ONARIO, CANADA — Masstech Group (www.masstech.com) is showcasing advances in its media asset management solutions at this year’s NAB show with demonstrations of version 8.0 of its MassStore engine, the technology foundation powering the company's Masstech for Enterprise and Masstech for News systems. Featuring new capabilities and enhancements with a new user interface, Masstech says version 8.0 makes it easier, faster and more efficient for media enterprises of any size to access, archive, move and manage their content while benefitting from the full potential of their media assets.
Version 8.0 features a redesigned, browser-based interface that embeds new functionality seamlessly within a cohesive user experience, and enables both video — including 4K Ultra HD content — and non-video assets such as documents, images and other file types to be managed consistently and easily. Version 8.0 lets users manage their content from any device — desktop, tablet or phone — enabling control of assets from anywhere, at any time.
MassStore 8.0 also features a Web-like search interface that allows users to perform standard keyword searches or advanced searches.
Search terms are matched across not only field-based metadata, markers and segments, but also against unstructured metadata such as related documents, closed captions and XML attachments.
The new version also offers enhanced tools for viewing and editing structured metadata and attaching unstructured data such as text documents and PDFs. New embedded, frame-accurate video playback, logging and storyboarding capabilities let users view and work with their video within the same consistent user interface. Searchable markers can be added to complement field-based asset metadata, and segments from one or more assets can be defined and collected for partial restoration from archives, storyboard-based edit decision list (EDL) creation or segmentation for automation systems.
Other enhancements in version 8.0 include browsing of multiple archive and storage locations; enhanced job status monitoring; customizable report generation; and LDAP integration to streamline and reinforce security.
Slated for release in Q2, version 8.0 will be available for users of recent Masstech solutions as well as earlier products including Topaz, Emerald and CatchBlue.