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SONAPS
SONAPS or Sonaps is a network TV production system by Sony. It allows planning, ingesting, editing and playouting of video material as an end-to-end solution. 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) gateway it can be connected to NRCS (Newsroom Computer Systems) and other network production systems.
Competitors of Sonaps are Grass Valley, Quantel, AQ broadcast and Avid.