Dalet AmberFin transcoding and media processing engine updates its pay-per-use model, codec support and capabilities, increasing efficiency and cost control in the media supply chain.
Dalet AmberFin transcoding and media processing engine now has new updates to its pay-per-use pricing, codec support and tools that aim to customise and adapt the media supply chain from capture to distribution. Aaron Kroger, Dalet’s Product Marketing Lead, said, “Flexible new deployment models and expanded capabilities give users more latitude with budgets, and new ways to optimise their media supply chain workflows without compromising quality.”
Dalet AmberFin is cloud-native and supports on-premises, cloud and hybrid configurations. Pay-per-use models are available either as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) deployments, managed and hosted by Dalet, or hosted on the client’s own AWS infrastructure in a single-tenant, customer-managed virtual private cloud (VPC) environment. Either way, clients retain the AmberFin workflow engine while dynamically scaling up or down depending on workload, only paying for media they have processed. Dalet also makes on-premises nodes available, each on its own subscription.
Dalet AmberFin cloud service uses the same proprietary transcoding engine regardless of the deployment model. This means existing Dalet AmberFin on-premise users can augment existing deployments by temporarily resorting to the cloud for extra capacity and managing peak usage levels. Through greater agility and scalability, this elastic processing power gives users scope and potential to take on new kinds of work.
The new self-hosted pay-by-the-hour pricing has zero subscription fees and incurs the least upfront and operational cost for customers who manage their own cloud services. Depending on the use case, cloud deployments can save a considerable amount over fixed on-premises nodes.
Dalet AmberFin supports diverse, common formats, codecs and standards, from capture to distribution, including the newer ProRes RAW and recent RED R3D compressed RAW formats. A complete list of supported codecs and standards are listed in the updated datasheet.
“Our ongoing goal when adding capabilities to Dalet AmberFin is not just to support new codecs but about processing and delivering those codecs at very high quality,” said Aaron. “Whether it’s frame-rate conversions, colour space conversion, or HDR tone mapping, Dalet AmberFin delivers superior quality results, certified by industry leaders such as Apple and Dolby.”
Typical Amberfin applications range from Dolby Vision and HDR10 processing and framerate conversions, to audio processing and captions and watermarking. When used with Dalet Flex media logistics and Dalet Pyramid news operations platforms, Dalet AmberFin serves as a transcoding and media orchestration platform for mass content distribution. Its APIs and workflow engines help integrate and automate complex workflows including, for example, global delivery of localized titles and content to multiple viewing platforms. www.dalet.com
