Digitalisation

Unlocking the value of an archive starts with a digital preservation strategy

Without question, we are now operating in a digital world where content has no boundaries or borders.
Every film maker, production company, broadcaster, archive, and owner of content seems to understand this on a theoretical level, but in reality they don’t fully grasp how this new paradigm of the digital age can benefit their organization. Unfortunately, the fear of high costs with an unknown return prevents organizations for adapting to this changing digital world.
FramepoolRS is the solution.

Many of the videos, audio tapes, and films created early on in the history of your business may have a lifespan that is rapidly nearing the end. According to UNESCO 200 million hours of audio-visual programmes – a whole chapter of our History – are in immediate danger of disappearing. Is yours?

We know digitizing analog media into digital formats will allow libraries to keep up with the pace of today’s market demand for immediate and reliable access to content. Content creators will have the ability to extract additional value from these “dead” analog assets.
Our approach of "migration to monetization" unlocks the value of archives, by bringing them to life, and generating revenue beit through reselling “old” content, creation of new derivative works, licensing, and/or creating new distribution and marketing opportunities, all the while preserving intellectual property.

Frame pool’s experience in managing the migration effort of media libraries includes major hollywood studios, international broadcasters (NHK), emmy award winning shows (The Amazing Race), and many more.

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Metadata Management

Metadata management is essential for search and discovery of media files, protection of intellectual property, and for developing new business models to create future value.

• deposition of technically relevant information
• descriptive-associative keywords based on a defined vocabulary in 7 languages
• content-dependent, differentiated indexing processes (automated / manual)
• summarizing assets of similar content in structured folders (BINS)
• linked keywords deepen or extend the search
• clear indications of legal requirements and usage restrictions
• inclusion of company-owned watermark / logo
  

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Storage Solutions

Asset storage planning balances speed of access against costs. Higher value and high usage assets require immediate access (higher costs) while other assets can remain either offline or “nearline”.

Working with your existing DAM system, or utilizing our cloud based storage solutions, we can come up with the optimal solution to best fit your needs.

• encoding / transcoding of different file formats
• production-oriented selection of in- and out-takes
• preview files in real time
• regular data backups
• gradual adaptation to technical progress
• 100% client control over proprietary content

Curation

Our approach to unlocking the value in your archive is first understanding what you have: our experts work with your team to evaluate your archive inventories and develop a custom curation strategy.

We identify and batch asset groups for digitization, focusing first on high-value content, or content at risk of deterioration and work with industry leading partners to bring those assets to life.

With more and more historical content being used within current programming, the time is right to rethink and re-evaluate the value of your library.

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Content Licensing

Framepool are experts at developing revenue generating strategies to justify your very important investment.
From licensing on our award winning www.framepool.com site, to arranging co-prodcution deals, Framepool will work with you to maximize any return on your investment.

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Archive Related Services

Our archive related services are available „on top“ - as an extension to our core media services. We offer the full range of the post-production process.

• color correction
• de-noising, de-graining
• video editing
• frame rate conversion
• de-interlacing
• aspect ratio conversion
• subtitles
• VFX

Media Gateway

Underpinning our entire solution is a modern and powerful content management system the powers what we call “the smart archive”. We believe our superior functionality should be used to facilitate workflows, rather than try to dictate or design.

Our flexible and leading edge technology solutions are designed to enable efficient and flexible workflows that meet your company’s needs – from simple review and approve, to quick search and retrieval for internal productions, to external licensing, and creation of new content derivatives.
Our Media Gateway platform offers customized solutions for productions or companies at any point during of the content lifecycle.

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