Next Level Remote Production

When Cinegy Workspace is started, on the login page, you need to enter some credentials to log in to Cinegy Archive remotely:

We connect to the production system installed in Bristol, in the UK, while we are working from remote premises. We are able to access the whole Cinegy Archive from a long distance.

Cinegy Workspace has a new user-friendly interface. As already said, the application is HTML5-based, cross-platform, and can be run on any OS or any device.

In the left-hand panel, you can see all media files in Cinegy Archive, the same way you could see them in the local Cinegy Desktop application. You can go through the folders looking for the clips, you can also see the roll panels here, displaying sub-clips, and you have access to all their metadata.

When selecting the clip, its metadata is displayed on the right side.

That tool gives the option not just for browsing, but also for the initial asset editing, so we can edit any description and save it back to Cinegy Archive here.

A really great advantage is that you can not only work with the clip metadata here, but also have full access to your media. You can open the clip in the Clip Viewer and play it back in good quality.

You can also find a nice scene directly in the clip, then you can put Mark In and Mark Out points for your scene in the Clip Viewer.

You can even create the sub-clip directly from here.

The sub-clip can be opened in the Clip Viewer to be played back, to check the quality, to check whether it’s exactly what you wanted to get. You can also add some metadata here and save it back to Cinegy Archive.

Another exciting new feature of the new Cinegy Workspace is integration with Cinegy Convert and so-called Job Folders for automatic server-based processing. A brand-new function here is the ability to publish the clips on social networks. You can see how it works with YouTube publishing.

So, we have some edited clips which we’d like to publish to the YouTube channel. First, we select some nice shots in the private folder. Select the clip and find a part of this clip that we want to publish. Then create the sub-clip directly here.

To publish it on YouTube, we just need to select the "Send to job drop target" command, and we’ll see the job submission form.

Then we choose a job for publishing on YouTube.

We can also add some additional data for this processing, like a job name, which will be the YouTube clip name, as well as some comments or additional data, which will also go to YouTube. Later, they will appear as YouTube comments, clip comments after we press the "Send" button.

On the right side, you can see the processing queue and our job being queued for processing.

This process will be performed on the server side, so we don’t need to do anything else, and in the meantime, we can continue our usual work, looking through the media files, going to other clips, and doing anything we need. At any time, we can check our publishing process status by just opening the corresponding job folder.

Once the job is completed, our clip will be on the YouTube channel. Let’s open YouTube now and check if the clip is already there:

Yes, our clip is really there. We can open it and play it. The clip’s name is "King of skiing", here it is, as well as our comments, "The best moment of snowboarding". It’s exactly what we have written as a clip comment, which we have on YouTube now.

So, it has worked perfectly, and all of this we have performed sitting a good distance from our server, our main facility. Everything was done directly in our web-based application. It was a good example, how easily you can perform media editing, manage your metadata, and even publish your clip to YouTube.

Note that the same approach can be used for other Cinegy Convert functions as well. You can initiate any transcoding task or even export media from Cinegy Archive to another location, and so on. All these can be done directly from your remote office by using the new version of Cinegy Workspace.

As already said, this version is released and available on the Cinegy Customer portal. So, you can start using it at once.

We start Cinegy Capture Manager on the local machine here. You may remember that Cinegy Capture Manager used to be installed on the same server as the Capture engines. Now it’s not the case, and the difference is that it requests the server’s name to connect to.

We connect to the studio in Bristol, at a distance of about 2000 kilometers.

We can see all engines that we can manage directly from our place, start, and configure remotely. We can check the configuration, start/stop the service, and we actually have full control now. We can also see the real-time preview feeds, coming back to our place via the SRT stream. Here, we can switch to the real-time preview and see the real-time streaming from the remote server back to our local machine.

This was just a Cinegy Capture Manager, but it would be more interesting to run Cinegy Capture Control to see how we can really control these engines at remote facilities far from our place.

We run Cinegy Capture Control now and add this server for control.

We can reach both engines installed on the remote server in Bristol. Here we can see the preview; everything is exactly like it would be in the local infrastructure. We can see the dashboard with all important parameters from the server, and, of course, we can start/stop recording directly from the local machine.

We need to select the engine, the template, and press the "Record" button. The session has started; recording is running. We can also see all parameters as usual, and in the dashboard, we can see how the session is actually going. We can stop the session at any time. So, we can do everything from our location, controlling Capture engines installed at the remote premises, a long distance from our place. All daily ingest operations can now be performed from a significant distance and by Internet connection.

Cinegy Air is well-known already, but now it has the brand-new control panel. In this case, it will be the web-based control panel, which would work remotely with the Air engine.

TThe Cinegy Air web application will be running directly in the Internet browser. You can use full-screen mode, so it will be more like the desktop application, but it’s still running inside the Internet browser, and this is actually the web application, completely pure HTML5. You can connect to the engine and see a very similar picture, as you normally see in the Cinegy Air client in the Windows control panel. You can even log in to Cinegy Archive.

You will see the browser the same, as normally you can see in a Cinegy Desktop application.

It means you can operate your Cinegy Playout, your active Playout engine, in the same way you are now doing this with the Cinegy Air control application in the local environment.

You have access to the active playlist; you can preview the items, play them back, and see what is planned.

You can also select items for playout, queue them as you usually do in the Cinegy Air control application, and you can even start a queued item directly from here. You can start the next playout item with graphics, with everything, and it’s going on-air. You are operating directly from a remote location, so it’s not like you do this locally. It now works over the Internet, so everything that you can see here is completely Internet-connected.

You can also browse for the clips in Cinegy Archive, and you have the Archive Browser here, just like in the Cinegy Air control application in Windows, you can take the clips from the browser and insert them into the playlist via drag-and-drop. Actually, the most common operations are available in the brand-new Cinegy Air web application.

It’s still in development, so it’s not available right now and won’t be available in the next few weeks, but we definitely plan on releasing it this year.