A new ingest architecture from Telestream aims to unify live capture, camera card ingest and file-based workflows, using AI to produce system-aware, standards-compliant metadata.
A new ingest architecture from Telestream aims to unify live capture, camera card ingest and file-based workflows. The company will introduce its new strategy, called Global Ingest, at IBC 2025.
Based on the Telestream Vantage platform, its workflow capabilities are designed for flexibility, scalability and efficiency, and support on-premises, hybrid and cloud environments. Central to the approach is Telestream's practical use of AI. Rather than generating unstructured, unrelated metadata, Telestream Global Ingest produces system-aware, standards-compliant metadata, structured at the point of capture.
Instant Operability
This ability means that data immediately becomes interoperable with a range of platforms such as Avid’s NLE, Iconik cloud-based asset management and Mimir cloud media production and collaboration. In this way, Global Ingest helps to accelerate editorial, archive discovery and distribution workflows, and avert bottlenecks.
"The purpose of Global Ingest is to change a fragmented technical hurdle into a unified entry point for high-speed production, and result in operational efficiency," said Charlie Dunn, EVP of Product Management at Telestream. "By standardising ingest on the Vantage platform, proprietary vendors and pre-determined integrations are not needed to move content from sources into editorial or MAM systems with speed and precision. Ingest works as a strategic advantage rather than a workflow gap."
From Live Capture to Real-time 10-bit Playback
Global Ingest supports media operations ranging from high-performance, real-time ingest for live sports and news, to scalable file-based ingest for post-production and media supply chains. Its tools include the Vantage Live Capture ingest engine, supporting ST 2110, SDI, SRT, NDI, MPEG-TS and RTMP. In a single RU, users can centralise ingest from IP, SDI and tape-based sources while supporting up to 16 channels. With deep codec support, Live Capture directly integrates into editorial and MAM systems such as Avid and Adobe.
Live Schedule PRO 2.0 is a high-availability scheduling platform with clustered deployment, automation and failover capabilities. Its design for continuous operation makes it suitable for live newsrooms, sports broadcasters and other environments that need to ingest material continuously.
Telestream's Camera Card ingest, tightly integrated with Vantage, extracts metadata as a part of multi-destination workflows. It can accelerate turnaround times for editors, and supports modern content production at scale.
Review, a professional-grade player for distributed teams working with live and captured media, features real-time 10-bit native playback, scopes and audio monitoring. Review supports remote editorial collaboration without first having to generate proxies.
Telestream will show Global Ingest running on the Vantage platform at IBC2025. www.telestream.net
