As broadcasters and production facilities transition to file-based workflows, the need to easily view digital content stored within multiple systems has increased. Broad access to huge, growing libraries of high-bitrate media is not practical, as it places unwanted demands on video servers and overwhelms standard IT networks. The ProBrowse™ proxy creation and management application solves this problem by simplifying access to high-resolution media right from the desktop.
Powered by our Media Application Server (MAS) asset management platform, ProBrowse efficiently creates, organizes and serves low-resolution "browse" copies of high-resolution media. These proxies can be created from any supported video format, wrapper or bitrate, and allow content creators to take advantage of the productivity benefits of high-capacity media storage with the added workflow benefits of easy, quick access to media for previews, clip selections, research and approvals.
- Automated proxy creation for any type of ingest, including baseband, transport streams and FTP
- Quick, easy access to low-resolution media for previews, clip selections, research and approvals
- Shot-selection and EDL creation provides seamless integration with production systems
- Simple, open API for interfacing with automation and media management applications
- Part of Harmonic’s unified MAS media asset management solution