Automated Broadcast emission with Aveco and AICOX solutions

The Portfolio de Aveco that includes proposals for creation management and delivery is articulated around its Astra solution with Studio, Ingest, MAM, MCR and ICP.

Automations both in studies and in continuity of Broadcast emission become more complex day by day as the number of channels, regional versions, or sources (external contributions, multi-study, advanced graphics ...) are increased.). To analyze the new tools available to the broadcasters so as not to lose their heads in this complex environment, Aicox Solutions and AVECO They have organized a webinaries in which proposals have been addressed both on premise and in the cloud.

Alejandro Paludi, Chief Sales Officer in Aveco; Jared Pieper, VP Sales Engineering & Support Americas en Aveco; y Javier García, Director Broadcast & IT Aicox Soluciones, han sido los encargados de compartir con los profesionales que han participado en este seminario virtual las ventajas que aporta la empresa especializada en el diseño, distribución y soporte de automatización de la producción de estudios, la automatización del control maestro y los sistemas de playout de canales integrados en todo el mundo.

Throughout its almost 30 years in industry, Aveco has deployed its solutions in More than 250 clients worldwide, from Local channels to large corporations how NBCUNIVESAL, ESPN Brazil, ARD, DMC Africa, Sky or Televisa. In the latter case, the Mexican Broadcaster has trusted Aveco for the issuance control of its five main channels (with 16 different geographical versions), with a strong integration with the MAM of Tedial, as well as to manage 26 different masters in Televisa Networks.

One of the last large -scale Aveco facilities is found in India ETV Bharat, by whose project they received the IBC Innovation Award in 2019. Their solutions have allowed automating the production and reproduction of news in 24 studies, for 24 24 -hour news channels in 13 different live and on demand languages.

ETV Bharat has 5,000 journalists in 29 states of India, being able to produce news.
Aveco automates production, recording and live reproduction of these 24 channels, also providing the automation of the entire workflow.

One of the characteristics that distribute Aveco is its Continuous and close support. The company counts, in addition to its central in Prague, with offices in Los Angeles, Mexico, Miami, Bogotá, Sao Paulo, Moscow, New Delhi and Bangkok.

In October 2020, Aicox and Aveco closed a distribution agreement in Spain and Portugal which covers from study automation systems, Master control automation and emission, integrated playout systems to a master -based master -based control systems.

Aveco's automation system stands out because it can Manage Videos Servants on Premise and Videos Servants in Cloudas well as CHANNEL IN A Box Systems. Its proposal is outlined as a solution for production and master control automation for transfers between MCR and PCR that allows you to change a ladder of one study to the laddent of another with a single click, instantly moving the control for all PCR and study equipment.

Paludi stressed that "Aveco offers independence and integration with all market brands to establish the workflows that the client really needs. The client decides with what devices to work with the maximum reliability of our systems."

He has also stressed that “since the 90s almost all the companies dedicated to automation have undergone dramatic changes in their policies, management equipment, shareholding .. and some have even disappeared or merged… However, Aveco continues with the same essence and values evolving products and having the client at the center of our strategy, taking care of the same policy for almost 30 years”.

Astra Universe

Aveco portfolio that includes proposals for Creation, management and delivery is articulated around its astra solution with Astra Studio (study automation) e Ingest (intake); Astra I have (management), and, in delivery, Astra MCR (master control) e ICP (Integrated Channel Playout).

Its Astra solution is able to control all equipment through a user interface that connects with servers to control, intake, graphics, audio, study automation ... It is also possible to configure advertising insertion and local or regional programs, a Newsroom system, social media, traffic system or cloud playout.

When Aveco began his journey in 1992 he did it with an Astra MCR (on prem) physical solution that over time has been virtualized, until now settle in the cloud.

In addition, currently, and thanks to its integration with Harmonic Vos360, Astra can integrate with physical systems installed on the server and cloud systems as graphics, for example.

According to the maturity of the resources, and needs or model of each client, a work flow on premises, in cloud, or a hybrid solution. In the case of Cloud, Harmonic Vos 360 allows Astra MCR control installed on premises.

One of Astra's great advantages is that he uses a very intuitive and visual playlist which allows you to insert events on the march in the Playlist (for example, to launch a spot by scoring a goal in the broadcast of a game), or organizing more complex secondary events with templates.

Also integrated with Xpribe From Harmonic, the AVECO system offers insert graphics or dynamic texts, write metadata or generate automatic graphics such as an account back to announce a program, or publish manually or automatically to social networks such as Twitter (thus attracting viewers to the screen).

It is also possible to alter at any time, and without any stress, the program to give way to the last information hours, interrupting the playlist to go to a live event in study or exteriors and resume the usual broadcast when desired at the point that stayed (for example a film or an advertising escalation).

As far as MAM It refers, Astra is offered in a basic and a more advanced cloud -based version and over Html9. Astra allows to manage transfers, transcoding for both issuance and deep file; Visualize the local and remote proxie; generate subclips segmenting the material, autoingesta; recording of a live event that is coming out in broadcast; versed of that material ...

In any case it is possible establish rules, for example, send to deep file, delete after certain days, configure trancodifications as you go to cloud or local ...

In this webinar organized by Aveco and Aicox, a demonstration of INTEGRATION IN THE DRAFTING WITH INEWS OF Avid being evident that with the same interface it is possible to control the master control or a complete informative; launch headers; Open micros; move robotic camera; launch graphics ... managing with a single control command videos service, graphics, robotics, or video and audio mixing table.

If something changes in the last second, it is enough to move the event on the emission timeline and with it your associated automation (micros, graphics, camera positions ...) will move ...)

From the same interface, it is possible to launch a spot from Master Control, thus reducing equipment and personnel compatting resources for news and continuity.

Finally, note that in times of restrictions by COVID-19, it is possible work remotely Without having the server near. The client can be opened from anywhere in the world to work with equipment in another location or with cloud systems. In the case of regional emissions, this approach allows BroadCaster to control from a single central headquarters the service videos of its regional centers.