Pinnacle Systems and The CNN News Group have announced the signing of an agreement to develop and install advanced news editing solutions over the coming year at the CNN Center in Atlanta and CNN's New York News Bureau.

CNN is currently using Pinnacle's Liquid Blue editing systems in New York for daily news production and plans to integrate both Vortex and Liquid Blue editors into the Palladium shared storage network later this year, says an official release.

The systems will be part of CNN's integrated compressed digital production infrastructure ready to support its broadcast news operation. In both CNN locations, Pinnacle's Vortex News system will create a state-of-the-art mirrored server resource that ties together Vortex 200 journalist edit stations, Vortex 1000 and Vortex Blue non-linear editing systems, Pinnacle's content capture stations and playback decoders. The system will make use of 10/100 Base T and Gigabit Ethernet technologies and support a network of Vortex MediaCore servers and RAID-compliant disk arrays managed by a Vortex MetaData Control System, says the release.

Vortex is a comprehensive solution that integrates all aspects of news ingest, editing, and playback of video into a single, seamless environment built on Pinnacle Systems Emmy Award winning media server technology. Within seconds of ingesting material from a source, Vortex enables everyone involved in the production of a story to begin working. Editing can take place from virtually any PC on the network. Comprehensive management capabilities ensure elements come together to create ready-for-air stories and maintain access to the original elements for archival and repurposing applications.

Pinnacle Systems provides cutting-edge digital video creation, storage, streaming and viewing solutions for broadcasters, video professionals and consumers. Pinnacle Systems claims that its solutions help enable the creation, management and distribution of video via cable, satellite, video-on-demand (VOD), digital video disks (DVDs) and the Internet, along with consumer editing products for home movie making and DVD creation. The company has won eight Emmy Awards for its technical innovations for broadcast products and carries its commitment throughout all of its product lines.


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