AMPP APPLICATIONS ARE INSTANTLY DEPLOYABLE. BEING HTML5-BASED, THEY ONLY REQUIRE A BROWSER
of hardware infrastructure, whether on-premises or in the cloud, and easily change to a different configuration within seconds, such as moving from a news to a live sports production,” he explains. Support is another big issue. AMPP can spot if there’s an issue developing and quickly address it before it becomes severe. “We’re modernising the support paradigm. Customers don’t have to call up and tell our support team there’s a problem, then send logs and endure a back and forth. We can proactively monitor the system health and find problems ahead of time, diagnosing it instantaneously.” EVER-EXPANDING “A wide variety of customers are interested in the platform,” says Lovely. “For example, AMPP is being used to do remote production work for traditional broadcast events – including remote monitoring for top-tier events like the Super Bowl. “Esports customers, like Blizzard and EA Sports, are using the platform to do gaming events. And The New York Times ran the Democratic National Convention broadcast with AMPP, all streaming to
their digital website; they would never have used a traditional broadcast workflow.” By using microservices to handle all the common tasks, the heavy lifting, Grass Valley doesn’t have to reinvent the wheel for every single application that comes out. As a rule, they’re able to roll out new applications rapidly. “We’re building out more of the AMPP Live Production Suite, with new applications like Replay Express, our distributed instant replay tool.” Replay Express lets users on any device with a browser quickly access playlists and clips from up to 16 ingest operations on the GV AMPP network. For playback, it enables full replay functionality and supports multiple embedded real-time monitoring screens, making it possible to easily work on small displays at home. The operators can access the content via a touchscreen, keyboard and mouse, or third-party controllers. AMPP’s new Audio Mixer is a virtualised service not only offering gain, full equaliser, compression, aux channels, pre-faders, subgroups and monitoring outputs for live streaming, but also has access to any source on the AMPP network with
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