Cinegy

Cinegy Archive is the innovative media asset management solution for any organization with an archive or productions to manage. With advanced logging and metadata accumulation over the entire lifecycle of the media assets these become easily searchable and reusable, saving time and money. Cinegy Archive enables local and remote real-time collaboration allowing loggers, story and video editors to work on video material in real-time even while it is still being ingested. Using the Cinegy Workspace browser-based interface, clips can be searched, browsed, selected and even edited from anywhere. Cinegy Archive brings your assets to life.

Over the past several years, digital storage prices have dropped dramatically. At the same time, the cost of commodity IT equipment and PC hardware has remained low, while their power has soared. As a result, a digital media archive that previously required dedicated, proprietary UNIX boxes can now be created with more capacity, greater flexibility and at far lower cost using standard IT equipment based on standard Intel CPUs with Windows or Linux operating systems. What was formerly problematic is now practical.

Cinegy Workflow is completely database driven. No data is stored on client systems. Content can be ingested from tape or file, or transferred from existing editing systems or shared storage solutions such as Avid Unity. Media is stored in a centralized repository within Cinegy Archive, accessible directly through the Cinegy Desktop client or through Cinegy’s platform-independent, browser-based solution Cinegy Workspace.

Changes are visible immediately allowing real-time collaboration. Cinegy Workspace provides all the tools for simple search, browse log and edit, while for more advanced operations such as logging with templates or HD timeline editing, moving to the Cinegy Desktop client is seamless. Changes made to a project from a team member on the road using the Cinegy Workspace client are immediately reflected in the Cinegy Desktop application and vice versa.

Cinegy Workspace has been developed using all new technology based on Microsoft’s Silverlight runtime providing cross platform support (running on Windows and Mac OS) and requiring no dedicated application installation. Five Cinegy Workspace licenses are included with every Cinegy Archive, allowing you to transform your digital production system into a modern mobile workflow.

Anyone with appropriate user rights can access video material and instantly view, tag or annotate ingested content. Editors and producers can work on material on the fly. Content can be accessed in parallel by any number of loggers, or any authenticated and assigned end-user. Functionality available to individual users depends on their roles and the security level they have been assigned.

• Cinegy Archive facilitates a collaborative workflow by allowing loggers, story editors and video editors to work on video material in real-time as it is being ingested.
• Users can access media from any location - the production office, the set or another city.
• All access rights can of course be controlled to the lowest level of detail.
• Cinegy enterprise manager allows system administrators to control and modify the operation of the Cinegy system without knowledge of complex SQL routines.
• Diagnostic tools that allow administrators to observe system status and detect bottlenecks.
• Advanced accumulative metadata collection methods.
• The Cinegy Media Cleaner can analyze media usage and then compact rolls to contain just what is in use, which is then copied to archive storage.
• Seamlessly integrates with all Cinegy Workflow products, ensuring that any metadata is accurately created, updated and maintained during every step of the production workflow.
• Cinegy’s software player and video codecs are constantly improved and updated through ongoing development, a benefit that does not pertain to other dedicated hardware codecs.

Technical Info

Cinegy Archive has a multi-tier storage concept that can work with different storage architectures which can even be mixed and matched. From simple NAS to complex HSM or combined - all options are supported. Storage can be added during operation. Using simple NAS, SAMBA or Windows Storage Server the Cinegy Archive can perform storage load balancing for increased performance. Automatic push to, or recall from, digital tape libraries controlled by HSM solutions, by vendors such as Quantum and Xendata, is also supported. The differentiation between production and archive storage allows different storage architectures for different bandwidth and volume requirements