Hydrogen Products

DAVID Systems focuses on product development and future trends in broadcast. Consequently, the Hydrogen family of products - Media Accelerator (HMA) and Atom Factory, Hydrogen Archive Catalyst (HAC) and Lifecycle Management (HLM) - has been transferred from Silex Media to the DAVID Systems product portfolio. That way DAVID Systems closed the gap between transferring and processing data. Through the Hydrogen products our customers gain time and save money. The integrated workflows improve efficiency, reduce time to air, and makes a better use of resources.

AtomFactory

AtomFactory enables streamlined workflows in heterogeneous MXF environments with Edit while Ingest and Playout while Fusion functionality with optimized use of the available resources through an intelligent bandwidth management.

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Workflow

Import to Final Cut Pro:

AtomFactory is an extended FTP daemon, which is able to extract an external QuickTime Reference File and WAV-files out of a MXF file provided by the DigaTransferSystem or another source. The Final Cut Pro editor can open the new file as a QuickTime Reference File seconds after the first frames are written to the central storage and start working with the growing file (edit while ingest).

In the current system the module is installed locally on the MAC computer and provides the incoming files in a predefined local folder. The FCP editor must know the “Incoming” directory to find this file.

Export:

AtomFactory is a plug-in for Final Cut Pro. It fuses and wraps the referenced time line into MXF. The new created file is stored in directory which is accessible through FTP. AtomFactory is also capable of writing back into DigaSystem using DigaTransferSystem for AtomFactory which is triggered by a SOAP interface. DigaTransfer System receives the new file and transfers it into the DigaSystem database where a new database entry is created.

Benefits

Enables direct access to MXF files
Writes flattened MXF files to MXF video servers
Enables edit while ingest
Enables playout while Fusion
Improves time to air in news or sports environments
Manages your resources

Hydrogen Media Accelerator

Faster time to air, automatically preparing assets for edit and playout

Media Acceleration

To speed up the whole workflow the Hydrogen modules enable editing-during-ingest. Material can be ingested ingest from various sources including file, media server, NLE, scheduled feeds and VTRs. While ingesting proxy editing tools can generate EDLs which are sent to the NLEs for craft editing on hires material or to playout servers for immediate transmission.

Benefits

improve efficiency
improve integration
reduce time to air
better use of resources

Modules

Ingest:

edit-while-ingest
extract audio, create wrapper, etc.
transfer of growing files
Final Cut Pro integration: store MXF, work with Quicktime
timecode jump detection

Fuse:

server based clip consolidation
offloads the NLE
playout-while-fuse

Other modules:

dynamic bandwidth management
proxy-based hi-res conform
automatic transfer of growing files

Hydrogen Archive Catalyst

Transparent access to hierarchical storage management digital tape based archive.

Archive Services

This module provides transparent access to a hierarchical storage management digital tape based system where customers get almost unlimited storage capacity at a reasonably price. A benefit of this approach is that the user's workflow, or even the existing infrastructure does not have to be changed. The module works with a wide variety of HSM systems and Media Asset Management systems.

Functionality

easily add archive functionality to existing production environment
transparently move data between storage tiers
turns file archive into broadcast archive

Features

partial file restore based on time-code
simple command interface using XML/Soap
archive from mounted file system or FTP
new: transfer to final destination
new: preserve original time-code