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FORGE

Media, transformed.
A FORGE workflow in the editor. Probe, Run script and an If / Else decision are wired left to right from Workflow start. The Then branch leads to Transcode and on to Workflow complete; the Else branch leads to Fail workflow.
Professional media processing and workflow automation in one system.

FORGE pairs Wraith Engine's native media processing with customisable workflow automation. Build repeatable pipelines for transcoding, packaging, QC, captions, metadata and delivery, whether that is a single system or a high-availability, multi-site deployment.

Why FORGE

  • Native media processing

    FORGE is powered by Wraith Engine, built from the ground up for broadcast and post-production video, audio and data. Wraith supports resolutions from SD to 8K with a full 16-bit image pipeline and colour-accurate processing end to end including HDR, PQ and HLG, alongside high bit depth multi-channel audio processing. More about Wraith Engine.

  • Modern workflow automation

    Define repeatable workflows in the visual editor, bringing processing, decisions, integrations and delivery into one pipeline. View job progress live, node by node, providing full visibility of your media processing operations.

  • Scale and resilience

    Add processing capacity horizontally as demand grows. FORGE supports high-availability deployments, multiple worker agents, and workflows spread across multiple sites. Transcoding throughput grows with the number of processing nodes.

  • Works with your storage

    Read and process media directly from local storage, shared storage and object stores such as Amazon S3. Cloud media does not need to be downloaded and staged in full before processing can begin. Browse the same storage live in the FORGE interface, with nothing to scan, sync or import first, and run a workflow on anything you select.

  • Extensible by design

    FORGE features pre-built tasks for many common actions, but it can also be extended with your own plugins. Use FORGE's in-built scripting framework, create your own tasks, or integrate FORGE with other systems through its API.

  • Deploy it where it fits

    Run FORGE on-premises, in the cloud or across both. Processing capacity can sit close to the media while the wider workflow remains distributed.

The Jobs panel. Viewing Copies and Avid Ingest runs are listed with status, progress, media path, origin, start time and duration. One run has failed and is flagged as needing attention.
Running, finished and failed, in one view.

A workspace that fits the job

FORGE's configurable operations dashboard allows users to customise their own workspace with the apps and panels they use the most.

Configure workspaces by role: storage, quick launch and jobs for ingest; queues, failures and system health for operations; media inspection and job detail for QC.

The Storage browser is a web view of the file systems and object stores your processing nodes can see, live, with nothing to scan, sync or import first. See technical metadata as you browse for media files and camera cards, with no need to pre-process anything.

A FORGE workspace made of six panels. Storage browser lists a folder of camera cards. Quick launch offers workflows including Broadcast Master transcode, Avid Ingest, Viewing Copies and Wraith transcode. Fleet health shows one node online. Throughput shows 120 jobs per hour, 120 media jobs done and a 0% failure rate. Job detail shows the execution graph of a finished Viewing Copies job, and Jobs lists recent runs with their status and duration.
An ingest operator's view: storage, quick launch and jobs together, with fleet health, throughput and the detail of a finished job alongside.

Use cases

  • Camera card ingest

    FORGE recognises a camera card as a complete acquisition: clips, essence and metadata together. The card can then be copied, verified, processed and delivered as one workflow. Sony XDCAM, Canon XF, ARRI Alexa and Amira, DJI, GoPro and many other card formats are read natively.

  • Avid ingest

    Automate ingest into Avid environments with or without MediaCentral Production Management (formerly Interplay). FORGE creates native Avid OP-Atom media (including growing clips) and handles media indexing, AAF management, and can even create and manipulate AVB files.

  • Broadcast deliverables

    Build repeatable delivery workflows for broadcast standards such as DPP AS-11, covering the media processing, packaging, metadata and validation the standard demands.

  • Transcode and normalise

    Convert between professional codecs, containers, rasters, frame rates and audio layouts, with the video and audio processing required by the destination workflow.

  • QC and compliance

    Run technical and compliance checks as part of the workflow. Record the results, stop or route failures, and send material for corrective processing or review.

  • Captions and subtitles

    Create, extract, convert and validate timed text and broadcast captions, while keeping them associated with the media through processing, packaging and delivery.

  • Archive and migration

    Move media collections between storage, formats and systems while preserving the metadata and relationships needed downstream. Verification, normalisation and delivery can all form part of the same job.

  • Packaging and delivery

    Assemble finished media, metadata and associated assets, then deliver them to storage, MAMs, platforms or other downstream systems automatically.

The Storage browser panel. A folder of camera cards is listed by name and kind: Canon MVI, Sony M4ROOT, Professional MOV, Canon XF, DJI, Sony XDCAM and GoPro. The inspector shows the selected Canon XF card, its layout, and the five markers it was recognised on.
Camera card ingest: cards recognised for what they are, rather than listed as folders of files.

Bring us your workflow

The best test of FORGE is a workflow you already run. Tell us about your use case and we'll model it in FORGE.

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