OpenVision® Digital Media Manager

The IMAKE OpenVision Digital Media Manager is an entry level asset management solution for On Demand content ingestion, management, pre-processing and delivery specifically designed for lower volumes of assets. Capable of supporting the ingestion and distribution of 500 assets or less per month, the Digital Media Manager is ideal for telecommunication companies, cable companies and niche market media providers, like hospitality, sports franchises and public and private companies.

The demands of the market can prove to be more challenging and costly than expected. The Digital Media Manager is a low cost, scaled-down enterprise solution used to simplify the complex task of managing digital assets. The single server solution is easily managed by a single user, reducing the number of IT and operation staff needed to monitor the system. Operational costs are reduced with automated management of asset ingestion, pre-processing and distribution, while automatically resolving most technical and operational issues, prior to required operator assistance.

The Digital Media Manager is a flexible open standards-based software platform that integrates into your existing enterprise system and automates content flow. Offering real-time support and functionality, The Digital Media Manager allows users to conveniently log into the system from any location via browser technology to view activities, edit metadata, oversee pre-processing functions and view distribution. The Digital Media Manager provides a growth path into the enterprise level OpenVision Asset Management System as asset management volumes increase.

The Digital Media Manager is capable of ingesting content from multiple locations in multiple formats, such as SD, HD, Windows Media 9, MPEG 2 and MPEG 4. Pre-processing functions can be integrated to best-of-breed components, including encryption and manual and automatic quality assurance. Distribution of assets can be set to automatic delivery to the designated destination. IMAKE has over 15 years experience developing highly scalable, open-standard based On Demand solutions and has used this expertise to create the OpenVision Digital Media Manager.

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OpenVision Digital Media Manager is part of IMAKE’s open standards-based solution suite that easily integrates with legacy back-office systems − enabling a solution with best-of-breed components from the enterprise level Asset Management System. The highly scalable OpenVision suite grows with your needs, making it possible to cost effectively add applications to your existing infrastructure as service offerings expand.  IMAKE’s focus on the cost effective solution brings simple, entry level asset management to the customer from the world class, enterprise solution at a new low cost.

Benefit Highlights

• Scaled-down, enterprise asset manager developed with world-class On Demand expertise for the ingestion, management and delivery of varying digital media assets.
• Reduces operational expenses by automatically managing asset ingestion, pre-processing functions and distribution.
• Offers the flexibility to export metadata in different formats to different video servers.
• Single server managed by single user, reducing the number of IT and operations staff needed to monitor the systems.

Feature Highlights

• Integrated with leading video servers and catcher solutions
• Intuitive user interfaces provides operators with a simple way to manage and monitor asset ingestion, pre-processing functions and distribution
• Full support of CableLabs® 1.1 metadata specifications
• Metadata editing
• Asset tracking to all servers and sites where the content is loaded
• Assets populated with metadata from packages received by the catcher
• Tracks steps performed and provides notification action is required
• Automated re-try capability of failed content metadata to application servers
• Ingests multiple versions and formats of the assets
• Automated metadata transformation from catcher to media server
• Runs on Windows Server 2003/2008/XP/Vista and uses PostgreSQL Database
• Content tank library management
• Small Form Factor – 2U rack mounted server such as the Dell PowerEdge 2950/2970