MultiPlanner is a system for production process automation of a television company.
The system supports all the stages of operation. From the content ingest, description and preparation, creation of preliminary line-ups and daily broadcasting schedules, registration of commercials and arrangement of commercial blocks, broadcast preparation and automation, to the control and analysis of broadcasting results.
Schedule and player
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Advantages:
- Powerful content management and broadcast schedule arrangement tools;
- Automatic generation of commercial blocks;
- Unlimited number of channels and regional broadcasting options;
- Unlimited number of users;
- Control of user access to the information;
- Reliable information storage in a uniform database on MS SQL Server;
- Clip import and export;
- 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.);
- Automatic creation of low-resolution versions of clips;
- Automatic generation of documents (playlists, program schedules, cue sheets, etc.);
- Preparation of servers for broadcast (automatic copying of clips and playlists on servers, removal of old clips);
- Control of clip output (on server logs);
- Automatic and manual insert of graphics (secondary events) into playlist.
Forward media planning
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MultiPlanner 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.
Media plan editing
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Media planning and on Air control
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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.
Media planning for orders and editing orders
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Media planning price list
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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).
Grid
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Grid filling from catalog
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Grid panel
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Program modules
1. MultiPlanner 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. MultiPlanner 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 severalbroadcasting days onto an external storage medium.
- Automatic copying of clips onto video servers from the archive or from an external storage medium.
3. MultiPlanner Acquisition - Content rights management
- MultiPlanner Acquisition allows to:
- Keep track of contracts for content delivery, content expenses;
- Set public performance license restrictions andmonitor them when creating schedules;
- Support various currencies with automaticconversion;
- 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. MultiPlanner 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. MultiPlanner 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.
Auto insertion orders in media planning
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Editing folder directory
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MultiPlanner System is used by:
- “2x2” Television channel
- Prof-Media Business Solution
- “STREAM” Broadcasting company
- “OCEAN-TV” Television channel
- “TV China” Television channel
- "Media" Company
- “ARTEM-CATV” Company
- “SVOE-TV” Television channel
- “Samara GIS” Television channel
- “TV Cascade” Television channel
- “Gamma-TV” Television channel
- “IT-3” Television channel
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