Manage formats and resolutions seamlessly.

Vidispine offers advanced capabilities in handling and manipulating different asset formats consistently. This means that you can do wonderful things like seamlessly manage multiple formats through creation, editing and distribution. Vidispine allows easy access to low-res clips before deciding which material to use in a production HD format. Vidispine can instantly use an odd format you usually would typically spend hours to find a way to convert.

Like other challenges in life, successful transcoding is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. The innovative converter we have created is great… but the work we've put into it makes sure it really works with all containers and codec’s, is even greater. Besides supporting a very broad number of supported formats, Vidispine added advanced capabilities in managing the different formats of each asset format consistently. This is a huge advantage for a developer where he or she can access a certain low-resolution version from time code A to B by a simple API-call. The developer does not even have to know where the actual essence resides, or if it even exists. Vidispine will find or create the exact supported version format going beyond just standard video and images. Both the data model and APIs can manage any kind of file, and based on what kind of file it is; proxies, thumbnails or just metadata will be managed along with the original asset. Our unique data model makes it possible to support more or less infinite versions and compositions. Let your developers deal with 40 audio tracks, 3D objects, 5 proxy versions etc. all in a consistent and logical way. In short: You simply tell the Vidispine repository what you need to get done, and it gets delivered.


 
Technology making it possible.

Efficient format management, transcoding and transwrapping are essential in any advanced rich media workflow and editing. Vidispine gives capabilities of abstracting from how your content is stored and represented. You simply tell the Vidispine repository what you need and it gets delivered. The Vidispine transcoder handles a great number of codecs. Other transcoders are supported by plug-ins to the API. The Vidispine transcoder not only support transcoding, but can also do efficient transwrapping (changing container format), or render sequences including overlays or effects. For further extension there is a plug-in architecture so that you can build or buy solutions for face recognition, file based QC, DRM, water marking and more.