A cost-effective and easily implemented browse, search
and access solution for the ALTO Content Library
In today’s file-based world, getting content into an archive is simple. The challenge is finding the right tools to add metadata and provide advanced search, locate, and restore capabilities. Normally, the investment needed to achieve this and enter the media asset management space is quite high in terms of project management and capital investment.
BORNEO 2.0 Mini is an entry-level archive management solution from Media-Alliance. Available as a single-box embedded solution or based on external servers for larger configurations, BORNEO 2.0 Mini makes it easy to implement and use your first ALTO system while giving you an upgrade path to a full enterprise-class Media Asset Management system in the future. BORNEO 2.0 Mini can be installed and operated without any specialist technical knowledge. It incorporates all the tools you need to get started.
BORNEO 2.0 Mini supports automatic media file import from hot folders and built-in transcoding to high-quality H.264 browse proxies and thumbnails. Up to three concurrent users can browse clips using simple Web browsers, adding metadata to enable advanced searches, creating EDLs, and exporting high-resolution media files.
Key Benefits
Easy to implement entry-level system
BORNEO 2.0 Mini is the first shrink-wrapped solution requiring no engineering or specialist knowledge
Easy to use, feature-rich user interface
BORNEO 2.0 Mini provides media import, metadata entry, browse, search, and media export functionality
Export Rough Cut EDLs to popular NLEs
EDLs can be created and exported to Adobe Premiere; Apple FCP7; Avid Media Composer, and GVG Edius.
Upgrade Path to full enterprise MAM
BORNEO 2.0 Mini can be upgraded to the full Enterprise MAM solution protecting your investment.
“We have delivered 24 projects based on ALTO in as many months,” says Giovanni Soldi, CEO of Media Alliance. “Now BORNEO 2.0 Mini makes it even easier to take the first steps with lower capital outlay, less risk, and less disruption.”
Easy to Install and Integrate
BORNEO 2.0 Mini integrates directly with ALTO using the API. At the entry level, it can run in a Windows VM on the ALTO Hardware and use a small proportion of the ALTO Disks in RAID mode for online Proxy storage. In the VM configuration, BORNEO 2.0 supports from 200 TB to 5 PB of Media-Redundant Storage. As requirements grow and need change, BORNEO can be Migrated to an external server to support Main & Backup ALTO systems, adding Hardware Redundancy to the Media Redundancy and supporting up to 10 PB of off-line cold storage, with a modest capital outlay, ultra-low power consumption, and greatly extended disk life. BORNEO 2.0 Mini is a surprisingly powerful solution at a very affordable price.
Easy to Administer and Operate
The BORNEO 2.0 Mini Archive Manager includes rules-based User Management to grant access to any three concurrent users from any number of connected web browsers on the network. Users can start to experience the ease with which media assets can be ingested, searched, browsed, and restored in an intuitive media environment. BORNEO 2.0 supports proxy Transcoding for the most popular HD and UHD Codecs. Specialist file formats and wrappers such as RED 3D may be supported as an extra cost option. New formats and Wrappers are implemented from time to time. Contact Media Alliance or DAC for the latest formats.