Publication
Recording and Publishing Live Content
Combining our CUTSCENE and PRISM products, Alcyone is a solution designed to simplify the recording, extraction, and publishing of live video content. With its intuitive interface and advanced features, it meets the needs of broadcasters on social networks. Alcyone allows for continuous stream recording, extraction, editing, and dressing of video segments, and then publishing the result on various platforms such as YouTube or Facebook.
A Versatile Solution
Alcyone is designed to address a wide variety of scenarios.
Podcast Creation : Alcyone allows you to extract parts of your live recordings and turn them into video and/or audio podcasts for different platforms and social networks. | |
Legal Archiving : Keep recordings of your programs compliant with regulatory requirements. | |
Verification : Recording streams in their native format allows for post-analysis of the signal produced during a broadcast incident. |
Recording
The primary function of Alcyone is to record your various live streams.
Wide Range of Signals : Alcyone can record streams passing through various interfaces, including MADI, SDI, TSoIP, or modulated DVB signals. | |
Variable Retention Duration : Each recorded stream can have a specific retention period tailored to your needs. | |
Agnostic Recording : Streams (excluding SDI for storage reasons) are captured in their native format, ensuring faithful reproduction of the original broadcast. | |
Density : The number of recorded streams is only limited by storage volume. However, it is possible to exceed this limit by using a NAS or SAN solution. |
Ergonomics
Designed to offer intuitive use, all features are accessible through a web interface.
Simplified Web Interface : The interface is designed to allow quick user adoption. Extraction and publishing functions can be used after a few minutes of explanation. It is possible to view, extract, and publish content using just a web browser and an internet connection. | |
Navigation : One key aspect of extraction is the ease of finding key points in a continuous stream: the timeline can be enriched with metadata to simplify locating and extracting content - program schedules, advertising spots, music pieces, or any other information in your system can appear in the interface to guide users during editing. | |
Customization : If the basic interface is not sufficient, we can develop an interface perfectly aligned with your operators' needs. | |
Low Bitrate Transcoding : When the recorder is located in a remote area or has a slow internet connection, the interface allows for low bitrate transcoding. This feature ensures smooth operation of the solution, without excessive latency, even in challenging network conditions. |
Extraction
Alcyone allows for extracting specific segments from recordings and creating finalized media by adding intros, outros, and graphic elements. These media can then be published, broadcasted, or downloaded as needed.
Cutting : Alcyone enables precise extraction of specific segments, ensuring perfectly adjusted sequences. | |
Editing : Multiple sequences, potentially from different sources, can be combined to create more complex content than a simple excerpt. It is possible to create a summary of the highlights of a show or remove musical or advertising sections. | |
Dressing : Alcyone has a composition engine to add intros, outros, and graphic elements to extracted segments. Dressing parameters, such as clip title, can be automatically filled from metadata associated with the original program. |
Publication
Alcyone features a publication engine that exports content to third-party platforms or applications.
Transcoding : The publication engine can transcode the selected excerpt into multiple formats based on the target. | |
JavaScript : The embedded JavaScript engine allows fine customization of publication actions: transcoding, FTP sending, local copying, XML descriptive sheet generation, REST API calls… The publication engine enables implementing a custom workflow. | |
Scheduling : An extraction calendar allows for scheduling recurring extractions. |
Integration
More than just a recorder, Alcyone integrates as a true recording and publishing module within your infrastructure. Fully controllable by third-party systems, it allows enriching content from data coming from your information systems, thus enabling the creation of automated and personalized workflows.
Open API : Extraction and clipping functions are accessible via a REST API. Alcyone is fully controllable by third-party applications. It is possible to automatically trigger extractions, for example, at the end of a broadcast. | |
Metadata : Integration of chaptering or pre-filling publication fields using metadata from your information system. | |
Supervision : Complete system monitoring via the API or SNMP traps for centralized supervision. |
References

Antenna Monitoring, Live Broadcasts, Studio Recordings
DVB-S2, AES, HLS, UDP/IP sources. H.264, MP2, AAC
Custom interface
Exports to the information system
95 streams on 2 systems (primary/backup)

Antenna Monitoring, Studio Recordings
HLS, H.264, AAC sources
Custom interface
Program schedule integration
Exports to the information system
16 streams on 2 systems (primary/backup)

Antenna Monitoring, Podcast
HLS, H.264, AAC sources
Custom interface
Program schedule integration
Exports to the information system
22 services on 2 systems (primary/backup)

Antenna Monitoring
UDP/IP, RTP, H.264, AAC sources
200 services on 3 systems (audio/video/frontend)

MXF Recording
SDI sources
DAM Export
9 services on 2 systems (audio/video/frontend)

Antenna Monitoring
UDP/IP, H.264, H.265 (HEVC), AAC sources
14 systems
Interfaces
Alcyone - Custom Interface - RTL

Alcyone - Custom Interface - France 24

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