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Digital Services

“Digital Services” from arvato digital services
With the “Digital Services” package, we support copyright holders in the areas of TV, video home entertainment and music/audio books in managing, archiving and distributing their content to B2B partners.

The challenge:
As a copyright holder, you possess a great and growing body of content. In the case of video, content is usually stored on different, primarily tape-based media. And perhaps you are confronted with the situation that these media are stored at different locations and have to be transferred repeatedly between you and a large number of cooperating partners. The partners may include licensees and potential buyers, such as TV stations, cable network providers, VOD platforms and distributors – or DVD replicators, authoring studios, retail partners and media agencies. Many projects entail substantial movement of assets and require great processing effort. And on top of everything, your cooperation partners are increasingly thinking about introducing tapeless processes.

The solution:
The centralised digital asset management system by arvato digital services can increase the efficiency, speed and security of your asset logistics processes. We would be happy to present our services to you in detail.

We offer:
Cost-effective, secure digital and physical archiving of your content:

  • 1000 terrabytes of memory; further fast modular expansion of storage volume as needed
  • Nearline and online storage
  • Cost advantages through the use of state-of-the-art storage technology
  • The size and flexibility of the storage system makes it possible to store items digitally in different levels of quality, e.g. uncompressed formats, transmission material in MFX50/IMX 50, as well as lower qualities for online use and previewing.
  • System security: complete mirroring of the stored data; high redundancy.
  • Offline archiving: rooms protected against fire by low oxygen levels permit safe long-term storage of your physical assets.

Digitisation/import of content:

  • Import of tape-based material into the digital archive
  • Covering the entire range of popular input formats
  • Import of video, audio and graphical data as well as all necessary metadata

Efficient encoding processes:

  • With our powerful encoding farm, we produce all the data formats desired for archiving and delivery.
  • Multiformat encoders ensure that the entire range of output and archive formats can be produced; such as IMX, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, VC-1, WMV, Real Player, QuickTime, Flash, etc.
  • Naturally, we cover every wish for different encoding qualities.
  • We ensure that any data compression methods developed in the future will also be covered.

Digital and physical distribution of the assets to cooperation partners of our customers:

  • From the central archive system, arvato digital services delivers assets to your cooperation partners for further utilisation.
  • The delivery is made via online data transfer and/or on physical data media, such as hard discs or tape copies/DVDs.
  • arvato digital services provides the appropriate and secure environment for the electronic data transfer.
  • In this process, the asset management system enables you to access all information relevant for the management and delivery of your data.

Connection to the management systems of the customers and cooperation partners:

  • In accordance with the wishes of our customers, it is possible to link the asset management system to the data management systems on the customer side. The advantage: Direct data interchange and initiation of delivery processes are carried out with the aid of the customer systems.
  • Setting up interfaces to partners of our customers provides for fast data delivery in accordance with specifications.

The Digital Screener – an innovative interface to your cooperation partners:

  • With the aid of the web-based Digital Screener portal, content such as full features, trailers, promos, photos, artwork and metadata can be made available to interested parties quickly, without effort and worldwide.
  • User groups with different profiles and requirements, such as buyers, service providers and journalists get access only to the portal areas intended for them.
  • You as customer determine the user group and define the content that individual users can obtain.
  • Content can be streamed or, if desired, downloaded.
  • A special interface makes it possible to order additional assets in digital and physical form (encodings, tape copies, etc.).
  • A high level of security is achieved through strict user administration and the latest DRM methods.

Our customers benefit from high service levels and our professionalism. We would be happy to support you as a reliable service provider in managing your asset logistics processes. Please contact us. We would be happy to answer your questions at any time.

» Contact: Szymon von Borne