Turn your tape archive into searchable, usable content.

Videotape and LTO migration for media libraries with thousands of tapes

See how Meta Martis turns videotape or LTO into protected, searchable content, ready for new distribution and revenue opportunities.

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Choose your path I have videotapes I have LTO

Your archive is not dead. It's just on tape.

Most organizations are waiting for "someday." Meanwhile the shelves cost money every month, the videotape ages, and the LTO library holds content nobody can name. The same media, activated, is the raw material for broadcast, social, web, episodic and licensing work you cannot do today.

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Somewhere in your building, there's a treasure chest. Decades of news, sports and shows that at one time your audiences loved, or nobody's seen in years. The catch? It's stuck on shelves of videotape and LTO. Today, the machines that can still play these formats are getting hard to find, and those tapes aren't getting any younger.

That's where Meta Martis comes in. We bring an entire video migration facility right to you. Meet the FlyPack. Digitizing, AI indexing, storage management, packaging, all on wheels. It all works right inside your building, including the AI, so your content never leaves. And the FlyPack is a rental. It lives right in your facility and runs 24/7, staffed by our operators, or we can even train your crew.

I'm Ellen, and you're about to learn how to prep and migrate tapes. But first, who can tell me what this is? No tape machines? We can usually bring those in, too.

We start by sizing up what you've got and what it may be worth. We inspect and prep every tape, and then, with one press, the magic starts. Each FlyPack turns 5,000 hours of videotape into usable content every month, and even faster with LTO.

But you'll have more than just dumb files. Amplify monitors every second and extracts every word, face, logo and bit of on-screen text, and it integrates with the media tools you already use.

Use Meta8, our private cloud archive, to keep your media safe from hackers and ransomware. And if you need a file, you can start downloading it from Meta8 within 60 seconds with no download or additional fees. Our orchestration software runs every step and tracks every file, so nothing is lost.

Then we get it all ready to earn. We clear out the music you don't have rights to and reformat your 4:3 and widescreen shows for any screen and in nearly any language. Say hello to new revenue from licensing, FAST channels, streaming, social and even brand new shows. And all those shelves of tapes? Gone.

Turn your old video and LTO into new revenue. Learn more about the FlyPack and request a free Archive Assessment at metamartis.com.

One system for nearly any video format.

How it works

Meta Martis orchestrates migration, on-premises AI indexing, protected storage, packaging and delivery as one operated program. Each stage lights up as you scroll. Switch to the technical view for what happens underneath.

Choose your path

Media and data movementControl and orchestration

What do I have?

Input: legacy videotape

Betacam, Betacam SP, Digital Betacam, DVCPRO, HDCAM and other broadcast formats, in whatever condition and quantity you hold. We start from your inventory: volumes, formats, condition, locations and priorities.

Technical: inventory import from your catalogue or MAM, format census by deck requirement, condition sampling, prep and cleaning plan, batch and shelf-order planning.

Meta Martis: assessment and migration plan. Checkpoint: approved inventory and priority list.

Get off videotape for good

Migrate: FlyPack controls eight VTRs

One FlyPack, installed in your building, drives eight decks at once. It is not a single-format machine; the decks you fit determine the formats it captures. Up to 5,000 tape hours a month move from shelf to file without leaving your custody.

Technical: 8 concurrent SDI captures through dedicated analysis engines, automated signal correction, real-time QC, checksums, essence plus proxy, naming and provenance written at capture. LTO migration can run alongside it, coordinated under one project plan.

Technology: FlyPack. Output: verified files plus capture metadata. Checkpoint: QC pass per tape.

How does it become discoverable?

Index: Amplify AI, on your premises

Every captured hour is indexed as it lands. Faces and people, speech and transcripts, on-screen text, logos and brands, objects and scenes, and custom metadata for your catalogue.

Technical: Amplify Seiri engines on a GPU server sited with your storage. Run once, preserve forever: metadata is written back to your MAM (DALET and others) and exposed through API. Engine mix and duty cycle are sized to the FlyPack's throughput.

Technology: Amplify Seiri. Output: persistent, searchable metadata. Checkpoint: index coverage report.

Where does it live?

Store and protect: ALTO locally, Meta8 securely

Files land on ALTO storage in your facility, in non-proprietary formats you can read. A second, protected copy goes to Meta8, our secure private cloud, with an air-gapped option. Start accessing any file in about 60 seconds, depending on configuration, with no egress fees when you need it back.

Technical: ALTO powered-down disk archive on premises; Meta8 copy in Equinix or your chosen data center, offline air-gapped copy option, integrity verification, monitored replication, documented backup and restore paths, access begins in about 60 seconds depending on configuration; full transfer time depends on file size and bandwidth.

Technology: ALTO, Meta8. Output: local and protected copies, as configured for your project. Checkpoint: integrity and restore test.

Go from shelf to searchable

Orchestrate, package and deliver

Orchestration runs across migration, indexing, storage and delivery, so the whole chain behaves as one program. Indexed content is packaged with rights and technical metadata into outputs for broadcast, social, web, episodic and other downstream uses.

Technical: Workflow orchestration and monitoring, transcode and packaging profiles per destination, metadata mapping and export, exception handling, delivery to your distribution partners and platforms.

Technology: orchestration layer. Output: delivery-ready packages. Checkpoint: package acceptance per destination.

What changes commercially?

Outcome: an expense becomes an asset

Shelves of inactive tape become a searchable, protected library your teams can find, reuse and license. We help you monetize by making discovery, packaging and delivery possible.

Technical: search across metadata, rights research support, reuse workflows, API access for your platforms, governed access and recovery.

Next step: Free Archive Assessment

Media and data movementControl and orchestration

What do I have?

Input: LTO and data tape

Cartridges across LTO generations and libraries (support depends on generation, readable media, working drives, archive software, catalogs and encryption keys), often with contents known only by a label or a database that no longer matches. We start by establishing what is actually on the tapes and what it is worth migrating first.

Technical: library and catalogue export, tape generation census, read-test sampling, restore-path check against the existing DIVA, CloudFirst or other stack, priority and exception lists.

Meta Martis: assessment and migration plan. Checkpoint: approved priority list.

Get off LTO for good

Migrate: bulk extraction, vendor-neutral

Content is read from the cartridges in bulk, verified and normalized into files you can use, without tying the outcome to any one library vendor. Where a videotape migration runs at the same time, both streams are coordinated under one project plan.

Technical: extraction through your existing library and archive management stack or ours, checksum verification against source, normalization, naming, metadata mapping, provenance, exception handling for unreadable media.

Output: verified files plus source metadata. Checkpoint: verification pass per cartridge.

How does it become discoverable?

Index: Amplify AI, on your premises

Extracted content is indexed as it lands. Faces and people, speech and transcripts, on-screen text, logos and brands, objects and scenes, and custom metadata for your catalogue. Nothing leaves your premises to become searchable.

Technical: Amplify Seiri engines on a GPU server sited with your storage. Run once, preserve forever: metadata written back to your MAM (DALET and others) and exposed through API.

Technology: Amplify Seiri. Output: persistent, searchable metadata. Checkpoint: index coverage report.

Where does it live?

Store and protect: ALTO locally, Meta8 securely

Technical: ALTO powered-down disk archive on premises; Meta8 copy in Equinix or your chosen data center, offline air-gapped copy option, integrity verification, monitored replication, documented restore paths, access begins in about 60 seconds depending on configuration; full transfer time depends on file size and bandwidth.

Technology: ALTO, Meta8. Output: local and protected copies, as configured for your project. Checkpoint: integrity and restore test.

Go from shelf to searchable

Orchestrate, package and deliver

Orchestration runs across extraction, indexing, storage and delivery as one program. Indexed content is packaged with rights and technical metadata into outputs for broadcast, social, web, episodic and other downstream uses.

Technology: orchestration layer. Output: delivery-ready packages. Checkpoint: package acceptance per destination.

What changes commercially?

Outcome: unknown cartridges become a known asset

A library you could only describe by label becomes a searchable, protected collection your teams can find, reuse and license. We help you monetize by making discovery, packaging and delivery possible.

Technical: search across metadata, rights research support, reuse workflows, API access for your platforms, governed access and recovery.

Next step: Free Archive Assessment

What you can do once it is activated.

Search

Find a face, a phrase, a logo or a scene across the whole library, not a shelf label.

Amplify AI metadata in your MAM

Rights research

Transcripts, on-screen text and people detection make clearance work faster. Legal judgment stays with you.

Persistent metadata, API access

Licensing

Packaged, described content can go to marketplaces and distribution partners. We help you get there.

Packaging and delivery

Reuse

Cut broadcast, social, web and episodic outputs from material that used to be unreachable.

Packaging and orchestration

Recovery

Begin restoring from a protected copy in about 60 seconds, with an offline copy no ransomware can reach.

Meta8, ALTO air gap

Governance

Know where every file and every piece of metadata lives, who can reach it and how it comes back.

On-premises deployment, monitoring

Proven at FlyPack scale.

Scale and control

The figures below describe the FlyPack and indexing configuration as operated.

8VTRs controlled by one FlyPackFormats set by deck selection

5,000tape hours migrated per month, per FlyPack8 channels, around the clock

2intake paths: legacy videotape and LTO or media dataRun separately or in parallel

2copies recommended: local ALTO and protected Meta8Air-gapped option, no egress fees

Metadata coverage

Speech and transcriptFaces and peopleLogos and brandsOCR and on-screen textObjects and scenesSummarizationContent classificationCustom metadata

Your media stays under your control.

Sovereign media infrastructure

Every part of the system can run on premises, so no shipping tapes!

On premises

FlyPack, Amplify and ALTO in your facility

Tapes never leave. Indexing runs on a GPU server beside your storage. Files land on ALTO disk archive you own.

Private cloud

Meta8 protected copy

A second copy in a secure data center, Equinix or your chosen location, in non-proprietary formats, with access beginning in about 60 seconds and no egress fees.

Offline copy

Air-gapped protection

An offline, physically disconnected copy on ALTO technology, out of reach of ransomware and accidental deletion, with documented restore paths.

What we mean by sovereign. You control the media, the infrastructure it runs on, who can access it and how it is recovered. No public cloud dependency for the archive to exist, no vendor lock on the files, no charge to take your content back.

Who this is for.

Use cases

Large professional archives with content that has value but no access. If you recognize your library here, the assessment is the next step.

BroadcastersNews and programme libraries on Betacam and LTO, wanted for reuse, licensing and digital channels. StudiosEpisodic and feature material with rights value, held on tape formats going out of support. SportsDecades of match and event footage with clip and highlight demand across platforms. Government and public archivesCollections with preservation mandates, access obligations and limited operating budgets. EnterpriseCorporate, brand and training libraries where discovery and governance matter more than distribution.

The infrastructure underneath.

FlyPack and Meta8

The FlyPack migration system: a rolling rack with two monitors, control deck, servers and eight analysis engines

Migration + AI indexing included

FlyPack Video Migration System

One 8 channel FlyPack migrates up to 5,000 videotape hours per month, all on premises, including comprehensive AI indexing and metadata enrichment. You rent the system for a fixed term. We install it in your facility. We can provide migration staff or train your team to run it. The base package is the FlyPack and Amplify AI indexing at one monthly price; VTRs, tape cleaning and operators can be added.

8 channel FlyPack, SD, HD and more
Signal analysis and correction
Amplify Seiri AI indexing: speech, faces, logos, OCR, scenes, entities, classification
Delivered to your MAM, DAM or cloud
Assess, install, train, operate: your building, your team

Where it lands

Meta8 deep storage

Our private cloud for deep storage, built on ALTO technology. Migrated content lands here directly from the FlyPack, in a non-proprietary format you can read from any Mac or PC, with no charge to take it back out.

No egress fees
Air-gapped copy options
Non-proprietary format, readable without our software
Access begins in about 60 seconds from tier 3 storage, depending on configuration
Equinix, secure colocation, multi-site copies on different tectonic plates, or on premises
Grows in step with the migration, from 500 TB up
Local ALTO, Meta8 cloud copy and air-gapped copy are configured per project
Energy efficient: idle media powered down

Technology partners

Questions.

Before you start

Short answers to what archive owners ask first. The assessment covers the details for your library.

Do our tapes have to leave the building?

No. The FlyPack migration system is installed in your facility, AI indexing runs on a server beside your storage, and the files land on ALTO disk storage you own. Your tapes never leave.

Which formats can you migrate?

Broadcast videotape such as Betacam and Digital Betacam, HDCAM and HDCAM SR, IMX, DVCPRO, DVCAM, U-matic and 1-inch, plus LTO and other data tape. The decks fitted to the FlyPack set the formats for your project.

How fast is a migration?

One 8 channel FlyPack migrates up to 5,000 videotape hours per month on premises, including AI indexing.

What does the AI indexing find?

Speech and transcripts, faces and people, on-screen text, logos and brands, objects and scenes, and custom metadata. The results go to your MAM or DAM and are available through an API.

Who owns the content, and can we take it back?

You do. Files are stored in non-proprietary formats you can read without our software, with no egress fees, and Meta Martis never sells customer content.

What do we get from the Free Archive Assessment?

A preliminary migration approach, storage options, key risks and next steps for your library. There are no published prices: each project is scoped through the assessment.

Free Archive Assessment

Discover what's in your archive and what it could become.

You'll get a preliminary migration approach, storage options, key risks and next steps.