Grass Valley, CA (April 12, 2023) – AJA Video Systems today revealed new updates for its popular AJA Diskover Media Edition sustainable data management software, which will be on display April 16-19, 2023 at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Convention in Las Vegas, NV at the AJA NAB booth (W2600). Core software enhancements provide advanced security, enrich metadata with business context, bring users live insights into their data, and streamline deployment. Expanded search capabilities and new platform integrations save facilities time and afford more flexibility and coverage, while analytics improvements such as integration with the Xytech Media Operations Platform, Illegal File Name and Hash Differential Plug-ins help provide accuracy and granular data curation, offering meticulous data reporting and file naming. New popular seamless third-party platform integration is enabled via the CineSys Cineviewer Player plug-in, allowing end-users to validate media assets in a read-only environment, thus protecting source assets. A powerful, purpose-built OxAgile plug-in further streamlines arduous content delivery tasks for IMF packages.
"As the volume and size of media created continues to grow each year, cloud platforms and storage are essential to production pipelines, and the AJA team is continuously exploring how it can help customers best manage their data via regular updates to AJA Diskover Media Edition," shared AJA President Nick Rashby. "We're thrilled to broaden platform support and offer additional tools that customers can use to better curate, organize, and derive value from asset data."
Key AJA Diskover Media Edition Release Highlights Include:
Commenting on the new Oxagile plug-in, Matt Pinckley, US Director of Business Development at Oxagile, shared, "We are excited to provide this service to AJA Diskover Media Edition customers, as it will help quickly cue more content creators and providers into when their content is ready to share with their distribution partner or client by meeting IMF packaging requirements. We're confident this will save them both time and money compared to the processes currently required to validate content."
Pricing and Availability
The latest AJA Diskover Media Edition updates are available free today to AJA Diskover Media Edition users with active licenses. AJA Diskover Media Edition is available for $11,995 US MSRP per license. For more details and pricing information about the newly supported plug-ins and Qumulo integration, please contact the respective developers (CineSys.io, OxAgile, Qumulo, and Xytech). To ensure you have access to all the latest AJA Diskover Media Edition features, visit: www.aja.com/aja-diskover-media-edition.
About AJA Diskover Media Edition
AJA Diskover Media Edition is an intuitive, sustainable data management software solution that gives users more control over media storage across an entire organization, regardless of physical location. High-speed, cutting-edge searches, cost analysis, tagging, and other sophisticated tools built into the software empower all levels of an organization to make informed data decisions, enhancing file-based production and monetization. Highly scalable, AJA Diskover Media Edition efficiently and quickly searches data fragmented across multi-platform storage, packaging all of the data in one global view. The software provides extraordinary speed and reliability with Elasticsearch in the backend continuously indexing all storage volumes in parallel. www.aja.com/aja-diskover-media-edition
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