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Pictron provides the most comprehensive software platform for enterprise-scale rich media creation, communication, management, and distribution. Pictron has two product families:

  • Pictron Media Gateway Suite for enterprise-scale automated video encoding, indexing, search, management, and distribution.

  • Pictron PowerCast Studio for professional live and on-demand rich media webcast production, communication, management, and distribution.

Pictron Media Gateway Suite

Pictron Media Gateway Suite provides an enterprise-scale rich media production, communication, and management platform. Using its advanced video analysis and artificial intelligence technology, Pictron's Video Gateway automatically segments and indexes video into meaningful clips based on visual scene changes, speech recognition (Audio Gateway), and human face recognition (Image Gateway). It also simultaneously encodes multiple video streams in Windows Media, Quicktime, Real, and MPEG formats. Pictron Media Gateway Server is a complete Web-based media asset management platform allowing users to manage, edit, search, publish, present, and interact with video using a standard Web browser. Pictron Media Gateway Server uses the video metadata index extracted through Video Gateway to enable Internet and Intranet users to search video based on speech text, visual content, face ID, and database information. The time-synchronized index further enables users to explore and interact with video on the Web. Instead of viewing video from start to finish, users can search relevant video clips and quickly browse the video content through the visual storyboard or text transcript and instantly navigate to any desired location. Website owners can further use HTML templates to fully customize Media Gateway Server to match the look and feel of their own applications to build instant video portal. Content producers can quickly edit video clips online and assemble a playlist based on multiple clips and export it as an Edit Decision List (EDL) to nonlinear video editing systems such as Avid and Final Cut Pro. Pictron Media Gateway Suite also has the ability to index and manage hundreds of image and document file formats, interface with broadcast automation and video servers, manage tape and DVD archive storage systems, control and monitor sophisticated workflows, and integrate with LDAP servers and Content Delivery Networks.

Pictron PowerCast Studio

Pictron PowerCast Studio is an enterprise-scale software platform that empowers users to easily produce compelling live and on-demand rich media presentations. Pictron PowerCast Studio delivers streaming video synchronized with PowerPoint slides, HTML Web pages, Desktop application screen captures, Flash presentations, text transcript, graphics, and other rich media content. These rich media presentations are fully interactive with live questioning and answering, interactive polling, quiz, chat, and links to related documents. Pictron PowerCast Studio streamlines the entire webcast lifecycle workflow from webcast event scheduling, setup, announcement, user registration, to live webcast production control, and post-webcast report and analysis. During a live webcast, Pictron PowerCast Studio automatically records and indexes the entire presentation with synchronized interactive events and automatically publishes the presentation in searchable format immediately after the webcast. User can search archived presentations based on speech text, human faces, and document content associated with PowerPoint slides, HTML Web pages, and PDF documents. These archived webcast presentations can be distributed through CD, DVD, enterprise content delivery network, or Internet. Pictron PowerCast Studio is designed to be simple to use and operate. Once it is configured, it does not require a webcast operator to produce the webcast. Pictron PowerCast Studio is fully integrated with Pictron Media Gateway Suite and provides a powerful platform for enterprise-wide rich media creation, management, and distribution.