Solution
Archive & digitisation
A shelf of tapes is a liability. A searchable, rights-aware, AI-indexed catalogue is an asset you can sell from. This is the workflow between the two.
The challenge
What usually goes wrong
Nobody knows what is on the shelf
Undigitised material cannot be valued, licensed or reused. It only accrues storage cost and decay risk.
Manual cataloguing does not scale
At any real volume, describing content by hand costs more than the content is likely to earn.
Digitising into a folder is not progress
Files without metadata are just tapes with a shorter shelf life.
The workflow
How we put it together
Capture the source
Scheduled, multichannel ingest from tape decks and legacy playback, with proxies generated during the transfer and simultaneous writes to working and archive storage.
Ingrid CaptureIndex it automatically
Speech-to-text, scene and object recognition, fingerprinting and file-based quality control build the catalogue as the material arrives, rather than as a second project afterwards.
SynaxisStore it where it belongs
Storage-agnostic across NAS, DAS and SAN, with third-party tape and disk archive systems, LTO and cloud object storage all treated as first-class targets.
MediaHiveMake it earn
Rediscovered material goes back into the schedule, onto the platforms, or out under licence — through the same chain that runs the live output.
DynamoOutcome
What changes once it is running
- A catalogue that describes itself, built during digitisation rather than after it.
- Search that works for people who were not there when the material was made.
- Storage tiering across disk, LTO and cloud without changing how users work.
- Archive material back in commercial circulation instead of in a basement.
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