SGL FlashNet and Grass Valley

 The long-standing partnership between Grass Valley and SGL is the key to the effectiveness and efficiency of the content archive solutions that SGL FlashNet provides for all GV users. Today, the product integration between these two companies extends not only to on-air systems with K2 Edge and K2 TX servers, but also to the Grass Valley STRATUS media workflow application framework and Aurora News Production Suite, providing transparent access to the archive directly from the Grass Valley applications.

SGL FlashNet makes the back-end archive appear as a seamless extension of all Grass Valley environments. The archive may comprise disk or tape storage, or a combination of these in an archive hierarchy, using rules-based SGL StorageManager to manage data life cycle within the archive based on size, type, content or age.

For on-air, automation sees the SGL FlashNet archive as an extension of the Grass Valley server, and when a clip is required for playback it is restored back to the K2 Edge or K2 TX server simply by selecting it in the playlist and choosing restore.

The same applies to the archive interface with STRATUS and Aurora News Production Suite. Editors can select clips for archive or restore from directly with the application, view low-res proxies of material held in the archive, and mark-in and out points to restore just a partial of the clip. All source time code data is preserved.

Whatever the size or scope of your organization, or your specific Grass Valley equipment or solution, SGL FlashNet provides the ultimate in content archive and storage management, tightly integrated so that you won't even know it's there.