New Senior Appointment

March 3, 2016, 7:09 am

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IPV Makes Senior Appointments to Capitalise on Successful 2015

Further appointments strengthen company’s global Professional Service and IT infrastructure

Cambridge, UK, 09 February 2016 – Following a substantial capital raising exercise, Cambridge-based media asset management and technology specialist, IPV, has announced a number of senior appointments intended to build on a number of recent sales successes and develop new markets. Ewan Johnston has been appointed as Senior Vice President Worldwide Sales, whilst Nigel Booth has been appointed Executive Vice President Business Development.

Ewan Johnston joins IPV from Trilogy, where he was Sales Director. Previously he was VP EMEA Sales at broadcast storage specialist, Quantum. Johnston brings experience managing high value complex sales engagements, as well as the development and execution of go-to-market strategies for a diversity of broadcast technology vendors. Nigel Booth is an internal appointment, having guided IPV’s sales growth and organic evolution over the last eight years.

“2015 was one of the most successful years in IPV’s history with a number of major new customer wins. These key appointments will ensure that we build on this success and develop our market leading position in the broadcast and electronic media sector,” commented David Cole, CEO at IPV. “Ewan brings a wealth of knowledge and experience in establishing and growing international sales teams. He is tasked with fueling our growth and helping take IPV to the next level of its development. Additionally, we will continue to pro-actively seek further quality resources to meet the burgeoning demand for our products.”

“I’m excited to be joining IPV at this key stage in its evolution. As demonstrated by last year’s outstanding performance, IPV has the technology, products and people to make a real difference to its customers.”

Ewan Johnston, Senior Vice President Worldwide Sales

As well as these senior appointments, IPV has announced the recruitment of an IT specialist with responsibility for developing the company’s online presence, especially IPV’s bespoke customer service portal. Further strengthening IPV’s global support capabilities, it has appointed additional Professional Service Engineers, grown the company’s global network of Service Centres and is building accredited IPV training Programs.

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NAB 2016 Preview

March 3, 2016, 7:17 am

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At NAB IPV Focuses on MAM System Functions within Modern IP-based, High Resolution Broadcast Operations

IP-based operation, 4K support & intuitive UI operation showcased on ambitious NAB technology showcase

Cambridge, UK, 16 February 2016 – On its NAB booth (#N4520), UK-based media asset management and technology specialist, IPV, will demonstrate the latest advances in its Curator Media Asset Management (MAM) system. IPV will showcase how Curator responds to industry trends such as the drive towards IP-based operations and the emergence of Ultra High Definition (UHD) broadcasts. In particular, IPV will showcase developments in Curator’s User Interface (UI) that are designed to enhance the system’s simplicity of operation and its ability to configure the UI to the specific requirements of an individual user organization.

Curator is the product of an eight-year development initiative at IPV: from day one it has been configured as a software-only product running on standard IT servers. IP-based operation has been a cornerstone of its proposition throughout its development, so at NAB, IPV will demonstrate how this advanced MAM system is strategically positioned to help broadcasters and facilities that are looking to migrate to IP-based operations.

4K support will be another focus for IPV at NAB. Curator’s codecs are format agnostic, so 4K support is straightforward for this system. At NAB, IPV will demonstrate the sophistication of its 4K proposition, as well as revealing its strategic UHD roadmap to 4K, 8K and beyond.

Intuitive user interfaces are a major new feature of the latest iteration of Curator. At NAB, IPV will demonstrate the ease with which a user can develop the exact screen-based UI that they need. By configuring the UI to their specific operational requirements, IPV believes that Curator can create significant efficiencies in customer facilities, and also in their clients’ operations.

“During the last 12 months we have channelled significant resources into the development of Curator and at NAB visitors will start to see the results of this initiative. 2016 will prove to be a strategic milestone year for our company and this will be evident to visitors to our booth at NAB.”

David Cole, CEO, IPV

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NAB News

April 4, 2016, 6:31 am

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Enhanced IPV Curator MAM System Empowers Intuitive Asset Retrieval Across Organisations & From Multiple Storage Platforms

IP-based operation & 4K support showcased at NAB

Cambridge, UK, 4 April 2016 – On its NAB booth (N4520), UK-based media asset management and technology specialist, IPV, will demonstrate the latest advances in its Curator Media Asset Management (MAM) system. Responding to seismic changes in broadcast content access systems, IPV will demonstrate how relevant accurate metadata materially impacts the retrieval rate for valuable assets leading to greater opportunities for their monetisation. Showcasing the latest enhancements to Curator, IPV will demonstrate how automated and manually added metadata underpins the next generation of archive management systems.

Curator is an intelligent archive management environment where media assets are migrated through storage tiers dependant on their age, temporal relevance and priority. The system’s in-built intelligence ensures that assets reside on the most appropriate storage media from on premise systems to the Cloud. Aligned with this intelligent storage is predictive retrieval, which provides a number of facilities to different scenarios: in a dynamic news-based environment, Curator allows easy re-use of media assets thereby increasing their value in these fast turnaround workflows. Retrospectively, Curator enables the easy re-use/re-purposing of media assets on the web and within other programmes or advertising campaigns.

“If you can’t find a media asset when you need it, then effectively you don’t own it. With the latest enhancements to Curator, we empower users across an organisation to find and retrieve content wherever they are and from within multiple storage platforms quickly and intuitively.”

Nigel Booth, Executive VP Business Development, IPV

IPV responds to broadcast market drivers
IPV Curator is a configurable network of powerful services designed to manage media workflows. It can store video and audio data, images, project sequence timelines and scratchpads. In addition, IPV has developed a number of configurable interfaces to the system, including popular third-party platforms such as Adobe Premier Pro CC^® which will be announced at NAB (see separate news announcement).

Also at NAB, IPV will showcase how Curator responds to industry trends such as the drive towards IP-based operations and the emergence of Ultra High Definition (UHD) broadcasts.

Curator is the product of an eight-year development initiative at IPV: from day one it has been configured as a collaborative software-only product running on standard IT servers. IP-based operation has been a cornerstone of its proposition throughout its development, so at NAB, IPV will demonstrate how this advanced MAM system is strategically positioned to help broadcasters and facilities that are looking to migrate to IP-based operations.

About IPV Curator
IPV Curator is a real-time Media Asset Management solution which makes it easy for users to achieve collaborative workflows in a fast paced, live production environment. Curator assures immediate access to all incoming media and archive content on a standard IT infrastructure. Modular, highly scalable and affordable, Curator provides unprecedented video and audio handling at the desktop, and incorporates IPV’s proven SpectreView technology.

System features include:

Frame-accurate, timecode-aware at all times
Enables you to access and use proxy media during ingest
Populates production proxy media library from both SDI and file-based media
Includes multi-user annotation and logging, rough-cut editing and archive
Multi-track audio with language tagging for identifying tracks in standard players
Dynamic stream adaption on a pre-client basis ensures efficient server-to-client network usage
Sub-clip and book-marking with descriptive metadata
Automated or user defined storyboarding utilising embedded scene change matrix
Timecode and extraction with optional overlay
Simple and advanced (Boolean and Facet) search
Full integration with leading platforms including FCP, Avid, Adobe Premiere Pro and the IPV Process Engine

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Hearst Television

April 11, 2016, 5:49 am

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Hearst Television Places IPV Curator Content Factory MAM System at Heart of Station Group’s Creative Content Sharing

Curator MAM speeds up global access to content and streamlines multi-platform distribution in 30 TV station, 26 US city broadcast infrastructure

Cambridge, UK, 11 April 2016 – UK-based media asset management (MAM) and technology specialist, IPV, has announced the successful integration of its Curator Content Factory MAM system at leading US national multimedia company, Hearst Television. Curator provides the core infrastructure for Hearst’s new Group Registry of Content which connects Creative Service Producers and Editors at 30 TV stations across the country. System rollout started in March last year and was completed at all stations this February.

Using IPV Curator, Hearst has created an internal Distributed Cloud environment where content is ingested and logged locally but made available globally using IPV’s advanced search functions. Hearst serves 26 US DMAs (Designated Market Areas) and reaches one in five U.S. households with a mix of local and national news, weather, information, sports and entertainment programming.

Curator’s powerful metadata governance engine captures and organizes metadata when added by a user or by one of Curator’s many automated metadata extraction engines. By effectively governing metadata, users can successfully search and discover content which meets their needs quickly and easily.

The new company-wide production environment has enabled Hearst to significantly increase collaboration across the station group by creating this new Group Registry of Content. Users can add content into the registry and others can search and retrieve that content for use in their own projects irrespective of which TV station or which physical location they are working at. This approach has allowed for the best content to be available continuously for all 30 stations.

An important issue, which attracted Hearst to IPV Curator, is its open architecture and sophistication in the way it integrates alongside third-party systems. Curator’s use of open standards, such as FIMS, provides standardized integration touch-points for third-party systems and devices. At Hearst, Curator integrates seamlessly alongside Adobe Premiere Pro CC, Signiant Media Exchange + Agents, Telestream Vantage and EMC-Isilon Storage.

Important to Hearst is Curator’s close integration with Adobe Premiere Pro, giving Producers and Editors access to content directly from within the Adobe environment. Using Curator Clip Select content can be shared across the station group to users at any location all from within the familiar Premiere Pro interface via the Curator Panel.

“Before the Group Registry Project, our local teams used any and all types of ‘send-drop-ftp-it’ applications,” commented Joe Addalia, Director of Technology Projects at Hearst Television. “IPV was able to help us make the change from these services to a radically different collaborative MAM environment where the users control the content to be shared but do not have to do anything other than ‘register’ their clip. This created major efficiencies in our team’s productivity across the entire TV group. And through the integration with Adobe, Signiant, Telestream and Isilon, we believe that we have an incredibly powerful foundation, with IPV Curator at the center.”

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Happy Hour at NAB

April 11, 2016, 6:04 am

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Join us for drinks on Monday evening at The Chandelier Lounge at The Cosmo, between 5:30 & 7:30.

We’re co-hosting a Happy Hour with StorExcel and Quantum.

Please RSVP now, to reserve your spot on the guest list!

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NAB News

May 4, 2016, 7:36 am

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IPV to Introduce Curator Content Factory Extension for Adobe Premiere Pro CC

New integration allows editors and post-production teams to monitor assets and metadata from multiple sources in real-time

Cambridge, UK, 18 April 2016 – On its NAB booth (#N4520), UK-based media asset management and technology specialist, IPV, demonstrated a new extension between its Curator media asset management (MAM) system and Adobe® Premiere® Pro CC. The new Curator extension features an intuitive User Interface (UI) offering users a seamless transition to the Adobe Premiere Pro editing platform.

Live Markers is a new functionality made possible by the integration of Curator and Adobe Premiere Pro. This feature enables a user to import assets from Curator and then use Adobe Premiere Pro to monitor the content for any Clip Marks made by other Curator users such as Standards and Practice or a Sports Logging Interface. This gives the editor live updates for all Markers and associated metadata for a more efficient real-time workflow.

Access to this live information helps editors make fast edit decisions within a live production environment. Using Adobe Premiere Pro, the editor can make Markers as part of any edit decisions. These markers will then be exported back to the Curator MAM system where the marker information is ingested and stored alongside the original asset.

IPV’s CEO, David Cole, reports that the Adobe Premiere Pro integration will assist organizations working in live sports, reality TV and anyone wanting to speed up the production process. “Extending the editing toolset this way has significantly increased broadcast production efficiency, reduced operating costs and created a new means for driving content production in live environment,” commented David Cole.

“Our goal is always to keep products and system solutions at the leading edge of development in broadcast workflows,” said Sue Skidmore, head of partner relations for Adobe professional video. “Innovative integrations like the new IPV Curator help our customers in their day-to-day operations, by connecting and simplifying their Marker and metadata workflows.”

Visitors to NAB can see the new IPV Curator extension for Adobe Premiere Pro CC at the IPV booth, N4520. The extension is available to buy now through IPV’s international reseller network.

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Introducing ClipLink, a brand new search experience

May 24, 2016, 6:26 am

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We have created a brand new search experience for our new and existing users, through the development of a new search application we call ‘ClipLink’.

Given other search tools available on the broader internet, users are familiar with initiating a search via a single search box on a page, this is colloquially termed a ‘Google-style search’. The ClipLink application provides you with a simple, intuitive search which is initially broad but can be narrowed down by using filtering tools to explore the dataset and pinpoint assets and asset types. This application is so simple to use that even if you are completely unfamiliar with our Curator system, you can intuitively explore the dataset and find the assets you’re looking for.

A common theme within IPV’s search tools is the option to filter a search to include only a subset of the available asset types. For example, searching for only video assets or video and audio assets. This simple type of filtering is regularly used and included in ClipLink.

To complement the asset type filter, the returned search results also show the type of asset which has been found, this will enhance the search experience by allowing you to filter down your broader simple search to both explore and target assets within the dataset.

To perform filtering, you are able to restrict your search results to show only assets which have a certain property or feature. For example, after searching for all ‘putts’ you can then restrict your results to show only those putts which were holed by ‘Rory Mcllroy’. You’re then able to quickly and easily initiate a workflow from the search results view.

This approach means you don’t waste time searching for things that don’t exist!

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IBC 2016 News

June 30, 2016, 1:45 am

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At IBC, IPV Focuses on Real World MAM System Economics on Premises and In the Cloud

New product bundles provide cost-effective entry point and grow in line with business expansion

Cambridge, UK, 29 June 2016 – On its IBC stand (8.D41), UK-based media asset management and technology specialist, IPV, will demonstrate the latest advances in its Curator Media Asset Management (MAM) system. IPV will showcase Curator’s Cloud enablement, delivering the same user experience whether operations are based on premises or in the Cloud. The company will demonstrate how Curator meets the needs for both on premise and cloud environments of any scale.

At the same time, IPV will showcase a new bundled pricing structure for its products which is aimed at making IPV products available to small scale users at the most cost effective price. The objective of creating bundled solutions of pre-packaged IPV components and standardized workflows is to enable customers to start with a small configuration and simple workflows, with the confidence to expand and scale the solutions up both in terms of throughput and new capabilities as their needs develop.

“These IPV bundles are designed to cover the main requirements we see in both the media and entertainment customers but to also address the growing market in corporate video production, which has very different demands and workflows,” commented Nigel Booth, Executive Vice President Business Development at IPV. “The bundles are focused around the key processes required in managing video and high value assets, ingest, edit, publish and search.”

IPV Bundles start with systems targeted at under 10 users and scale up to 50 users and beyond. In all cases each bundle can be extended to meet growing demands, so customers never reach a ceiling in their capabilities, additional users or connection to third party devices. New workflows may be added easily by upgrading to the next bundle or growing a la carte as requirements dictate.

Latest Curator enhancements on show at IBC

IPV’s Curator, Media Asset Management products dramatically streamline media management and the production processes, enabling teams to collaborate on creative work with the ability to ingest, catalogue, archive and edit content including live highlights.

Advanced metadata governance and management ensures a controlled consistent terminology is used simplifying search and collaboration to enable content factory delivery of compelling content on omnipresent digital platforms.

At IBC, IPV will be showcasing its latest tools for fast turnaround production for news, sports reality TV and archive management. Enhancements to Curator include the addition of live markers directly on to an editing timeline speeding up the creative process and an advanced portal that redefines the search experience ensuring content is found quickly and never lost.

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IPV Curator Media Asset Management

August 10, 2016, 8:58 am

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IPV Curator MAM System Helps Revolutionize Media Asset Management at NASA Kennedy Space Center

Curator integrates alongside Quantum StorNext Pro and Telestream Vantage to create elegant image capture and distribution workflow

Cambridge, UK, 1 August 2016 – UK-based media asset management and technology specialist, IPV, has announced the successful integration of its Curator Content Factory Media Asset Management (MAM) system within NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. The MAM system is being used within a fully digital solution for launch video capture and delivery systems at the Kennedy Space Center and integrates seamlessly alongside a Quantum StorNext 5 storage system and Telestream Vantage content transcoding.

On this project, IPV collaborated with North American channel partner, StorExcel, which worked as a key advisor to the project on content and workflow integration issues. “We wanted to give NASA a state-of-the-art video workflow system based on best-of-breed solutions that we knew would work well together and provide optimal value based on our own experience.” said Kurt Clawson, CTO, M&E Technology at StorExcel.

There are not very many imaging environments more challenging, or more critical, than the one that supports launches at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. During any liftoff, 80 to 100 cameras capture the event from every possible angle, and they keep tracking the rocket and its payload until it passes out of range at a height of about 8,000 feet. The data, which include images and video taken with high-resolution cameras at speeds of up 1000 frames per second, weigh in today at around 200TB per launch, and they must be made available to scientists and flight specialists in several different NASA centers as quickly as possible.

The still images and video files collected within NASA serve multiple purposes and need to be available to different audiences in different formats and resolutions. Scientists use them to assess effectiveness of equipment, systems, and procedures. The security team uses them as part of its surveillance procedures. And the public affairs department uses them to communicate the agency’s mission to its internal audience and to provide images to the general public.

At the same time, the list of organizations using Kennedy Space Center for launches is expanding, including Boeing, SpaceX, and the European Space Agency (ESA), which managed the International Space Station (ISS). “The video footage we collect is an irreplaceable asset that must be protected and retained, as well as being made available to a wide range of different users at different locations, which makes the management task particularly challenging,” Jeff Wolfe, Communications System Analyst at Abacus Technology said.

When NASA wrote the requirements for a 21st-century workflow solution, it had several key considerations. The system needed to provide high performance to allow all the data to be downloaded from cameras within 24 hours of a launch. It needed to be able to scale to support future missions and higher resolution formats. It needed to store and retain multiple copies of files for protection and future use, and to give all users access to content as an automated part of the workflow. It needed to be compatible with media asset management and the workflow solutions used by other offices, including Apple Xsan.

Within the new NASA workflow the primary disk copy from the StorNext system is accessed by users directly while the files are active. As content ages and becomes inactive, it is removed from the disk, but an archive copy remains available in the archive for users to access. Files and metadata for them are visible through the IPV Curator media asset manager for all content, whether they are located on disk or in the archive. For long-term retention, the second tape copy is removed from the library and stored in a secure, off-line location.

“After rigorous design and testing, NASA has an elegant workflow where video files get into the system at high speed, everything is protected immediately so the data is safe and secure, and all the assets are available immediately to users using a single IPV management interface,” explains Nigel Booth, EVP Business Development at IPV. “Abacus Technology and StorExcel have designed a multi-vendor solution that gives everyone faster access to the data, to make content searches and retrieval quick and easy, and to reduce the amount of administration time.”
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Content Factory Extension to Adobe Premiere Pro CC

September 23, 2016, 12:49 am

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European Debut for IPV Curator Content Factory Extension to Adobe Premiere Pro CC at IBC 2016

Updated Curator UI provides smoother transition to Adobe Premiere Pro Creative Cloud, seamless interaction helps editors monitor assets and metadata from multiple sources in real-time

Cambridge, UK, 6 September 2016 – On its IBC stand (8.D41), UK-based media asset management and technology specialist, IPV, will exhibit for the first time in Europe a new integration, its Curator media asset management (MAM) system and Adobe® Premiere® Pro CC. The result of long-term collaboration between IPV and Adobe^®, the new Curator extension features an intuitive User Interface (UI) providing a seamless workflow with Adobe Premiere Pro CC.

Inside Adobe Premiere Pro CC, IPV Content Curator allows editors access to assets, projects, notifications and metadata from multiple sources in real-time. New Live Markers enable users to import assets from Curator into Adobe Premiere Pro CC, where they can monitor the content for any Clip Marks or Tags made by other Curator users such as a Standards and Practice or a Sports Logging Interface. New markers and all associated metadata are available to them live in real-time.

Real-time information helps editors to make fast edit decisions, enhancing the agility of live production teams. Using Adobe Premiere Pro CC, editors can make Markers as a part of any edit decisions: these markers will then be exported back to the Curator MAM system where the marker information is ingested and stored alongside the original asset.

“The panel enhancements integrate the production and editing environments into a single user interface, so editors can see video tags and annotations as they occur making this a must for any fast turn around events such as news and sports,” commented Nigel Booth, EVP Business Development at IPV. “At IBC, we will also be showcasing our “News run-down” panel that communicates directly to the News Room Computer System through the industry standard MOS protocols. Work Orders, jobs, assignment, priority and publishing for playout is now available directly from inside the Adobe Premiere Pro user interface.”

“Our focus is on keeping our customers on the leading edge with evolving technologies and production workflows,” said Sue Skidmore, head of partner relations for professional video at Adobe. “Innovative technologies like the IPV Content Curator extend and enrich the toolset for our customers and help them to simplify and streamline their day-to-day operations.”

Visitors to IBC can see the new IPV Curator extension for Adobe Premiere Pro CC at the IPV stand, 8.D41. The extension is available to buy now through IPV’s international reseller network.

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IPV CEO, Dave Cole talks to IABM at IBC2016

October 13, 2016, 6:36 am

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IPV Curator brings better third-party integration and creative working to 2017 NAB Show

March 27, 2017, 4:04 am

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MAM provider at 2017 NAB Show: If you can’t find it, you can’t use it

Cambridge, UK. 15 March 2017 – At the 2017 NAB Show, media management technology specialist IPV will present the latest advances of its in-demand Curator MAM system. These include extended third-party integration and easier user collaboration and will be demonstrated in the north hall, booth N5925.

Significant advancements have been made to Curator’s integrated panels within Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects. Users across any creative service using the editing and effects software now have more tools available to them to find, edit and manage stored or archived content faster and more easily, no matter where they are.

The Adobe-integrated panels lets users search discover and add live markers to content, check in and out assets, and allow the straight-forward overall management of productions, tasks or sequences. This kind of integration makes it easier for multiple editors or effects artists to collaborate on projects from wherever they are, on whichever edit station.

Curator will also demonstrate how its latest advanced proxy workflows let editors create projects even if the original high-resolution content is archived or unavailable. It lets them ‘remote render’ assets which applies effects and transitions to source material no matter where it’s stored – even if it’s in another country.

“This kind of speed and connectivity and collaboration is important in today’s post-production and asset management,” explains David Cole, CEO at IPV. “As content owners continue to create and store more assets, they must be easy to find and use, or they’re worthless. And this better integration with Adobe software and our extended system connectivity enables that.”

At the show, IPV will also display the Curator system’s latest enhancements in metadata search. Whether automated or manually added, easy search and restore of assets via metadata underpins a MAM systems’ search and management of archived content. IPV Curator lets users in any organisation easily use tagged metadata to find and restore content wherever they are, from multiple distributed storage platforms including the cloud.

“The reason we keep refining the IPV Curator system the way we do is because we work to the mantra: If you can’t find it, you can’t use it,” added Cole. “At the show, our aim is simple – we want to show how Curator can make it easier for you to find your media and make the best use of it, letting you realize the true value of your assets.”

Designed to be hosted either on a cloud-hosted service, installed on-premises or a hybrid of the two, Curator is able to scale up or down for a content owner to meet demand when it’s at its peak. The system will be on display on booth N5925 at the 2017 NAB Show between 24 – 27 April 2017.

22 – 27 April 2017
North Hall
Booth N5925

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IPV Curator extends remote editing workflows with enhanced Adobe integration

April 22, 2017, 3:36 am

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IPV’s MAM system streams proxies for better use of talent and resources

Cambridge, UK. 19 April 2017 – At the 2017 NAB Show, IPV will be showing several significant improvements to the integrations between its MAM system, Curator, and Adobe Creative Cloud^® software including Adobe^® Premiere^® Pro CC and Adobe After Effects^® CC and the Adobe Team Projects (Beta) collaboration service.

The latest versions of the integrated panels for the Adobe video applications will be demonstrated on booth N5925 and will show how editors and producers benefit from easy access to content and improved asset management. Most importantly, the integrations make it easier for editors and post-production professionals to work with Curator-managed assets, no matter where the assets are stored.

Adobe Team Projects, currently in beta, enables teams in different locations to work together on shared sequences and comps in real time smoothly and securely. With Adobe Team Projects workflows, Adobe Premiere Pro, Prelude and After Effects users can create and work on team projects from any location using local or network-shared assets. Working in a comfortable, familiar home base or studio, makes it easier to keep the focus on the creative elements of their jobs, with their content managed by Curator. Even when original high-resolution content is archived or unavailable, streaming proxy files using Curator’s integrated panels with Adobe Premiere Pro allows editors to continue with their work, without unnecessary delays.

Once editing is complete, users can also ‘remote render’ assets with Curator, applying effects and transitions to source material no matter where it’s stored – even if it’s in another country.

“Our integration with industry-leading software like Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects, including the Team Projects collaboration service, means users of our Curator system are more easily able to move, manage and monetize their assets,” said David Cole, CEO at IPV.

The Adobe-integrated panels also lets users search for and discover assets as well as add live markers to media, check in and out content, and allow the straight-forward overall management of productions, tasks or sequences. The solution makes it easier for multiple editors or effects artists to collaborate on from wherever they are, on whichever edit station. Adobe Team Projects is available now for Adobe Creative Cloud for teams and enterprise customers.

The system will be on display on booth N5925 at the 2017 NAB Show between 24 – 27 April 2017.

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Dave Cole, CEO & Ewan Johnston, SVP Worldwide Sales discuss Curator developments ahead of NAB

April 22, 2017, 3:44 am

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IPV and Spectra Logic partner to manage BlackPearl-stored content

April 26, 2017, 12:57 am

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Curator MAM system integrated with BlackPearl converged storage system for faster content access

Cambridge, UK. 25 April 2017 – In an announcement that enables Spectra Logic storage system users to more easily manage their stored content, the company (Spectra Logic) has certified IPV as one of its technology partners. IPV’s MAM system Curator is now directly integrated with the BlackPearl converged storage system, helping content producers and owners address the needs of today’s content production infrastructures.

Having easy, fast access to media in order to create engaging programming has become increasingly important for users creating, broadcasting and publishing content for a number of different platforms in multiple formats. The partnership between IPV and Spectra Logic lets users more effectively manage their media’s growing number of variants and ensure it is stored long-term on the most appropriate storage tier – whether cloud, tape or spinning disc.

The IPV-integrated BlackPearl system can be easily deployed in a number of ways including in the cloud, on-premises or in a hybrid workflow of the two. This means users can migrate away from outdated legacy storage and management systems and design a modern, easy to use solution that works best for them, with a predicted cost model as the system scales.

“Making sure users can benefit from the right storage system underneath their MAM is key to letting our customers make, manage and move their media in the right way,” said Nigel Booth, EVP business development and marketing at IPV. “Being certified as a partner by Spectra Logic, and being able to integrate our Curator system into BlackPearl, lets joint users deliver content from a workflow that better suits today’s media production market.”

By combining IPV Curator and Spectra Logic’s BlackPearl, systems are given a level of built-in intelligence that makes sure stored content is done so on the right storage tier. Using Curator’s contextual metadata and the flexibility of the BlackPearl platform, assets are designated a level of deep storage not just based on their age but their usage and relevance.

This means assets relevant to a breaking story will be available when users need them, media stays online until it’s been delivered and scheduled to the right platform and source material remains accessible while users work on multiple versions of the same media.

“Spectra Logic’s BlackPearl converged storage system uses a cloud architecture model to simplify deployment, use, and management of large data sets,” said Matt Starr, chief technology officer, Spectra Logic. “Integrating our deep storage solution with IPV in this way means that together we can deliver a solution that meets the growing demand for content by audiences.”

The joint solution can be integrated by IPV or through the company’s channel partners. The Curator and BlackPearl systems will be on display on IPV’s booth (N5925) and Spectra Logic’s booth (SL11816) at the 2017 NAB Show between 24 – 27 April 2017.

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KSE centralizes media management with IPV’s Curator

May 4, 2017, 1:05 am

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MAM system integrated by StorExcel to share media between broadcast, stadia and teams

From left to right: Brent Kline, Senior Director of Technology at KSE Media Ventures; David Cole, CEO and CTO at IPV; David Zur, SVP of Operations and Engineering at KSE Media Ventures; and Lance Hukill, President of StorExcel.

Cambridge, UK. 3 May 2017 – Media management technology specialist, IPV today announces that the KSE Network Operations Center (KNOC) located in Centennial, CO – which is the production and distribution facility for Kroenke Sports & Entertainment (KSE) network properties – has purchased its Curator MAM system.

The system will initially be used to manage media throughout the organizations post-production processes and will play a key part in the continued tactical and strategic development of the KSE network’s media properties. Installed and integrated by IPV partner StorExcel, Curator will be used by production teams that create content for the Altitude Sports & Entertainment channel which broadcasts live and studio-based programming of the KSE-owned franchises. These include the Denver Nuggets (NBA), Colorado Avalanche (NHL), Colorado Rapids (MLS) and Colorado Mammoth (NLL) as well as regional collegiate and high school sports events.

The deployment of this new media management and storage infrastructure comes as part of a larger digital content initiative aimed at the centralization, indexing and distribution of premium content across numerous KSE media outlets. As the need for media has grown across the KSE organization, IPV offers them flexibility in working with low resolution content, as well as seamless integration into their existing facility.

StorExcel will initially install the new workflow at the KNOC facility. It will sit on a storage workflow comprised of multiple Quantum storage platforms including Xcellis workflow storage and AEL Tape Library powered by StorNext advanced data management software.

“The beauty of this project is that we got to start fresh. This doesn’t come too often but we had minimal legacy systems to work around,” said Lance Hukill, President of StorExcel. “This is a project that we’ve worked closely with IPV and KSE on to make sure we can deliver the speed and easy to use of content management that are expected in today’s sports organizations.”

As well as delivering content to air for Altitude Sports & Entertainment, KNOC also shares and serves media to Pepsi Center Broadcast Services group, who support in game entertainment for the Nuggets, Avalanche and Mammoth as well as for multiple music and entertainment events.

“We knew we needed to install a system that would help us deliver content to multiple users, mostly at the same time, and as fast as possible,” said David Zur, SVP of Operations and Engineering at KSE Media Ventures. “Once we ingest media, we need to be able to log it, attach metadata, store it and access it again extremely quickly. IPV’s robust Curator system makes sure all our assets are uniform in their tagged data so they’re easy to recall. If you can’t find it, you don’t own it.”

“Centralizing and conforming our media so it’s accessible and easy to find is the initial goal of this new installation,” added Brent Kline, Senior Director of Technology at KSE Media Ventures. “The next stage of the technical deployment will see a wider roll out of the systems we’re putting in place – we’ve been very selective of the components for the first phase workflows, specifically so we can grow in the coming years with the systems we’ve chosen today.”

Initially, a small group of 15 users will use Curator to find, manage and access media for the edit of long-form and promotional content. In the next phases of the infrastructure deployment, content will be made more widely available across the entire KSE family of businesses.

The IPV Curator system and associated storage workflow will be installed and operational by the end of May.

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IPV presents the Curator MAM system on Digital Production BuZZ

June 7, 2017, 12:43 am

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Following a successful 2017 NAB Show in Las Vegas, IPV’s Nigel Booth was invited as a guest onto Digital Production BuZZ, the podcast which works to keep listeners in touch with trends and technologies within digital production, post-production and distribution.

The show’s host Larry Jordan wanted to get to know IPV to better understand MAM, systems that are commonly misunderstood or simply not used. In their interview, Nigel describes the Curator system and speaks about the different production infrastructures that it’s perfectly suited to including broadcast – the product’s key driver – enterprise, sports and increasingly reality, or ‘unscripted’ TV.

In a world where more and more products are being turned into services and deployed in ways that don’t rely on hardware, Nigel explains to Larry how Curator’s flexible nature means it can be deployed in several states whether on- or off-premises, in the cloud or as a subscription service to name a few. He also speaks about Curator’s industry-leading proxy workflows as an important element to the system as editors can work with low-res versions of content, to instantly share edits and assets.

“In the context of clients we have such as Hearst […] – they’re registering content through their 32 different locations throughout the US, and proxies are being created locally and are then able to be shared right the way across the enterprise. So if somebody sees the requirement to use a piece of high res content, we will move it in the background seamlessly.”

Curator is also an incredibly scalable solution which can be implemented for anything from just a couple of users up to many users in any number of locations. Nigel explains “we often say that part of the beauty of Curator is it’s an extremely flexible solution but of course part of the problem is, it’s an extremely flexible solution.”

To listen to the interview which aired on May 4 2017 use the media player below. Or to read a full transcript of it head to www.Digitalproductionbuzz.com.

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Dave Cole talks MAM on IABM TV at IBC2017

October 2, 2017, 1:08 am

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At IBC2017, our CEO Dave Cole sat down with the IABM’s Ben Dales to talk about media asset management, the latest advancements in our Curator platform and our presence at Europe’s leading media, entertainment and technology show.

Dave spoke to Ben about how the flexible and scalable nature of Curator enables creative businesses to make the most from their assets. Whether focused on ingest and acquisition of assets or post-production and management of content, Curator can be deployed in a way to best suit the end user.

As more users recognize the benefits of off-premise deployments, we’re seeing more of our customers shift towards cloud- or hybrid-based MAM systems. Because Curator is built on a suite of microservices, it’s always been easy for us to take advantage of new technology developments, meaning we are already rolling it out in the cloud or in an on/off-premise deployment.

And while cloud was the talk of the town at the show because it benefits users by connecting remote workers and content workflows, it’s really down to what works best for each customer – on-premise, off-premise or hybrid.

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October 2, 2017, 1:15 am

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Just before IBC2017, I once again joined Larry Jordan on the Digital Production BuZZ podcast. On the show, we spoke about the benefits of deploying MAM in the cloud and how our Curator system can integrate with artificial intelligence (AI) tools for a much richer asset management experience.

Curator is available as an on-premise, cloud or hybrid deployment. At IBC, we demonstrated the cloud-based possibilities of the system on the Microsoft booth, where our integration with Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services demo gained a lot of attention.

With today’s connected production environments, benefiting from the cloud isn’t just about storage and creating a proxy. It’s about streaming content and giving multiple users the ability to interact with all their available assets in a distributed environment.

On the show, I also explained to Larry that by integrating with Microsoft’s AI tools, IPV can easily offer advanced features including voice-to-text and object recognition within the content. This means that it can be analyzed and ingested directly into Curator with additional metadata for richer search and retrieval.

Listen to my full interview with Larry Jordan on Digital Production BuZZ here.

Listen two an excerpt of the interview.

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IPV to demonstrate its cloud-based editing capabilities at NAB Show New York

October 4, 2017, 9:59 am

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Media management specialist offers flexible deployment models for its unique proxy-based workflows through the Curator platform

Cambridge, UK. October 2, 2017 – Media management technology specialist IPV will present its latest advanced production management and remote editing tools at NAB Show New York. Visitors to booth N1159 will discover how IPV’s in-demand Curator platform can make using the cloud a reality for production and creative services through its unique proxy-based workflows. They will also gain valuable insight into which type of MAM deployment – hosted service, cloud-based platform, on-premises installation or a hybrid of them all – is right for them.

More IPV MAM solutions have been deployed in North America than anywhere else in the world, as forward-thinking organizations that own and produce content recognize the benefits of being able to easily use or re-use media assets in fast turnaround workflows such as sports. This is particularly relevant as the focus shifts from the management of single assets to complete creative services workflows for entire productions, incorporating the required elements such as video graphics and effects.

The Curator platform arrives at NAB Show New York with increased functionality for editors, following recent high-profile integrations with Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects, and Avid. From hosted services to SAAS, subscription, and on-prem & off-prem to the more typical hybrid approach, IPV’s MAM solutions allow editing from the cloud to live production. By registering content from any location proxies, will be created and shared geographically across a distributed workforce. This means that multiple copies of high resolution are avoided and access to assets made available to everyone in the team.

As the amount of content being created continues to grow, so does the need to be able to manage, find and retrieve it easily. New third party cognitive services based on artificial intelligence are set to revolutionise metadata tagging, which was once a labor-intensive task. Available through IPV’s Curator platform, this emerging technology augments the logging and annotation of content as well as the use of controlled and cleaned vocabulary to ultimately make finding content much simpler. These AI advancements will be on show on the IPV booth throughout NAB Show New York.

“North America is our biggest market, and we have many high-profile clients that are using our Curator platform including Hearst, The Golf Channel, Turner, Home Depot, AMPAS, A+E, NASA and Monster Energy, so it’s important that we’re present at a key industry gathering like NAB Show New York,” said Dave Cole, IPV’s CEO. “With the growing amount of assets that broadcasters, sports organizations and enterprises are creating, it’s never been more important to have a streamlined asset management system such as Curator. If a content owner cannot search for and find its valuable assets, then it may as well not have them.”

As well as exhibiting at NAB Show New York, IPV will also host two seminars at the event in the Connected Media|IP Theater. The first is at 2pm on Wednesday October 13, and the second is on Thursday October 14 at 11am.

NAB Show New York takes place at NYC’s Javits Convention Center from Wednesday 18 to Thursday 19 October. IPV’s booth is N1159, which is located on Exhibit Hall Level 3 in Hall 3B.

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