Grass Valley Congratulates MLB Network on Winning Four Sports Emmy® Awards For Its Inaugural Year

MLB Network’s facility in Secaucus, New Jersey features a full complement of Grass Valley technology, including a fully networked Grass Valley Storage Area Network (SAN) with dozens of Grass Valley Aurora™ Edit HD editing and other Aurora products working seamlessly alongside Final Cut Pro edit systems.

In the upcoming season, MLB Network editors will take advantage of the latest features of the Grass Valley Aurora 7.0 software suite, which allows them to digitize media within the Aurora Ingest application, work on a project in Aurora Edit, and then output that finished news segment to Aurora Playout. As they do all this, the associated metadata travels along with the media and can be accessed for a variety of tasks (e.g., clip management on a server) that streamline the production process.

“We are grateful to Grass Valley for their assistance in establishing our file-based video production system that was honored by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences,” said Tab Butler, Director of Media Management at MLB Network.

“We sincerely compliment MLB Network and the people involved in designing and implementing a true state-of-the-art facility that the rest of the industry has looked at closely and learned from,” said Jeff Rosica, Senior Vice President of Grass Valley. “As a technology supplier, we are proud to be a part of this iconic facility and to have helped MLB Network archive its goals of sharing and creating content in a timely fashion that is completely seamless to the production staff. The Emmy Awards are well deserved.”

Grass Valley’s MediaFrame SDK enables tight integration with MLB Network’s proprietary asset management system, allowing journalists, producers and editors to quickly and accurately locate, retrieve and view video clips from its vast archive on any desktop in the building.

MediaFrame features a multi-layered software architecture that leverages metadata in unique ways that quickly (in real time) and intuitively facilitate taking raw materials and turning them into finished segments for direct airing. It makes users more productive by benefiting all of the applications that comprise the Aurora platform—including Aurora Edit, Aurora Ingest, Aurora Playout, and Aurora Browse.