System for Automated Migration of Media Assets
Is a robust solution for transferring your videotape library to digital files.
It’s built for any Archivist, Librarian, Preservationist, and their staff, to easily manage common challenges
with videotape archives in your facility. SAMMA ensures that organizations can maintain a continuous and effective
digital conversion process for their valuable historical, cultural, or corporate content.
By investing in SAMMA, you are not just converting media formats;
you are also protecting your media’s legacy against the ravages of time & technological obsolescence.
SAMMA utilizes Emmy Award-Winning technology to control
analog tape machines by utilizing templates, this ensures high-quality digital assets.
SAMMA Prep allows users to add existing metadata, identifiers, or tags before digitization. This aids in initial searches while enabling Machine Learning or AI tools to be utilized on the digital assets.
SAMMA is a flexible solution to tackle transferring your videotapes to digital files with a reasonable & accurate prediction for costs and time required.
SAMMA tape migration delivers value, whether you have a few hundred tapes or thousands.
- All cassette formats supported: 3/4”, DVCPro, D2,
Beta (SP, SX,IMX, Digi, HDCAM, SR) - External MAM or inventory Database import.
- High Quality Up-conversion without paying for transcoding.
- Videotape quality analysis: defect reports with SAMMA eye.
- User defined tape ingest configuration- you decide how much black, when to stop, etc.
- Database to track when a tape was ingested and by what channel.
- Integration with Telestream Lightspeed Capture.
- 4 or 8 simultaneous ingest streams and totally scalable to meet your demands.
- Stand-Alone or integrated with a robot for larger libraries, load up to 60 tapes at once.
Preserving the Past
A Gateway to Accessibility and Preservation
In the digital era, the migration of videotape archives is not just a matter of transferring audio and video; it’s about preserving the integrity of historical content. As we move away from analog storage, the risk of losing invaluable data forever looms large. The digitization of analog content is more than a technical necessity; it’s a means to ensure that future generations have access to the past. By digitizing video tapes, we’re not only preventing their loss but also making it easier for people to explore and learn from historical content.
GrayMeta’s SAMMA product line stands at the forefront of solving the complex challenges of video tape migration. Our expertise in archiving and migration process is recognized globally, and we take pride in assisting the world’s largest archives in safeguarding their content.
Our commitment extends beyond our products and services. We believe in supporting all archives in their quest to preserve history, regardless of whether they use our products and systems.
At GrayMeta, we understand that it’s not just about the technology; it’s about the legacy that technology helps protect.
SAMMA Features for Quality Control
SAMMA Eye:
Intelligent QC for Tape Migrations
Manually verifying video migrations is impractical, but
SAMMA Eye makes quality control effortless.
This advanced system monitors VTR channel conditions,
signal integrity, dropouts, and more, providing real-time analysis
of every frame. Users can set thresholds to halt migrations
when predefined criteria are met, ensuring only
valid content is preserved.
SAMMA Stats: Real-Time Insights for Seamless Video Tape Migration
SAMMA Stats is a customizable dashboard that gives archivists
and service providers instant access to the data they need.
Monitor operator and VTR hours, track migration success rates, identify errors, and optimize workflows—all in real time.
Whether it’s guiding preventative maintenance or delivering
billing transparency, SAMMA Stats ensures every migration
is data-driven, efficient, and fully under control.
SAMMA Metadata Viewer
With SAMMA Metadata Viewer and Iris Play, operators can quickly assess migration quality through detailed XML reports from SAMMA Eye, and view frame-based playback with a free copy of Iris Play. Fast, precise, and reliable QC!