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Overview
The first phase in the production process, ingest is critical to the success of any project. The value of media assets for both production and archival purposes is directly related to how they are ingested into the production environment. Problems and deficiencies that occur at this stage can be difficult, timeconsuming and costly to remedy later on.
Quality is of paramount importance in broadcast production, and is even more critical in archiving media that is expected to last for decades or longer. Cinegy Ingest offers the perfect way to balance quality, storage and costs. Based on Cinegy’s industry-leading MPEG-2 encoding technology, it can be used to achieve a high compression rate (20-50 Mbps) while delivering a level of quality equivalent to Digibeta.
Storage requirements and costs are kept low without compromising standards for broadcast quality. Ingested media is available in an open, industry-standard format for seamless integration with asset management systems, video servers, editorial systems and other production processes.
HD ingest
Ingest high definition media, delivering near HDCAM quality at bitrates well below 100Mbps. The result is fully MPEG-2 compliant streams suitable for digital projection in HDTV cinemas. Higher levels of compression are available for HDTV digital video broadcast or HDV recording.
DVB ingest
Directly ingest digital video broadcast streams without additional transcoding. Low resolution proxy versions of incoming streams can be created on the fly. The system is compatible with consumer PCI or USB-connected DVB products.
Multi-format ingest & proxy generation
Produce video in multiple formats concurrently to meet complex delivery requirements for broadcast, internet and mobile platforms. This feature is ideal for distributed production environments, such as Cinegy Workflow, where different users (including remote users) and different applications require media in different formats and resolutions.
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Features
- Automatic scene detection in incoming video streams.
- Closed caption text included with incoming SDI or DV video signals can be decoded and automatically associated with the ingested stream.
- Preserve the original tape timecode, while simultaneously creating a new, clean system timecode.
- Re-ingest media, while preserving pre-logged metadata.
- Batch ingest allows time controlled or EDL based ingest of live video feeds or tape-based video material.
- Capture live RTP/UDP streams from multiple sources. Multicast and unicast IP streams can be ingested on schedule using the batch ingest function.
- Loop recording ringbufferCinegy Ingest offers a ring-buffer recording option to avoid video loss or missed opportunities such as non-scheduled news feeds and live shots.
- Supported file formats include AAF, AVI, MPEG, H.264, MXF, QuickTime, Flash, Windows Media, numbered still image sequences, and many more.
- Supported ingest hardware includes SDI, HD-SDI, DV, XDCAM, DVB, DVD, CD-Audio, analog video & audio, DAT and digital audio, among others.
- Media is natively stored using state-of-the-art file formats including Avid compatible MXF with DV & IMX for SD and HDV, AVC-Intra, AVID DNxHD, DVCProHD for HD compression. The high-quality, low bitrate H.264 format is also natively supported.
Performance
For ingesting uncompressed 1080i HD-SDI and video encoding to high-quality, long GOP MPEG2 with 4:2:2 color fidelity and bitrates up to 80Mbit/s, Cinegy Ingest requires only a single Intel Core2Quad processor with 2GB of RAM. For simultaneous, real-time encoding of AVC-Intra, SD MPEG2 and Flash/H.264 streams a Dual Xeon quad-core server with 4GB RAM is sufficient. Servers may be clustered for more demanding tasks.
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