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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 Program modules

1 OPLAN v2.3 - Production process automation software for broadcasting companies

• Program catalogue

• Clip description

• Clip import and export

• Clip preview

• Import and export of content information

• Control of content display rights

• Schedule preparation

• Playlist preparation

• Preparation of future and current grids

• Registration of content display rights

• Playlist import and export

• Reports

• Assigning commercial blocks

• Loading edit lists of advertising agencies

• Database of advertising campaigns

• Auto-filling of commercial blocks

• Automation

• Playlist export

• Support of digitization systems

• Loading as-run logs and broadcast verification

2 OPLAN ARCHIVE - Content archive management module

Clip archive control:

• 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.

• 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.

3 OPLAN Acquisition - Content rights management

OPLAN Acquisition allows to:

• Keep track of contracts for content delivery, content expenses;

• Set public performance license restrictions and monitor them when creating schedules;

• Support various currencies with automatic conversion;

• Set and trace the schedule of payments under the contracts;

• Export necessary reports in Excel;

• Perform amortization and write-off of the rights;

• Export information to the accounting system.

4 OPLAN AdSales Module - TV channel commercial airtime sales

• Conducting a database of clients and contracts for commercial placement;

• Automatic calculation of placement costs with generation of necessary accounting documents;

• Media planning of commercials;

• Various kinds of placements (spot, package, GRP);

• Price-list editing;

• Commercial placement reports (including logs);

• Automatic and manual compilation of commercial blocks.

5 OPLAN Gateway Server Module - Integration with automation systems

• Full integration with automation systems, MAM and NewsRoom-systems based on BXF, MOS and proprietary protocols:

• automatic content loading into automation/MAM system;

• obtaining information about content (status-lists);

• loading playlists and run-down into automation system;

• receiving As-Run logs.

System requirements

• Server part of OPLAN v2.3 works under Windows 2000/2003/2008 Server operating systems, using the MS SQL Server 2005/2008, SQL Express 2005/2008 database servers.

• Client application works under Windows 2000/XP/Vista. For generation of report forms, Microsoft Office 97 or later version must be installed on the client computer.

• Recommended configuration for user computers:

• Processor 1 GHz or above;

• Memory 512 Mb;

• 50 Mb of empty space on hard disk;

• Screen resolution 1024õ768.