EditShare Ships Geevs 7 Video Server

EditShare LLC, announced the version 7 of its Geevs range of ingest and playout video servers.

It adds features including integration with EditShare’s shared storage and Flow media asset management solutions.

Tara Montford, MD, EditShare, comments: “This release marks a significant milestone in EditShare’s strategy to provide resilient and collaborative solutions that simplify our customers’ workflows. Geevs 7 exemplifies this philosophy and expands our ability to provide completely integrated EditShare workflow solutions.“

Geevs broadcast servers have a wide of demanding workflows including newsroom scheduling, live sports with instant replay, and multi-camera studio ingest. With over 1,000 channels deployed on-air and  integration with third-party solutions, Geevs servers offer broadcast and post-production facilities benefits and ROI.

Geevs 7 features:

Geevs 7 provides increased functionality and features for standard Geevs Client license:

• Playback and recording of channels across multiple Geevs servers from a single client

• Descriptive markers while recording for fast content tagging

• Channel Viewer and Administrator interface redesign

• Local playback of clip files for reduced network bandwidth

• ‘Record local and push’ option adds recording resilience on slow networks

Application-specific updates for Geevs options include:

• Short-cut key for camera and marker selection in G,s Studio MC

• NLE sequences can now be imported into Geevs Live for instant playback

• Direct timecode entry for fast, precise review and playout in Geevs Sports

Geevs 7 integration across the EditShare product line:

• Enhanced integration with Flow media asset management platform includes the ability for Geevs to generate AirFlow-compatible H.264 proxy files, allowing immediate web-based access to recorded media

• QoS integration with shared storage eserves bandwidth for Geevs ingest and media playback.