Cinegy Air PRO 8K Optimized For The Cloud

Cinegy has announced that Cinegy® Air PRO 8K™ playout has been optimized to be easily scalable both locally and in the cloud, enabling everything from automatic infrastructure creation to complete and orderly destruction to be achieved through easily manageable code.

Cinegy Air PRO 8's highly-optimized GPU pipeline technology enables 8K operations - or alternatively 4 UHD or 16 HD channels – to be run on affordable mid-size servers or AWS or Azure GPU-equipped cloud instances that would be impossible to achieve solely with CPU technology.

With Cinegy Air PRO 8K, GPU use is not limited to character generation and branding. It is also used for decoding, scaling, color space conversion, mixing, effects, and finally encoding when the result is output as stream. This makes it the most scalable solution available.

"We've applied what we've learned in ways that benefit Cinegy customers by integrating Cinegy Air PRO 8K with infrastructure-as-code software Terraform as well as visualization and analysis tools such as Grafana and Elasticsearch, plus Cinegy's proprietary deployment tools and agents. These integral components are what differentiate Cinegy Air PRO from just being another app in the cloud to being a powerful tool for creating and managing an entire global playout center in less than an hour."

Cinegy is one of the first, if not the first, proponents of complete IP- and software-based playout solutions. The company’s vision of moving an entire broadcast facility into the cloud is steadily becoming reality, primarily because Cinegy has discovered how to do it cost efficiently while still being scalable to genuinely deliver on the initial promise.