Practice 01 · Flagship
Broadcast and media systems, engineered end to end.
From the camera to the archive, Cinthamani designs and integrates the systems that make, manage, store and deliver content for broadcasters, studios and production houses.
01Coverage
Every stage of the content chain.
Twelve capability areas, designed to work together. Most projects touch several of them; we draw the whole chain before we specify a single product.
Broadcast systems and newsrooms
Galleries, newsroom computer systems, intercom, routing and monitoring.
Live production and studios
Studio and field cameras, multi-camera switching, replay, teleprompting and backpack links.
Post-production and editing
Edit and finishing suites, colour, graphics and audio on shared projects.
Shared storage, SAN and NAS
High-throughput storage that every editor and server works from at once.
Media asset management
Ingest, metadata, proxies, review and approval, and search across every asset.
LTO tape and archive
Tape libraries and archive software for long-life, air-gapped copies.
Disk and object storage
Nearline and S3-compatible tiers between production storage and tape.
Backup, recovery and preservation
Protection policies, verification and restores that are tested, not assumed.
Digitisation and restoration
Legacy tape and film converted, indexed, repaired and made reusable.
High-speed file transfer
Large media moved between sites, partners and remote teams.
Graphics, video I/O and signal
Capture and playback cards, converters, encoders, decoders and real-time graphics.
Cable TV and channel playout
Scheduling, playout and branding, including Cinthamani's own Channel Magick.
02Featured technology
Our specialist portfolio.
Five platforms Cinthamani supplies, integrates and supports in India. Each has its own page with specifications, workflows and an enquiry route.
DDP SAN
Ethernet SAN for edit, MAM, ingest, playout and render, with one namespace and SSD caching.
DDP SAN Tape and objectSpectra Logic
LTO libraries from Stack to TFinity, BlackPearl object storage and StorCycle.
Spectra Logic Data managementStorageDNA
Policy-based movement of media between disk, cloud and LTO, with a searchable catalogue.
StorageDNA Asset managementeMAM
Web-based MAM for ingest, logging, review and approval, publishing and archive.
eMAM File transferRaysync
Accelerated transfer for large files between facilities, partners and the cloud.
Raysync03Reference workflows
How the systems connect.
Three paths we build most often. Every project starts from the customer's own path, which we draw with the team before anything is ordered.
Production to delivery
Production
Studio and field cameras, switchers and replay.
Cameras / switchers / replayIngest
Live capture and card offload, transcoded to house formats.
Multi-channel ingestShared storage
Every editor and server on the same media at full speed.
DDP SANEditing
Edit, colour, graphics and audio on shared projects.
Edit and finish suitesDelivery
Playout, OTT and IPTV encoding, and file delivery.
Playout / encoders / RaysyncProduction storage to archive
Production storage
Active projects on the shared SAN.
DDP SANMAM
Metadata, proxies and search for every asset.
eMAMNearline and object
Finished work leaves the SAN by policy.
StorageDNA / BlackPearlLTO archive
Long-life copies, one kept off-line.
Spectra Logic librariesRetrieval
Search, partial restore and back into the edit.
eMAM / StorageDNADigitisation to reuse
Digitisation
Tape, film and legacy formats captured to files.
Digitisation servicesIndexing
Metadata, transcripts and shot logs.
MAM / loggingPreservation
Verified copies on tape, checked on a schedule.
Spectra Logic / LTORestoration
Picture and sound cleaned for reuse.
Restoration suitesReuse
Archives back on air, online and licensed.
Playout / OTTProducts named are examples from Cinthamani's portfolio; each design is specified per project.
04Who we build for
Broadcasters, studios and every venue that goes live.
The same engineering serves a national news channel, a post house, a stadium replay room and a place of worship streaming its services.
- Broadcasters and news channels
- Post-production and VFX houses
- Sports, stadiums and live events
- OTT, IPTV and cable operators
- Radio, education, government and houses of worship
05How we work
One team from drawing to daily operation.
No hand-offs between a reseller, an installer and a support desk. The engineers who design the system commission it and stay on it.
Consult
Workflow review on site with the people who will run it.
Design
Signal flow, storage sizing and rack drawings.
Integrate
Systems built and tested together before delivery.
Install
Installation, cabling and configuration on site.
Commission
Acceptance tests against the agreed design.
Support
Training, maintenance contracts and upgrades.
06Broadcast partners
The wider portfolio.
Retained from Cinthamani's current portfolio.
07Questions
Common questions from broadcast teams.
Can you work with the equipment we already have?
Do you size shared storage for our editors?
How long should broadcast archives be kept on LTO tape?
Do you provide support after installation?
08Broadcast enquiries
Discuss your workflow.
Tell us what you are building or replacing. A broadcast engineer replies within one working day.
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