On-Air Automation System
Florical has the leading master control automation, asset management and content acquisition solution with proven reliability needed in mission critical television operations. With over 20 years of development behind our systems and the most impressive list of broadcast users in the industry - you can trust Florical with your crucial revenue stream.
Our systems are designed by television engineers with a focus on workflow enhancement and reliability. AirBoss is easy to operate for live programming and provides totally unattended operation of programs and commercials. With AirBoss you can improve the on-air look with frame-accurate control, easy drag-n-drop and cut-n-paste edits, and extensive reports including a pre-air discrepancy report to head off problems before they happen.
Florical systems are modular and can scale from a single channel to the needs of a multi-channel, fully redundant centralized operation. In larger systems, AirBoss uses distributed machine control architecture with multiple device servers which can be located anywhere on the network. The exclusive Zero Timing technology enables AirBoss to accurately compensate for video path delays between device-servers located thousands of miles apart.
AirBoss features extensive automation control of virtually every device used for presentation to give viewers a cleaner on-air look while reducing your operating costs.
Florical's new Remote AirBoss is an option within our SMART Central suite of products and can run from any workstation with access to your secure network. Remote AirBoss includes LowRes Viewer which accepts WMV9 feeds for on-screen confidence feeds. Remote AirBoss is also capable of displaying and gang-rolling two channels (very useful for "primary/ backup" or X/Y configurations as well as multi channel systems).
Highlights
- Next day's schedule automatically appends to current schedule without operator intervention.
- Intuitive cut-n-paste, drag-n-drop editing.
- Modular and scalable. Start with one channel and grow to multi channel central casting system.
- Full featured control includes quick buttons for "take emergency", "take black", take network", "take backup", "take switcher off-line", "hold count-down", "hold next event" and much more.
- Intuitive color coding for events and error messages.
- Metadata automatically inserted in schedule based on housename of event.
- Schedule Relative and Auxiliary events based on Program event (bugs, crawls, GPO)
- Accurate As-run-log even with breaking news and JIP
- LowRes Viewer accepts WMV9 feed for on-screen confidence feeds (Remote AirBoss only)
Featured Options
- AutoJIP - the most simple and yet most comprehensive Join-in-progress and Breaking News feature in the industry. Regional Breakaway
- Parking Spot - unique floating "clip board". Drag-n-drop to and from the "clipboard" for fast editing.
- AirGuide - Automatically update EPG.
- Time Shifter - Play back-to-back live events in their entirety
- FanChat - Social networking tool
- QRCP - push-button controller for AirBoss. Great for gang-rolling channels.
- GPI/GPO triggers