CFRT

Success story: French Radio Television Committee (1st phase)

With a library of over 2,000 hours of video, French Radio Television Committee (CFRT) management decided to set up a full-fledged digital library containing all its productions since 1948.

The project

Provide access to the widest possible audience, both in-house and externally, for all or a specific part of CFRT program recordings.

• Organize all the audiovisual by content, medium, rights, etc. in order to facilitate notification.

• Facilitate access and searches within the CFRT database.

• Avoid supplementary costs for duplicating audiovisual files to physical media.

The Manreo Solution

• Enables a specific description of audiovisual files according to their nature, content, and copyrights.

• Offers an intranet and Internet interface featuring search functions along with instant viewing and retrieval of videos based on user access rights.

• Manages file storage in multiple resolutions.

Advantages

• Digitizes all audiovisual files for faster storage and processing.

• Adaptable to any legacy archive management system to ensure smooth operation.

• Full text and multiple-criteria searches for optimal retrieval time.

Benefits

• Saves time and improves productivity through video previews, thereby reducing the transmission of physical files.

• Optimizes the production of new programs by offering access to existing audiovisual tapes.

• Leverages archive resources among both in-house and external users via the Internet.

Specific Services

• Intranet viewer interface accessible to the widest possible audience.

• Customized documentation interface.

Success story: French Radio Television Committee (2nd phase)

The project

• To continue to offer new services to Net Surfers using the existing footage over new channels.

• To implement Video On Demand and Edition On Demand with preview of video extracts and illustrative photographs.

The Manreo solution

• A user-friendly interface to search for videos to be put on line.

• An XML file accompanies the video for easy web pages updating.

• Preview of extracts in low resolution streaming to increase speed of consultation.

• Simplified creation of video extracts and extraction of photographs in order to illustrate the contents.

• Automatic transcoding of video into required format is transparent to the user.

• An advanced interface to manage audio-visual rights covering all possible uses.

Product advantages

• Manual or automatic publication.

• Fast implementation.

• Platform from which it is possible to evolve towards multipublication, to provide an even wider range of services.

• Automated transcoding of the file in relation to its end use.

Benefits

• Optimum publication process.

• Increased services for the Net Surfers.

• Automatically updated website.