Asset Acquisition

Ingesting and Indexing Video

Autonomy Virage offers a revolutionary product suite which automates the capturing, encoding and indexing of rich media content from any source. It can transform standard analogue or digital video and audio into fully indexed data for archiving and publishing purposes, and is an invaluable resource for enterprises that need to handle and leverage television, video or audio content in any format.

Autonomy Virage's suite of advanced technologies enables enterprises to optimize and automate core rich media management processes and provides the ability to search and retrieve content with pinpoint accuracy. Uniquely, it provides Deep Video Indexing, automatically extracting information from within the video file itself rather than relying on frequently subjective, incomplete and unreliable user-defined metatags. The result is a much richer index and an enhanced ability to search and retrieve relevant information.

By delving deep within the rich media file itself rather than relying on human-defined metatags which are subjective, inconsistent and limited in scope, Autonomy Virage provides a comprehensive, consistent and highly detailed set of metadata which is automatically created during the video ingest process. It also associates assets with other critical electronic business assets. This prevents duplication and rework, and ensures that relationships between different asset types are made available to all appropriately authorized end-users.

With Autonomy Virage, organizations can automate video and audio processing and categorizing, eliminating the highly manual and time-consuming cataloging process.

SmartEncode & VideoLogger

Autonomy Virage offers a unique technology to automate the tasks of video indexing and tagging at the point of ingestion. As the video is acquired, IDOL “watches” the video to perform real-time indexing operations while extracting the meaning within the video file. Autonomy provides world-leading video analysis technologies for video specialists such as broadcasters and enterprises wishing to leverage content from recorded meetings, events and webcasts. By automating a number of key video processing operations, Autonomy removes a vast amount of manual effort traditionally involved in repurposing and extracting value from content and consequently generates significant ROI.

The VideoLogger is a keystone product in Autonomy Virage’s SmartEncode, forming a critical component in any multimedia strategy. VideoLogger uses advanced technology to form an understanding of a video signal and creates a structured video index by automatically extracting information from the signal including visual storyboard, closed captioning and Teletext. A wide range of analysis plug-ins can be inserted, allowing content owners to enhance automatic indexing capabilities.

VideoLogger automates data acquisition and indexing with unparalleled ease and provides easy access to all indexed content. It can manage multiple incoming sources from a central location, monitors indexing & encoding with real-time status. VideoLogger is source agnostic, language independent, fully scalable and distributable.

Rich Media Plug-ins

The data model used to expose the metadata to back-end storage mechanisms is critical to searching, browsing, and otherwise exploiting the information. Autonomy Virage’s software watches, listens, reads, and allows annotation of video. As metadata is squeezed out of the video signal, it is placed into a data track where each data element is time-synchronized with the corresponding video representations. Autonomy Virage offers a selection of Video and Audio Analysis Plug-ins to analyze the different components in the video file to extract all the relevant information from deep within the video, creating a uniquely granular index.