NewsCatPro

Crispin NewsCat Pro is an integrated news cataloguing and archiving solution that enables the news department to store, index, and later quickly locate and retrieve news stories aired from a video server. NewsCat Pro is designed for those live news organizations that play content from a video server but are still archiving their news clips to tape. NewsCat Pro not only stores video clips, it organizes it and manages the content and relates it to the original news room computer system story text so you can find what you need, when you need it. When you’ve located your video you can quickly and easily restore the video to your edit workstation or video server with just a click.

NewCat Pro is based upon the same great technology in the enterprise-class Crispin product, NewsCat, with a feature set that fits the essential features needed for news organizations that need to transition to tapeless news archives. NewsCat Pro interfaces to today’s leading broadcast equipment and the popular newsroom computer systems (ENPS, iNews, and QNews).

Benefits
• Eliminate costly, time consuming searches for news clips stored on tapes.
• Eliminate the need for costly shelf storage of enormous tape collections.
• Improve news quality by quickly adding related video back to the editing station for follow-up stories.
• Quickly respond to outside inquiries from producers and lawyers for archived news footage.
• Eliminate the time consuming process of manually archiving clips from video server to tape, also allowing you
to quickly free storage space on your video server.

Key Features
• Digitally stores news stories aired from a video server
• Links to newsroom computer systems to gather script information for the database
• Extensive search parameters enable a user to search by date, slug, script information, CG info or keywords
• Editable key word fields enable a news department to create a library of generic file video that can be easily located
• Web browser interface enables up to 20 users to simultaneously search and retrieve video from archives
• Mixture of nearline and shelf storage for a fast and efficient means to retrieve news stories
• Scalable system fits budgets and needs of large and small news departments
• Optional interface to large and expandable network attached storage for large market and network news operations

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NewsCatPlus

From $9,999

With NewsCat Plus, you can plug-in additional features to NewsCat Pro to tailor your news archiving solution to suit your needs. With options such as lorez proxy generation, high capacity storage, ad-hoc video archiving, and Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) with Blu-ray shelf storage, you can extend the power and functionality of NewsCat Pro.

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