In today's fast changing environment, broadcasters are facing increasing challenges to produce and deliver compelling content in a timely manner to a wide variety of distribution mediums. However, in many broadcasting organizations, cataloging or processing of the tremendous amount of media content produced is often either unmanaged or done through an ineffective manual process. Producers and editors are forced to waste precious time searching through hours of video to find what they want. To move media content between incompatible proprietary broadcast equipment only further slows down the process of timely video production.

Keeping up with the regulation requirements and technology advancements shifting from analog to digital video is critical to each broadcaster's success in the future. The changes have created a unique opportunity to properly manage broadcaster's media content for the first time. To address these issues, Pictron has developed the Pictron Broadcast Manager to streamline broadcast workflow from video acquisition to ingest, cataloging, production, archive creation, and distribution in an automated fashion. For the first time, producers, directors, editors, and operators can search and access media content concurrently to collaborate and produce their final programs.

Designed to meet the specific needs of broadcasters, Broadcast Media Manager automatically generates proxy video directly from digital broadcast media residing on Omneon Media Server and other broadcast servers. Working in conjunction with Pictron Media Gateway Suite products, the Broadcast Media Manager automatically indexes video using automatic scene change detection, closed caption extraction, speech recognition, and face recognition to generate storyboard key frames, text transcript, and face ID during the proxy video generation process. Pictron Broadcast Media Manager can directly interface with leading broadcast automation systems such as Sundance, Crispin, NVerzion and others. New broadcast media ingested through the automation system or broadcast server is automatically indexed and published to the Media Gateway Server. Users can search video clips based on traffic or automation information and preview proxy video clips through a Web browser interface anywhere on the network. With Pictron Media Archive Manager, broadcast media can be automatically archived and restored based on business rules, policies, and broadcast schedules.