one stop shop for all of your digital conversion and archive needs
Whether it be the digitization of your analog assets for archive purposes or the repurposing of your assets for current projects, eMotion pictures is your one stop shop for all your digitizing and archival needs..Your analog assets are currently not generating you any potential benefit or could be seen as an untapped revenue stream.. Those assets are also in danger of becoming permanently degraded as time passes by.. take action now to save your analog content and its future value by bringing your assets into the digital age.. At eMotion our workflow is second to none..We employ a SAMMAsolo HD system that allows any of your analog content to be repurposed or archived for future use.. Whether it be VHS, Beta SP, Umatic, or any audio tape stock, our in house experts will use our SAMMA system to professionally clean and digitize your content.. The benefit of our system allows you to produce multiple files in real time upon the ingest of your tape stock.. whether those files be for current editing projects or converted into the highest quality archive files for future use.. the choice is yours depending upon your needs and desired outcomes.. You can even have your SD content unconverted to HD using the SAMMA system and its superior scaling hardware.. that’s right.. your SD content can be unconverted to HD files for use in today’s high definition world..
Even if you have file based content already.. our system can create multiple files for archive, broadcast editing ,proxy versions or web steaming types.. this gives you flexibility to repurpose your content in many ways.. While we understand that everyone has a different workflow we can work closely with you to safely and effectively migrate your analog content to its digital form.. Call now to discuss with our video professionals your requirements
our Workflow
PREPARE
The initial step in SAMMA’s total workflow solution is SAMMAprep, a unique accessioning workflow which includes assigning a specific barcode to each asset, and selecting migration templates which can be applied in batches or per asset. Database ingest of previously existing library catalogs may also be ingested during the prep phase. SAMMAprep supports 1D and 2D barcode formats. Accessioning content prior to migration increases the speed and success of the migration workflow
CLEAN
Tapes of unknown origin and storage conditions may cause migration problems. Cleaning the tapes can mitigate and improve migration success. SAMMAclean, available in U-Matic, Betacam, and VHS formats, gently removes particulate deposits and corrects abnormal tension and packing issues, while collecting metadata related to cleanliness, reflectivity, and tensioning. Customizable quality thresholds can be set to determine the pass/fail criteria for the tapes. As an optional second step in the total workflow solution, SAMMAclean provides archival-quality cleaning at 1/10th the typical VTR tension, while simultaneously collecting videotape health related metadata to an open XML format, all at faster than real time speeds.
MIGRATE
SAMMAsolo HD is the heart of the migration process. The system offers a unique solution which combines multiple migration steps in one single migration pass. SAMMAsolo HD simultaneously creates multiple digital files, including proxy, for quick review; mezzanine, variations for most editing and playout applications; and a lossless preservation quality archive in JPEG2000. There is broad flexibility in creating output migration templates, selecting the specific formats that address the workflows in that specific environment, or specifically for a particular library of tapes. An unlimited number of templates can be created and used across multiple migration projects. Output files are stored locally on a 7 TB RAID 5 SAMMAsolo HD cache disk and can be passed through using the FTP gateway to any destination, or can be transferred to any data storage harddrives for storage, access and repurposing.
ANALYZE
During migration, SAMMAsolo HD captures crucial metadata related to migration success through an analysis engine which measures an array of critical signal parameters. The thresholds on these parameters are set by the user and determine the pass/fail standards for the library. The output data can then be analyzed using the SAMMAmetadata viewer. Operators can quickly identify any migration errors and make a determination about further required actions.
VIEW
As part of the migration solution, SAMMAsoloHD migrations can include a lossless preservation quality JPEG2000file. Front Porch Digital offers a robust JPEG2000 Player, SAMMAplayer, which is included as a software player on SAMMAsolo and publically available as a free player on the Front Porch Digital website. Optionally offered is a hardware version PCI codec for a Windows PC (XP or better) for broadcast-quality output with embedded multichannel audio.
HD
SAMMAsolo HD provides the most flexible video format conversion for digitisation of video and audio. It provides 10-bit broadcast quality picture scaling from SD to HD, and has a 20 point vertical and temporal aperture, motion adaptive standards conversion (frame rate conversion) built in for transparent operation with multi-standard tapes or video sources. The Motion Compensated Solo HD provides the highest broadcast quality standards conversion using Phase Correlation techniques to provide accurate motion vectors on a per pixel basis enabling the smoothest frame rate conversion possible.