SoleraTec LLC, provider of innovative video lifecycle management and storage products, has released version 6.1.5 of the Phoenix VCM media asset, archive, and storage management software for the media & entertainment market. Phoenix VCM delivers the ability to manage, access, exchange, and archive content with greater ease than ever before. Since the product’s inception in 2007, Phoenix VCM has continued to add features and functionality that have won awards and praise for its ability to facilitate video oriented workflows. Phoenix VCM has grown into a leading solution for content storage management capable of archiving and retrieving all forms of video, audio, still images, and non-video documents.
Phoenix VCM now provides unparalleled support and integration to Avid MXF workflows. Users can easily store, create low-res proxies, share metadata, and retrieve MXF content without additional third party codecs. Additionally, users can archive and retrieve content directly from Avid Media Composer.
Phoenix VCM‘s scalable storage, content, and archive management along with its partial file restore capabilities on stored media assets allow interoperability between digital media storage devices (including LTO-6), video servers, editing systems, and workflow applications. Phoenix VCM‘s overarching management and preservation of irreplaceable content delivers a professional-grade scalable solution.
“We’ve listened closely to our installed customer base and integrated many great suggestions into Phoenix VCM, which has made it an even stronger solution for our existing customers as well as customers moving to us from other platforms,” stated Mark Armstrong, CEO of SoleraTec. “Whether it’s a smaller D.I.T. shop, post-production house, or large corporate production department, Phoenix VCM can deliver the scalability and flexibility you need to preserve and manage your digital content.”
A few of the newer features in Phoenix VCM version 6:
• Move files and metadata to and from Phoenix VCM and Avid Media Composer
• Native MXF support without any third party codec
• Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere, & Avid Media Composer support
• Global metadata search criteria will search for everything you enter against any/all metadata fields
• Partial file restores from archive directly to Avid
• Manage all forms of digital media including video, audio, still images, and documents
• User created logging through direct input
• Search closed caption information, documents, script files, and user created logging
• Natively manage all forms of storage including LTO libraries without any additional 3rd party products
• Save and Share Export Queues
Version 6 of Phoenix VCM is also at the heart of the Phoenix Firebird media asset management appliance. The all-in-one appliance is ideal for a file-based workflow environment needing online, near-line, and offline storage management. The <a href="h
