Now you can pocket a whole camera crew. And while you are at it, the video
editor as well. While the photo and video options in modern mobile phones
are often on par with "real" cameras, using the material in a broadcast
scenario has so far not been feasible. Awkward file transfers and heavy
compression made sure that the resulting clips did not meet the necessary
quality standards.
Viz Reporter turns the situation around. Installed on standard mobile phones
it provides you with everything that you need to capture the moment.
Pocket sized video capturing
When the unexpected happens, every second counts. That's why the Viz Reporter
application combines all multimedia features in one easy to use interface.
Once installed, the program takes control over the phone’s hardware, making
sure that all the content is captured in the highest quality supported by
the hardware.
To prepare the content for processing at the station and for subsequent
archiving, the application uses predefined templates for metadata and
additional information, such as keywords, location or a subject for video
clips, images and audio files. Many mobile phones with a built-in GPS module
can also geo tag the content automatically. Viz Reporter even supports video
editing directly on the mobile phone.
The size of the catured files is only limited by the phones' hardware. Instead
of limiting the length of files and compressing them to fit into the limits
of an MMS, they are split up and transferred uncompressed to a Viz Reporter
server back at the station.
Controlling thousands of mobile clients
The heart and the brain of Viz Reporter are two different servers located at
the station.
The heart is the Video Transcoding Server that receives the incoming data from
all connected clients and processes the content. It supports MPEG-2 and
MPEG-4 video in both PAL and NTSC, as well as JPEG pictures for snapshots.
All incoming video files are encoded to DV25 before it being exported to a
media asset management system such as Viz Ardome or Viz Video Hub.
The brain of the system is the Application Server that controls all clients on
the mobile phones in the field. It receives the data from the different
clients, indexes it, prepares a preview, and then exports the content to the
system requesting it. The Application Server supports several hundreds or
even thousands of clients, and the number of parallel incoming streams is
only limited by the number of servers used.
Full MAM integration
Viz Reporter supports all leading media asset management systems. But for the
best integration we recommend using one of Vizrt's own Media Asset
Management systems. Both Viz Video Hub as well as Viz Ardome can be used to
store and organize the content. From there, video material can be played out
to TV or be forwarded to special streaming servers, such as the Adactus
Mobilize server. The Mobilize server can encode the content for direct use
on the Web or on mobile devices.
- Runs on standard mobile phones
- Takes direct control of the mobile phones' hardware
- All hardware features available from within the client
- Support for predefined templates on mobile devices
- Allows video editing on the mobile phone
- Geo tagging on certain phones featuring GPS
- Uncompressed transfer of captured video to the Transcoding Server
- File size limited only by the storage capacity of the mobile device
- Easy addition of meta-information on the mobile device
- Captured video material is instantly available in the Media Asset Management
system
