Telestream announced that its new Tempo time adjustment software is now available. Unveiled at NAB 2015, Tempo is a time adjustment solution designed to help re-time file-based content and adjust the running time of shows and segments. The workflow management and transcoding system utilizes new time compression algorithms and runs on the company's Vantage media processing platform.
Tempo is intended to interpolate the desired time change over the duration of the content with no noticeable visual or audible artifacts. It's designed to adjust an existing asset's running time from 1% to 10%; it re-times the complete asset, including video, audio and captions. Tempo is intended to increase advertising avails throughout the day, particularly with content from other eras or other regions of the world where the ad timing is different from their current format.
Tempo is sold as a turnkey system that includes Tempo software running on the Vantage platform and Telestream Lightspeed K80 Server hardware. It's also designed to be integrated with other Vantage or third-party systems to create an automated workflow under unified system control. Tempo can be controlled through a special Vantage Portal or controlled in an automated fashion.