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Headline	The Mill, London Relies On Softel Swift vTX To Manage Subtitle Content With Efficient File-Based Workflow
Article	The Mill, London has chosen Softel's Swift vTX subtitling system for a new file-based platform at its market-leading advertising post-production department. The award-winning London VFX facility has migrated from a traditional encoding process to a streamlined multiformat workflow based on a close integration between Swift vTX and The Mill's Omneon video servers. The insertion of both Teletext and on-screen logo content into video assets is a key workflow task for The Mill's Adtext team, a leading provider of subtitling for advertising productions. Softel engineers provided project advice and custom integration with Omneon to create an efficient, easy-to-use solution, with software encoding replacing the previous hardware-based method. Adtext team operators can now easily associate subtitle files with video assets on the server, adding Teletext subtitles and optionally on-screen logos to MPEG video, and previewing the encoded files direct from the video server. "We have been impressed not only by the technology that Softel was able to offer us, but also its whole approach to understanding how the solution would integrate with our processes and server platform," says Miles Stormer, Head of MCR and External Facilities. "The continuing support we receive from Softel is excellent, and we are reaping the benefits both in efficiency and the lower costs of a streamlined subtitling operation with Swift vTX." Swift vTX is a member of the well established end-to-end Swift subtitle/caption family. Swift vTX provides a complete framework of applications to manage the manual or automated encoding, transcoding and extraction of multiformat subtitle content onto file-based video assets.
Company	Softel
Date Published	30/6/2009