Software

TELE Info integrated broadcast automation

Testimonials

From myself and the Kodal Bosilegrad Television company, Serbia, I would like to thank Stream Labs for their Stream Alpha series playout automation cards. We have been using these cards for several years now with TELE Info software (especially the SMS Terminal module) and we are extremely happy with this set-up. I warmly advise everyone to try this solution. You will have automated broadcasting without any problems!

Darko Spiridonov (Kodal-Bosilegrad Television, Serbia)

Program interface

Logo Editor window (news channel example)

The possibilities of foreground composition (logo) design in TELE Info application are essentially more extensive compared to TELE 2.2. In this example you can see the general view of Logo Editor window with an information channel design. The composition features:

  • A window for scaled video clip or incoming video signal (video card input, 1394 input, standard TV-Tuner, etc.) with digital clock.
  • Vertical roll.
  • 2 crawls with animated and static images.
  • Informational material in a form of static or animated images.

All objects containing text information, lines and images can have their own rotation lists, or can be filled on-line through SMS Terminal service and RSS-feeds.

Main TELE Info program window

The main program window contains a schedule, playback and control buttons, a preview window of a current clip with overlayed foreground composition and sound indicators, a project tree and a protocol of performed operations window (below). The schedule contains a multi-coloured time column, a clip column with icons, a column of current schedule element duration with end of playback time indication, a foreground compositions column (Logo) and a Profile column for switching the external equipment.

An important distinctive feature of TELE Info program is the support of additional external sources of video streams: IEEE-1394, Web camera, TV-tuner, etc.

Logo Editor window (music channel example)

TELE Info program allows to save 4 text parameters for each video clip. Having set up the names of composition elements, time and duration of their display in the beginning and at the end of a clip, it is possible to create a simple young audience oriented music channel.

Here you can see the Logo Editor window with a music channel design. In the background there is a frame from a music clip. The composition features an animated banner (below), a text crawl and a group for info display - the name of the artist and the name of the song.

A more complex music channel with rotation of clips based on the results of SMS-voting can be organized by using the SMS Terminal application (which is a part of TELE Info bundle). 

SMS Terminal interface — "Clip Rotation" service

In this picture you can see the general view of the "Clip Rotation" service window in SMS Terminal application:

  • Window with the list of clips participating in rotation, their attributes and number of the votes given for them - at the top.
  • Window with the list of events occurring during an output of a clip (time, object in a composition and action) - in the middle.
  • Window with the list of the played clips - at the bottom.
  • Tags, fields and buttons that control the voting results reception and clips output in rotation mode, as well as a button for adjustment of clip broadcast parameters and design.

Logo Editor window (SMS/MMS-chat example)

This picture presents the general view of a foreground composition editing window for a music channel with SMS-chat output:

  • Window for a scaled music video clip or incoming video signal - top left corner.
  • Vertical roll with SMS messages - left.
  • Crawl - bottom.
  • Informational and promotional material in a form of static or animated images.

All objects containing text information, lines and images can have their own rotation lists, or can be filled on-line through SMS Terminal service and RSS-feeds.

SMS Terminal interface — "SMS" service

In this picture you can see the general view of "SMS" service window in SMS Terminal application, which carries out data reception and transmission (in this case SMS/MMS-messages) into the foreground composition:

  • Window with the received SMS-messages, which in this example are broadcasted in a manual (Pre-moderated) mode - top left.
  • Window for input of personal messages from the SMS-chat host, which can also be used for editing the received messages - middle left.
  • Window where the broadcasted text is displayed - bottom left.
  • Window displaying a picture of the MMS-message selected in the left top window - top right.
  • Tags, fields and buttons that control the output and preparation of SMS/MMS-messages, as well as a button for adjustment of message broadcast parameters and design.