
You then can post that content to your website. Observer allows you to bookmark the start and end of each clip you want to display and export the content. Observer’s frame-by-frame record allows you to investigate not merely whether or not the commercial played, but whether or not the commercial played in its entirety, and at what specific time it played.įor playing back your broadcast news clips on your website. Your stored content serves multiple purposes.Ĭompliance: In the event that the FCC inquires about any video segment you aired with noncompliance, you can use your stored content to investigate the charge and to either a) prove compliance with FCC regulations or b) establish precisely which frames of the video were out of compliance.Ĭustomer Complaint Resolution: You can use your stored content for business purposes, especially as a historical record to support resolving customer complaints about whether or not a commercial played during the contractual time frame. It allows the Observer to store content on each server for much longer periods of time It allows multiple users to access the Volicon solution simultaneously There are several reasons for creating a low bit rate proxy of all incoming video content: The LBRP is stored locally on the server and then streamed to each end user a individual streams, which allows multiple users to access the same content without adversely affecting other users on the Volicon solution. Next it takes the original stream content and transcodes it to a lower resolution and bit rate for storage on the Observer Server, essentially making a copy of the original source also known as a Low Bit Rate Proxy (LBRP). The Observer ingests the video and audio.

In addition, Observer allows you to log content from many different input types such as HD/SD-SDI, ASI, IP, DVB-(S, S2, T, T2), 8VSB, Clear QAM, Component, Composite, S-Video, and HDMI. It is the only product on the market that logs video content down to the individual frame level, at the same standard frame rate as the source.

You can log content at any stage of the video production or delivery process: The amount of content you can log is limited only by your storage space. Observer has the ability to log content from multiple video sources in the post production, transmission, delivery, and reception video distribution chain. Providing you with tools to monitor, manage, and share live or historical video content logged on the Observer solution.

At its core, Observer excels at two functions:

A firm understanding of Volicon Observer will help you with your work flow as you use it.
