Inside your vault are valuable assets that are just sitting there on a shelf, in a pile on the floor or even in a bunch of cardboard boxes with little or no clue as to what is inside. Your assets may be off-site in a secure vault, resulting in thousands of dollars in storage cost each year.

Facts you need to consider now are:

Tape and film deteriorate over time to the point they become useless. The images contained are sometimes impossible to retrieve.

The cost to store these tapes and films include:
• Warehouse/office space
• Climate control – heat, air conditioning, humidity, dust    control
• Maintenance of playback machines and projectors
• Power costs for space and equipment
• Labor for personnel, plus taxes and benefits
• Time lost in searching, retrieving and viewing library    materials
• Insurance cost
• Potential loss by fire, flood or other natural disaster

The real estate gained can be repurposed for other activities. Just the physical size of tape and film can be reduced several hundred-fold. For example, about 40 LTO IV tapes can hold 2,500 hours of native, high bit rate, broadcast MPEG-2 content. An inexpensive two-terabyte server can make that same 2,500 hours of video instantly available in a low bit rate proxy file.

Once your library has been converted to digital files, it can be accessed and searched through a network from anywhere. The content library can be located at a safe, inexpensive site for further cost savings.

The ultimate cost: total loss of all your video and film content

The ultimate savings: an all-digital, accessible video library that is future proof.

BENEFITS

• Sales of library assets become a revenue
   stream rather than a maintenance expense
• Assets can now be monetized
• Newly created digital files can be used by
   multiple media outlets – internet, mobile, DVD, etc
• No cost to maintain outdated machines and
   equipment necessary to retrieve materials. The ability to    store a room full of tape on a table top
• You know what assets you have, where they are and
   as with all digital files, every copy will be identical
   to the original
• Lower energy costs
• Creates a greener environment
• Increased productivity