L-SERVER TOTAL LINUX MEDIA MANAGEMENT SOLUTION

Our Media Database System was  designed and is maintained by a team of Award Winning Hollywood engineers from major film studios. Our technology is used in studios in Bristol, Connecticut and Hollywood. The team of LMA has over 500 film and television credits on many of the highest grossing films of all time, accumulating undisputed accolade and experience.

Our media network plan was designed specifically for storing and sharing extremely high-bandwidth and high-resolution media, accessible to anyone on the network from anywhere in the world.  Our media network offers significant advantages over our competition due to its Open Standards architecture,  Open Source functionality, built on  a specially designed Linux media 64 Bit Distribution of CENTOS5,  another major advantage.

Complete Media Management Coverage with Enterprise Edition
Add more facts and get more value out of your  media management interface by leveraging real-time availability and performance information into media and database management, ticketing systems and configuration to provisioning systems.

We offer significant performance, setup, and administrative advantages over standard storage area networks (SANs). LMA implements  highly optimized Linux open source file system architecture and also has cross platform sharing and rendering support for a growing number of  applications, including Adobe, Apple, Microsoft, and Irix applications.

LMA Enterprise Edition is System and Resolution Independent
Enterprise Edition provides excellent availability and a real-time visualization processes. The included real-time web interface provides a link to existing processing operations tools from monitoring and reporting which includes ticketing of all calls and edit, as well as, media asset and management systems.

This network will  deliver a full range of uncompressed and compressed media in real time, including 1080p, 1080i, 720p, Mpeg-2, Mpeg-4, JPEG-2000, and H.264 with an MXF/XML option,  to enable the operator to encode and  wrap all files an Open Standards  wrapper.  This enables the network to index and search all new and existing media files. The network enables editing, finishing, audio, rendering, and graphics work to be shared —using the same media files and projects—in a shared workspace.   LMA storage  often achieves over 600 Megabytes per/second on SATA RAID architecture enabling you to have top performance at a much lower cost.

Key Benefits

* Enables endless opportunities for improved work flow efficiency through true simultaneous sharing of media assets, right down to the file level

* Completely open to all network aware systems, allowing the entire facility to collaborate in real time

* Open and designed as highly redundant that guarantee a rock-solid, reliable system that ensures peace of mind all the time

Our Media Management system on the Cinelerra architecture enables multiple users to share access to common data files in work groups where heavy bandwidth requirements are the norm. Film and video editors, digital artists, health care specialists, and corporate users can simultaneously access a common pool of data files such as video clips, databases, satellite imagery, medical archives, or CAD files - as easily and transparently as if the content was stored on their local drive.

Our Open Source user-friendly file-level sharing capability offers far more flexibility than the more common volume-level based sharing that imposes serious work flow restrictions.

You manage accesses to your shared storage the same way you normally would for any other local drive. There is no need for special disk formatting or management utilities, or for creating or managing special user accounts. Network administrators simply use standard OS account management tools to grant or deny access to the individual users.

Fully transparent and compatible with standard applications, including Adobe, Apple, AJA, Avid, Chyron, DaVinci, Deko,  Discreet,  DVS,  Houdini, Maya, Pogle,  Sony,  Panasonic,  Philips,  and Soft Image. We also support  the leading vendors of storage technology.

For those in mission-critical environment, our metadata master arbitration model provides a failsafe mechanism that ensures 24/7 operations by eliminating the risks of downtime associated with conventional metadata controller-based architecture. The network seamlessly integrates with your existing LAN network and is compatible with any handheld device, including an I-Phone. So, you can manage your production network with your animators in Mumbai and Manila and your effects artists in London and New York and your editors in Hollywood while on location in Vancouver. And as a added advantage we offer the option to view real-time production and live digital dailies anywhere. We are quite accomplished experts at XML, MXF and AAF collaboration building environments on networks.

Our innovative approach results in increased efficiency, flexibility, scalability, and reliability, by overcoming the limitations of traditional media management.  Please contact us with your questions