Hitomi’s MatchBox working seamlessly within Grass Valley’s AMPP ecosystem

Hitomi Broadcast is supporting the Grass Valley Alliance by delivering its native MatchBox Software solutions for Grass Valley’s Agile Media Processing System (AMPP) ecosystem. 

According to the companies, this strategic partnership addresses one of broadcasters’ primary concerns about migrating to software-based production: maintaining precise timing and synchronisation throughout complex virtualised workflows.

The integration brings Hitomi’s timing measurement capabilities directly into AMPP environments through MatchBox Software Analyser, MatchBox Probe, and MatchBox Renderer applications.

MatchBox Software solutions operate entirely within AMPP’s virtualised infrastructure, enabling engineers to position timing measurement probes throughout their broadcast chain without signal conversion or external routing. This provides true end-to-end visibility, allowing broadcasters to monitor timing at multiple points from a centralised web interface whilst maintaining the same millisecond-accurate measurements that broadcast professionals rely on worldwide.

Russell Johnson, Director, Hitomi Broadcast, said, “Traditional workflows using hardware analysers require video signals to be routed out of software-based environments and converted back to SDI for analysis, which not only adds complexity but can introduce the very timing errors customers are trying to detect. Our native AMPP integration eliminates this problem by enabling in-situ timing measurement within the software infrastructure itself.”

The partnership reflects Grass Valley Alliance’s focus on creating integrated solutions that work together out of the box, rather than requiring weeks of custom integration. MatchBox Software Analyser can manage multiple probes simultaneously, providing the scalability essential for modern virtualised broadcast operations whilst reducing infrastructure investment and maintaining precision.

Matthew Yates, Director of Strategic Alliances, Grass Valley, added, “Managing sync and latency is one of the key concerns about the migration to cloud production.

“Hitomi’s MatchBox solutions demonstrate exactly the kind of integration the Alliance is built for: delivering precision timing measurement that broadcasters require whilst working seamlessly within AMPP workflows.”