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Caption Conductor

Real-Time Captioning over IP

Caption Conductor is a flexible and fully redundant IP-based real-time caption management system that eliminates the need for aging captioning technology and connects your caption encoders with live captioners over IP by use of a simple web-based interface. Caption Conductor reduces cost and complexity by replacing old-school telephone lines and analog phone couplers with cutting-edge encrypted digital communications.

Caption Conductor enables captioners to obtain encrypted audio and (optionally) video directly from your program using either OvertureRT LIVE (ORT) media playout servers - with low latency text for feature-rich closed captions and subtitles - or Evertz' 7825CCE-AUD-3G and MIO-CCE encoders with audio-to-IP streaming. For additional flexibility, station engineers are able to monitor live activity on current caption jobs and control all real-time captions from a single simple interface.

Caption Conductor's sophisticated design and flexibility allows broadcasters the ability to deploy a system either on-premise, over a public cloud or a hybrid of both. A pioneer in cloud-based solutions, Evertz has developed Caption Conductor's architecture with advanced capabilities, offering advantages that include reducing on-premise hardware requirements while reducing overall costs and facilitating the process of scaling up caption capabilities to meet growing demands.

Features

  • Reduces cost and complexity by not using dedicated analog phone lines and couplers for modem and listen-line connections
  • Convenient web-based interfaces for steno-captioners and station engineers
  • Steno-captioners receive program audio and (optionally) video for confidence monitoring through the web GUI
  • Station engineers have enhanced ability to monitor and control all real-time caption activity from a single UI
  • Uses TLS encryption and login authentication on public-facing connections for greater security compared to phone lines or Telnet connections
  • Conforms to broadcaster's IT security rules that IP devices in the critical video path must be in the "black zone" network
  • Flexible deployment via public Internet or customer-supplied VPN tunnel
  • Compatible with 7825CCE and MIO-CCE caption encoders the broadcaster already owns
  • A single IP address for all captioner connections; one access server can even connect to multiple facilities at different physical locations
  • Simplifies connecting one steno-captioner to multiple caption encoders
  • Simplifies hand-off from one steno-captioner to the next with a monitoring-only standby state to verify connections
  • Evertz continues to work with major caption service providers to ensure our systems are interoperable
  • Future-proof: new features are constantly added in anticipation of customer requirements

Full On-Premises Solution

Hybrid Cloud Solution

Full Cloud Solution

Ordering Information

CAPTION-CONDUCTOR-HW Server Grade Hardware for running Caption Conductor Facility server / Video streaming

Software Options
CC-ACCESS Access Server software and license for Caption Conductor system. Can run on prem with Evertz provided "CC-Hardware", COTS servers or on a cloud processing service.
CC-ACCESS-R Redundant Access Server software for Caption Conductor system. Can run on prem with Evertz provided "CAPTION-CONDUCTOR-HW", COTS servers or on a cloud processing service "T3 micro".
CC-FACILITY Facility Server software and license for Caption Conductor system. Can run on prem with Evertz provided "CC-Hardware", COTS servers or on a cloud processing service.
CC-FACILITY-R Redundant Facility Server software for Caption Conductor system. Can run on prem with Evertz provided "CAPTION-CONDUCTOR-HW", COTS servers or on a cloud processing service.
CC-MEDIA-MANAGER Media Manager Server software for Caption Conductor system for up to 20 users. Can run on prem with Evertz provided "CAPTION-CONDUCTOR-HW", COTS servers or on a cloud processing service "T3 Large".
CC-MEDIA-MANAGER-R Redundant Media Manager Server software for Caption Conductor system for up to 20 users Can run on prem with Evertz provided "CAPTION-CONDUCTOR-HW", COTS servers or on a cloud processing service "T3 Large".

License Options
CC-ACCESS-LIC-1YR 1 year license to enable Caption Conductor Access server software.
CC-MM-LIC-1YR 1 year license to enable Caption Conductor Media Manager server software and Audio video streaming for up to 20 users.
CC-CHANNEL-LIC-1YR Channel license for a single captioning use on the Caption Conductor System. License is good for 1 year after which it must be renewed. Required for use of Caption conductor.