SAMMA

• WHY SAMMA?
• SAMMA Solo
• SAMMA Robot
• SAMMA Clean
• SAMMA Motion JPEG 2000 MXF PLAYER

SAMMA – ‘THE WORLD’S BEST FRONT-END INGEST SYSTEM’

Why? This claim is backed up by hard facts and real-life case studies across the globe.

SAMMA turns any videotape into virtually any file format and more importantly, faster and cheaper than any other comparable tape-to-file process delivering a quicker return on investment for any organisation, large or small.

SAMMA has been designed from the ground up by founder Jim Lindner and his team of digital migration and preservation experts as a specialist migration system for video archives. The system architecture and design has come through years of hands-on experience across every area of archiving.

How? SAMMA ingests single or multiple streams of video and encodes up to 4 chosen digital file outputs in real time, simultaneously. SAMMA’s powerful in-built analysis engines are also monitoring and measuring critical video and audio parameters, frame-by-frame and capturing the entire analysis into an XML metadata file. The file can be linked to your content management system to add high level technical metadata to your collection analysis and management processes.

This allows you to search your collection for any material without having to physically view a single frame.

Your newly created digital collection can be ingested into your existing DAM system and made available across your network. This opens up a new range of workflow efficiencies for your organisation – cataloguing, annotation, shortlisting, compiling, editing, creation of streaming clips or other distribution formats can now take place without the need to retrieve physical media. No other ingest systems give you accurate information AND knowledge of frame quality whilst managing quality and assessing real value.

When? Now. This unrivalled technology is available and working at sites all across the globe.

A single operator can now control up to 16 streams from any single workstation, or for cassette collections, have a SAMMA robot take care of things 24 hours a day, 7 days a week giving unprecedented productivity and efficiency for all archive collections.

Using SAMMA means that you need never return to the original carrier for visual assessment of quality, all of which is subject to human error and loss of time. With SAMMA you create a digital video collection that gives you a modern management approach to qualitative and quantitative management of your A/V assets.

Using SAMMA you are now empowered to make decisions regarding applications and sharing content, through to future restoration, all based on searching metadata created with your own parameters.

SAMMA is the core engine of the DAMsmart! media migration service.