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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.
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.
Put viewer experinces first
Deliver best-in-class playout, automation and support across every deployment to maintain and exceed the quality on your channels.
Get to market fast
Add hybrid automation to your pre-configured workflows and orchestration, to dynamically manage and play channels anywhere.
Enable true flexibility
Quickly add and integrate new media modes, and realize efficiencies through automation and scalability.
Prioritize consistency
Provide the same viewer experience across channels and streams, with automation that can easily scale as your business does.
Simplify operations
Streamline the process of adding clips, idents, ads, and transitions with a single, automated workflow.
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.
Improve reliability
Access automatic redundancy options including hot failover, cold standby and N+1, N+M.
Consolidate and accelerate operations
Automate playout for third-party engines like Amagi.
Deploy anywhere
Seamlessly deploy to cloud, on-premises or hybrid environments via integration with Aviator Orchestrator.
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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Create your winning team to efficiently and cost-effectively meet the requirements of any playout or channel origination environment.
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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.
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.
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.
Training
Enhance your technical and professional skills while increasing productivity and efficiency when you enroll in our unique training courses.
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