Hypercast Warehouse is a flexible platform entirely dedicated to Media Asset Management.This full-featured software solution provides companies with a system for centralizing, sharing, and viewing audio, image, and video archives, and broadcasting them across multiple distribution channels (Web portals, mobile devices, ADSL, etc.). Hypercast Warehouse is very flexible and adaptable, designed for any company needing to manage content.

Managing audiovisual files and their associated media

Hypercast Warehouse references all types of objects, files, and physical media (audio, video, and still images).

• Identify all copies of a given video or image, whatever the version, format, or location.
  

• Automatically convert source files into various formats for viewing and distribution.
  

• Transfer the various copies to centralized storage locations.

Managing associated data

You can describe collections of images, videos, and images in a catalog. This associated data can be descriptive, legal, technical, commercial, for classification purposes, etc.

• Describe time indexing for audiovisual files or image collections via a Web base interface.

• Create databases by data type (documentaries, advertisements, newscasts, etc.) and search for documents across all your databases.

• Create sets of images and films with very rich information, using multimedia data in one or several languages.

• Generate or integrate in-house multilingual thesauruses as well as activity lists in order to standardize description fields.

• Possibility of adding, modifying or deleting terms.

• Possibility of managing relations between terms.

Research/Browsing

Once you have chosen search criteria such as format, language, or version, Hypercast Warehouse automatically selects the best medium available for a given use, such as viewing from a Web browser. Furthermore, the system offers full-text searches for direct access to the desired document sequences.

• Search using multiple criteria.

• Checking of the audio-visual database via internet depending on the access (PC, MAC, BlackBerry, Smartphone, etc). All video formats Quicktime, Windows Media, Real are supported.

• Obtain detailed information about the desired medium: size in pixels, physical size, compression profile, number of audio tracks, etc.

• View, download, or edit data according to user access rights.

Online collaboration

Hypercast Warehouse is based on collaboration, in particular via the Web interface enabling users to access all the Hypercast Warehouse functions from any computer with a standard Web browser.

• Remotely edit files with permanent accessibility.

• Secure processing for the feed, indexing, and publication of audiovisual data.

• Configure custom access rights to various uses.

Segmentation

With the Hypercast Editor option, it is possible to:

• Segment the videos by detection of plan changes or by image recognition.

• Make homogeneous description of video segments thanks to fixed indexing fields ensuring the indexing coherence.

• Make a total indexing or by segment.

• Segment a file in low resolution, then export the assembly in several formats.

• Follow-up the publications thanks to the monitoring interface showing the level of progression.

Broadcasting

Having stored a document, you can publish it with Hypercast Publishing Server. Hypercast Warehouse automates this task and defines broadcast targets and publication rules. You can also manually republish a given document at any time. Hypercast Warehouse uses templates for producing presentations fully compliant with your company's graphic guidelines.

• Total and/or partial automation of the publishing chain to third party services (intranets, the Internet, broadband, cellular telephony).

• Complete control of instantaneous viewing via advanced publication interfaces.

• Improved reliability of the broadcast tool by an automatic control of selected publications before they are broadcast.

• Save distribution time by automatically publishing data of varying quality but keeping the high definition source in the central database.

• Broadcasts control thanks to the monitoring interface showing the progress bar.

Integration

Hypercast Warehouse is designed as a series of Web services. It can be addressed in HTTP/XML, and is therefore easy to integrate.

• Fast development of specific GUIs.

• Integration with the corporate information system (directory, search engine, Content Management System, portal, external thesaurus).

Minimum system configurationminimum

The Hypercast Warehouse architecture seamlessly integrates into all the latest information technologies.

Server platform :

• Sun Solaris 10.

• Red hat Enterprise Linux 5.

• Microsoft Windows 2000 and 2003.

• Back End: Oracle 9i and 10g *.

Client platform :

• Browser: Internet Explorer 6.0 ? 7.0, Firefox 2.0

* For the versions of Oracle under Linux and to know the restrictions and installation conditions, refer to the following website:

http://otn.oracle.com