NEVADA CITY, Calif.—Telestream has announced that it will now offer its industry-leading Lightspeed Live Capture multichannel video capture and processing solution as software-only. The software-only version, which will bring professional-grade live capture capabilities and formats to more workflows, both broadcast and non-broadcast, will be on display at the 2023 NAB show on booth W1501.  

“Telestream customers can now deploy a complete software-only Lightspeed Live Capture solution anywhere they want; whether that’s on Telestream Lightspeed Live Capture servers, their own servers or in a virtualized environment in the cloud,” said Telestream senior director of product management Owen Walker. “It’s the same software in a flexible form with a lower cost of entry.”

This software version of Lightspeed Live Capture supports IP formats including transport streams, SRT, NDI, and RTMP.  Additionally, due to its deep integration with Telestream Vantage workflow automation, it provides unparalleled depth in capture and media processing, the company reported. 

Telestream also announced an update to the Live Schedule browser-based application for scheduling Live Capture event recordings. The app enables events to be added to the schedule manually or through a robust API, and it has been updated with enhanced router control features. Lightspeed Live Capture can also capture media right into GLIM, which enables users to easily capture and quickly make available content for secondary uses and additional monetization. GLIM is the Telestream software for remote viewing and sub-clipping over standard internet connections.                                    

Telestream will demonstrate Lightspeed Live Capture at NAB, booth W1501, where visitors will see the company’s solutions for content creation and production and for distribution and monetization. The software-only version of Lightspeed Live Capture is planned for worldwide availability in Spring 2023.

For more information about Telestream’s NAB 2023 showcase please visit:  www.telestream.net/company/events/nab/NAB-2023.htm. 

NEVADA CITY, Calif.—Telestream has announced new functionality for its Lightspeed Live Capture platform with plans to introduce new hardware interfaces – 12G and ST 2110 – in the latest version (3.3) of the Lightspeed Live Capture system.

“This new functionality is a product of customer requests,” comments Scott Matics, senior director of product management at Telestream. “In particular, the move towards IP-based production workflows is gaining momentum and this development places Lightspeed Live Capture in the vanguard of live IP production scenarios.”

First introduced in 2019, Lightspeed Live Capture targets broadcast engineering and operations personnel who need to capture content from tape or from live event production scenarios. It has been used extensively at global sports events such as the FIFA Men’s & Women’s World Finals in Russia and France and at the Tokyo Games.

A key feature of Lightspeed Live Capture is its resilience and reliable operation, even within mission critical live production environments. This new version enables users to capture media over 12G and ST 2110, aiding the transition to IP-based workflows.

For many 4K/UltraHD workflows today, up to 4x 3G-SDI connections may be deployed to carry and create a full 4K/UltraHD image. 

12G-SDI simplifies that with transmission of the full 4K signal across a single 12G-SDI cable (12G-SDI is 11.88 Gbps, ST 2082). 

With this new functionality, Lightspeed Live Capture represents a scalable, automated, multichannel IP and SDI capture solution for ingesting live or tape-based media directly into production, post- production, and broadcast workflows, Telestream reported. 

Lightspeed Live Capture processes video in 16-bit space to preserve total source quality and it records in a wide variety of mezzanine file formats for delivery to local shared storage, SAN, NAS, object storage (S3), FTP, Aspera and more.

“The ability for broadcasters and OTT service providers to live stream over IP at scale with equivalent resilience and efficiency to linear broadcasts is becoming a critical business driver,” added Scott Matics. “These new strategic enhancements to LightSpeed Live Capture highlight our efforts to support customer needs with orchestrated IP workflows within larger content delivery ecosystems.”

More information on Lightspeed Live Capture can be found here.  

NEVADA CITY, CALIF.—Telestream will be at NAB Show New York to demonstrate Lightspeed Live Stream for live multiscreen encoding, packaging and distribution, and Lightspeed Live Capture for video capture and processing.

Telestream Lightspeed Live Stream delivers enterprise-class live streaming for media and entertainment companies, corporations, government agencies and educational facilities. It can be deployed as a stand-alone solution for live multiscreen services or combined with the Vantage Media Processing Platform via the optional Lightspeed Live Capture product.

Lightspeed Live Capture is a highly scalable and flexible multiple channel capture solution for ingesting high resolution and proxy files for use in production, post-production or broadcast workflows. Includes professional RS422 VTR control for log and capture.

Visit Telestream in the exhibit hall in booth N325.

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NEVADA CITY, CALIF.—Telestream has announced a pair of new products that are now available, the Lightspeed Live Capture and version 7 of Vantage.

Lightspeed Live Capture is a multichannel video capture and processing application designed to enable workflow between live broadcasts and companion OTT and VOD distributions. Able to operate as a standalone product or as part of the Vantage domain, Live capture is an integrated hardware and software appliance for encoding. It allows for the capture of real-time SD, HD, UHD and 4K video and encoding into mezzanine formats, while simultaneously offering a proxy for each channel being processed. Dual CPUs, a GPU and optional HEVC hardware encoder are combined for fast encodes to H.265. Formats created are compatible with Vantage Open Workflows.

New features for the updated Vantage system includes: open workflows for generating output before file input is completed; parallel processing; Timed Text Flip captioning and subtitling workflows with expanded editing features and character support; a connector to Telestream transcode factories; Vimeo support. It also introduces Secured Version Control, which allows users to update specific Vantage components at chosen times. Advanced task scheduling has also been updated.

Both Lightspeed Live Capture and Vantage 7 are now available.