Video Asset Management VA308-8E - 7TB RAID 5 Protected Digital Content Appliance w/ LTO-5
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The Sans Digital Video Asset Management VAM series VA308-8E is special built 3U Rackmount, 7TB RAID-5 protected appliance with LTO-5 tape drives build-in, uniquely designed to support production workflows and efficiently and effectively manage the continually growing pool of production videos that entertainment industry organizations create and have to manage. VA308-8E is a affordable, professional grade, network storage archive systems are designed to tackle the media management needs of video professionals.
Build upon the Sans Digital Video Asset Management Software, VA308-8E provides ready to deploy storage appliance for creative professionals. Specifically designed to support video content management for production video workflows, it manages video data and tracks all of its metadata and associated files. It recognizes and supports data from today's leading video editing solutions, including Final Cut Pro, Avid, and others. VA308-8E also recognizes other standard video formats, such as mpg, wma, mov, and more. Once video file assets are ingested and cataloged within the federated video database, user-configurable policies then migrate and replicate the video assets to less-costly build-in LTO-5 tape, immediately generating a greater return on investment of storage resources. Many video files contain extractable context as well as content file-specific metadata that can be used to identify a particular file or group of files. The video and entertainment industry has evolved its own set of additional context metadata, such as shoot date, edit date, closed caption information, frame rate, lab references, edit decision lists (EDLs), clapper board information, shot markings, subtitling and VA308-8E incorporates that metadata (and a whole lot more) into the post-production process allowing for the rapid and relevant search and retrieval of needed assets. Once in the VA308-8E's storage database, metadata information follows actual video file assets as they move from the primary storage resources to subsequent storage locations. Creating video associated logging entries for specific clips allows a user to add and save notes about the content of the video that is being viewed. These notes are turned into logs which are grouped together and associated with the selected video. Each log can be saved as a simple text file that can be used and viewed even if the Media Viewer is not available. Multiple users are able to work on a project and save all of the work together in a single location. Once logs have been created, they become searchable content and can be entered as search criteria in the main Sans Digital VAM search tab. As video data is ingested into the VA308-8E, Sans Digital VAM creates thumbnail representations from frames within the video as well as a low-resolution "proxy" version of each file. A simple click on a thumbnail launches the low-resolution proxy file in the Sans Digital VAM's Media Viewer, making it easy to determine whether the correct file has been located as well as the desired sequence within a file. The Media Viewer enables the user to view files at variable speeds, search metadata content, navigate to a particular point in a file, and clip particular parts of files for export. Thumbnails and low-resolution proxies also enable the user to search video files that have been moved offline. Once identified, requested video files are exported into the Export Queue, where further details concerning how the files are to be processed and exported can be defined. If data is needed for further production processing, for example, it can be retrieved to any network location. Other options include sending the data to a transcribing or publishing system, FTP site, or network storage location. The operation of these and other operations within Sans Digital VAM are as easy as point, click, drag, and drop. These tools provide the organization with the ability to significantly increase the re-purposing and utilization of digital video assets. Sans Digital VAM gives you control. Sans Digital's VA308-8E is also compatible with any additional Sans Digital VAM systems add to the network, adding unlimited expansion feature to the all video asset. Please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it for other customized VAM solutions. Main Features
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