Front Porch Digital has released DISTILLSM. This new solution, delivered over four simple steps – capture, process, manage and retrieve – ensures that almost any metadata created at any stage of the content lifecycle can now be easily and effectively managed.
"Every person involved and every tool used in every production now creates metadata, from cameras to slates, lighting, and sound," said Phil Jackson, Front Porch Digital Chief Operating Officer. "We had to find a solution that was integrated and flexible, yet simple. These were exceptionally difficult design goals that required an entirely new approach to the problem in order to be successful. We are immensely proud of the innovation delivered by DISTILL."
DISTILL allows media professionals to work with the tools they prefer while ensuring that users enterprise-wide and beyond (subject to access permissions) can leverage that critical data wherever and whenever they need it. The central storage and accessibility of DISTILL data also reduces the need for data movement or errors in data transposition, as direct access can be provided to the source of critical production notes and commentary along with the media.
The DISTILL system leverages new technology from Stretchr, closely integrated with the Front Porch Digital LYNXSM cloud-based CSM service. Within the metadata store, data is intelligently and automatically organized and optimized by Stretchr, thus obviating the need for predefined data structures or ongoing data restructuring as usage changes.
DISTILL leverages the on-demand partial object restore capability of LYNX and DIVArchive, the company's award-winning CSM system, to enable the specific retrieval of the original artifact from any connected Front Porch Digital system. Robust SDKs from Stretchr ease integration of the metadata store with existing applications such as enterprise media asset management systems.
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