France 3

FRANCE 3 offers 20,000 hours of programs, of which 12,000 are local or regional creations. Its 90 sites enable the channel to offer 133 daily news programs.

The project

• Centralize regional programs for 29 regions.

• Build up archives in each region to create new content.

• Make videos available to the journalists of France 2 and France 3.

• Feed the SPIDER system for France 3 broadcasts.

The Manreo solution

• Deployment of Manreo Café in the 29 regions.

• Automatic digitization of programs triggered by the detection of key images (credits).

• Transcoding into Real format.

• Tansfer of raw (AVI) and Real videos to storage and broadcast servers.

• Feeding of the Manreo Media Asset Management system: Hypercast Warehouse?.

Advantages

• Full automation of the process: no human intervention required.

• 24/7 operations.

• Easy deployment due to the use of the HTTP protocol for communication between applications.

• Management of changes in the program schedule.

• Creation of a new browsing service for journalists.

• Reuse of content.

Benefits

• Increased availability of technicians, who no longer need to perform repetitive digitization tasks.

• Lower broadcasting costs: 100% savings on programs such as weather reports or "1 book 1 day".

The next step

France 3 currently plans to deploy Manreo Café? in all its regions for a total of 90 seats throughout France.