SONAPS or Sonaps is a network TV production system by

Sony , commonly stylized as SONY, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. As a major technology company, it operates as one of the world's largest manufacturers of consumer and professional ...

. It allows planning, ingesting, editing and playouting of video material. The main focus are News programs. An essential part of Sonaps is the professional non-linear video editing system XPRI NS. Sonaps can be used with already existing network infrastructure. Standard video format is the Media Exchange Format (MXF). Sonaps supplies an own nearline archive and interfaces to 3rd party archive systems. Through the MOS (

Media Object Server The Media Object Server (MOS) protocol allows newsroom computer systems (NCS) to communicate using a standard protocol with video servers, audio servers, still stores, and character generators for broadcast production. The MOS protocol is base ...

) gateway it can be connected to NRCS (Newsroom Computer Systems) and other network production systems.

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