Softron Media Services has started shipping OnTheAir Node and OnTheAir Live for Macintosh. OnTheAir Node is Softron's next generation playout and ingest engine for the Mac and has been designed to be an inexpensive, reliable and customizable video server that has an open client-server architecture. OnTheAir Node can be controlled remotely over the network. One client computer in a control room can control multiple OnTheAir Node playout servers located in the machine room. OnTheAir Live is a playlist manager for Live productions that comes bundled with OnTheAir Node and provides the user interface for adding media and controlling playback. As its name implies, OnTheAir Live has all the features required for Live operations such as Cue mode and A/B roll.



Softron Media Services has also announced that it will soon ship OnTheAir Manager, a scheduling application for OnTheAir Node that will allow users to prepare scheduled programming for output from any of the OnTheAir Nodes installed on the network. OnTheAir Manager will come with a calendar style user interface that will allow for easy programming of your TV station. OnTheAir Manager will be able to handle playout, ingest, Live events, control Character Generators, Video Routers and send GPI triggers. OnTheAir Node will launch automatically at start up and will resume operation, even after a power loss. it will run on any Intel based Mac equipped with a video card (AJA ,Blackmagic Design or Matrox) installed in the MacPro, Xserve or MacBook Pro.