DAMsmart!

The DAMsmart migration process is very cost efficient, and for the first time provides a real alternative to current manual migration techniques which are slow and expensive.

Using traditional processes, a video collection of 2000 hours might require up to 2 years to complete. The cost per hour of migration, and the project timeframe are prohibitive for content owners when considering options to migrate from obsolete videotape technology to file based collections for preservation, production and access.

All videotape migration projects will benefit from the DAMsmart migration process. A 2000 hour collection could be migrated in as little as 6 weeks, and at a fraction of the cost when compared to conventional encoding and migration techniques.

The cornerstone of the DAMsmart migration process is SAMMA – the System for Automated Migration of Media Archives. Silver Trak is the exclusive SAMMA distributor and service provider for Australasia.

DAMsmart can replay almost any video format from our wide selection of well-maintained legacy VTR’s. The video signal is passed to a SAMMA engine, which analyses and corrects the original video signal before converting to a digital signal and presenting the video to multiple hardware encoders. Up to 4 different file formats can be created from a single video stream in real time. Files are then available for export directly into your existing digital asset management system, or we can store and manage the content for you in our hosted digital asset management service.

DAMsmart is the smartest, most efficient solution for organisations who need to get out of old tapes and into files for long term preservation, creation of efficient access and workflows, and commercialisation of media assets.

The DAMsmart migration process is available from our Canberra, Sydney and Auckland facilities. There is a solution for your library or archive, no matter how big or small, no matter what formats you hold.

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Contact details

Sydney
Telephone: +61 2 9571 5166
Email: enquiries@silvertrak.com.au

Canberra
Telephone: +61 2 6242 6456
Email: enquiries@silvertrak.com.au

Auckland
Telephone:+64 9 441 2440
Email: enquiries@silvertrak.com.au

Facilities

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Silver Trak Digital offers the full range of DAMsmart! media migration services and solutions from our Canberra, Sydney and Auckland offices.

Case Study Feature

SAMMA Robot to preserve 235,000 video tapes

University Institute Preserves Holocaust Testimonies and Saves $6 Million with Digitization for Preservation Effort

Between 1994 and 2000, the Shoah Foundation collected nearly 52,000 testimonies of survivors and other witnesses of the Holocaust, videotaped in 56 countries and in 32 languages. After overwhelming public response to his 1993 film, Schindler's List, Steven Spielberg established the Foundation in 1994 to ensure that the atrocities committed during World War II would not be forgotten. In 2006, the Foundation moved to the University of Southern California (USC) College of Letters, Arts & Sciences and became the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education; their mission is to overcome prejudice, intolerance, and bigotry-and the suffering they cause-through the educational use of the Institute's visual history testimonies.