DAMsmart archives RTHK with General Dynamics Mediaware
Published: ASIA
HONG KONG: Digital media asset management company, DAMsmart, is using a General Dynamics Mediaware compressed editing platform to assist with the editing of 21,000 hours of videotape in the Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) archive. The project will make RTHK’s production archive available in an HD digital format.
According to the manufacturer, General Dynamics Mediaware’s platform will be part of the solution to enable RTHK to increase postproduction efficiencies, reduce risk in storage and, ensure the content is digitised and secure for future generations.
‘The General Dynamics Mediaware solution was chosen by DAMsmart due to its single pass workflow, frame accuracy and lossless editing process,’ said Garrick Simeon, managing director, General Dynamics Mediaware. ‘With our software, DAMsmart is able to significantly accelerate the archival process, avoid a transcoding process and maximise the quality of the file.’
‘By segmenting the original content, quickly and frame accurately, General Dynamics Mediaware’s software is doing the heavy lifting in this project and interacts seamlessly with our workflow solution,’ added Joe Kelly, general manager of DAMsmart. ‘Compared with baseband alternatives, General Dynamics Mediaware’s solution edits up to 30 times faster without generational loss allowing us to speedily move forward with preserving the thousands of hours of video.’
It is expected to take a year to complete the digitising and archive process and it will coincide with the introduction of RTHK’s new digital terrestrial television service.