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News

storytelling for linear production and cross media publishing

x-dream-Fabrik NEWS implements the complete media business processes for cross-media news production and publication – from information research to consumption reporting. It provides tools for all roles and tasks, on a single platform which is operated through a graphical user interface.

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About

NEWS spans from information gathering, storytelling to cross-media publishing

x-dream-Fabrik NEWS implements the complete media business processes for cross-media news production and publication – from information research to consumption reporting. It provides tools for all roles and tasks, on a single platform which is operated through a graphical user interface.

NEWS provides an all-in-one platform that covers the entire news production lifecycle

x-dream-Fabrik’s NEWS offers a comprehensive, all-in-one platform for managing the entire news production lifecycle.

It features modules for Research, Editorial Board, Upload, Production, Archiving and Storytelling, with optional modules for Workorders, Shows, Publishing, Interaction and Statistics.

NEWS is enhanced by engines for transcoding and AI-based functions like text creation, voiceover and automatic video editing. It is designed for ease of use, featuring an intuitive drag-and-drop interface with a clean and streamlined look.

This fully integrated, fast and efficient NEWS solution is pre-configured for an out-of-the-box experience. Scalable, redundant and built on a microservices architecture, it ensures flexibility and reliability for any newsroom.

NEWS Target customers

Broadcasters

  • Regional TV
  • News channels

Corporates

  • Press relations, Customer relations, Investor relations
  • Event TV, Business TV

Clubs, Sports, Organizations, Governments

  • Online Video Platforms

Network Operator

  • Online Video Platforms

use cases

  • Editorial research in teams 
  • Cross media story creation 
  • Online and social media storytelling 
  • News show production

The Concept

All in one

  • Modules for: Upload, Workorder, Archive, Publish, Interaction, Statistics
  • Engines for: Transcoding and optionally Quality Control

Easy to use

  • Intuitive user interface based on drag&drop
  • Reduced look & feel for focused usage

Fast & efficient

  • Fully integrated solution from one hand based on a minimal set of elements
  • Fully preconfigured for out of the box experience

Scalable & redundant

  • Based on micro services architecture

Solution diagram

News Workflow

This example workflow is not necessarily what a customer would use exactly like this in production, but is very suitable to show all proposed products in a meaningful way so that the customer can easily understand how he can receive a solution for his business based on our products.

Specifications

Contacts Module

The Contacts module helps researchers, editors and journalists to store and find contacts that are used for information gathering. The Research module allows researchers, editors and journalists to store and find editorial information not yet related to a story. 

Reserch module

The Research module allows researchers, editors and journalists to store and find editorial information not yet related to a story.

Feeds module

The Feeds module helps editors and journalists to screen and research info/news feeds from external sources.

Upload module

The Upload module is the default tool to import media files (video, audio, pictures, etc.), ancillary data (subtitles, transcripts, etc.) or any other related files (script, dialogue script, calculations, etc.) into x-dream-Fabrik. 

Post-production module

The Post-production module acts as a bridge between x-dream-Fabrik and a Production Asset Management (PAM) System. 

Editorial Board

In the Editorial Board information received from various sources is aggregated, sorted, viewed, reviewed and finally evaluated.

StoryTelling module

In the Storytelling module, a story is created and filled with information (text, picture, audio, video, voice over) structured for each publication channel.

Live Shows module

In the Live Shows module, the structured rundown for a complete show is composed from individual stories and standard elements like openers and closers.

Archive module

The Archive module acts as the central media asset repository. It is the source for stories to be told and productions to be stored.

More about story publishing and live production in the respective module descriptions. Platforms to deliver are, for instance:

  • Integrated Video Portal
  • Online Video Platforms
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • X/Twitter
  • Youtube
  • Vimeo
  • various others, please ask
Pricing

Licensing and Deployment Models

x-dream-Fabrik is available as perpetual, rental, SaaS or fully managed solution license. Independent from the choosen licensing it can be deployed on-premises datacentres, public datacentres, private clouds or public clouds.

For perpetual and rental licensing please make contact to receive a quotation.

SaaS Pricing

The SaaS pricing model of the NEWS Module is composed from the following elements:

One-time fees

  • account creation fee = 100.00 €
    setting up your account
  • configuration fee = 100.00 €
    provisioning and configuring your processing pipeline according to your needs

monthly fees

  • monthly platform availability fee = 1.500.00 €
    keeping your environment available independently from any usage, incl. 1 system user
  • monthly system users fee = 50.00 €
    additional named system users to operate the your business processes
  • monthly contributor users fee = 10.00 €
    additional named contributor users to take part in your business processes from outside
  • monthly editor users fee = 65.00 €
    additional named craft editing users
  • monthly pre-editor users fee = 65.00 €
    additional named pre-editor users to prepare EDL for craft editors users
  • monthly communication system fee = 500.00 €
    adds communication system for collaborative work for customer and editors

1) Monthly base fee includes 10 approval users.

2) Agreed number of users will be invoiced monthly in advance. Additional users will be invoiced by end of each month.

1) Agreed number of users will be invoiced monthly in advance. Additional download users will be invoiced by end of each month.

Usage Fees

  • data transfer by volume
    typical data transfer pricing model for varying usage
    • pay as you use (1) = 0.05 €/GByte
    • with commitment* (2) = 0.04 €/GByte
      *minimum 1000 GByte/month
  • data transfer by bitrate
    alternative pricing model for constant usage models
    • with commitment* (3) = 40.00 €/100 Mbps
      *minimum 100 Mbps
  • data storage by volume
    typical data transfer pricing model for varying usage
    • pay as you use (4) = 0.25 €/GByte
    • with commitment* (5) = 0.20 €/GByte
      *minimum 1000 GByte
  • 1) In and out-bound data transfer will be measured and invoiced by end of each month.

    2) In and out-bound data transfer will be measured. Agreed volume will be invoiced monthly in advance. Additional data transfer will be invoiced by end of each month. Price for additional data transfer is 0.05 €/GByte.

    3) In and out-bound data transfer will be measured. When utilizing the agreed bitrate maximum the calculated fee will be invoiced monthly in advance. When utilizing a higher bitrage for more than 5% of the time the additional transfer bitrate will be invoiced by end of each month. Price for additional transfer bitrate is 50.00 €/100 Mbps.

    4) Data storage volume will be measured and invoiced by end of each month.

    5) Data storage volume will be measured. Agreed volume will be invoiced monthly in advance. Additional data storage volume will be invoiced by end of each month. Price for additional data storage volume is 0.25 €/GByte.

    For Transcoding and Quality Control please see Chained Process Pricing.

    Calculation
    Documentation

    Please find below licencing information:

    x-dream-media Software Licencing Agreement (download)

    Brochures: 

    x-dream-Fabrik Building Guide (download)

    x-dream-Fabrik NEWS Leaflet (download)

    Videos

    XDF News interview IBC 2025

    Automated Storytelling in NEWS interview IBC 2025

    X-dream.Fabrik - Feeds Panel Demo

    X-dream.Fabrik - Contacts Panel Demo

    X-dream.Fabrik - Research Panel Demo

    X-dream.Fabrik - monitors Panel Demo

    X-dream.Fabrik - publish Panel Demo

    x-dream-Fabrik is a pre-integrated, pre-configured and managed end-to-end solution for the media industry. Thanks to its unique UI and microservices architecture it covers the complete business process from content production to post-production, asset management, story creation to playout, publishing, sales and distribution. x-dream-Fabrik is a ready-to-go platform with a clear licensing model. It runs on-premises, in public or private clouds or hybrid.

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