Schedule and Playout your footage for Broadcast and Live Events

  • Softron offers a complete range of playout solutions. For a Live show that needs to simply play video files, the affordable OnTheAir Video Express and its easy-to-use playlists are what you will need. For more advanced features during a Live show, OnTheAir Video or OnTheAir Live will become handy.
  • For 24/7 playout and scheduled playout, OnTheAir Video will already answer a lot of needs for the local broadcaster. But if you want a scheduler using a unique calendar user interface, and many advanced features, OnTheAir Manager is the software you need.
  • With the M|44 or M|62, you can have a hardware and software bundle that will cover most needs in Live situations to record and playout multiple channels simultaneously, all that in one box connected with one Thunderbolt cable to your Mac.
M|Family

NEW bundles, now with 12G support!

  • Up to 8 HD channels or 2 UHD all-in-one box capture solution
  • Audio LTC (or reference) input
  • Up to 32 channels of audio
  • No transfer time needed (files are readily available)
  • Edit-while-ingest
  • Ideal for multicam Live productions
  • Multiple ingest and playout channels
  • Apple ProRes, Avid DNxHD, XDCAM, and other codecs
  • Multiple codecs & destinations
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M|Replay

The first instant replay software on the Mac

  • For video production or as an adjudication system for referees
  • While recording, immediately playback an action that just happened
  • Select the camera for output via SDI and playback at variable speed
  • Playlist editor to assemble the highlights of your recording
  • Import media in your playlist to playout just about any media file
  • Hardware controllers available (SKAARHOJ XC8, SuttlePRO, Stream Deck)
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OnTheAir Video

Open and powerful playout solution for the Mac

  • Dynamic Graphics Overlay (optional)
  • Transitions (NEW)
  • On-screen Preview (NEW
  • Mix-and-match 4K and HD contents in high quality
  • Support for Closed Captioning CEA-708 and CEA-608 or Subtitling OP47
  • Output to SDI or NDI®
  • Actions like secondary events to control CG, routers, ...
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OnTheAir Video Express

Open playout solution for the Mac

  • Supports most file wrappers (QuickTime, MXF, ts)
  • Supports most video codecs (Apple ProRes®, Avid DNxHD®, DVCPRO HD, H.264, MPEG-2, XDCAM EX®, XDCAM HD®,...)
  • Output to SDI or NDI®
  • Still image playback
  • Supports clips with alpha channel
  • Control playback from production switcher
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OnTheAir Node

For live or 24/7 operations

  • Redundancy and automatic restart 
  • Output to NDI®
  • Master - Slave mode 
  • Media management (clip validation and notifications) 
  • Remote control with a REST API 
  • Advanced scheduling with OnTheAir Manager 
  • Plug-Ins enable integration with video routers, GPI, CG 
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OnTheAir Live

Ideal for live shows with Cue Mode and A/B Roll

  • Free application - install on any number of workstations
  • Can control multiple OnTheAir Nodes over TCP/IP
  • A/B roll (one client)
  • Cue mode for live playout
  • Access to clip attributes for secondary events
  • Clip trimming & information (Codec, fps, etc.)
  • GPI trigger
  • Control the play out from an iPad
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OnTheAir Manager

Unique calendar and playlist-based user interface

  • Unique calendar and playlist-based user interface  Unlimited levels of nested playlists
  • Categories for automated programming (color, default attribute, logo, graphic, etc…)
  • Easy integration with traffic systems
  • Electronic Program Guide (EPG) generation (Optional)
  • Emergency Alert System (EAS) support (Optional) 
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OnTheAir CG

Open and intuitive user interface

  • Easy-to-use character generator
  • Publish Items for use by the OnTheAir Video and OnTheAir Node attributes
  • Output to SDI or NDI®
  • Built-in RSS feed
  • Crawls (either to left or to right)
  • Use an additional video input as background
  • Play animated image sequences or videos
  • Remotely controllable 
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OnTheAir Studio

This software has been discontinued.

It is not available for purchase anymore and support is limited.

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OnTheAir Switch

Easy integration with other applications

  • Control many matrix video switchers through RS232
  • Control Blackmagic-Design Videohub or AJA Kumo through Ethernet
  • AppleScriptable
  • Can be controlled directly from OnTheAir Video or OnTheAir Node for automatic switching
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