Blue Order is known worldwide as a leading provider of workflow and media asset management solutions for audiovisual material. The company has developed high-performance systems for the media and entertainment industry since 1995.
Its main product, Media Archive, provides fast, simple access to multimedia content, straightforward automation of operating processes, effective reuse of content across different distribution channels, and conversion of raw material into valuable program assets.
New in Media Archive 3.2:
• Folio directories extend collaborative workflows according to predefined rules. They allow media objects to be deleted, copied, and moved automatically, including across different directories, substantially increasing the efficiency and speed of a MAM environment.
• User-interface optimizations particularly help archivists, journalists, producers, and technicians improve productivity.
• Multi-site system support enables networked operation over long distances.
o Replication of material and metadata enables work across geographically distributed Media Archive systems while giving users at their local workstation access to all content in the distributed systems.
o Search in distributed architectures locates material in geographically distributed Media Archive systems at the press of a button. Audiovisual material across multiple distributed locations can be searched, found, and previewed as easily as at one local site.
• Expanded data management includes:
o Multilingual thesaurus support, including English, German, Portuguese, and Polish. The current version is prepared for rapid adaptation to additional languages.
o Freely configurable composite attributes support the display and unrestricted editing of different values. Among other uses, this permits efficient preparation and meaningful description of archived objects.
o Hierarchical associations simplify management of different material versions and instances. Workflows for copying material, managing subtitles, and creating and storing HD and SDTV versions can be configured quickly and easily.
• Expanded rights management. Blue Order claims sequence- and frame-level rights management as a unique feature among MAM vendors.
• Improved processing of tri-media content:
o Video, including ingest, analysis, format conversion, preview, EDL creation in the browse client, and material export.
o Audio, including ingest, analysis, format conversion, preview listening, EDL creation in the browse client, and material export.
o Images, including ingest, format conversion, preview, and material export.
• High availability. In the current Media Archive version, multiple instances for web retrieval and workspace management improve system availability and response times.
• Optimized integration with Omneon Spectrum and MediaGrid, Marquis Medway, EVS XT via XFile, and IP Director.
• Full support for Oracle 10g, SQL Server 2005, Windows Vista, Internet Explorer 7, and Safari 2.0.
