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MAM (MEDIA ASSET MANAGEMENT)

Black Swan's Enterprise MAM platform serves as the single source of truth for media production assets. Featuring deep LTO tape library orchestration, cloud tiering, micro-proxy streaming, and AI facial & speech recognition tagging.

Core System Capabilities

AI Cognitive Search

Sub-second search across spoken dialogue, visual faces, and visual OCR text.

Multi-Tier Storage Orchestration

Automated media movement between NVMe SAN, Nearline NAS, LTO Tape, and Cloud.

NLE Extension Panel

Native panel for Adobe Premiere and Avid to browse and drag proxy clips into timelines.

Rights & Usage Management

Built-in license tracking to prevent unauthorized usage of expired licensed content.

Engineered by Black Swan Data & Media Engineering•Media Asset Management Systems Architect

Published on 2026-07-18

Solving the Challenge of Unstructured Media Archives

Broadcast facilities accumulate hundreds of terabytes of media every month. Without an intelligent MAM system, assets become lost in unorganized folder hierarchies. Black Swan's MAM automatically catalogs incoming media, extracts embedded EXIF/MXF headers, and runs AI indexing scripts.

AI-Powered Multimodal Video Indexing

By running automated speech-to-text transcription, facial recognition models, and optical character recognition (OCR) on lower-third graphics, journalists can type 'Prime Minister Speech 2025' and pinpoint exact video timecodes in seconds.

Storage Cost Optimization & Lifecycle Tiering

Active productions require fast NVMe access, while completed projects belong on lower-cost LTO tape libraries or AWS Glacier storage. Our automated lifecycle policies migrate idle high-res files to tape while retaining light H.265 proxies online indefinitely.

Technical Specifications & Standards:

PostgreSQL + Vector search index architecture
LTO-7/8/9 LTFS tape robotics driver support
S3 / Azure Blob multi-cloud storage connector
SAML / OAuth2 single sign-on security integration

Turnkey SLA & Engineering Deliverables

Every deployment includes full documentation, factory acceptance testing, and continuous operational guarantees:

Scalable metadata database cataloging high-res, proxy, and archive assets
AI Speech-to-Text, face detection, and OCR video index automation
LTO-8/9 tape library & S3 cold storage tiering lifecycle management
Fine-grained RBAC permission matrix for production teams & external partners

Frequently Asked Engineering Questions

Q: Can editors work off proxy files when out of the office?

Yes. Remote editors can stream micro-proxies via the MAM web panel, edit timelines locally, and trigger server-side high-res relinking upon final export.

Q: Is the MAM searchable by external third-party systems?

Yes. A rich REST and GraphQL API allows external NRCS, web CMS, and archive solutions to query media items programmatically.