SGL Demos Web Interface for FlashNet Archive System

Software Generation Ltd (SGL), provider of content archive and storage management software for media and entertainment, will demonstrate its web-based interface for its FlashNet archive system for the first time in Europe at IBC 2012.

FlashNet users now have a number of additional features that simplify workflow procedures and enhance usability of the system.

Using FlashNet, broadcasters and content owners can easily archive and restore material for smaller projects that fall outside the sphere of the controlling MAM or automation systems. The new GUI provides users with all of the tools required to manage their archived content.

Once in the archive metadata can be extracted or added manually. For finding and retrieving clips and sequences, the GUI contains search utilities that allow users to locate content in the archive, and to restore any material required to the original or alternate location.

The interface can be used on any platform – Windows, Mac or Linux. Being able to restore material from outside the controlling application is a benefit to organisations that occasionally require direct access to and from the archive.

In addition to the new FlashNet web interface, SGL is also announcing FlashBrowse 3, a client-based web tool that further enhances and simplifies the archive workflow. Ot provides at-archive browse creation, automatically generating browse resolution copies of clips as the high resolution versions are archived. The Flashbrowse 3 interface, which is an extension of the new FlashNet GUI, includes a proxy-viewer, and allows operators to view and scrub through their search results before instigating restores or partial file restores directly from their browser window.

SGL will also highlight its rollout of next-generation archiving technology with the demonstration of FlashNet and LTFS interoperability in a production environment.