accsyn Media Vault - Introduction

Learn about the accsyn Media Vault feature allowing you to use accsyn to host your film master files and deliverables, with media proxies, transcoding, streaming,  export tooling, lab services, and much more.

Important note:

• Not currently available for BYOS workspaces (on-prem), only at the accsyn cloud hosted storage.

Titles

An accsyn "title" is a (root) folder on the cloud storage containing media bound to a specific movie or TV show, identified by its IMDb ID, or a general local media project. 

accsyn fetches movie metadata from IMDb upon title creation making it easy to quickly setup the base structure of your library. Titles have a cover image, and also can have a banner image, for easier identification and enriched presentation of deliveries:

When media is uploaded to a title, you can either have accsyn sort it into a standard category based folder structure ore manage the folder structure yourself.

Media

A "media" asset is a file or folder beneath a title being tagged with standard attributes, identifying its format (technical attributes) and purpose within your delivery pipeline. accsyn probes the media accordingly, giving you a solid base for evaluating video and audio streams on a technical level.

Once a file is tagged as media, it can be subject to advanced media operations within accsyn such as automated transcoding, streaming, DCP authoring and VOD delivering.

Example of media tags:

Type: VID (video), SND (sound), PIC (picture),..

Ontent: FTR (feature), TRL (trailer), CLIP (clip)

Category: MAS (master), DCP, VOD, SALES 

Audio: 20 (stereo), 51 (surround)

Season: S01, S02,... 

Tagged media is also very easy to locate, without needing to descend into a deep folder structure and rely on filenames.

Delivering

Media delivery is enriched by the proxy engine, providing title cover + banner and thumbnail + video proxies for files. A delivery can have a mix of media and standard file and folder contents.

With the accsyn host daemon installation feature, deliveries to remote endpoints such as clients, cinemas and other public showrooms can be sent without any user intervention on the receiving side.

Transcoding

Once the master media has been logged  (Category: MAS), accsyn enables transcode into a well defined set of sub content such as:

• VOD, for further streamable proxy transcode (HD HLS)

• Lowres, proxy with TC burn-in and more.

• Proxy, 1280x720, 2Mbps preview.

• Thumbnails

The accsyn Cloud hosted storage, is backed by a powerful farm of high performance ffmpeg nodes, currently available for proxy transcoding without any additional costs.

Web streaming

Video media can be sent as a streaming delivery one or more recipients. They will get an email with a link to the stream, allowing account and/or password protected playback in their web browser. The streaming delivery can have a mixed content of streams, media and standard files and folders.

Once videos have had a streaming (HD) proxy transcoded, it can be watched in a standard web browser by the recipients.

Lab services

The media add-on was initially built in-house at one of accsyn's major customers to provide streamlined lab services, services that now are a part of accsyn's official product catalogue and includes:

1. General Media Work - have lab team consult you getting the most out of the vault, and have a look at your current media library facilitating a smooth import.

2. DCP Mastering (Digital Cinema Packaging)

3. Advanced AI Upres

4. VOD (Video On Demand) export, supporting major stream vendors such as Netflix, Viasat, Disney+ and much more.

5. Media QC, check media for artefacts.

6. Colour Grading & General Post production

7. Content digitising

8. Editorials

..and much more, easily made available by selecting media and placing the lab order from within accsyn.

Reach out to us in the chat (lower right corner) or send an inquiry to support@accsyn.com to learn more.

From here, take the first step and create your first title. 

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