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Aviator Automation

Cut complexity with modern playout automation

Create advanced playout, management, and advertising workflows that make life easier for your teams, reduce your costs, and let you capitalize on opportunities.

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Scalable and reliable multichannel playout automation

With Aviator Automation™ you can optimize your entire playout operation with greater efficiency, speed, and control. Our intuitive UI provides a singular view of your multichannel and multiplatform channel origination, enabling consolidated management of dynamic playlist requirements to deliver the highest quality viewer experiences. It’s a powerfully converged solution ready for anywhere operation.

Benefits

Bring powerful automation to your playout operations — streamlining and reducing the workload without compromising on quality.

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Put viewer experinces first

Deliver best-in-class playout, automation and support across every deployment to maintain and exceed the quality on your channels.

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Get to market fast

Add hybrid automation to your pre-configured workflows and orchestration, to dynamically manage and play channels anywhere.

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Enable true flexibility

Quickly add and integrate new media modes, and realize efficiencies through automation and scalability.

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Prioritize consistency

Provide the same viewer experience across channels and streams, with automation that can easily scale as your business does.

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Simplify operations

Streamline the process of adding clips, idents, ads, and transitions with a single, automated workflow.

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Unlock more profits from advertising

Deliver regional and hyper-localized advertising across broadcast models, with linked-list splits and joins.

Understanding the solution

Support multisite operations with a hybrid automation system that bring dynamic, agile processes to enable your channels anywhere.

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Improve reliability

Access automatic redundancy options including hot failover, cold standby and N+1, N+M.

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Consolidate and accelerate operations

Automate playout for third-party engines like Amagi.

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Deploy anywhere

Seamlessly deploy to cloud, on-premises or hybrid environments via integration with Aviator Orchestrator.

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Unify visibility

Centralize how you manage your playlists, with multiple configurable views through one interface.

Features

Put all the pieces together for industry-leading playout

Channel origination and playout

Channel landing page provides simple, high-level overview of all channels and their status

Easily visualize and operate multiple playlists at the same time

Primary event control for clips and live events

Secondary event control for graphics, MCS transitions, and more

Traffic integration with BXF protocol

Traffic Translator to apply schedule translation rules

Playlist management: create, modify, save, load, or append playlists

Workflows and operations

Requests for missing media and automatic cache and export missing media log

As-run creation and stored on central database; viewer for easy display and export

Fast event editing: Insert, delete, copy/paste, drag/drop and modify primary and secondary events

Event status and error monitoring, including QC status and QC actions

Offline list editing

Clocks/Timers: Playlist time, remaining duration, break duration, gap / overlap warning, time to event and more

GPI Triggers

Advanced secondary event management, select types to be hidden or displayed

Premium-quality content delivery

Preview any clip or graphic event in the playlist

Thumbnail preview of channel output

Playlist control: Play, Ripple, Stop, Clear Schedule, etc.

Third-party control: Imagine video servers, routers, multiviewers, custom drivers, GPO

Integration layer with RESTful API to integrate with third parties

Event containers to group shows or commercial breaks; easily expand/collapse and re-order

Find & Replace in current list or selected lists

System health status with detailed metrics

Our Technology Partners

Imagine Communications partners with some of the industry’s most innovative companies to develop open-standard solutions that enable you to simplify your business operations, resolve workflow challenges and capitalize on emerging market opportunities.

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Powerful alone, exceptional together.

Create your winning team to efficiently and cost-effectively meet the requirements of any playout or channel origination environment.

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Synchronize content, playlists, metadata, and channel status across all your on-prem and cloud-based sites.

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Launch new SD, HD, and UHD channels quickly and cost effectively in SDI, IP, and hybrid environments.

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Nexio+™ AMP

Seamlessly and reliably manage digital content from ingest to playout.

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Versio™ Content Portal

Manage all your playout assets, including video, audio, and graphics, for full control of key workflows.

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Versio™ IOX Storage

Easily scale capacity or bandwidth without having to take your system off-air.

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Services

Maximize your return on investment and minimize risk with Imagine’s full range of services to support, manage, guide, and optimize your applications and infrastructure. Our unique processes, tools, and methods ensure your business success.

Consulting

Our global team of experts will help you determine the workflows, processes, and goals needed to deliver your future success.
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Professional Services

We help you plan and design a system, get up and running, train your team, and work with you to ensure you get maximum ROI.
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Customer Care

Our highly trained support pros stand ready 24/7 to keep your systems running smoothly so you can stay focused on running your business.
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Training

Enhance your technical and professional skills while increasing productivity and efficiency when you enroll in our unique training courses.
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Insights and resources

Blog

Meet Imagine’s Vice President, Americas Sales — 8 questions for Kyle Luther

Kyle brings to the role more than 25 years of experience in media & entertainment and an impressive resume that includes sales leadership positions with…
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Blog

Disaster Recovery vs. Business Continuity for Broadcast Playout: What’s the difference and why does it matter?

Andy Warman demystifies the crucial differences between disaster recovery and business continuity in the realm of broadcast playout systems.
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Video

Hybrid Cloud Strategies

Hear experts from Sinclair, FOX Television Stations, NBCUniversal Local, Imagine and Bitcentral discuss technical and business decisions around what workflows are best supported on-premises and…
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