Veset Nimbus is cloud-based playout software used for professional linear TV channel playout. Nimbus plays live and pre-recorded video, audio, graphics and captioning. Launch new channels, migrate existing channels, start an event-driven pop-up channel, or run disaster recovery channels without up-front hardware costs.
Nimbus is a professional, self-service, cloud-based playout solution for broadcasters and broadcast service providers. It includes a complete linear broadcast channel and playout workflow – media file ingest, MAM, scheduling, and playout. Nimbus provides the ability to manage multiple channels. It can be used for 24/7 long-term channels, pop-up channels, or disaster recovery.
Scheduling
Native import of BXF-compliant playlists, 3rd party text-based formats (e.g. WideOrbit, OSi, Protrack, etc.), or custom format support for customer-specific CSV, XLSX, XML, and more. Operators can apply last-minute changes, identify missing content and create placeholders.
Ingest
Built-in automated QC functionality verifies media playability, extracts metadata, analyzes audio loudness, and verifies secondary data streams. Automated ingest from FTP, SFTP, AWS S3, Azure Blob, Telia OS, Alibaba OSS, Wasabi, and dotstudioPRO. A wide variety of supported video codecs are supported.
Multiple simultaneous live sources are available over IP (UDP, RTP, RTP-FEC, HLS, SRT, RTMP) along with AWS MediaConnect.
MEDIA ASSET MANAGEMENT
A powerful MAM enables users to search/filter by metadata values, content preview, tagging, manual metadata addition, virtual asset copies/segmentation, cue-point management.