launch teams

Financial services and TV company management.

Basic functions:

Content management

• Description of content (clips):

• automatic detection of clip timing and format;

• input of metadata which describes the program or the initial material;

• description and editing of clip tracks (contents, quality of material);

• setting the points of input and output, breaks for commercials and trimmings.

• Hierarchical structure of the content catalogue.

• Viewing of clips in broadcasting and low-resolution quality inside the program.

• Managing the content rights.

• Operations with serials and cycle programs.

• Clip archive management:

• the archive consists of one or several volumes (local or network folders;

• automatic import of clips into archive from selected folders;

• automatic clip conversion to specified broadcasting format;

• automatic trimming of an initial file according to time codes;

• automatic sound processing (normalization, mixing of tracks, etc.);

• export of clips from archive;

• automatic creation of low-resolution versions of clips.

• The functions of importing into archive, processing and code conversion are performed as services on one or several computers, which provide reliability, processing speed and clip archive access control.

• Import and export of content information to Excel, external database.

Traffic management

• Creating preliminary channel grids (pre-grid).

• Creating running channel schedules for one or several weeks (grid).

• Creating broadcast playlists.

• User-friendly planning interface.

• Import and export of playlists in various formats.

• Generation of reports (cue sheets, programs, etc.)

• Registration of rights for content display, replays.

• Display of overlays, overflowing blocks, "holes" in the schedule.

• Forming commercial slots (commercial grid).

• Maintaining the advertising campaigns database by loading media plans from Excel:

• setting the period for the advertising campaign;

• one or several commercials;

• assigning time slots for clip display;

• assigning position and frequency of clip display;

• Automatic filling of slots with manual editing option.

Broadcast automation

• Support of unlimited amount of video servers and video server channels.

• Playlist generation.

• Exporting clips from the archive for one or several broadcasting days onto an external storage medium.

• Automatic copying of clips onto video servers from the archive or from an external storage medium.

• Loading broadcasting logs. Broadcast verification with playlist.

• Support of TitleBox, TELE 2.2, TELE Info, InfoNet broadcast design systems (display of logos, banners, design effects, crawls).