Media Caster is a path-breaking application in the broadcast automation arena. It eliminates the limitations of conventional playout solutions, giving you complete freedom in designing your output. Experience universal SD/HD content playout, streaming, and professional broadcast graphics in a single, fail-safe environment.
Play almost all current broadcast formats in SD & HD. Mix SD and HD with non-standard odd resolution video content in the same playlist.
Effectively manage dynamic ticker content and link any compatible graphic overlay item with eye-catching animations and custom alpha transitions.
Grab video and audio input from Decklink or AJA directly onto the playlist and instantly switch from a scheduled item to a live input feed.
Real-time alpha channel compositing allows you to play TGA sequences, flash animations, images, and sliding tickers at the same time.
Natively play QuickTime, MPEG2, MKV, MTS, H.264, AVI, and MOV files without transcoding, automatically scaling to your desired output.
Real-time scaling, video up/down conversion, and overlay mixing run entirely on the GPU, ensuring top-tier performance for 24/7 broadcasting.
Comprehensive support for all standard, Unicode, and regional font types, allowing you to use any custom typography for your tickers and CG overlays.
Plan. Schedule. Deliver. Every Bulletin. On Time.
A complete newsroom rundown and bulletin management system built for speed, accuracy and seamless collaboration.
Trim, edit, or reposition any clip instantly without stopping the current on-air session.
Engineered for 24/7 unattended operation, ensuring a fail-safe environment for live broadcasting.
Get simultaneous SDI, composite, S-video, and HDMI outputs with automatic de-interlacing.
Apply custom alpha channels for IN and OUT animations alongside embedded alpha formats.
Process 10 layers of overlays and tickers using less than 7% CPU by offloading to the GPU.
Built for time-critical live operations, Media Caster ensures 24/7 unattended operation with redundant playout making it perfect for fail-safe environments. It natively supports MPEG1/2/H.264, HDV and DV streams from virtually every known production platform, allowing you to play AVI, MPEG, WMV or QuickTime content directly without transcoding. You can fix different formats, aspect ratios, and frame rates in the playlist, and Media Caster will perfectly scale them to your desired output standard.
For live productions, any changes to the playlist during an on-air session are entirely possible. There are no queued or locked clips. Every clip in the playlist, except the one currently playing, can be trimmed, edited, or repositioned instantly. Furthermore, playlist order can be changed on-the-fly with seamless "skip to next" or "jump" commands without ever stopping the current playout session. By moving real-time scaling, video conversion, and overlay mixing to the GPU, an SD playout with 10 layers of overlay and tickers uses less than 7% of your CPU resources!
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