RFO distributes 17 television channels from its head office in Paris to French-speaking territories located tens of thousands of kilometers from one another. The broadcaster's regional production facilities are connected by satellite and ADSL around the clock, thus supporting the exchange of programs and news (radio and TV) in real time. RFO already has equipped its radio stations with NETIA's Radio-Assist digital audio software. Now, with the integration of Manreo, RFO will gain increased productivity in the management and use of rich audio and video, which can then be easily repurposed and published to multiple platforms including mobiles devices, IPTV, and Web portals.
Manreo is being installed across RFO in two phases. The first phase will address file management and archiving, while the second phase will address publishing of media. During the first stage, the software will ingest hi-res content, generate low-resolution proxies for indexing, leverage its integrated speech-to-text capability to turn dialog into searchable text, and enable browsing of content and access to high-resolution files for editing with the Avid® and Apple® edit systems at seven different RFO sites. In the second phase of installation, Manreo will be extended to publish media through its Hypercast Warehouse tool, which can be used to manage audio, video, or images in all file formats (MXF, XDCAM, MPEG-4, MPEG-2, WMN, and so on.). Built-in monitoring tools will provide operators with current updates as to the status of asset restoration, transcoding of specific media to the appropriate format, and publishing of content to the target platform.