StorExcel AXZiS Integrates Curator MAM and Quantum Xcellis Shared Storage

UK-based Media Asset Management (MAM) specialist IPV Ltd, has announced a collaboration with StorExcel, LLC, developer and provider of content management and workflow automation solutions for scale-out storage environments.

As a result, StorExcel’s AXZiS platform integrates the IPV Curator MAM system with the Quantum Xcellis shared workflow storage system. Equipped with Curator, AXZiS delivers asset management capabilities that are suited for demanding sports production and corporate video applications.

“As part of our fully integrated AXZiS platform, IPV Curator provides a robust and proven end-to-end asset management layer that seamlessly coordinates media production, editing, and content management,” said Lance Hukill, president, StorExcel. “The synergistic integration of Curator into AXZiS makes it easy for companies both large and small to quickly realize sophisticated MAM capabilities within their collaborative production workflows and, in turn, maximize the value of their media assets.“

“Integrating components in this way increases production efficiency, reduces operating costs, and creates a new means for driving content production in both live and non-live environments,” added Nigel Booth, IPV’s EVP for business development. “The StorExcel AXZiS platform built on our Curator MAM system and Quantum’s Xcellis storage system will assist any organization wanting to speed up the production process or efficiently manage its archive.“

Increased speed, reduced cost in demanding production environments
Delivered and supported by StorExcel, a Quantum and IPV partner, the AXZiS platform allows content creators and producers to reduce the time and cost associated with their shift to higher-performing shared workflow storage with exceptional scalability. Rather than work with a variety of vendors for integration and support, users can make a single call to StorExcel. Running on the Xcellis shared storage platform as a native application, IPV’s Curator offers an archive management environment in which media assets are migrated through storage tiers according to their age, temporal relevance, and priority. The system’s in-built knowledge management ensures that assets reside on the most appropriate storage media from on premise systems to the cloud.

In the sports production environment, IPV Curator gives users contextual search and automated proxy workflow tools that allow them to show every goal, strike, assist, run, and slam dunk as it happens, supported by commentary and trending opinion. For highlights programs, IPV Curator allows concurrent users to perform translation, subtitling, and editing, all on low-resolution, metadata-rich, timecode-accurate files before all elements are brought together in the high-resolution program.

In corporate video applications, the integration of IPV Curator into the AXZiS platform supports fast creation and delivery of content when and where it is needed. With the help of Curator’s archive, media management, and content production and repurposing tools, including fast, highly accurate contextual archive and web search functions, users can leverage new and existing assets to provide timely and compelling content.

IPV Curator is a real-time MAM solution which makes it easy for users to achieve collaborative workflows in a fast paced, live production environment. Curator assures immediate access to all incoming media and archive content on a standard IT infrastructure. Modular, scalable and affordable, Curator provides video and audio handling at the desktop, and incorporates IPV’s SpectreView technology.

System features include:

• Frame-accurate, timecode-aware at all times
• Enables users to access and use proxy media during ingest
• Populates production proxy media library from both SDI and file-based media
• Includes multi-user annotation and logging, rough-cut editing and archive
• Multi-track audio with language tagging for identifying tracks in standard players
• Dynamic stream adaption on a pre-client basis ensures efficient server-to-client network usage
• Sub-clip and book-marking with descriptive metadata
• Automated or user defined storyboarding utilising embedded scene change matrix
• Timecode and extraction with optional overlay
• Simple and advanced (Boolean and Facet) search
• Integration with platforms including FCP, Avid, Adobe Premiere Pro and the IPV Process Engine