Medway

Medway is a sophisticated media transfer and format conversion tool, delivering a seamless and cost-effective integration between leading broadcast content applications.

The Challenge
Complex digital workflows are hampered by expensive and repetitive operations brought on by file incompatibilities. Medway from Marquis provides a transparent and cost-efficient route to removing these bottlenecks.

The Solution
Medway creates a unified working environment for broadcast ingest & transmission servers and post-production editing systems. Acting as a central hub to the facility, Medway transfers media and associated metadata at faster than real-time speeds over standard data networks, transcoding if required.

Medway uses an intuitive drag and drop interface which allows for the exchange of media between a wide range of ‘Best of Breed’ broadcast systems in a transparent and user friendly way.

Medway can be described as an "interoperability engine" that enables a complete digital workflow, ensuring products such as Edit Platforms, either standalone or using Shared Storage, such as Unity, ISIS, Lanshare, Interplay or XSAN and third-party Video Servers can work seamlessly together.

However, Medway offers much more power and flexibility and can be connected to Media Asset Management systems. It can source reference edits from Browse Systems, integrate with Archive Management systems and can supply file registration to, or be directly controlled by, Automation Systems. All these features can be customised to suit the requirements for specific workflow or business solutions.

Medway is also compatible with Removable Media devices thus ensuring maximum benefits are derived from the whole capture to playout process.

The Benefits of Medway
- Interoperability between a wide range of 'Best of Breed' professional systems
- Improved performance and efficiency of Broadcast workflows
- Both financial and time savings through reduction in manual operations
- Enhanced production quality
- More effective management of your assets
- Avid/Final Cut Pro integration
- Migration proof - supports SD and HD