Overview

Newspapers, magazines, online decision support and media outlets are striving to keep pace in an ever more competitive marketplace, offering rich media coverage of global events through high-resolution digital photography and web quality video. Making these large file-based assets available for general consumption within hours (or even minutes) of capture depends upon leaps in technology, including highly efficient file transfer. Leading multimedia publishers rely on Aspera software to transfer images and on-location video from the most remote regions of the world over low-cost Internet connections, and to easily exchange file-based assets between globally distributed journalist and editorial teams within minutes, with complete tracking, management, metadata, and workflow integration.

Benefits

• Enable the transmission and publishing of high-resolution images and video of breaking sports, celebrity or mainstream news events within minutes or hours of occurrence.

• Optimize your requirements in on-site equipment and staffing with easy-to-use, fast file transfer and fully automated workflows that capture, rough edit, and move media.

• Transfer video and rich media informational assets to clients worldwide with high speed and reliability for a better experience.

Applications

• Digital Photojournalism — Organizations such as Time, Inc.’s Sports Illustrated have created fully-automated software systems that read high-definition RAW images directly from a camera’s memory card, and transfer the files at high speed back to headquarters for editorial, using Aspera software. Events such as the Final 4 and the Beijing Olympics involve the transfer of tens or hundreds of thousands of files to be made available online only minutes/hours after on-site capture.

• Video Journalism and Syndication — As video has become an integral part of online daily news reporting, journalists have become videographers as well. One of the leading daily newspapers in the US has equipped its field reporting staff, especially in the Middle East, Asia and Africa, with collaborative file transfer solution Aspera faspex™ Server for reliable content uploads at many times the speed of traditional FTP.

• Digital Asset Management — The distribution of digital knowledge assets is critical for companies such as Thomson-Reuters that bank their brands on supplying valuable information to their subscribing clientele, but as files grow larger, distribution becomes ever more difficult. Aspera software has been integrated into leading asset management systems including North Plains TeleScope and purpose-built systems such as GLOBALedit to support efficient transfer of these assets over long distances.