Tape-less automatic processing allows transmission directly from editing.

A digital system that integrally manages the production, editing and transmission of news
iDA.News, a digital system for management of news production and broadcasting developed by icube, is an innovative technology that meets the strict requirements of the Korean broadcasting environment. Interworking with the Odyssey developed in cooperation with KBS, iDA News manages news editing and broadcasting without any need of tapes. The time taken for each process is reduced considerably, because a series of news text editing, video/audio editing and cuesheet editing are conducted systematically in a high-speed network. Then, the prompter activation and transmission of video and audio are controlled in an integrated manner. In addition, iDA.News, installed in broadcasting stations deploying fiber channels, is the first automatic digital system that frees human resources from huge amount of manual works in broadcasting stations.

Client-server environment based on high-speed network

Supports high-quality digital video specification

Nonlinear video edition

Dedicated program for article editing

Cuesheet editing program directing the overall news production process

Prompter and closed-caption

Video/audio transfer by APC (Automatic Program Control)

Connection with the data management program

Dedicated control panel for editing

Supports transcoding between broadcasting formats

Supports SAN (Storage Area Network)

Supports dubbing functions

Multi-caption functions

Client-server environment based on the high-speed network

Maximizing work efficiency by sharing resources

- Storing all the article texts and video/audio clips in the server

- Accessible to the server via network from the client terminal

Preventing the quality deterioration of the video screen

- The original quality is maintained until it is transmitted

Adopting fibre channel network

- Ensuring fast speed for searching article text or video

Supporting high quality digital video specification

Supports diverse specifications of video input/output

- Supports composite, component, S-VHS and SDI input/output

High screen quality M-JPEG, DV, DVCPRO, MPEG-II video format

Nonlinear video editing

Swift screen search

- Available swift search and editing of video clip → quick editing time

Real-time processing of 200 types of 2D video effects

Easy search of screen switching point

- Presents 30 frames before and after the current frame on one screen

Built-in article text editing

Integrated audio dubbing

Dedicated program for article editing

Article transmission via Internet

Search and re-editing of articles in database

Various supplementary functions

- Spell-checker, the saurus, and icon display for broadcasting

Cuesheet edition program directing the overall news production process

Preparing article lists to be used for news

Displaying various information required for news progress

- Transmission equipment name, article length, senior reporter name and article types

Supporting smooth news progress of news PD

Simplifying the understanding structure between PD and reporter with online work instructions

Verifying online work result

- Verifying the work result of reporters on the cuesheet editing program

- Correcting the contents of article text immediately

- Simulating the prompter status in advance that an anchor person will view during the news progress

- Checking the overall problems that can occur during the news progress

Prompter and closed-caption function

Automated prompter function

- Designating different scroll speed by anchor

Closed-caption function

- Transmitting article texts scrolled on the prompter screen as it is

Video/Audio transmission by APC

Transmitting video/audio connected to the prompter

- The video clip automatically becomes the standby status before the prompter scroll starts. → If the Send button is clicked according to the PD signal, the transmission immediately starts

VCR control

- Automatic execution of all progresses such as cueing, play, stop and eject

Reducing the number of required manpower

Reducing the number of required manpower

Interworking with the transcoding system

Lower maintenance cost

Cost reduction by using the storage based on disk

Arirang TV

Established the first digital newsroom among domestic broadcasting companies in February 1997.

System configuration

- Database server

- News server

- Ten terminals for news edition

- APC & prompter station

- Video/audio transfer station

Workflow

- Arirang TV, which is a channel dedicated to foreign languages, sends out all of its broadcastings in English and Japanese.

- For news programs, it transmits originally produced articles as well as KBS news, which are translated and edited.

1. KBS news transferred via a leased line are captured and transmitted to news server

2. A reporter sends the article from the news edition terminal to news server

3. The video editing result is transmitted from the news editing terminal to news server

4. The video/audio transmission station downloads the video clips from news server

5. After the contents of video clips are verified, the headline is produced and then, news starts