Empowering Agile Live Production Workflows with TAG Software
If you’re seeking to enhance your live production capabilities, you’ve likely explored options for real-time signal analysis and multiviewing. You might have already encountered TAG software, a leader in 100% software-based integrated IP multiviewing, probing, and monitoring.
But how can switching to TAG software truly transform your live production operations? How can it empower you to handle complex workflows, scale effortlessly, and adapt to the ever-changing demands of the media landscape?
Let’s delve into the key capabilities of TAG software and how they translate into real-world benefits for your live production workflows.
Optimize the Multiviewing Environment: Empowering Your Production Team
TAG provides the performance essential for live production, offering:
- Customizable high-density layout and display options
- Exceptionally low glass-to-glass latency
- Ability to size and position up to 100 image tile windows per display, even with UHD sources
- Support for up to eight UMDs per tile
- A variety of clocks and timers
- Audio metering and loudness measurement
- Deep signal probing and alarms
With TAG, you can empower your live production operators with the tools and performance they need to excel, maintaining quality despite increasing scale and complexity. The solution supports resolutions up to full UHD on inputs and performs high-quality scaling to produce multiview mosaic outputs with up to UHD resolution, providing the image quality your TDs demand.
Handle All Live Production Signal Formats: Versatility for Today and Tomorrow
TAG handles all the essential formats for ultra-low-latency live production, including:
- SMPTE ST 2022-6 and ST 2110 uncompressed
- JPEG 2000 and JPEG XS
- ST 2022-7 with seamless redundancy
- CDI (cloud uncompressed and JPEG XS)
- NDI 5
- Dolby audio, including Dolby Atmos
- Any resolution through 4K/UHD
TAG also supports emerging formats, including user-generated content, and hybrid, augmented, and fully cloud-based workflows. With support for compressed and HLS input and output formats, TAG facilitates monitoring of all signal types and simplifies remote monitoring.
See Changes Anywhere in Realtime: Immediate Visibility, Proactive Action
TAG’s real-time monitoring capabilities empower you to visualize changes in signal integrity and flow as they happen. By combining visual monitoring with detailed metrics, you can:
- Identify issues instantly
- Take proactive steps to prevent disruptions
- Maintain optimal performance across your entire live production workflow
With TAG, you can be confident that your live production operations are running smoothly and efficiently.
Scale with Ease, Flexibility, and Intelligence: Effortless Expansion
TAG’s 100% software-based system and flexible licensing options offer unparalleled scalability. You can easily scale your monitoring capacity from a single multiviewer with a handful of sources to thousands of sources and hundreds of independent multiviewer mosaics.
TAG’s technology, flexibility, scalability, and Zer0 Friction™ licensing provide the business enablement you need to handle changing requirements with ease.
With TAG, you can confidently move your live production to the cloud with the performance of a cloud-native monitoring system. The solution runs in AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle, and other clouds on demand, using Zixi, SRT, and MediaConnect for transport protection. It supports CDI, JPEG XS, and NDI to enable ultra-low-latency production.
TAG allows you to optimize your cloud footprint and provides efficient, cost-effective monitoring of your live production. With TAG’s Bridge Technology, you can scale, orchestrate, and share sources in real-time across multiple ground and cloud deployments, minimizing data gravity and egress costs.
Flexibility also extends to how TAG licenses can be allocated and reallocated to support monitoring for live production. On-demand licensing and enterprise license sharing enable scaling on demand, business continuity, and maximum asset utilization.
Agile, Software-Based, IP-Native, and Cloud-Friendly: Embrace the Future of Live Production
TAG has been IP and software-based since its inception. As an official AWS partner, TAG was one of the first companies to implement and work with AWS CDI, and it rapidly develops support for new AWS instances, enabling TAG customers to leverage the latest technology and performance while reducing costs.
When you implement TAG’s software-based, 100% IP-native technology for signal analysis and multiviewing, you gain the flexibility to embrace IP and cloud workflows at a pace that suits your technical and business needs. You can start on the ground using existing on-premises infrastructure, extend into the cloud strategically with a hybrid deployment, or move toward a more flexible, fully cloud-based model with no limits on scalability.
Fast, Simple Deployment: Minimize Disruption, Maximize Efficiency
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Deploying TAG software is remarkably straightforward. It’s truly plug-and-play: insert the dongle, and you’re ready to go. No specialized setup, configuration, or integration is required.
This means you can:
- Deploy TAG on-premises or in any data center without extensive engineering expertise
- Seize new opportunities quickly and launch new services with unprecedented speed
- Get a fully functioning signal analysis and multiviewing system running in hours, accelerating time to market
TAG removes the barriers to implementation, enabling you to focus on what matters most – delivering exceptional content.
Reduce the Size of Your Tech Stack: Streamline and Simplify
TAG can provide deep monitoring and visualization for every format and workflow, from end to end and in real time. It accepts practically all types of streams and displays them on a single multiviewer, dramatically reducing the size of your tech stack.
With the recent release of TAG’s Media Control System (MCS), you can further streamline your operations by leveraging integration with powerful open-source tools. This eliminates the limitations of legacy solutions and enables open, IT-based workflows built on less-specialized technology.
Speed of Development: Stay Ahead of the Curve
TAG has a record of adapting with speed in developing, deploying, and managing functionality for forward-looking media companies. TAG enables customers to leverage the latest advancements in IT at a pace that eclipses what any broadcast hardware vendor can.
Because TAG software is continually refined to deliver the latest technology, you can meet emerging requirements and standards quickly. Every month, TAG adds new video formats and encryption keys to its software.
Proven Reliability and Success: A Partner You Can Trust
TAG has achieved significant milestones, with over 200,000 monitoring points deployed globally. Media organizations increasingly choose TAG software because of its capacity to work with all workflows and to support emerging protocols as fast as they hit the market.
By partnering with TAG, you can:
- Reduce risk and stay ahead of the technological curve
- Maintain your competitive edge with access to the latest advances and solution updates
- Benefit from our high-speed innovation and commitment to delivering the tools and capabilities you need
TAG is a reliable partner invested in your long-term success.
Should You Change Your Signal Analysis and Multiviewing for Live Production?
With consumers demanding new and diverse ways to consume live media, your workflows must adapt to the rapidly evolving market. Your monitoring and multiviewing capabilities have never been more critical to delivering a quality consumer experience.
If you’re seeking a flexible, comprehensive, and cost-effective solution that empowers your team, maximizes deployment flexibility, and delivers cutting-edge capabilities, it might be time for a change.
TAG software offers all of this and more. We invite you to schedule a one-on-one consultation with a TAG expert to discuss your specific workflows, requirements, and business goals.
Imagine a system that empowers you to:
- Optimize your multiviewing environment
- Support all live production signal formats
- Monitor your workflows in real-time
- Scale with ease, flexibility, and intelligence
- Embrace software-based, IP-native, and cloud-friendly technology
- Deploy quickly and efficiently
- Build a smaller, more efficient tech stack
- Stay ahead of the curve with continuous innovation
- Partner with a proven and reliable leader
