Broadcast Tools

Focused Encoding and Packaging Tools for Media Supply Chains

Vantage Gateway is your one stop for encoding and packaging broadcast-ready content in the cloud. Our automated job orchestration tools and ultra-fast processing allow you to output CableLabs-compliant content faster than real time, while our slate of QA engines assures that your content will pass the most stringent of conformance checks.

 

Highlights

  • Ultra-fast transcoding of broadcast codecs with no loss of video quality

  • Support for frame rates from 23.976 through 59.94

  • Support for CableLabs-compliant packaging

  • Automated conformance and assembly

Ultra-Fast Transcoding

Vantage Gateway fulfills your need for speed. Our Ludicrous Mode processing service lets you transform long-form MPEG-2 and H.264 HD and UHD/4K video into multi-bitrate streams in a fraction of real-time. The ultra-fast solution significantly improves workflow efficiency by splitting large source video files into small chunks, and then performing all of the transcoding and packaging in parallel before stitching the chunks back together again.

 CableLabs Compliance

Our open source and proprietary tools allow us to supply you with validated, fully-compliant CableLabs transport streams for playout on all linear systems. A simple API call to produce CableLabs output will handle the vast majority of requirements for playback devices. Transport stream parameters can be modified, including PID, PCR deltas and presence, PAT/PMT frequency and versioning. The same deep exposure we provide for D2C video codec parameters is also present for broadcast-ready transport streams, with hundreds of options available in case a specific parameter needs to be overridden. 

Automated Conformance & Assembly

Vantage Gateway supports a comprehensive and growing portfolio of origin and playout standards to fully automate the task of content conformance. We also enable the preparation of master camera or edit files targeting various distributors with features that let you trim leaders; physically insert, replace and/or remove ads and titles; stitch videos together; and more. 

 Closed Captioning & Subtitling

Vantage Gateway (formerly Encoding.com) was the first cloud processing service to offer universal closed captioning support for broadcast intermediate and mezzanine content. Today, we support the most-used caption formats, including CEA-608/708, DFXP, SCC, SRT, TTML and WebVTT. And through our API, you gain access to a comprehensive — and growing — set of tools for automated caption insertion, extraction and modification.

 Complex Audio Processing

We make it easy to provide your viewers with pristine, multi-channel audio via the industry’s broadest set of cloud-based tools for streaming cinema-quality surround sound to any device. We are Dolby’s preferred partner for the creation of ABR content from Dolby Digital Plus audio sources, matching this expertise with assured conformance of all audio tracks, language tracks and channel layouts.

Additional Tools

BATON QC Integration

Interra Systems' BATON is an AI-enabled automated QC platform that provides comprehensive quality and compliance checks for VOD content for linear and streaming workflows. We’ve integrated the BATON test suite into our automated QC service, allowing you to run custom BATON test plans or report templates and generate a PDF or HTML report.

Advanced Source Clipping

When concatenating source files, you can trim each source part individually. For example, you can take a 30-second segment from one source and another 30-second segment from a second source and automatically combine them, thereby shaving precious time off the workflow.

Black Frame Trimming & Padding

New black-frame-detection capabilities allow you to detect and trim black frames only from the start and end of the video. Black frame padding is also available for appending a specified number of black frames before and after the output video. If closed captions or audio channels are present, they will be trimmed or padded accordingly.