Technical Specifications of MAM



Scalability

 Expandable media asset management and transcoding suite, deployable from a single desktop to hundreds of clients
 Supports archives up to PBs containing millions of assets
 Distributed server architecture allows limitless expansion
 Transcoding can be deployed on a single server or as a server farm with load balancing
 

Format Support and Video Processing

 Supported containers: (MPG, M2P, AVI, F4V, MXF, GXF, MOV, XDCAM, MP4, TS, WMV, WAV, M4A, P2, Microsoft Smooth Streaming)
 Supported essences : (Uncompressed, MPEG2, DV, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50, DVCPROHD100, H.264, AVC-Intra, XAVC, Apple ProRes, IMX, VC-1, PCM, AAC, WMA)
 Support for proprietary formats via 3rd party components
 Also supports audio, picture, word, excel, pdf and text files
 Supports transcoding between supported formats
 Supports multi channel audio
 Supports easy cutting and joining of clips
 Supports partial retrieval with optional transcoding
 Supports watermarking of video with timecode, logo, etc.

Asset Management Benefits

 Supports configurable proxy files for network playback
 Supports playing and editing of growing content, that is still being captured.
 Flexible bin structure independent from file system
 Built in media player with: mark in/out, fast/slow playback, marker/region definition, video&audio censure, audio channel selection and mapping
 Flexible metadata structure that can be customised by user without any development
 Many different types of metadata, per requirement
 Easy Category assignment
 Multiple search modes, which can be combined :
         - Simple with wildcard and full-text.
         - Advanced (custom searches made from specific metadata selected by user)
         - Category based
         - Auto Complete, Synonyms, etc.
         - Optional image matching / search image in video
         - Optional web server for accessing  MAM over internet
 Assets can be archived manually, or via dragging into the interface, or via dragging into watch folders (dynamic bins)
 Searches can be assigned to bins (filter bins)
 Metadata can be automatically assigned to imported assets (template bins)
 Different formats and qualities of the assets can be automatically generated and attached to them (Attachments)
 Other video and non-video files can also be attached to the assets (documents, audio files, pictures, subtitle files etc.)

Storage

 Uses standard off the shelf server hardware
 Uses industry standard database server such as MS SQL Server
 Support of any type of storage such as NAS, SAN, DAS
 Supports nearline-offline storage systems ranging from single tape drive to enterprise tape libraries
 All components can be installed on single server, or distributed across multiple servers
 Archives are organized into Archive Projects: each Project can have the same or different users metadata structure, server, storage
 Supports different failover and redundancy scenarios both at database, application and storage level
 Information Lifecycle Management: Can move files between online and nearline storage automatically based on user defined rules.

Integration

 Plug-ins for Sony Vegas®, GV EDIUS®, Adobe® Premiere® Pro CC
 Plug-in for newsroom systems
 Seamless bi-directional integration with Metus FlashNews
 Can generate playlists and export to playout servers and automation systems
 Can generate EDLs and export to editing systems
 Integration with middleware systems as CMS for WebTV/IPTV platforms
 Possibility to import assets from third party MAM and databases
 Import and export of common metadata packs such as MXF, EXIFF, IPTC etc.
 Automatic Custom metadata import and export over XML

Metus MAM Components and supported Mac OS X

Clients:
 Metus Desktop Client : Windows 10/11
 Metus Web Client:  Firefox, Safari, Chrome
 Plugins for: Sony Vegas® (version 9, 12) , GV EDIUS® (version 5, 6, 6.5, 7, 8, 9, X), Adobe® Premiere® Pro CC/2022.

Server Components

 Database Server:                                     Microsoft SQL Server 2019 (all editions. Some features may not work on free versions such as sql express edition)
 Metus Archive Server (MAS):                 Windows Server 2016, 64-bit
 Metus Process Server(MPS):                 Windows Server 2016, 64-bit
 Metus Web Server (MOL):                      Windows Server 2016, 64-bit, IIS 6.0 or later