Hypercast Warehouse is a flexible platform entirely dedicated to Media Asset Management. This archiving tool at the heart of the system talks to your acquisition, production, automation and storage applications (Avid, Front Porch, etc.). Owing to its adaptive flexibility, Warehouse integrates with any environment and can be used to manage audio, video or images in all file formats (MXF, XDCAM, mpeg 4, mpeg 2, wmv, etc.).

Content acquisition

• Automatic take-on of high-resolution video and associated meta-data from acquisition and production systems such as AVID.

• Automatic generation of a low resolution file for easier viewing.

Cataloguing and segmenting

• Creation of a catalogue card for a detailed description of video content.

• Adding value to media by adding descriptive meta-data.

• Segmenting videos by detecting changes in shot or image recognition.

• Global or segment-based cataloguing.

Searching and Viewing

• Full-text searches for direct access to the desired document sequences.

• Multi-criteria searches via a web-based interface.

• Options to view, download or make changes to data, depending on user permissions.

• Rapid access to low resolution format files.

Using content

• Automatic despatch of files and meta-data for storage on a SAN, etc.
  

• Full or partial restore of high resolution files to editing and automation systems.
  

• Publication to internet, VOD, mobiles, IPTV, etc.
  

• Automatic format conversion on basis of publication target.
  

• Publication monitoring tool.