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Software Generation Limited (SGL — Booth SU8508)

Software Generation Ltd (SGL) is a provider of Content Archive and Storage Management software solutions. At NAB, SGL will demonstrate to U.S. broadcasters its Open System architecture, highlighting the substantial cost and workflow benefits that SGL’s fully accessible systems provide. SGL will introduce FlashBrowse II and the new XML-based API, major new technology evolutions that further enhance the Open System, and its key philosophies of providing reliable, scalable solutions that represent high ROI values and low cost of ownership.


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  • FlashBrowse II Is a client-based web tool with attributes that allow FlashNet users to capture simple metadata and archive and restore media from many different forms of archive. Web browser based, FlashBrowse II can be used on any platform — Mac, PC or Linux. Not only can users search for content held in the archive, they can view low res proxy versions without restoring the original material from the archive. Both simple and advanced searches are supported. FlashBrowse II allows the user to search for content in the archive and in a wide range of supported broadcast video servers.

  • XML Interface is a lightweight and simple to implement interface offers third-party developers the ability to get to the heart of a FlashNet archive without the burden of complex archive awareness. The socket-based API provides a robust and agile interface to FlashNet. Using the flexibility of standard XML, a full set of commands equivalent to the more traditional FlashNet API (FNAPI) is supported, along with new features that offer developers of third-party automation and Media Asset Management systems unrivalled awareness of a complete archive.

  • SGL will also demonstrate interoperability between Avid Interplay and Final Cut Pro using Marquis Medway’s Media Highway technology.

  • FlashBox is based on SGL’s FlashNet content archive and storage management software, and best of breed hardware, FlashBox provides a number of technology and business benefits including, scalable disk and tape storage, whilst providing from 1,000 to 5250 hours of DV25 storage in a single appliance. When combined with FlashBrowse II, FlashBox represents the ultimate in entry-level storage and content management for even the most discerning broadcaster or post house.
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