Enhanced IPV Curator MAM System Empowers Intuitive Asset Retrieval Across Organisations & From Multiple Storage Platforms
IP-based operation & 4K support showcased at NAB
Cambridge, UK, 4 April 2016 – On its NAB booth (N4520), UK-based media asset management and technology specialist, IPV, will demonstrate the latest advances in its Curator Media Asset Management (MAM) system. Responding to seismic changes in broadcast content access systems, IPV will demonstrate how relevant accurate metadata materially impacts the retrieval rate for valuable assets leading to greater opportunities for their monetisation. Showcasing the latest enhancements to Curator, IPV will demonstrate how automated and manually added metadata underpins the next generation of archive management systems.
Curator is an intelligent archive management environment where media assets are migrated through storage tiers dependant on their age, temporal relevance and priority. The system’s in-built intelligence ensures that assets reside on the most appropriate storage media from on premise systems to the Cloud. Aligned with this intelligent storage is predictive retrieval, which provides a number of facilities to different scenarios: in a dynamic news-based environment, Curator allows easy re-use of media assets thereby increasing their value in these fast turnaround workflows. Retrospectively, Curator enables the easy re-use/re-purposing of media assets on the web and within other programmes or advertising campaigns.
“If you can’t find a media asset when you need it, then effectively you don’t own it. With the latest enhancements to Curator, we empower users across an organisation to find and retrieve content wherever they are and from within multiple storage platforms quickly and intuitively.”
IPV responds to broadcast market drivers
IPV Curator is a configurable network of powerful services designed to manage media workflows. It can store video and audio data, images, project sequence timelines and scratchpads. In addition, IPV has developed a number of configurable interfaces to the system, including popular third-party platforms such as Adobe Premier Pro CC® which will be announced at NAB (see separate news announcement).
Also at NAB, IPV will showcase how Curator responds to industry trends such as the drive towards IP-based operations and the emergence of Ultra High Definition (UHD) broadcasts.
Curator is the product of an eight-year development initiative at IPV: from day one it has been configured as a collaborative software-only product running on standard IT servers. IP-based operation has been a cornerstone of its proposition throughout its development, so at NAB, IPV will demonstrate how this advanced MAM system is strategically positioned to help broadcasters and facilities that are looking to migrate to IP-based operations.
4K support will be another focus for IPV at NAB. Curator’s codecs are format agnostic, so 4K support is straightforward for this system. At NAB, IPV will demonstrate the sophistication of its 4K proposition, as well as revealing its strategic UHD roadmap to 4K, 8K and beyond.
About IPV Curator
IPV Curator is a real-time Media Asset Management solution which makes it easy for users to achieve collaborative workflows in a fast paced, live production environment. Curator assures immediate access to all incoming media and archive content on a standard IT infrastructure. Modular, highly scalable and affordable, Curator provides unprecedented video and audio handling at the desktop, and incorporates IPV’s proven SpectreView technology.
System features include:
- Frame-accurate, timecode-aware at all times
- Enables you to access and use proxy media during ingest
- Populates production proxy media library from both SDI and file-based media
- Includes multi-user annotation and logging, rough-cut editing and archive
- Multi-track audio with language tagging for identifying tracks in standard players
- Dynamic stream adaption on a pre-client basis ensures efficient server-to-client network usage
- Sub-clip and book-marking with descriptive metadata
- Automated or user defined storyboarding utilising embedded scene change matrix
- Timecode and extraction with optional overlay
- Simple and advanced (Boolean and Facet) search
- Full integration with leading platforms including FCP, Avid, Adobe Premiere Pro and the IPV Process Engine