Dubsat’s MediaFront brings Advertising and production companies assets together via a desktop and smart-phone app with a highly intuitive user interface and provides the ability for users to book delivery requests.

Dubsat CTO Adam Larter explained, “MediaFront enables you to completely manage your media workflow on your desktop and smart-phone. Whatever device you have MediaFront installed on, it enables you to create and manage TV and radio bookings directly within the app, search and create assets, replay, repurpose, share and store your media. We’ve also developed MediaFront to adapt to the way our users want to interact with their media. This means no more flat, boring web views requiring different web sites to get access to your media assets - MediaFront consolidates all media assets you have in your Dubsat cloud library and presents them in a familiar, intuitive and ‘now’ user experience.”

MediaFront is fully customisable through user privilege rights so the application can be deployed by Advertising Agencies for each of their brand clients as an important value-added accessibility service.

Larter further explains, “Brand owners need access to their current and historical digital media assets and it needs to be really easy. We provide MediaFront to Advertising Agencies and enable them to make it available to each of their brand clients as a value-added service. It is a cloud-based online enabler, providing a secure and private environment to view their library of media advertising. Conveniently, MediaFront can be configured to enable or disable access to features on a per-user basis, making it customisable to any way the agency and brand owner work. This allows for the marketing departments of brand owners to now have immediate access to their finished current and historical media assets, while the content responsibilities remain with the respective and current Advertising Agency.

MediaFront enables clients to create storyboards, enlarge frames, replay assets at full-screen, show captions, create and download a multitude of different media formats and share and track assets. Book, create, track, manage, share, repurpose, download – MediaFront is the ultimate desktop tool for converging and pervasive media.

Schuetrumpf concluded, “Convenience and production efficiency are the key elements of MediaFront. This added element of functionality allows users to choose over 280 different media types, formats, bit rates and aspect ratios for broadcast to online needs, to repurpose their TVCs and download conveniently to their desktop or a predefined in-house server. As MediaFront is a desktop application, it also provides the ability to download and store preview versions of users advertising locally for offline use. That means you can download the previews to your laptop, disconnect from the network to visit a client and still have full access to your media without an Internet connection. As with all great apps, MediaFront is simple to use but cleverly powerful in its functionality.”

MediaFront is a device-registered application and its initial Mac and PC desktop release is available to all Dubsat registered users from June 1, 2012, with the iPhone and Android apps release marked for July 1, 2012.

Grant Schuetrumpf, CEO of Dubsat explained, “There are four significant new improvements with MediaPro Extreme including a completely new streamlined interface; a job workflow feature; an incorporated booking wizard and ultra-high speed file transfers. With these improvements, users can now use Media Pro Extreme to manage the entire delivery process of their broadcast advertising.

One of MediaPro Extreme’s unique features is that Dubsat users can immediately preview uploaded content to self-check video, audio, and clapper as required for TVC deliveries, all from their desktop.”

Adam Larter, CTO of Dubsat added, “Powered by Aspera’s fasp™ next generation file transfer technology you can now send your content at much faster rates than ever before. MediaPro Extreme does away with FTP and tapes by allowing you to simply drag and drop files from your desktop onto MediaPro Extreme to begin high-speed file transfers. Users can even transfer files in the background, prioritise the order and pause or resume file transfers in progress.”

Aspera’s fasp ™ transport technology is fast becoming the industry standard for the high-speed movement of large files or large collections of files over wide area networks (WANs).

MediaPro Extreme is integrated with Dubsat’s online web portal MyDubsat, providing a synchronised connection to online live booking, closed-captioning services, a delivery cost estimation tool, asset archiving, real-time repurposing services, tracking and delivery notifications.

MediaPro Extreme also enables the user to choose a contribution file format that best suits their production requirements, including ProRes, MPG2 and MPG4. MediaPro Extreme also provides the ability to aggregate video and audio streams and clappers, with full support of multiplexed files for video and audio content.

Grant Schuetrumpf concluded, “MediaPro Extreme is free to download for any registered Dubsat user and gives maximum control and quality while saving time and money through added convenience and greater efficiencies.”

, all there to rock the socks off the crowd - and the competition - take home glory … and the Chrome Microphone perpetual trophy. The winner at the end of the night was deservedly, Shift by a point. Photos and video of the event is on the Dubsat Facebook page here.

Sydney, August 18, 2011: Javier Arriaga, The SubStation’s Head of Production, has taken home the Deafness Forum’s Most Consistent Use of Captioning Award for 2011.

. This is awarded to an organisation or person that is judged to have made the most consistent use of captioning in the preceding year, or to have consistently acted for the benefit of captioning over a period of years, in line with the Caption Quality Guidelines.

Deafness Forum is the peak body for deafness and seeks solutions and advocates on issues for all Australians who are deaf, have a hearing impairment or chronic disorder of the ear. The Awards are a highlight industry event organised by Deafness Forum to recognise those who have made the most significant contributions to furthering the awareness and accessibility of captioning.

Javier was welcomed to the stage by overwhelming applause, reflecting just how respected he is within the industry.

“Javier is undoubtedly the best captioner in Australia, and I think it’s safe to say the best captioner in the world,” said Media Access Australia CEO, Alex Varley, on stage.

When accepting his award for captioning consistency, Arriaga called for the improvement of caption quality across media platforms.

For the past 23 years Javier has worked providing captioned programs to all the Australian free-to-air and Pay TV broadcasters, as well as captions and audio description for DVDs and Blu-rays. He joined The SubStation in 2008 as Head of Production and has assembled what has become widely regarded to be the best captioning team in Australia.

Having previously worked with Red Bee Media for 14 years, Sue was an instrumental part of the first team to produce captions in WA. Sue became WA State Manager in 2005, working with agencies and broadcasters and was also charged with developing and managing national client services for new technology, including Live Remote Captioning - a first in the country offering access to deaf and hearing impaired university students.

Dubsat Global CEO, Grant Schuetrumpf said, “With the switch of major Perth agencies such as Marketforce to Dubsat and Adsend’s latest validation, delivery and workflow management services, we are delighted to have Sue on the ground in Perth to service a rapidly growing WA client base. Her solid relationships within the Perth advertising community are testament to her outstanding client service and management skills.”

Sue has also been Account Manager at media monitoring company, Monitoring Perth Media (now Media Monitors Australia) for 4 years looking after media needs of major corporate, mining and government clients.

Johnson said “The opening of a Perth office is the springboard for the company’s future growth plans which include growing Dubsat and Adsend in the local market as well as The Substation’s world-class captioning and DVD subtitling services. I’m really excited about bringing these offerings to the West and knowing that there is even more to come in the near future.”

The revolutionary new captioning service is called Captionflow and enables users to order captioning by The SubStation when they make a TVC despatch booking via Dubsat’s advanced online booking & delivery system.

Captionflow is a completely integrated process within the Dubsat system, which means TVCs can be captioned and delivered to the station in as little as an hour!

Registration with Dubsat is free and enables anyone wanting to send captioned TVCs to stations in Australia & New Zealand to start using Captionflow today.

Captionflow TVC’s can be viewed online with or without captions (users can even download the script). What’s more, Captionflow is cheaper, with no dubs or couriers to order, instant online quotations and single invoicing for captioning and delivery.

To find out more about Captionflow, simply call on (02) 9467 3231. Or email sales@thesubstation.com.au.

Following its recent acquisition of Vio Worldwide, cross-media asset management and distributed advertising and entertainment content company Dubsat today announced that it has launched Adsend, the world’s most advanced web-based digital asset delivery system in Australia and New Zealand.

Dubsat CEO Grant Schuetrumpf explained, “Adsend has been a very successful part of Vio Worldwide’s business for several years. Many of the world’s top agencies and brand owners in the USA and Europe use Adsend to manage and deliver their display advertising to thousands of newspapers and magazines every day. With our acquisition of Vio Worldwide as part of our international expansion strategy, it was clear we needed to consolidate our brands in order to have one identity with a worldwide service offering. Thus, as of today, our existing Websend brand is now fully integrated into Adsend. We have also updated Adsend to be more advanced and efficient than ever. Adsend takes all the best features and functionality from Websend and improves on them. A new service called Adgate has also been launched with Adsend. Adgate is revolutionising the global market place by providing the ability to integrate and automate advertisers’ and publishers’ existing booking systems, including automating the creation of job tickets and ad delivery requirements.”

Adsend is used by many of the world’s top agencies including M&C Saatchi, Ogilvy, TBWA, Euro RSCG, Mundocom and Loveurope. Major publishers that use Adsend include News International, Associated Newspapers, Telegraph Media Group, Mirror Group Newspapers, National Magazines (Hearst), IPC, Bauer, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today.

Christopher Mapp, Managing Director of Dubsat’s parent company Omnilab Media, concluded, “We made a long-term commitment to the industry through our acquisition of Vio Worldwide. Now, with the consolidation of all our web-based delivery brands into Adsend, we can provide our clients with a proven, established and truly global digital media management and delivery solution.”

Adsend is live now in Australia at www.adsend.com.au and New Zealand at www.adsend.org.nz

Viewers can now enjoy both of these American series with closed captions. Refer to your provider’s operator manual for information on how to access closed captions.

Being released in late May, the uncut DVD set will feature captions and audio description created by The SubStation.