Crawford offers media migration with Samma computers

Crawford Communications acquired four Samma Solo systems, two Samma Clean tape inspection and cleaning systems, and two Samma robotic systems to deliver analog-to-digital migration to its customers.

Mark Gray, President of Samma Systems, announced the sale of an extensive package of solutions of media migration to Crawford Communications, enterprise located in Atlanta, Georgia. Crawford ordered four systems Samma Only first analogue migration solution to digital in real time, lossless and from start to finish, two Samma Clean tape inspection and cleaning systems and two Samma robotic systems to provide a whole methodology of migration to your customers. Crawford holds the distinction of to be the first service provider in the world to use the videotape to digital file conversion systems Samma.

Our systems Samma allows us to provide U-Matic tape conversion and Betacam with the best quality our customers expect says Jesse Crawford, CEO of Crawford Communications. The unprecedented speed and cost-benefit of solutions Samma allows us to digitize the files of our clients, to allow them immediate access to your video assets. Following the trend of international conversion to DTV and subsequent demand for PAL-compliant migration equipment, we have returned to Samma once again for the Samma Solo solution. The New system allows us to expand our skills to include PAL format while providing MXF interchange with all manufacturers that support MXF.

Samma Systems presented the solution Samma Solo to the international market at IBC. Affordable, key in hand, real-time, compact, semi-automated and quiet, the Samma Solo solution incorporates several of the same elements of the Samma robotic system: automatic analysis, features multiple autocorrect, video accessories and extensive metadata reports. The Samma Solo system provides numerous advantages over manual transfer methods, while offers the highest quality in the final results. Samma Solo makes the migration of the material to the archives by means of the mathematical lossless creation of MJPEG2000 files, wrapping them in MXF in real time, while simultaneously creating production of MPEG-2 and H.264 versions, and a variety of formats for visualization that includes Windows Media and Real Media.