FORK 4.0 Production Suite

At the 2013 NAB Show, Primestream will be exhibiting FORK 4.0, the newest version of its acclaimed FORK Production Suite for managing and automating broadcast workflows. With new modules, features, technological improvements, and integration with third-party broadcast workflows, FORK 4.0 is – as Primestream explained – more responsive, powerful, extendable, and adept at managing large-scale and multisite installations.

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FORK 4.0 Production Suite

New modules include the customizable FORK Logger metadata-tagging tool that allows for logging live and recorded video, as well as workflows for Avid Media Composer and elegant archiving integrations with Quantum StorNext. Improvements to FORK’s underlying technology — such as FORK Drones, dynamic metadata forms, and scripts — increase the software’s stability, reliability, and functionality, enabling FORK 4.0 to manage larger installations more efficiently and operate within today’s workflows for multiscreen delivery.

FORK Logger 1.0
The Primestream® FORK™ Logger 1.0 is a new cross-platform module that’s part of the acclaimed FORK Production Suite 3.5. The module is a powerful metadata-tagging tool that allows for logging live or prerecorded video. Its tightly integrated and configurable user interface enables content loggers to tag video with defined metadata into the FORK environment effortlessly, making assets easier to manage, automate, and monetize.

The heart of the FORK Logger is a dynamic GUI that contains form panels, button panels, video viewers, marker thumbnail lists, and a bin list of created events, all of which are tools that can be combined — many in a dynamic way — based on the content. FORK Logger supports multiple layouts per system. Users can work live with ingesting feeds or can call up existing clips inside FORK. With FORK Logger, users can log video files so that they can be searched, filtered, and organized by any metadata entry inside FORK Content Navigator™.

FORK Xchange Suite 2.0
Primestream will exhibit version 2.0 of FORK Xchange Suite, the application that gives broadcasters instant Web access to content on their FORK Production servers from any Windows®, Mac®, or tablet device. FORK Xchange Suite 2.0, an add-on to Primestream’s highly acclaimed FORK software platform for managing and automating broadcast workflows, contains new capabilities for creating subclips and markers, as well as an upload manager, extended metadata functionality, multitrack audio control, and more new features that make it easier for media enterprises to manage content efficiently among multiple FORK Production sites.

DigIT 1.0
Primestream will debut new DigIT 1.0, a server-based software application that helps broadcast, government, entertainment, and corporate IT departments to monitor their broadcast IT operations. The application can monitor individual servers in addition to the FORK production server, making it much easier for IT administrators to manage any kind of broadcast-related IT activity. Facilities can monitor mission critical servers and applications, quickly identify performance bottle necks, recover and prevent from system failures, and reduce downtime and operational costs.

Adobe Premiere Pro Integration
At the 2013 NAB Show, Primestream will demonstrate the enhanced level of integration of FORK with both Adobe Premiere Pro and the new Adobe Creative Suite Production Premium on Windows and Mac OS X. Using a newly developed panel, Premiere Pro users are able to search and browse the FORK media asset database with speed; select clips, bins, or timelines created in the FORK Editor; and simply drag those items into a Premiere Pro project. When an edited sequence is complete, users can send the project — ready for air — to FORK or into a newsroom system placeholder.(3/13)