New Features for Atempo Digital Archiving 3.1

Atempo, Inc. introduced several new features for Atempo Digital Archive designed to address the file archiving needs of organizations in media and entertainment markets.

These new capabilities in Atempo Digital Archive (ADA) 3.1 include the archival of complex file formats with full metadata ingestion, partial and full restoration of creative content and the ability for creative professionals to directly archive from Final Cut Pro. Together with the software’s performance, flexibility and intuitiveness, the added functions further optimize ADA as the preferred solution for customers to integrate digital archiving into the creative workflow.
 
Atempo Digital Archive 3.1 features the new capability to archive MXF, DPX and MOV files, three of the most widely used formats in media and entertainment organizations. The MXF file format in particular is widely adopted in creative industries as the new standard for exchanging metadata linked to audio and visual content. The unique ability of ADA to support full timecode and metadata synchronization during the archival process is critical for organizations to ensure the integrity of their high-value creative content. Similarly, ADA’s new timecode support allows customers to conduct partial restoration of their data from archival media, another important requirement for media and entertainment environments where large data files are frequently moved across multiple storage devices. In enabling users to retrieve only relevant portions of their creative data – where each file can be several terabytes in size – ADA dramatically improves the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of the restoration process.
 
Creative organizations further benefit from ADA’s new support for Final Cut Pro, Apple’s popular editing software, which gives end-users the ability to archive media assets themselves directly from the Final Cut Pro interface. This integration into the creative workflow further ensures the preservation and storage efficiency of high-value data.
 
“With advanced technologies like high-definition and 3-D growing in popularity, storage and data protection requirements in media and entertainment industries show no signs of slowing down,” said Marylise Tauzia, Director of Product Marketing and Management at Atempo. “This momentum gives us the opportunity to work with our customers to better understand and develop solutions for their most complex storage challenges. The proven success and adoption of Atempo Digital Archive in these demanding, data-intensive environments is a testament to the performance, flexibility and intuitiveness that our software has to offer customers in any industry.”
 
Atempo provided product demonstrations of ADA 3.1 at the NAB Show in Las Vegas, Nevada.
 
For customers in media and entertainment, Atempo Digital Archive goes beyond preservation and hierarchal storage management (HSM), to actively participate in the day-to-day workflow. Today, more organizations require creative data to be retained at different stages in its lifecycle. Raw data, edited files and final projects need to be stored, as any version may need to be leveraged for future projects. ADA’s transparency to end-users and critical integration with widely-used creative applications allows those individuals to easily archive at various steps in the content creation process and pull information into and out of the archives as needed. This enables users to transfer fixed-content media assets stored in Final Cut Server and other applications into a wide number of long-term storage devices by simply using the native application interface.