NC Moving Image Archivists

[Brian Davis <brian.e.davis AT duke.edu>]

Hello everyone,

Thank you to those of you who expressed
a desire to take part in the SAMMA Solo demonstration. I spoke with Steve
this morning and the demonstration will take place Monday September 22nd
at 2PM. The Digital Production Center (where I work)  will be moving
into new facilities in the Perkins Library late in August, so we can tentatively
plan on meeting there for the demo. Steve Kwartek will be giving a Powerpoint
presentation followed by a live demonstration of the SAMMA Solo. 

For those who may not be able to make
it to the demo, Steve has proposed (fingers crossed) leaving the unit with
Duke for a couple weeks. Duke University Libraries will certainly try to
accommodate anyone interested in seeing SAMMA in action for the time that
we have it.

thanks,

Brian


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Brian E. Davis
Digital Production Developer
Duke University Libraries
Box 90176
Durham, NC 27708
919.681.8635
http://library.duke.edu
http://tvc15media.com
brian.e.davis AT duke.edu


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Brian Davis/Libraries/Provost/Academic/Univ/Duke

06/17/08 01:44 PM

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Subject	SAMMA Solo

Hello everyone,

For those of you who weren't at the last
meeting at UNC, one of the things that was mentioned was a possible demonstration
of the SAMMA Solo from SAMMA Systems. You
may had heard of them because they received a lot of press a couple years
ago when the Library of Congress turned to them for mass audiovisual digitization.
SAMMA Systems now builds a turnkey digitization system called the SAMMA
Solo (http://www.sammasystems.com/?q=singlechannel_overview)
that essentially combines the roles of the analog-to-digital encoder, the
time base corrector, and video workstation, into one semi-automated unit.

Steve Kwartek, Director of Archive Sales
for SAMMA Systems/ Media Matters has contacted me about a possible demonstration
of the SAMMA Solo. I'll be speaking with him sometime next week about setting
this up, but first I wanted to get a sense of who among us would be interested
in such a demonstration and I also wanted to establish a general time-frame
for having it. I'm thinking that late September may work best. 

Feel free to email me personally with any
specific questions.

Brian

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Brian E. Davis
Digital Production Developer
Duke University Libraries
Box 90176
Durham, NC 27708
919.681.8635
http://library.duke.edu
http://tvc15media.com
brian.e.davis AT duke.edu