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Marquis Broadcast Announces Medway Support for the EVS XT[2] Server Range (17/8/2007)

Marquis Broadcast, specialist in broadcast workflow studies and software solutions, has added EVS Broadcast Equipment's EVS XT2 server to the list of products supported by its Medway media highway system. By supporting the EVS XT2 proprietary file export format, Medway brings new functionality to broadcasters by enabling them to read and write DNxHD media between systems based on the EVS XT[2] architecture and Avid Technology's storage and Media Composer editing systems.

"Marquis continues to make the benefits of Medway's powerful media interchange capabilities available to more broadcasters," said Granby Patrick, Partner Director, Technology, Marquis Broadcast. "EVS customers can now improve workflow efficiencies throughout their broadcasting processes by using Medway to simplify and centralise the management of bi-directional media transfers between Avid systems and the XT2 platforms."

"The integration of EVS servers with Medway brings workflow improvements as well as more flexibility to critical broadcast processes," said Serge Comes, Product Manager, EVS Broadcast Equipment. "Being able to guarantee seamless operation of Medway with our servers means we can offer broadcasters a reliable, highly practical and cost effective solution for efficient production and repurposing of content."

To send media from the EVS server to an Avid system, users simply select all or part of an EVS MXF file in the EVS-MXF proprietary exchange format and write directly to Avid storage as DNxHD or IMX-D10. To send media from the Avid to the EVS systems, users generate EVS-MXF media with Medway, and EVS XFile software automatically restores this file to the XT[2] server in a native Avid format. All functions are easily accessible via Medway's intuitive user interface.

With Medway, media files and metadata are tightly integrated between systems enabling content to be transferred quickly and securely at full network speed without encountering any bottlenecks in the workflow that would normally be caused by the disparities in file structures that are inherent in the different manufacturers' systems. Broadcasters are able to achieve improved output and higher levels of efficiency from their workflows.

Medway's ergonomic user interface and simple drag and drop control make it easy to use by all operators. Designed specifically to meet the demands of the most challenging broadcasting and television production environments, Medway is also suitable for newsrooms, ingest, encoding, transcoding, asset management, editing, broadcast automation and finishing systems and playout servers.

Medway supports a range of other third party products, including:

Harris Nexio servers, TMD's MediaFlex , EVS HD-XT2 servers, Panasonic P2 and Ikegami EditCam and a range of Avid editing and finishing systems, Avid Unity and LanShare systems, Front Porch Digital's DIVArchive, Solutions For Media, Sony XPRI editing systems, Grass Valley's ProfileXP video server, SeaChange BML, Thomson Profiles, Apple Final Cut Pro 5 and Omnibus Headline. Supported media formats include DV and DVC Pro 25/50 and IMX @ 30, 40 and 50 Mbit/s and MPEG2 long GOP in both PAL and NTSC. HD formats include DVC-Pro 100, DNxHD and MPEG2 Long GOP in HD 1080i and 720p.

www.marquisbroadcast.com

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