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Television and Film Production

Find sensational video content in seconds

Dramatically reduce the amount of time your production staff devotes to manually scanning TV programs—and free up their creative energy—with the SnapStream Server. Our powerful technology, which pairs a digital video recorder with a search engine, lets producers store and keyword-search thousands of hours of video, making media monitoring more efficient. Producers can find all mentions of a particular name or topic in seconds and focus on choosing the best, most relevant footage from the results.

The SnapStream Server also replaces banks of DVRs or VCRs with a single, centralized appliance that can be accessed from any PC on the company’s local-area network. Staffers can collectively record 10 channels at the same time, store up to 17,000 hours of television, and access the vast archive from their desktops. Older recordings can be offloaded to storage servers or burned to DVDs, eliminating the need for cumbersome VHS tape libraries.

What’s more: Because multiple users can connect simultaneously, the SnapStream Server facilitates collaboration and file-sharing. The server offers built-in clipping feature for producers who prefer to create unique, high-quality digital content that can also be imported directly into digital editing bays, quickly and easily.

Benefits of the SnapStream Server in TV and Film Production:

  • Review and improve your own content
    SnapStream’s search engine can instantaneously find and track media mentions across all of the shows you’ve recorded. Just enter the desired keyword(s), and SnapStream scans the closed-captioning to help you pinpoint the desired footage. This powerful feature eliminates the need for real-time program scanning to find usable content, and allows you to quickly sift through hours of televised events, from red carpets to political speeches.
  • Stay abreast of current events (view screenshot)
    Our TV Alerts feature lets you create as-it-happens email notifications. Enter key phrases (anything from “Lindsay Lohan + rehab” to “Obama + health care”) to track what celebrities and politicians are saying on TV—and what is being said about them by the TV media.
  • Create high-quality video clips (view screenshot)
    The SnapStream Server records video in high-resolution MPEG-2, which is suitable for direct editing or converting into other formats. Our Clipping feature allows you to pull segments of high-quality video from within our viewer interface, and then transfer it directly into edit bays over your network.
  • Streamline your operation
    Consolidate those banks of DVRs and VCRs into one centralized location that serves many users at once! A single SnapStream Server can store up to 17,000 hours of video, which multiple users can access from their desktop PCs via the company’s local-area network. This eliminates any duplication of effort and facilitates collaboration.
  • Build a digital archive
    The SnapStream Server allows you to create a vast electronic archive for storing and accessing digital recordings, replacing myriad VHS and DVD libraries. Older video can be burned to disc, downloaded to a hard drive, or offloaded to other network storage devices for continued access.

Television and Film Customers

  • E! Entertainment
  • Current TV
  • Brave New Films

Customer Quotes

“We have a meeting on Tuesday and a meeting on Wednesday at 3 o'clock where everybody brings in clips from all the shows we watched. It used to be that we'd bring in VHS tapes, but now we have this big program called SnapStream that we TiVo everything to our computers.”

– Joel McHale, Host of E!'s The Soup

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