Etere Ingest is the module provided by Etere to offer a wide range of media capturing features including automated ingest tasks that will permit stations to store into the overall system all specific contents present across the various sources (i.e.: VTR, live satellite feeds, etc.) managed by the station.
Refer to Etere Ingest chapter for more details information.
Etere MERP is the revolutionary approach that gives you an enterprise framework for managing all the production projects of your station, from their start to their finish with the reliability, versatility and integration that only a T-workflow management can provide. The Etere MERP framework enables media content producers, providers and distributors to improve the efficiency and productivity of their media asset management, its suitability permits getting an increased project visibility while reducing unnecessary tasks and saving time and resources.
Etere’s Resources Management introduce the use of worksheets, they enable companies to manage the assignment and tracking of their resources and personnel through a powerful and intuitive interface, streamlining their overall business processes through the support of external costs and on-demand reports. This solution permits to virtually manage all resources and operations actually involved in the media asset management, such as for example, subtitles generation, trailer creation, tape copying, media editing, audio dubbing, etc. Etere integrates the management of worksheets, from their creation and compilation to their tracking and invoicing.
Etere’s Resources Management is a key function of Etere MERP that provides a comprehensive and effective management of asset worksheets used internally by the station. The Resources Management provides a seamlessly integrated suite of products for allowing executives and operational managers in charge of carrying out worksheets to quickly access and use the following Etere features:
•Media Library for EDL management and metadata insertion
•Subtitles Tool for captioning production
•Assets ingest for capturing content.
Etere Resources Management makes your everyday tasks easier and more efficient than ever, for example, performing a shooting session will be as easy as described below:
Everyday task - 1 The shooting session is planned
Etere approach : A worksheet is started to assign the resources (persons, locations and equipment) required by the session.
Everyday task - 2 The shooting team go to shooting.
Etere approach : The agenda of the resources involved in the worksheet are automatically set as occupied for the entire time the worksheet is planned.
Everyday task - 3 The team return with a bunch of files
Etere approach : All captured files are ingested into the media library through a fast "multi-video import" function.
Everyday task - 4 The supervisor validates shoots
Etere approach : A censorship T-workflow is automatically launched for each imported file, it will perform the following actions:
1.A first censorship is performed on a proxy media
2.The Hires media is moved to the NLE space
3.The NLE personnel edit the media according to the EDL
4.The supervisor approves (or rejects) the edited media
5.The approved media is set as ready to broadcast
Everyday task - 5 The accountant calculates all costs
Etere approach : A report is generated containing all the costs derived from entire project.