Prime Focus CLEAR

Prime Focus is announcing CLEAR, a web-based media asset and workflow management platform for sharing and managing content across the company's 17 sites and its partners, as well as to third party broadcasters and media owners.

"CLEAR is one of the first hosted DAMs for moving images," claimed Ramki Sankaranarayanan, president and CEO of Prime Focus. "It enables the management of assets from ingest to rough cut edit and conform, review and approval and archive. It can handle transcodes to any format and organise distribution to global destinations or publish to multichannel, online or mobile. We don't believe in central high resolution data storage that most other DAM platforms are built on. CLEAR's architecture is based on distributed storage. If a customer wants high res footage - they get it."

The browser-based platform centres on Prime Focus' file-based engine and incorporates Aspera's fasp transport and delivery software for security, speed and management of file transfers. Front Porch Digital's DIVArchive provides distributed video storage and the archiving of clients' media content located at three locations, two in Mumbai, and one in Los Angeles. CLEAR is being made available on a subscription basis.

One existing user is the BCCI (Board of Control in Cricket India) where CLEAR is managing 17,500 hours of digitized and catalogued archive. Clips can be made accessible via an online portal on a ball by ball basis for sale, highlights compilation or syndication.

Also launched is CLEAR Live, a video-on-demand package and creation service which can deliver custom VoD packages from live feeds in less than three minutes to new media platforms - including web, mobile, IPTV and catch-up TV.

Additionally, all of the company's post businesses including nine facilities in India, the four Frantic Films and Post Logic outposts in North America and the four sites in London, including Blue, are to be grouped under the Prime Focus banner.

"Our company and the industry has evolved since Prime Focus embarked on international acquisitions in 2007," explained Briggs. "We are moving away from localised cultures and localised ways of doing business. Prime Focus is not just about end to end post. We want to be perceived as a 21st Century entertainment services company providing a multitude of services out of the traditional post model."

By Adrian Pennington, TVB Europe

ProxyMill: Automated Movie Compression for P2 & QT Files

Imagine Products announces the release and general availability of ProxyMill for Macintosh, a new automated video compression application for Panasonic P2 media. With ProxyMill, designate a “Watch” folder and let the software create low resolution QuickTime proxies with frame accurate timecode directly from P2 MXF files in one simple step.

ProxyMill’s ability to create preview quality movies in an unattended fashion is a big time saver for those needing to share clips with remote clients. The adjustable visual timecode burn lets producers note segments of interest. Larger productions may want to use the proxies for preliminary “offline” edits to save disk space, and later conform to the originals. Compressed movies may be saved inside the source P2 Volumes’ “PROXY” folder(s). Alternatively, copies of the proxies may also be placed into a combined folder on your hard disk.

ProxyMill works with all Panasonic's P2 formats ranging from DVCPRO HD to DV and the new 10-bit AVC-Intra codec. It may also be used to compress standard QuickTime movies (*.mov files) of any format. The application is supplied with a number of popular presets for fast, highly compressed MPEG-4 (H.264) encoding of half screen clips, iPod/iPhone use, and others. Users may also select from any QuickTime codecs on their system and adjust size, quality and audio to suit specific needs.

ProxyMill watches a designated folder for existing or new folders containing P2 card images. A list of movies and the status of their processing is displayed in the main application window. The parent folder (the one above P2 “CONTENTS”), actual MXF video file name, beginning size and proxy size, and status are shown.

”ProxyMill is a huge time and money saver,” says Shane Ross, broadcast television editor who works with HD. “Prior to this application, you or the assistant editor had to import P2 clips into an editor (creating large QuickTime files) on a timeline, apply a timecode filter, export the movie, then compress, etc. With ProxyMill, just point at a folder full of P2 volumes, adjust the settings and hit 'Begin'! With ProxyMill there’s no more wasted time and money making DVDs of all the footage for producers and transcription houses. Plus you now have the ability to send the client home with their footage at the end of the shoot day. You can also send the proxies to transcription houses, without codec worries, to have transcripts made,” he said.

Because compression of large files can take a considerable amount of time, ProxyMill may be stopped and restarted as needed without duplicate proxies being made. The application also creates printable log files of all activities.

ProxyMill is designed for Macintosh OSX 10.5 (Leopard) Intel Mac’s only equipped with QT 7.5 or higher. It is not compatible with PPC or OSX 10.4. The software is provided by download only. Users may activate on one Desktop and one Portable computer. ProxyMill may be purchased from Imagine Products webstore starting at $199.00 USD.

Source: Imagine Products

Magnolia Launches Content Management Solution for the Broadcast Media

Magnolia, the Open Source content management vendor that delivers simplicity on an enterprise scale, has launched Magnolia-on-Air, a new dedicated solution for the broadcast media and large organisations managing their own broadcast content. Magnolia-on-Air provides a seamless environment for transferring content between professional broadcast systems and a feature-rich interactive web-presence. The system also allows users to draw online feedback and community content back into the broadcast production environment.

The workflow within Magnolia-on-Air allows users to capture broadcast content and rapidly repurpose it for publication on the web. Based on the needs of Magnolia’s existing customers in the broadcast media, the system has been designed to cut production costs, get rich media content to the web first and then, to draw timely, online community-participation back into the broadcast environment.

“We have taken the best Open Source technology components to develop an open and highly interoperable system based on the real-world needs of the modern broadcast media,” explains Magnolia’s CEO Boris Kraft. “But with the web increasingly becoming a rich-media environment, we have already received much broader interest in the system from large corporate and public sector organisations looking to take their own broadcast channels online for corporate communications.”

Magnolia-on-Air not only captures high-definition rich-media streams but also the surrounding broadcast metadata, including presenters’ scripts, editors’ notes and almost any other information required from the host systems. With all the relevant information in the Magnolia-on-Air system, web editors have one intuitive browser-based interface in which they can edit video streams, create and resize static photography, as well as to produce headlines, leaders and accompanying stories from the surrounding metadata.

Answering the call from modern television audiences for ever-more interactivity with programming, the Magnolia-on-Air also allows broadcasters to instantly draw comment back from the web into the broadcast environment to create real-time dialogue with viewers. The system even allows rich-media content uploaded to the web by viewers to be pulled into the broadcast environment. This functionality is increasingly important for broadcasters, as members of the public are now often the first to capture footage of breaking stories on mobile phone cameras and other devices.

Magnolia-on-Air has been developed in conjunction with FutureLab, a technology innovation think-tank and development company with extensive experience in the media, telecoms and cable businesses. FutureLab’s existing customers include Cablecom (Liberty Global), Swisscom, SF-Schweizer Fernsehen (Swiss TV). The online content delivery platform within Magnolia-on-Air is based on Futurelab’s high-perfomance Mediaflow architecture which has been proven in large ISP environments.

Source: Magnolia

Front Porch Digital Acquires SAMMA Systems

Front Porch Digital has acquired New York-based SAMMA Systems. "While Front Porch Digital has offered our current broadcast customers near-line and online storage for many years, the largest collection of media in the world today is still stored on videotape," said Mike Knaisch, president and chief executive officer of Front Porch Digital. "Our acquisition of SAMMA is strategically planned to offer broadcasters, archiving facilities, and other content owners a new system uniquely capable of accessing all that stored content and of making it available in a cost-effective way.

"With more than 280 installations in more than 55 countries, Front Porch Digital serves the world's leading media brands -- those with the largest archives filled with the most content. There are more than 6 billion videocassettes in the world, 1 billion of them containing historic, important, and valuable content, representing more than 7,000 petabytes of high-value data stored only on videotape. An estimated five percent of this content is lost to deterioration each year, but the expense of digitizing it has proved prohibitive.

SAMMA, founded with the mission of saving the world's video heritage, brings unique expertise and proven preservation solutions to Front Porch Digital. Going forward, Front Porch Digital will provide an end-to-end solution for media past, present, and future on a scale not offered by anyone else in the world. In fact, the combination of SAMMA and Front Porch Digital has the potential to rapidly accelerate the migration of vulnerable videotape, and gives customers far more reliable, secure, and easy access to valuable content housed in digital storage.

Mark Gray, CEO of SAMMA Systems, will assume the role of executive vice president and general manager of the company's Americas division, reporting directly to Mike Knaisch. Jim Lindner, founder of SAMMA Systems, will continue in his role as evangelist and visionary in the preservation of A/V content.

Pagemill Partners, headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif., advised Front Porch Digital regarding the acquisition of SAMMA Systems.

Having merged operations with SAMMA, Front Porch provides an end-to-end solution for cost-effectively digitizing, accessing, and preserving media past, present, and future. Front Porch Digital now can accelerate migration of vulnerable videotape -- on an unprecedented, global scale -- to optimize and secure digital storage.

Source: BroadcastBuyer

"In Their Own Words": Political Videos Meet Google Speech-to-Text Technology

The Google speech team (part of Google Research) is launching the Google Elections Video Search gadget, our modest contribution to the electoral process. With the help of our speech recognition technologies, videos from YouTube's Politicians channels are automatically transcribed from speech to text and indexed. Using the gadget you can search not only the titles and descriptions of the videos, but also their spoken content. Additionally, since speech recognition tells us exactly when words are spoken in the video, you can jump right to the most relevant parts of the videos you find.

Google Elections Video Search Gadget
The gadget only searches videos uploaded to YouTube's Politicians channels, which include videos from Senator Obama's and Senator McCain's campaigns, as well as those from dozens of other candidates and politicians. It usually takes less than a few hours for a video to appear in the index after it has been published on YouTube. Candidates can control the videos that appear in the gadget by managing the content they upload to YouTube. While some of the transcript snippets you see may not be 100% accurate, we hope that you'll find the product useful for most purposes. Speech recognition is a difficult problem that hasn't yet been completely solved, but we're constantly working to refine our algorithms and improve the accuracy and relevance of these transcribed results.

By Arnaud Sahuguet and Ari Bezman, The Official Google Blog

Intel Developing Video Search Technology

In a quest to make computing more interactive, Intel said it is working on video search technology that it hopes to bring to its future multimedia platforms. This video search technology, which is being developed at Intel labs in U.S. and China, cuts down videos frame-by-frame and then uses image and face recognition technology to recognize faces, objects, voices, locations and movements. The frames are then patched together to make video search possible.

For example, users will be able to search videos of football games to zoom into moments when their favorite players score, said Lin Chao, a researcher with Intel. The technology recognizes and categorizes a player's face and objects like a goalpost and ball using algorithms and statistical processing technology that Intel has developed.

Once a user requests to see the goal, the technology looks for frames that contain related objects and delivers the video to the user. Users can zoom into specific moments without watching entire videos, Chao said. The technology's recognition capabilities also help categorize images by person and object, which saves users from typing keywords to tag photographs.

However, the technology has challenges that can be overcome as processing power increases, Chao said. Processing a video to make it searchable takes hours, as current processing on PCs is limited. Chao couldn't predict when the technology would reach consumers.

The technology is part of Intel's "visual computing," which combines multiple cores, software development platforms and graphics capabilities to enable a more human interaction with a PC, said Justin Rattner, chief technology officer of Intel during a keynote at Intel's research show in Mountain View, California, on Wednesday. Intel wants to use the visual computing platform to enable interaction with a PC in life-like 3-D environments or to analyze video instantly.

By , PCWorld

PX-100 Media Server for Sony XDCAM EX

Engineered specifically for Sony PMW-EX1 users, the PX-100 Media Server for Sony XDCAM EX from Focus Enhancements makes media asset management simple and cost-effective. A fully integrated solution, the PX-100 Media Server combines PX Media Asset Management software with professional-grade server hardware to provide an affordable turnkey media asset management system that can easily grow as your needs evolve.


With the PX-100 Media Server, you can integrate your entire workflow, including acquisition, storage, and distribution, to gain unparalleled efficiencies. Designed for fast performance, the PX-100 Media Server uses rich metadata to make it easy to find and retrieve footage. The browser-based interface provides instant access to your files from any location.

Solid State Logic Features Render-Free Integration of Apple Final Cut Pro with Gravity

Solid State Logic's new Gravity interface to Apple’s Final Cut Pro editing software. The integration allows for the seamless sending of Final Cut Pro compatible files from Gravity to a Final Cut Pro editing system without rendering.

Gravity is Solid State Logic’s new remote collaborative, proxy-based, video production editing environment with complete media asset management capabilities. The Gravity system is designed to pull together an entire production and distribution workflow, changing forever the way organizations gather, produce, manage, and publish broadcast news or sports. Gravity features a picon based - format independent, cataloguing, indexing, editing, and playout system with features of local or remote encoding, transcoding, database management and more. Gravity also enables increased availability to high-definition video by making web-enabled, proxy-based access to content at very low bandwidth.

Final Cut Pro has taken the industry by storm by providing high-end editing capabilities in an extremely cost effective package. The industry penetration from educational facilities and professional installations across the entire spectrum of broadcast and post facilities is remarkable. The integration with Gravity is a big plus for the industry.

Source: BroadcastBuyer

Video Technics Introduces enVue - A Cross-Platform, Web-Based Media Asset Management Tool

Video Technics will be demonstrating enVue, a new secure web-based media asset management tool at NAB. This application, available with the VT Media Exchange Server, is specifically designed to allow users to browse, search, push, and pull content from anywhere at any time. Each media asset is accompanied by extensive inherent and user-defined metadata, thumbnail image, and ASF streaming proxy file.

enVue allows user to import and export media seamlessly from the content editing platform of choice – Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere Pro, Avid, EDIUS and others. Status windows monitor the progress of local file downloads and uploads. Metadata fields are easily edited using the web browser, and enVue users can communicate in real-time with other online users worldwide via an onboard chat function.

Users have the option to transfer media on demand in a different codec and/or wrapper format than was originally ingested. Media files are downloaded as MPEG-2, DV in an AVI, QuickTime, or MXF for broadcast platforms. Media can be converted and downloaded as WMV or QuickTime streaming formats, as well as converted to special consolidated web packages for distributing media to other facilities.

Secure access to specific assets and defined functionality is governed by customized user account profiles. User-definable metadata labels and field choices provide the flexibility required by dynamic workflows. Additionally, a unique global ID follows each asset throughout its life cycle – ingest, edit, play-to-air, and archive.

Source: BroadcastBuyer

Nice Spots Unveils Version 2.0

"Nice Spots, the operator and developer of an eponymous hosted internet application designed to enhance global connectivity and streamline workflow for creative, production and postproduction communities, is unveiling Nice Spots Version 2.0, which received a very positive industry response at IBC 2007 in Amsterdam.

Nice Spots seamlessly enables collaboration, distribution, archiving, asset management and presentation on a global scale through its proprietary technology and intuitive user interface. Launched in 2005, the application offers the most comprehensive collection of features in the market and has amassed a significant following with a monthly user base in over 80 countries that includes filmmakers, studios, major brands, advertising agencies and creative directors. As the application supports all file formats from any platform, Nice Spots can streamline operations for all industries seeking global connectivity and information-sharing. Recent case studies show that clients realize a reduction in hard costs of about 85%.

In Version 2.0, Nice Spots in-house developers have added the ability to share content via video podcasting, QuickView e-mail links, custom online WebReels or direct DVD output in NTSC or PAL formats. In addition, the real time collaborative tool, Reel Chat, allows several users to simultaneously view, comment on and annotate multiple video clips. The branding feature in version 2.0 also lets companies customize the look of Nice Spots to match their brand or website.

These new tools enhance the real-time communication, collaboration and distribution capabilities of Nice Spots. Nice Spots has also updated its QuickView page to be compatible with the Apple iPhone. When an iPhone user clicks the QuickView link on the Nice Spots e-mail notification, a custom page is loaded that has the look, feel and functionality of an iPhone application. Full-screen video clips play when picked by the user.

All of this is built upon the strong foundation created with version 1.0. Existing features include the ability to organize and catalog multiple projects, grab stills from moving images, comment on video frames, create storyboards, closely monitor and measure account activity, and distribute all file formats including master and broadcast quality video; all in a secure online environment."

Source: theFuture.tv

Nativ - Mio

Mio is a state-of-the-art media management and workflow platform, designed to automate the process of ingesting, validating, cataloguing, re-purposing and distributing digital media across any platform.

Mio is available in two forms: Mio Core - a standalone media management library for easy integration into wider workflows and Mio Workflow - a turnkey media management and workflow engine.

Ingestion and Validation
Many companies wish only to ingest and process video and audio content conforming to a rigid set of file formats and with certain codecs and video/audio parameters. (Mio doesn’t treat a media file as merely a ‘blob’ of data but understands the structural contents of each file from video and audio streams and codecs to frame sizes and bit rates.) Mio validates against a vast array of file, video, audio and descriptive meta-data information for all the major rich-media formats and enables a user or system to compare each incoming file against a configurable rule-set. When configured against watch-folders or listening to enterprise messages, it will understand why certain files have not met the required specifications and fire off enterprise-wide notifications and alerts according to configurable rules.

Filtering
Increasingly, businesses require a means of sorting and filtering media files according to a wide range of parameters, such as formats (ASF, QT, WMV, Real), codecs (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2), screen size, bit rate, aspect ratio (NTSC, PAL) – the list is endless. Mio enables a user or system to filter incoming files and streams for further processing according to a vast range of configurable rules.

Cataloguing
Mio enables the extraction and storage of a large amount of useful file meta-data for validating, crossreferencing, search and auditing purposes - from thumbnail and closed-captioning data to structural meta-data and video/audio stream information. Extracting and storing such information enables users to search, sort and preview their media content by a wide-range of criteria from bit rate and codec to copyright information and thumbnail previews - as well as add additional meta-data.

Repurposing
It’s often important to repurpose content originating from outside an organisation. Mio can delete or inject file meta-data (copyright, author and description etc.) directly from or into a file without the need for an expensive transcode. In addition, Mio integrates with a range of off-theshelf transcoding engines and DRM solutions for full format conversion and protection prior to distribution.

Distribution
Mio can be configured to distribute content and meta-data to a wide range of destinations using its configurable workflow engine. With its virtual- and journaling file system it effortlessly manages and audits file transport over a range of protocols – from SFTP and HTTP to SMB/CIFS and NFS.

ENCO Releases Affordable Phonetica Search System For Broadcast Audio Archives

ENCO Systems has announced the immediate release of Phonetica2, a new phonetic-based search system for digital audio, targeted to the broadcast industry.

Phonetica2 is available as an integrated module in ENCO’s DAD Digital Audio Delivery system. The module allows users to search through a library of audio files containing spoken material and find specific words or phrases simply by typing them. Phonetica2 is a robust audio search tool incorporating the latest advances in speech technology offered at a price affordable by even small content producers.

Gene Novacek, President of ENCO Systems said, “With the release of Phonetica2, broadcasters can easily and quickly search massive libraries of news actualities, programs or other spoken material to locate material that using other methods would have required hours or days to find, in some cases, impossible. We think that Phonetica2 will be an ideal addition to news, talk and sports radio formats plus any broadcaster who archives large amounts of audio.”

According to Vice President of Sales and Marketing Don Backus, “Phonetica2 is truly accessible hightechnology. It’s simple to use, fast and quite accurate. You just type the words you’re looking for and press the SEARCH button. Then, in order of accuracy, your list of audio cuts where the words appear is displayed. You can then either press PLAY to hear the audio in question or click on EDIT and begin working with the targeted audio.”

Source: BroadcastBuyer

Reuters Uses Viewdle to Recognise Faces in Video Search

"Reuters is using facial recognition to provide real-time indexing and searching of satellite television feeds. The news agency is demonstrating systems supplied by Viewdle, a start-up company that specialises in visual search. The technology is showcased on the Reuters labs web site.

The system looks inside the video stream, frame by frame, to find appearances of previously identified people on screen. It allows users to locate relevant footage and instantly cue to the right point.

Based in New York City, with offices in Kiev, Ukraine and London, Viewdle is building the world’s largest people-in-video reference database. The Viewdle engine is capable of simultaneously indexing multiple video streams. Initially focused on providing internal and private-label indexing and search capabilities to news and entertainment media, Viewdle is expected to launch targeted advertising solutions, developer tools, as well as a consumer-facing search site."

Source: Informitv

Exchange of BMF-Compliant Metadata in TV Production

"IRT's new data model Broadcast Metadata exchange Format (BMF) in the Version 1.0 is now available.

The aim of BMF (Broadcast Metadata exchange Format) is a uniform, generic model for metadata in the field of television production. The data model maximises interoperability among all broadcasters and production sectors.

BMF provides the universal exchange of metadata in the television production and for this reason BMF will bring down costs and risks when integrating data interfaces. Interested companies can receive a detailed specification of the BMF class model after online-registration."

Source: IRT

Media-Alliance Is Introducing New Tools For MXF & HD

"At IBC Media-Alliance is going to show a complete tapeless solution, including :
- MXP-VIVA : ingestion system.
- NEWSMXP : Newsroom Computer System.
- MXP-server : HD/SD playback server for Live and News contribution integrated with 2D/3D CG.
- MediaXplorer 4.0 : Digital Asset Management solution.
- Witness : compliance/logging recording system.
- MXP-WM : content life cycle and content processing.
- MXP-MM : complete transcoding platform including almost any format.
- MXP-AM : Tape Library Archive, Hierarchical Storage Management.
- MXP-Scheduler & MXP-Automation : Playout System.

Media-Alliance will also show MXF-Tools, the new MXF wrap and de-wrap solution as well as a subtitling insertion in a MPEG-2 Transport Stream both as private data stream and hard coded."

Source: BroadcastBuyer

AXMEDIS at IBC 2007

"AXMEDIS is an open framework and solution for cross-media media content production, protection and multichannel distribution.

AXMEDIS consortium consists of over 35 partners(such as DSI, TISCALI, BBC, Telecom Italia, TEO, ELION, HP, EUTELSAT, ILABS GIUNTI, ACIT, EXITECH, AFI, UPC, Univ Leeds, FHGIGD, EPFL, etc.) actively producing innovative research results with new tools and solutions, developing real trials and demonstrations for automated content production and distribution.

The AXMEDIS Framework is designed to reduce costs and increase efficiency. It provides support to automatize all the backoffice aspects (access to any CMSs and databases, processing, adaptation, fingerprinting, licensing, transcoding, MPEG-21, OMA, metadata enrichment, reporting, accounting, etc.). It supports the whole value chain and allows the convergence of the media and interoperability of content to enable multichannel distribution (mobile, satellite, kiosk, iTV, etc.). The framework integrates content processing solutions, content management systems and their interoperability, workflow, and adopts new methods and tools for innovative, flexible and interoperable DRM and harmonise B2B and B2C areas for DRM. It brings the DRM model into the B2B area and increases content accessibility with P2P legal platforms for B2B and B2C levels. The Framework includes content tools for MPEG-21 authoring, and players for PC, PDA, STB, PVR, HDR, Mobiles, etc.

The AXMEDIS Framework is developed for all, from small to large industries, with a common interest in the exploitation of new technologies and solutions. It can be used to set-up and built a large range of applications and services in the area of content production, protection and distribution. AXMEDIS Framework is distributed with a dual licensing model: Open source for non commercial purpose and with Affiliation for commercial and supporting users, companies and institutions."

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Teresis Launches Online Version of Asset Management Technology

Teresis Media Management, the developer of the first and only complete video production asset management solution, today announced the launch of an online version of its software. Teresis Online harnesses the full power and benefits of Teresis technology in a "software as a service" business model, making it more affordable and accessible to a wide variety of customers from the independent film producer to the largest entertainment production companies.

Aiming to alleviate much of this strain on production companies, Teresis Online offers a unique opportunity for producers to cut budgets and significantly reduce post-production time while raising the quality of the final product. Leveraging the convenience of the Internet, Teresis Online delivers all of the features and benefits of the Teresis software – the first platform to enable productions companies to repurpose their existing content and develop original content for new emerging markets such as the internet, cell phones, and VOD. Teresis Online is the industry's first and only complete production asset management system that is entirely browser and Internet based. It is also the first to integrate outsourced transcription services (through a partnership with Terescription) and the first to support Avid and Final Cut Pro editing software.

Additional features and benefits include the ability to:

- Edit video online
- Digitize multiple tapes at once and repurpose media for editing in Avid or Final Cut Pro
- Print labels and manage master tape vault
- Log and transcribe 50 percent faster
- View dailies with hyperlinked scenes and takes
- Search and annotate with hyperlinked time codes to media
- Create two-column scripts
- Create sequences and edit decision lists all from a web browser
- Build dynamic storyboards for collaborative development and faster approval process
- Manage all assets including releases, permissions, contracts, artwork, audio, still photos and royalties
- Approve cuts virtually and eliminate the need for shipping tapes and DVDs

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Teresis Launches Online Version of Asset Management Technology

Teresis Media Management, the developer of the first and only complete video production asset management solution, today announced the launch of an online version of its software. Teresis Online harnesses the full power and benefits of Teresis technology in a "software as a service" business model, making it more affordable and accessible to a wide variety of customers from the independent film producer to the largest entertainment production companies.

Aiming to alleviate much of this strain on production companies, Teresis Online offers a unique opportunity for producers to cut budgets and significantly reduce post-production time while raising the quality of the final product. Leveraging the convenience of the Internet, Teresis Online delivers all of the features and benefits of the Teresis software – the first platform to enable productions companies to repurpose their existing content and develop original content for new emerging markets such as the internet, cell phones, and VOD. Teresis Online is the industry's first and only complete production asset management system that is entirely browser and Internet based. It is also the first to integrate outsourced transcription services (through a partnership with Terescription) and the first to support Avid and Final Cut Pro editing software.

Additional features and benefits include the ability to:
- Edit video online.
- Digitize multiple tapes at once and repurpose media for editing in Avid or Final Cut Pro.
- Print labels and manage master tape vault.
- Log and transcribe 50 percent faster.
- View dailies with hyperlinked scenes and takes.
- Search and annotate with hyperlinked time codes to media.
- Create two-column scripts.
- Create sequences and edit decision lists all from a web browser.
- Build dynamic storyboards for collaborative development and faster approval process.
- Manage all assets including releases, permissions, contracts, artwork, audio, still photos and royalties.
- Approve cuts virtually and eliminate the need for shipping tapes and DVDs.

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