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Niagara Content Management Solution Bundle
Featuring Convera Screening Room Software

The Niagara Content Management solution is based on Convera's Screening Room video indexing, cataloging and search technology. It includes a 2U Niagara Rackmount system for creation, editing, storage, and retrieval of video assets. The Host System includes the Screening Room Capture Client for video indexing and the Screening Room Edit Client for storyboard revisions, text annotations, and other edits. The Video Asset Server hosts and serves indexed video assets to the Screening Room Edit Client and to Browser Clients (Licensing for up to 10 browser clients included - additional clients are optionally available). Video Media Services software is also included for installation on media server, such as the Niagara Video Server.

Host System
The host system is a Niagara 2U Rackmount System. This system includes the Osprey-220 streaming capture card supports one Composite and one S-video analog video input with balanced and unbalanced audio inputs.

Video Asset Server
The Video Asset Server is also a Niagara 2U Rackmount Streaming System and includes all the software and hardware needed to support the Convera Asset Server software.

Screening Room Overview
Screening Room is a comprehensive, integrated solution for capturing, searching, viewing, editing, and publishing video content. It provides scalable, high-performance access to any video asset (analog or digital) from an ordinary Web browser. With Screening Room users can automatically capture video; browse visual summaries (called storyboards); catalog content using metadata, annotations, closed caption text, and voice sound tracks; search for precise video clips using text and image clues; and create rough cuts and edit decision lists for further production. In short, Screening Room turns video assets into useful, profitable resources in a very cost-effective way.

Convera's award-winning Screening Room� is a fully integrated, modular video content management solution that gives you unprecedented power to interact with your video in a way that cuts your production costs and allows you to create new revenue streams using existing content.

Only with Screening Room can you capture, manage, repurpose, and publish video content using a single system. Screening Room provides advanced video capture and analysis, intelligent indexing, acceleration of the video production process and publishing of video content to the Internet.

You can control your video assets from a single platform by creating a digital archive based on industry standards, and boost your efficiency for publishing video content via broadcast, the Web, interactive TV or any other delivery channel you can imagine.

Screening Room's modular approach makes it easy to implement within your existing workflow processes. It reduces system overhead and provides a scalable and simple upgrade path. The Screening Room system consists of four integrated components that you can use in concert to maximize the utilization of your video assets.

Join the ranks of organizations such as ABC, NASA, PBS and the Discovery Channel, just a few of the many satisfied customers successfully using Screening Room for their video content management solution.

Please contact us for more information on how you can purchase and Niagara Streaming System products integrated with Convera Content Management software.

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