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[ Overview ][ Content Depot & Educational Datacasting ]
[ Key Features ][ Technology ][ Partners ]
| Digital asset management |
- Video, audio, and print objects
- Graphics
- Audio/video commercials
- Photography
- Interactive web content
- Storyboards
- Direct marketing materials
- Supports many file formats of video, audio, graphics, documents and text…including MPEG-1, MPEG-2, Windows Media, QuickTime, Flash, Real, H.264, AVI, MP3, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, JPEG, TIFF, EPS and Quark
- Categories of assets are always available for viewing and searching; sub-categories allow for creation of hierarchical structures
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| Security |
- Users are required to have authorization to view and/or access assets
- Multiple levels of authorizations: 1) view-only rights, 2) full rights, 3) system administrator rights
- Users can be locked out or given access to any combination of categories and subcategories
- Users can check out a file, but the original file is retained in the system, eliminating lost assets
- If a new project is proprietary to only a few users, it's easy to create a new category, copy assets into the category, and set up security quickly and easily
- Employs Microsoft’s latest .NET security features, which meet Sarbanes-Oxley requirements.
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| Ingest |
- digital assets can be ingested into Content Depot through a batch loader or through a web interface
- also integrates with Telestream's Flipfactory and Content Vision's Smart*Storyboard for video ingest
- documents can be PDF'd and batch loaded using Canon scanners combined with Content Depot’s batch loader.
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| Post ingest |
- Asset can be viewed/approved by management, clients, or partners through extranet/intranet, from a desktop, or from Mediaplex software applications, as part of an electronic job jacket
- Component versioning features to nimbly manage and provide appropriate access to revisions, as well as concurrent versions
- Quicktime video assets can be combined with other assets to create a playlist "on the fly"
- Enables video-audio editors to combine various tracks to come up with rough cut of an idea
- Each digital object can be downloaded to the desktop for editing, then re-ingested as a new version without re-entering the metadata
- Transcode assets into new file formats within Content Depot * if the asset's metadata information includes job information, Mediaplex's AdVault Agency Management software can query and display all digital asset elements pertaining to a specific job
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| Scalability and digital delivery |
- Designed to support from 1 to 2000 concurrent users on the same screen view
- Companies can quickly and effectively use database replication features inherent in Microsoft SQL 2005 database and asset migration strategies to connect various remote offices
- Integrated with AdVault BROADCAST and PRINT to deliver assets to stations and print vendors. Content Depot also logs each action and tracks the asset until delivery is complete.
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| Web-based technology |
- Accessed from anywhere, anytime
- Utilizing latest .NET technology from Microsoft, including Sharepoint Services, for collaboration.
- Significantly increases productivity
- Quick installation, minimal training required
- Easily scalable
- Designed to support from 1 to 2000 concurrent users on the same action
- Companies can quickly and effectively use database replication and asset migration strategies to connect various remote offices
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| Single online repository |
- Locating and tracking assets, even multiple versions of an asset, is easy and quick using Microsoft's Free Text and Full Text search.
- Centralized repository provides assurance that assets can be found, even if an employee leaves the company
- Protects against lost or damaged video, audio or print assets
- Provides control over who can import or delete assets
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| Flexible structure |
- Metadata and virtual folder or category structures easily customizable
- Easy to use; administrative training takes hours, not days or weeks
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| Improved workflow |
- Existing creative assets across multiple projects can be re-purposed without reacquiring the assets, providing significant cost savings
- Sharepoint Services framework allows flexible collaboration setup that streamlines the creative and distribution processes, enabling faster and more effective responses for creative assets
- Asset can be moved from one category to another and manipulated in a variety of ways
- Automated emails are generated notifying users of pending rights expiration for key assets
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