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Unify:MediaServer
Effective management of media assets, such as video, audio and images is widely acknowledged to speed the creative process, reduce costs and improve time to market.
Unify:MediaServer is Unify's digital assets processing server. It is the heart of VYRE's digital asset management and MRM functionality and as a core compentent of Unify there is no need to worry about integration or add on costs.
What the clients say....
" The video and digital asset management capabilities of VYRE Unify have totally transformed access and management of our core creative work, supporting business innovation across the Group."
Head of Video Production, Global Advertising Agency
Benefits of Unify:MediaServer
- An extensive media engine that includes advanced video processing; taking the pain out of rich media management
- Saves considerable time and effort managing metadata
- Extraction of text from PDF's enabling search within documents
- Cost and time savings as processing completed within Unify, not additional tools
- Scalable and high performance; optimised for large scale files and video
- No integration headaches as an integral part of VYRE Unify
- No additional fees as packaged within VYRE Unify
Unify:MediaServer provides an extensive range of editing and transformation services. In fact, all the features needed to manage multiple video formats (MPEG, Quicktime, Real Media and Flash Video), images, audio, metadata and lots more.
Services include:
- Thumbnails: Generate thumbnails (JPEG, GIF, or PNG) from various file types
- Image conversions: Convert images to JPEG, GIF, or PNG, and resize or the change quality
- Image processing: Rotate, crop, change colour, space, etc.
- Metadata extraction: Extract IPTC and EXIF metadata from JPEG images
- Storyboards: Create a storyboard from a video file and grab frames
- Playlists: Create video, audio or presentation playlists and export to multiple devices
- Video previews: Generate lower quality video previews (Flash, Real Player, Windows Media and QT)
- Document previews: Generate PDF previews of documents
- Watermark: Watermark images or videos
- Extract text: Extract text content from Word documents and PDFs
Unify:MediaServer supports multiple document types and transformations. Below is a matrix for the supported media formats with detailed information of supported services.
Image transformations
| Format | Import | Extract Generic Data | Extract Advanced Data | Trans-Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EMF | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| BMP | Y | Y | - | Y |
| EPS | Y | Y | - | Y |
| GIF | Y | Y | - | Y |
| JPEG | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| PNG | Y | Y | - | Y |
| PSD | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| TIFF | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| WFM | Y | Y | Y | Y |
Video transformation
| Format | Import | Extract Generic Data | Extract Advanced Data | Trans-Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AVI | Y | Y | - | Y+ |
| DV | Y | Y | - | Y+ |
| MJPEG | Y | Y | - | Y+ |
| MOV | Y | Y | - | Y+ |
| MPEG1 | Y | Y | - | Y |
| MPEG2 | Y | Y | - | Y |
| MPEG4 | Y+ | Y+ | - | Y+ |
| RM | Y | Y | - | Y |
| WMV | Y | Y | - | Y |
| SWF | Y | Y | - | Y |
| FLV | Y | Y | - | Y |
Audio transformation
| Format | Import | Extract Generic Data | Extract Advanced Data | Trans-Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AC3 | Y | Y | - | Y+ |
| AU | Y | Y | - | Y |
| MP3 | Y | Y | - | Y |
| MPA | Y | Y | - | Y |
| RA | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| WAV | Y | Y | - | Y |
| WMA | Y | Y | Y | Y |
Office and other transformations
| Format | Import | Extract Generic Data | Extract Advanced Data | Trans-Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ps | Y | Y | - | Y |
| Y | Y | - | Y | |
| DOC | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| PPT | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| XLS | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| AI | Y | Y | - | Y |
| INDD | Y | Y | Y | Y |
- The file formats listed above can be processed by Unify:MediaServer.
- The Trans-Code column indicates which media formats can be converted to other media formats.
- The media formats marked with (+) have some restrictions on the conversion target formats.
- All file formats can be archived and stored in Unify even if they are not listed in the table above.
- Some video formats have many variations; Unify:MediaServer supports the most commonly used as standard. Unify:MediaServer has a pluggable architecture and certain file transformations and services for some of the formats above will require the customer to enter into 3rd party software license agreements.
