Ascent Media - Viia

Ascent Media Viia's suite of file-based media services enables content to be digitised, stored, re-purposed and distributed globally in multiple formats and languages. Charter clients include Sony Pictures Entertainment, Paramount Pictures and BBC Worldwide. To date, Viia has processed more than 90,000 assets, delivered file-based titles to more than 50 broadcast, broadband, and mobile distributors worldwide, and archived more than 9,000 titles.

Developed by Ascent Media, and delivered through a strategic partnership with HP, Viia is a state-of-the art suite of technologies and services used by studios, content providers, networks and aggregators, that combines managed content libraries with an advanced repurposing engine and global distribution capabilities to get your content to any channel you want to pursue in an efficient and cost effective basis.

Manage
Viia provides complete services to ingest and encode new and existing content including full finished titles, production elements, and metadata, into a central repository you can access and manage from anywhere in the world.

Repurpose
When opportunity calls, your content will answer. Our industry-leading talent uses the best platform of technologies and services to transform and package your assets on-demand to meet any set of requirements and specifications—for every device, every channel, every market.

Deliver
Don’t keep your customers waiting. From same-day file delivery anywhere in the world to real-time satellite and fiber transmission, we'll get your content where it needs to be - safely, reliably, and cost-effectively.

Services
- Ingestion
- Encoding
- Library management
- Content versioning
- Transcoding
- Standards Conversion
- Foreign Language Audio Layback
- Digital rights management (DRM)
- Encryption and watermarking
- Metadata management
- Electronic fulfillment
- Performance tracking
- Global File Transport
- Real and non-real time distribution
- Video-on-demand
- Content store-and-forward
- Audio and video decoding to physical media
- SD and HD fiber transmissions
- Satellite transmission and space segment booking