WESTFORD, MASS. & LONDON—European soccer fans have earned a reputation on their passion for their teams, and the fans of Premier League club Arsenal are no different. To help satisfy its fans cravings for content, Arsenal Broadband Ltd now uses the Aframe cloud video platform to streamline video-based workflows.

Arsenal Broadband creates and manages the club’s video content, including documentaries, interviews and match day coverage. The coverage is then published on Arsenal Player, which is an on-demand online video portal with more than 1.6 million fans. Aframe helps ingest the HD media directly from the camera in its native format and uploads it to a cloud storage facility through accelerated UDP file transfer technology. The club also uses the Aframe for logging, providing easy access to videos.

“Aframe has really simplified the process, as the editors can now download the metadata from the platform and load it to Adobe Premiere within minutes,” said John Dollin, senior systems and operations manager, Arsenal Broadband Ltd. “We can also share the content simply by sending a link, and our teams can watch the footage on any device.”

WESTFORD, MASS. & LONDON—Aframe has released the latest version of its cloud video collaboration platform. New features include expanded file transfer capabilities and format support, new security controls and media library management, enhanced audio within the player and more.

This new version of Aframe supports HTML5 file transfer within the web browser and allows users to upload directly from iOS and Android devices. Aframe’s Desktop app now includes a new settings page that facilitates transfer management through protocol and network utilization controls.

Aframe’s new security controls build on its metrics dashboard and user hierarchies with a new page the enables administrations to configure services for all users within their accounts. From this page administrators can create custom roles and abilities for user types and apply them to all or a selection of users, mass-enable/disable features, and manage security settings across all interactions with customer content.

Additional features include a new audio track selection to its media player, allowing users to mute and enable audio tracks present in the original source media while previewing video in the browser. There is also a new media library model that lets users batch-consolidate media files and copy them from one project to another. In addition, users can now preview, share and annotate native OP-Atom MXF media from Avid Media Composer and Blackmagic Design’s DaVinci Resolve directly from their browsers as part of the expanded format support on ingest.

Aframe is also offering a webinar for its Fall Release, which you can register for here.

ISELIN, N.J.—Asia TV USA is a media distributor that delivers the content of India’s Zee TV network and its U.S.-based Z Living health and entertainment network worldwide. Z Living produces such popular shows as “Good Food America,” “A Model Guru,” and “The Lisa Oz Show.”

Since our global operations span both coasts of the U.S., and include Mumbai, London, and Singapore, a cloud-based workflow is the only way we can make it all work. We use the Aframe cloud video collaboration platform as our central library archive and to facilitate ad sales and syndication.

Asia TV USA uses Aframe to manage content across global locations.NO MORE SNEAKERNET
When I joined the company three years ago, we had just brought in Aframe; before that we were shipping everything around on drives or tapes. Being an Indian-based company, we work with colleagues in Delhi, Mumbai and Noida, and getting drives in and out of customs is a nightmare. With Aframe, we’ve eliminated all of that and realized huge savings in shipping costs. Most importantly, we no longer wait for hard drives and tapes to reach their destinations or worry about the media being damaged or corrupted. We store our entire library on Aframe so if clients want something in its original format we just send a link and the delivery is done. Aframe also stores our audio stems, scripts, and other items that are part of a syndication package.

Our Aframe seats are spread evenly worldwide and are used to accomplish many different tasks. In Los Angeles, our creative team uses Aframe to preview shows and look for clips to use in promos. In New York, the sales team uses it to receive ads from clients, review and approve them, then forward me the links to the finals to send off for broadcast. Overseas, our syndication teams use Aframe to download lower resolution clips to iPads to take them into client meetings. Uploads can happen from any location, and we particularly like giving ad content creators ftp “upload-only” access, which doesn’t take up any of our user seats.

Our house standard format is XDCAM 50 MXF but we work with many other standards because third-party productions may deliver material from ProRes to MP4 and everything in between. What’s great about Aframe is that it just handles them all, ingesting and also automatically transcoding to a proxy that sales executives can view to confirm content, then send to me to transcode locally for whatever broadcast spec is needed.

GLOBAL WORKFLOW
Right now Aframe is facilitating our expansion to Z Living offshoots in Latin American countries as well as in Russia and in Dubai, U.A.E. The content will be a combination of some programming originally in Hindi and some originally in English. We’re making NTSC and PAL versions of our entire library in unmixed format so we can overdub in Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic and Russian. The first step happens in Mumbai, where they create the unmixed content and upload to Aframe. Our Miami team will then translate it and upload the new voiceover to Aframe for our team in New Jersey to pull down, comp in the Avids, then upload show masters back to Aframe for broadcast. It’s truly a global workflow.

Michael Tuttle is the manager for broadcast operations for Asia TV USA, which includes Zee TV US operations and Z Living. Michael can be reached atmike.tuttle@asiatvusa.comor by phone at 845-474-0037.

For more information, visitwww.aframe.comor call 978-799-9440.