Digital Archiving and Storage of video content is a superior and valuable way to stabilize, secure and save video or film content. NorthStar Studios offers state-of-the-art Digital Archiving and Storage Network, enabling our clients to digitize and store their valuable video content.
Broadcasters and producers need to store, access and protect an ever-growing volume of film/video content and data including programs, commercials, music, syndicated programs, news and sports content.
Server
SeaChange™ is the industry leader in MPEG-2 based digital video server technology. Our SeaChange Broadcast Media Cluster allows NorthStar Studios to utilize MPEG-2 techniques to digitally compress and store over 250 hours of video content. SeaChange BMC features include complete hardware redundancy through their patented RAID over RAID technology, which provides seamless storage and play-out for Network distribution clients.
Storage
StorageTek™ is a fully automated digital storage system featuring the 9310 PowderHorn and 9940B tape drives, which provide a cost effective, future format independent solution for digitally archived content, with a capacity of over 200,000 hours of digital video storage.
Options and Benefits:
- Increased productivity
- Safety & security
- Cost savings
- Efficiency
- Space & storage savings
- Reliability
- High performance
- Total redundancy
- Fully automated
- Multiple platforms
- On-line duplication
- Multiple distribution options
Automation
Sundance Digital’s Titan™ Automation System provides integrated control of all television broadcast equipment with features such as:
- Automated play-out
- Traffic system interface
- Automated recording
- Video server database management
Ingestion
Avalon™ Archive Manager is the control software platform for archival storage and digital ingesting.
- Automated storage and retrieval functions
- Maintains storage and retrieval database
- Automated protection copies (optional)
