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 tagging, 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.
What is the accsyn Media Vault feature all about?
accsyn provides media management capabilities for files residing on the accsyn cloud hosted storage. The major purpose is to categorize your media deliverables beneath titles (movies, TV series, short films, etc) and then tag associated media files enabling:
Well structured title media, making it very easy to find the content you are looking for.
Streamlined delivery of DCP:s, masters, sound, sales material, pictures and videos.
VOD content streaming, allowing users to watch title media in their web browsers.
Automated transcode into various shapes and forms.
Export tooling targeting established SVOD/TVOD vendors.
Lab services - let us help you refine your media assets.
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.
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:
A standard title sub-folder structure is deployed when a new title is created, making it easy to get started organising your media deliverables.
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),..
Audio: 20 (stereo), 51 (surround)
Category: MAS (master), DCP, VOD, SALES
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 and banner with the deliveries as well as metadata. 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 (with TC burn-in and more)
Proxy (1Mbps web preview)
Thumbnails
The accsyn Cloud hosted storage, is backed by a powerful farm of high performance ffmpeg nodes, currently available for transcoding without any additional costs.
Web streaming
Once VOD media have had a streaming (HD) proxy transcoded, it 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.
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:
Media Vault ingestion with IMDb linkage - we can check and ingest the media for you.
DCP (Digital Cinema Packaging) mastering
Advanced AI Upres
VOD (Video On Demand) export, supporting major stream vendors such as Netflix, Viasat, Disney+ and much more.
Media QC, check media for artefacts.
Colour Grading & General Post production
Content digitising
..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.
Related articles:
- Utilise our experienced media lab staff for sorting your deliverables.
- Permanently share your Titles with sales teams, vendors, partners, customers and end users.