Benefits at a glance:
How much value are you getting from your archive material? Are your thousands of tapes making you money? Or are they costing you in terms of storage, while gradually degrading and losing value?
AmberFin iCR enables you to easily and quickly create the best possible quality master files from your old tapes. Meaning you can start making money from your archive library and preserve your tapes before they degrade excessively or get damaged in fires or floods, or the videotape recorders that can read them become obsolete.
Any copy of any content you create will automatically inherit the problems of its parent; problems that might not even seem apparent to the naked eye but which might compromise the quality of your output. Whether or not you are subject to service level agreements with your customers, you will almost certainly be responsible for maintaining the integrity of valuable brand assets, either your own or your clients'.
AmberFin iCR gives you one of the highest-quality masters on the market. With superior automation and integration capabilities you can take advantage of this quality within a factory-line workflow setting.
Stop wasting time and money ingesting files onto local storage before you can transfer them to your centralized storage archive simply because your encoder doesn't work well over storage area networks (SANs).
AmberFin iCR offers solid reliability on almost any network-attached storage (NAS) or SAN system, with no dropped frames. So, you can save time in copying files and forget about having to pay twice for storage space.
Paying qualified staff to sit in front of a system to manually ingest tapes is not efficient—or good for your bottom line.
With AmberFin iCR's automated control a single operator only is required to supervise the ingest of dozens of channels of video at a time.
iCR integrates with most major automation and asset management solutions.
iCR can even integrate with tape robots to give you a fully automated ingest operation that runs around the clock. It can also be easily integrated with computer-based automation thanks to its service-oriented architecture. Its strong Service Oriented API, extensive use of XML files and built-in VTR and VDCP interfaces make it simple to integrate with any off-the-shelf or home-brewed control and asset management system already in place.
iCR's strong scripting capabilities can easily take care of backups or automatically load clips onto an FTP or website, improving your workflow.
AmberFin iCR's Quality Control (QC) and Review option provides a quick, cost-effective and efficient way of maintaining quality in your transcoded files. Automated QC means you can process many hours of content quickly and easily, so your margins are not eroded by personnel costs.
iCR's simple to use graphical user interface (GUI) makes it easy to follow and annotate automated QC error reports against actual content on a frame-by-frame basis. Alternatively, you can easily review eXtensible Markup Language (XML) QC reports from a Web browser anywhere or, export them to enhance the value of your media asset management system.
Reports are easy to read, giving you the exact nature of the error along with the time code and even a thumbnail of the frame where it occurred. This lets your employees do a much better job of resolving the issue. Instead of checking output at set intervals, your operators can now target sections where the QC report indicates there may be a problem and review it on broadcast-quality monitors, saving time and improving the chances of quickly tracking down issues.
AmberFin iCR can produce multi-format proxies in real-time during ingest, for easy integration with workgroup operations and asset management systems. Frame-accurate proxies can be marked with burnt-in time code and contain time code tracks to help lower production costs in large work group environments.
In addition, iCR offers integrated metadata logging capabilities. iCR can be used to automatically create or import and update existing information from asset management systems with technical and descriptive metadata and help maintain an up-to-date account of your assets.
In order to help users reduce the time, costs and interoperability issues associated with transcoding and importing files, AmberFin iCR offers native support forAvid DNxHD and the native QuickTime format for Apple Final Cut Pro.
iCR also provides support for the full range of P2 and XDCAM formats to enable true tapeless workflows between content creation and distribution.
AmberFin iCR enables you to easily convert and publish new files in a wide range of formats and wrappers including MXF, QuickTime, MPEG-PS and TS. iCR provides some of the best conversion and transcoding tools on the market, including:]
