What do Media Asset Management Systems like ProxSys actually do?

Simply, ProxSys saves and organizes your media files, helps to retrieve these fast and efficiently opening a diversity of possibilities to successfully and profitably use the Data. The ProxSys solution is a professional solution for managing your digital media data. It is a modular IT system that consists of an operating system, hardware, and software components. Each system is assembled, configured, and delivered as a turnkey system. A high level of quality and reliability is guaranteed with more than 150 worldwide installations and IBM hardware components. The ProxSys offers a number of highly developed features to manage your data securely, transparent, and efficiently. The following provides an overview about this.

ProxSys Introduction: PX-Series

Today fast and location independent access to your data is indispensable. ProxSys PX-Series manages low and high resolution video, audio, graphic, and data files through an easy to use web-based user interface. This enables you to have full access to your most important data from anywhere and at any time. Descriptive information called “metadata” allows structured data management and with the included advanced search engine files can be easily retrieved. Several Playout functionalities allow the effective use of your Media files customized exactly to your requirements.

ProxSys Web Applications Individual Business-Individual Requirements!

The ProxSys Interface Protocol (PIP) allows you to combine the full ProxSys functionality with the individual requirements of your Online Business Model! Besides its classic browser-based user interface, ProxSys offers the flexibility to be integrated in third party web applications. Customized user interfaces can be created and linked to the ProxSys management system. For example, web shops for media assets, blogs, news and podcast applications can be implemented and integrated seamlessly with your existing web site.

• Multiple Interfaces
• All popular streaming formats
• Database organized content
• Easy integration
• Load Balancing
• ProxSys Synchronize Utility
• Access- and User- Rights with statistics

ProxSys Ingest

All your files such as graphics, video, audio or data may be imported and stored into ProxSys. The Export function provides export to various formats and if necessary any conversion between formats can be made with the powerful ProxSys Transcode Station.
Highlights Capture Suite
Multichannel 4x SD or 2x HD, Live Recording from cameras / OnAir, Batch Digitalization directly from VTR (with device control), Integration of native metadata, own metadata can be added timecode based - even during live recording, Automated Upload to the ProxSys Server, Easy handling via Touchscreen possible, Recording Schedule can be set up months in advance
Highlights Media Transfer Tool
Video Preview, Drag and Drop, Metadata Merging, Templates for easy organization, Project/Group/User specifications

ProxSys Playout

ProxSys offers endless possibilities to how your digital media can be delivered. Besides its capability to store content in various formats on hard drive or removable storage, the ProxSys MAM includes functionality for broadcast playout and delivery via various methods. Whether you stream video on web sites and IP-TV servers or directly broadcast to TV, ProxSys handles the playout of your media. As an out of the box video distribution solution it can burn your content directly from the archive to DVD and even add custom labels. In order to keep up with recent developments in digital delivery of content, it can also communicate directly with Digital Signage (Media Delivery) systems.
Playout Highlights Complete 24/7 broadcast scheduling, CRM - Customer Relationship Management, Full control and perfect scheduling for broadcast advertisement, Automated billing and statistics, Direct Playout for On-Air Live broadcast, Web-Playout for Streaming, IP-TV, Video On Demand etc.

ProxSys Storage

The ProxSys MAM is designed to work out of the box, but also to be customized to your requirements. With our scalable system solutions you can build a system using our "Configuration Matrix" that fits your exact requirements. The PX-Series are configurations that are chosen most frequently by customers and offer turnkey solutions for small production companies as well as large corporations. The PX-Series is assembled from individual components and all solutions provide reliable and secure access to your content. Especially in the realm of Storage and Performance it is crucial to have a detailed specification of your requirements. Basic criteria for the choice of the correct Storage Solution are:
ProxSys Storage

• Capacity
• Performance
• Security
• Total Cost of Ownership

ProxSys MA-Series

ProxSys MA-Series is an exhaustive Media Asset Management system combined with an automated storage system. It presents a complete Workflow for smart archiving ranging from fast ingest of your data, automated archiving on Blu-ray discs or HDD to easy file retrieval via an intuitive Graphical User Interface:

• Digital Video Archiving
• Quickly clear and reuse expensive Media (P2, SxS...)
• Easily find and use your Content
• Render Preview Clips from all major Formats
• Blu-ray Robot Support

Archiving, Management and Analysis of Media Data - Use Case IFM Geomar

For this project, ProxSys was installed with two ProxSys media servers and a ProxSys Ingest solution. The ProxSys Server which is located at the University of Kiel is used to archive all video data. The application manages scientific video material along with descriptive information - the metadata - and is accessible anytime and from anywhere.
Multichannel recording from an underwater vessel

• Simultaneous editing and analysis on land and at sea
• Synchronization between the different ProxSys systems
• Timcode-based metadata allows real-time and effective analysis of long term recordings
• Frame exact information logging
• External database link-up
• CSV-Import for Metadata-Merging

Multichannel Ingest: Medical Training - Eurotek DNA

Hospitals and school in the health care education business have seen significant cost reductions and a lower risk for lawsuits by patients when using the Eurotek DNA solution. The technology of this automated acquisition and archiving system is based on ProxSys MAM. This solution provides a more in depth learning experience to both students and teachers. The ProxSys MAM meets all requirements to round off the DNA trainings system.
Videodocumentation for nurse education

• ProxSys can be used intuitively by nurses and doctors
• 48 capture stations guarantee an extensive archive
• No license fees per user
• The camera position is set up automatically, depending on the procedure
• LDAP Rights-Management through University-IT-System
• Stored video clips can be sorted by metadata
• A MPEG-4 preview allows fast access to the videos
• The master MPEG-2 stream is automatically archived to DVD every night

Broadcast: TV-Station - SSN TV

SSN TV uses the PX-Series for the everyday 24/7 programming. ProxSys not only stores the current playout content but is also used as the archive for SSN TV. Consequently, the editorial staff and programming/scheduling can use and work with the system simultaneously. The system has all the features that are required for 24 broadcasting. From the production over archiving to scheduling and broadcasting though various channels (TV and IP-TV).
Operation of an IT-based TV-Station

• The ProxSys offers all required features for 24/7 broadcasting
• Extension to multiple channels planned, Complete scheduling, Broadcasting through various media
• Access from anywhere over the internet
• Archiving of content, Upload of content through the internet
• Statistics and protocols for detailed information for example for advertising customers
• One stop-shop system, System is scalable and extensible

Video On Demand - World Media Festival

Since its inception in 2000, the World Media Festival, a global competition for modern media, presents the latest developments in new media and gives out awards in different audio visual media categories such as commercials, company communication, or training. Besides this the festival offers professionals a forum to exchange ideas and to become familiar with new techniques and technologies.
On Demand Video at the World Media Festival

• Simultaneous high-performance access to the ProxSys by unlimited number of users
• Preview of content in the best available quality
• Low resolution video quality generated automatically
• Research proves easy - through intelligent search algorithm in a structural database
• Minimal bandwidth consumption network connections
• Statistics and protocols offer the best possible overview and security

Content Distribution and Web Applications - SOGIDIA AG

With Proxsys SOGIDIA creates archives with picture and video material for media companies, film studies and producers as well as marketing agencies. Other customers use the material internally to have access to their media from anywhere at anytime or offer the archived and structured files over the internet as paid content.
Supplying customized Media Asset Management

• Taking advantage of the descriptive metadata, customers and employees can find files with quick and straightforward searches
• The automatically generated proxy files allow previews over inter- and intranet while conserving bandwidth
• Due to the seamless integration of ProxSys features into web applications, the customers can market and distribute content for sale on their own websites using its own layout
• The original content is protected from being access and is stored securely in long-term archives

Medical Applications - SOGIDIA AG

With Proxsys SOGIDIA creates archives with picture and video material for media companies, film studies and producers as well as marketing agencies. Other customers use the material internally to have access to their media from anywhere at anytime or offer the archived and structured files over the internet as paid content.
Supplying customized Media Asset Management

• Taking advantage of the descriptive metadata, customers and employees can find files with quick and straightforward searches
• The automatically generated proxy files allow previews over inter- and intranet while conserving bandwidth
• Due to the seamless integration of ProxSys features into web applications, the customers can market and distribute content for sale on their own websites using its own layout
• The original content is protected from being access and is stored securely in long-term archives