CES 2016: Imagine opens Windows for PreRoll Post


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Michelle Clancy

| 08 January 2016




Imagine Products has enhanced its PreRoll Post broadcast and post-production solution to allow Windows users to create non-proprietary back-ups using an open source Linear Tape File System (LTFS).



The archiving application also streamlines the process of placing any file types onto an LTO-7, LTO-6, or LTO-5 tape, or onto Sony's Optical Disc Archive (ODA).

"Most people keep 'archives' on hard drives, which become less and less reliable the longer they sit on the shelf," said Michelle Maddox, marketing director, Imagine Products. “PreRoll Post mitigates that problem by ensuring you can back up full-resolution media to local disk and to a long-term tape or cartridge in an easy and almost fool-proof way, so archives are made correctly the first time."

PreRoll Post relies on checksum technology to ensure the files on tape exactly match the originals. By storing the checksum values for each file, PreRoll Post also verifies files during restoration back to hard disk whenever they're retrieved.

For content creators or post houses that create LTO deliverables for Discovery Channel, PreRoll Post offers a Discovery Channel mode to ensure the LTO tapes meet the network's specifications for field, graphics, or programme masters. In this mode, PreRoll Post automatically places files in the proper locations on the tape to meet Discovery Channel specs.