DAVID Systems' QuickIngest brings 'plug & produce' to video journalists

MUNICH, GERMANY, December 16, 2010 (Press-News.org) DAVID Systems, a leading provider of global broadcast solutions, announces the release of its 2010.2 software package. Besides many enhancements and customer requested features, the highlight of the release is a new version of QuickIngest, providing client-based ingesting with seamless video import from Sony XDCAM as well as Panasonic P2 devices.

File-based content production has become standard amongst broadcasters today. QuickIngest was designed to support file-based workflows by accelerating the ingest process and transforming every desk into an ingesting workstation. In this way QuickIngest will help save time and resources as it is no longer necessary for the reporter to schedule ingest tasks with a technician. An added benefit is that the content is stored centrally and can be accessed by any editor virtually immediately. Based upon the MXF standard, QuickIngest supports the two leading device families - Sony XDCAM and Panasonic P2 - providing seamless import from these cameras to a specific storage location or network storage. QuickIngest allows journalists to add metadata during ingest and save the video files directly into DigaSystem , DAVID Systems' leading content management system.

QuickIngest delivers an intuitive user interface, customized for journalists in content production, so that virtually no training is necessary. Journalists gain independence, time and resources, and are freed from technology distractions in order to focus on content production and quality.

DigaSystem continues to build a foundation for increased speed in content production by unifying related broadcast workflows. Also announced with the recent 2010.2 release package, DigaSystem now provides newsroom integration with ANNOVA's OpenMedia. To increase the integration possible with the MOS protocol, a new DigaMOS interface was also part of the recent release.

"Reducing complexity and decreasing time needed for content production and distribution affects all workflows from ingesting to planning, scheduling and play-out. At DAVID Systems we cooperate closely with our customers to make sure we cover not only individual broadcast workflow aspects but also detect time reduction potential in all relevant areas that journalists of radio or TV stations are involved in today. QuickIngest is an easy to use tool to smooth acquisition and put the journalist in full control", says Vincent Benveniste, CEO DAVID Systems GmbH. "The only way to really speed up production is to minimize the islands of technology used within workflows".

Other news of the 2010.2 release includes features across the wide product range of DAVID Systems to ease tri-media collaboration and real-time content distribution.

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