UniSay Expands Services to Offer MXF Enabled Asset Management
by Anonymous

BROADCAST ASIA, Singapore, June 16, 2004 -- Today at Broadcast Asia, UniSay introduced an innovative digital asset management system (DAM) that provides media administration, metadata editing, digital rights management (DRM) and flexible file delivery.

UniSay Asset Manager™ implements interoperability for Material Exchange Format (MXF) and nine other industry standard metadata schemas.

As technology progresses, it makes the creation of digital media ever easier. However, managing the assets continues to represent a major challenge for the industry. The problem is compounded when content is repurposed for international markets. Manual reformatting of metadata is costly, time consuming and error prone; UniSay Asset Manager alleviates this situation.

"UniSay is committed to delivering solutions that enable the postproduction, broadcast and animation industries, to take full advantage of the latest advancements in digital media delivery," says William Mutual, Chairman of UniSay. "Our solutions focus on automating the postproduction workflow, dramatically improving cost efficiencies and time to market."

UniSay has selected MOG Solutions for development of its MXF implementation. MOG Solutions' MXF products, developed in collaboration with IRT (www.irt.de), are fully compliant with the SMPTE standard (377M).

"MOG Solutions is very pleased that UniSay has selected our MXF technology", said Pedro Cardoso, President of MOG Solutions. "UniSay is a recognized leader in Digital Asset Management Systems and we are very excited with the possibility to contribute to its success."

Key Features

A foremost innovation of UniSay Asset Manager is its metadata "write once" philosophy. This strategy enables automated interoperability (crosswalk) between the following metadata schemas: MXF/DMS-1, MPEG-7, Dublin Core, RDF, TV-Anytime, DTV/PSIP, MODS/MARC21, ID3, AVID MetaSync, and SAMI.

When the UniSay Asset Manager acquires new content, any existing metadata is automatically extracted and stored. Metadata is then made available for editing, enhancement, and schema interoperability.

Comprehensive 64-bit indexing and search of all metadata and transcript is provided. Automated link creation to the exact requested moment in time, is achieved on the fly. Digital rights and access permissions are easily established within the workflow. Media hosting (streaming and download), pay-per-view, digital media collection grouping and other transmission controls are all provided.

MXF Standard Implementation

UniSay Asset Manager implements MXF DMS-1 metadata schema, the new broadcast standard for digital media distribution. UniSay is enthusiastic that MXF finally addresses the problem of metadata portability and file format compatibility. Asset Manager will extend its MXF implementation over Q3 of 2004 as essence archiving and transcoding options become integrated.

Price and Availability

UniSay Asset Manager is available on a quarterly subscription basis. Other UniSay client software is currently distributed for use with its online services. UniSay's solutions can be accessed through the company's website (www.unisay.com).

About UniSay

As pioneers in the automation of postproduction workflow, UniSay products include software for closed captioning and subtitling, synchronized teleprompting for dubbing and voice-overs, automated x-sheets with lip assignment for animation, and meta-indexing of media files for versioning and cataloguing. Automated translation services are integrated within UniSay applications.

UniSay develops innovative software and automated online services for postproduction, broadcasting and animation industries. UniSay solutions are based on seven patent pending technologies including advanced application of the MPEG-7 standard for audio processing. UniSay scientists were the world's first group to deploy all 17 MPEG-7 audio LLDs. These algorithms and their granular audio analysis provide core data to enable UniSay's technical innovations.

North American operations are located in Vancouver, Canada, and the Company's Asian headquarters are based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. More information about products and services is available at: (http://www.unisay.com)

About MOG Solutions

MOG Solutions was founded in 2002 as a spin off from INESC Porto, a Portuguese R&D Institute.

MOG Solutions is the first company to provide a comprehensive software approach to MXF. It develops and supports IT based technologies according to emerging standards, enabling interoperability and integrated content management in digital TV production. MOG Solutions is committed to standards and its development team has been actively participating in several standardization and trade bodies including SMPTE, MPEG, OMG and the Pro-MPEG Forum.

MOG Solutions products allow customers across all sectors of the industry - including broadcasting, digital cinema, advertising and distribution - to quickly adopt MXF. For more information please visit http://www.mog-solutions.com.

UniSay, and UniSay Asset Manager are registered tradmarks of UniSay International, Ltd. Other trademarks contained herein are the property of their respective owners.



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