Agility FAQs
Is your content available anytime, anywhere on any device?
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Anystream Agility transforms content into sellable, digital media packages for every on-demand and broadcast playback capability on the planet. Media producers maximize revenue and profits by leveraging content into products for broadcast TV, cable video on demand, broadband internet, video enabled cell phones and personal media players. Anystream Agility outpaces all others with the most complete output capabilities for revenue producing outlets. more info >>
Do you worry about content piracy and copyright protection?
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Protection of content assets from piracy is of primary concern of television networks, studios, and cable production networks. Agility offers multiple levels of content protection including forensic watermarking using both Thomson and Philips technology to track stolen content and identify the pirates. Automated digital fingerprinting registration is for content owners. Agility creates digital fingerprints of content during production. Anystream Velocity registers them with Audible Magic's database. Automated digital fingerprinting ID generates a fingerprint when ingesting UGV content and submits it to Audible Magic for comparison. Audible Magic reports copyright infringements as part of the automated process and protected content is identified. more info >>
iPod, mobile...do you need to make content fit small screens?
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If your big screen content is headed for the very small screens of handheld devices, Agility offers the tools to make it work. Agility offers capability for resizing, adjusting aspect ratios, caption burn-in, and properly sizing graphics overlays and transcoding to the H.263, H.264 and MPEG4 formats that are compatible with networks and handheld devices used around the world. more info >>
Does your on-demand content cross borders?
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Content globalization means producing media and the ancillary data needed for playback in multiple countries. NTSC (525) output in SD and HD with captions, V-chip and copy protection. PAL(625) and 50 fps HD with subtitling provides you with the tools that you need to distribute on-demand content around the world. Subtitles are implemented through a partnership with Softel, the leader in caption and subtitle technology. more info >>
It's a VOD world.
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Video On Demand for cable and IPTV applications are supported in Agility. CableLabs MPEG2, H.264 transport streams, stereo and 5.1 surround sound AC-3 make Agility a complete VOD. Agility VOD offers a CableLabs packager that produces and pitches CableLabs VOD packages including video, audio, metadata and graphics for electronic program guides. A play list assembly process enables merging of program and advertising segments into CableLabs compatible streams. more info >>
Do you want Flash®-y graphic production?
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With Agility for Graphics, the Flash player is a CG processor within Agility. Whether you require attractive, dynamic, animated graphics for branding, cross promotion, advertising, video slates, lower third titles or home shopping information, Agility for Graphics adds informative graphics to video by synchronizing video and metadata with graphics templates to create dynamic multilayered graphics. more info >>
Is your content destined for television?
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Agility prepares content for playback on Omneon, Grass Valley, SeaChange, Pinnacle, and Leitch/Harris broadcast servers. Broadcasters transparently adopt efficient, flexible IT-based digital media workflows without sacrificing reliability or quality. Automated conversion and exchange of media between non-linear editing systems, play-to-air servers, news production systems, streaming and Web servers in any major digital format — including MPEG-2, DV, OMF, MXF, H.264, VC1 — in SD and HD.
Agility's modular design lets broadcasters extend automation to other workflows, such as ingesting of news content from distribution networks or remote journalists, frame-accurate proxy generation, HD up-conversion, web publishing and more. more info >>
Are your Avid production and media production systems
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Agility moves audio and video into and out of Avid editing and playback environments. Faster than real-time HD ingest through Interplay Transfer reduces valuable, but non-productive time from production workflows. Matrix and Grid processing of DNxHD produces HD broadcast output in less than real time too. These capabilities combine to maximize the time available for the creative process, achieving the best results while still meeting critical on-air deadlines. Agility supports the range of Avid media formats from legacy OMF AVRs to modern MXF/IMX and DNxHD. Workgroup integration with Isis, Unity and Avid Interplay enables the true collaborative workflow. more info >>
Does your success keep you up at night?
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Agility VOD clusters provide the best reliability available for high-volume production. As you grow from your success, your cluster becomes more reliable as it grows in size. Agility VOD provides automated system failure detection and failover. Nodes failures are detected and jobs are redirected to other resources. Jobs that were running on the node that failed are rescheduled onto working hardware without operator intervention. more info >>
Do your live events click with your audience?
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Anystream Agility Live is the industry's most comprehensive live webcasting product, enabling broadcasters to automatically webcast live events or stream linear channels to web and mobile subscribers. Agility captures media feeds according to your pre-defined schedules, or dynamically using triggers. High-quality preprocessing, and simultaneous encoding into Flash, Windows Media and Real Media formats assures a high-quality results. Outputs are tested for compatibility with streaming servers and CDNs (content distribution networks) to make your event a success. more info >>
Do you believe that bad audio can ruin a great video?
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Agility audio processing tools for mixing, re-mapping, compression and two-pass normalization repurpose multitrack audio for mono, stereo, and 5.1 surround sound applications. The characteristics of music and dialogue that are destined for playback on a cell phone are vastly different from content that plays through a home theater system or an iPod. Agility converts audio from one format to another with crystal clarity that maximizes the value of your content. more info >>
Are 16:9, 4:3, letterbox, crop, pillars and curtains in your vocabulary?
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Converting between standard and high definition content requires efficient video scaling, cropping, letterboxing, aspect ratio conversion and pixel aspect ratio conversion. Agility offers advanced image conversion features to give you the best possible results in a completely file-based workflow. more info >>
What do EIA-608, EIA-708, ETSI, EN-300 743, V-chip, line-21
and CGMS-A mean?
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Legislation and standards around the world are driving the inclusion of ancillary broadcast metadata into on-demand content. Captions, subtitles, copy protection and parental controls are embedded into content streams to assist the hearing impaired, translate languages, protect children and many other applications. Agility serves these needs and keeps you compliant with regulatory requirements in a file-based tapeless workflow. more info for broadcast >>,more info for VOD >>
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