FOCUS Enhancements MANL-1161-04 manual Overview, Features, MA Series Servers, Operating Systems

Introduction

Overview

Thank you for purchasing a Focus Enhancements, ProxSys MA Series Media Archive Server.

MA Series Media Archive Servers provide the ability to efficiently ingest video clips with their metadata from tapeless recording media into the MA server’s media archive. There, preview Flash clips are rendered and Blu-ray discs are burned for archiving.

Ingesting media into the MA server clears the recording medium and allows it to be returned quickly to the field for reuse. This eliminates the practice of using expensive tapeless recording media as archive storage.

MA Series Servers

There are two MA Series Server editions:

•MA-10 with Internal Blu-ray Burner

•MA-50 with External Automatic Blu-ray Burner System

Both versions provide the same level of media ingest and archive functionality. The single difference: the MA-10is for the manual burning of individual Blu-ray discs while the MA-50provides for the automated burning of multiple Blu-ray discs.

The MA-Server’s user interface is browser-based and no proprietary client software is required to access the server. A Flash player application must be installed on local client machines to view the MA Flash preview clips.

Features

Web-based Graphical User Interface (GUI)

The ProxSys MA Series Media Archive Server GUI is compatible with the Microsoft Internet Explorer, version 6 and higher (IE 6/7) and Apple Safari browsers.

Depending on how the MA server is setup, MA functions are accessible via the GUI directly from the MA server, over a network or the Internet.

Operating Systems

Microsoft Windows XP PRO, 32-bit, Edition

SUSE 11 Linux running as a virtual machine

MA Series Media Archive Servers

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