Front Porch to Introduce DIVAsolo V.4 Content Migration System

Front Porch Digital announced it will introduce DIVAsolo V.4, which incorporates full integration with the world’s most popular NLE systems, at the 2010 NAB Show. Front Porch Digital’s DIVAsolo is a first-of-its-kind turnkey migration, content storage management (CSM), and media asset management (MAM) solution.

The DIVAsolo system combines a SAMMA Solo encoding appliance with the company’s flagship DIVArchive CSM solution and its DIVAdirector MAM. Besides adding Apple Final Cut and Avid Interplay integration, the new DIVAsolo V.4 features direct VTR control, automatic shot-list generation, key-frame extraction, dynamic metadata collection, full desktop Web browser access to all migrated assets, and an LTO-based data tape robotic system to store and protect all migrated assets.

DIVAsolo V.4 also incorporates the new features in DIVAdirector V4.1, the latest version of the company’s easy-to-use MAM product: a simplified browser interface, support for identification and retrieval of clips with noncontiguous timecode, partial-restore format auto-detection, and enhanced and simplified management of remote proxies.

"Videotape deteriorates, and playback devices become obsolete. These two facts mean any entity with a media library stored on videotape must act or expect that content to be unusable," said Mike Knaisch, Front Porch Digital president and CEO. "DIVAsolo V.4 is the only all-in-one system that performs accelerated transfer of media content from vulnerable videotape to secure, managed digital storage for manipulation, preservation, and repurposing. The features we’ve added in DIVAsolo V.4 make the semi-automatic migration process easier than ever besides making newly digitized content more readily available for repurposing."