mSoft's next logical step in its line of digital asset management systems for the production community is the still, moving image management server called the VisionClip. VisionClip is a complete digital asset management solution that provides an automatic and intuitive tool for storing, searching, playback and managing all types of video assets.
Any type of video or image can be stored in the system, and accessed from most known computer platforms (PC, Mac, SGI, Unix, etc.). The access of the users is done by means of a standard internet browser; VisionClip is a secure intranet system within the user's premises or over a WAN. VisionClip can even be used as a web server for sales, through all available e-commerce tools based on web browsers, which allows the resale of a selected medium, for customers who enter the server through a secure and separate sales page.
VisionClip's search interface provides users with a tool to search for any clip on their storage site by keyword, category, etc., and quickly audit a low-resolution proxy version of the clip using a viewer on their computer. Thumbnail images can also be displayed, if required. This process allows the user the ability to manage any type of audio or image file that is required to be reused within the same environment.
The video can be located by event, airing date, time, words spoken, or any other relevant information that is added to it manually. The video can also be grouped into user-definable categories to be searched in a nested way.
Video content can be uploaded on any PC to the VisionClip server. VisionClip can also automatically capture and broadcast other video sources and create multiple compression files (HD, MPG-2, MPG-1, Quicktime, etc.) of the video.
The system can be used to manage the inventory of the image libraries as well as the company's video assets, and can also manage mSoft music or sound effects through the modules added to it. mSoft's ServerSound was the first cross-plattform solution for sound effects management in 1998. By 2002, the drop in storage costs made it possible to realize the production music management tool, and therefore mSoft introduced its MusicCue system. CBS Television started with a 7 TB system that allowed about 10,000 CDs to be stored at a time, and then grew to 11 TB (15,000 CDs) in 2003; it recently upgraded its single system to a 12-terabyte dual MusicCue system in 2004, and it continues to expand.
