National Film and Sound Archive of Australia Further Enhances its Leading Edge Technical Facilities in Handling Audiovisual Media with GrayMeta’s Quality Control Software

Recently Techtel has successfully deployed GrayMeta’s Iris Media Platform for the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (“NFSA”) as the agency upgrades their technical facilities in response to a growing amount of HDR content required for archiving and preserving.

GrayMeta’s Iris Media Platform is designed to play, review and accurately identify media errors with a complete set of Quality Control tools. For NFSA, these tools will be used to handle a 3 million item “living archive” of contemporary and obsolete still, video and audio formats by instantly identifying and dealing with potential errors to ensure that the agency not only collects, but preserves precious data for future generations to share in many diverse ways.

“GrayMeta Iris Media Platform is the only available audiovisual quality control solution in Australia which supports HDR content, meaning that AFSA can now access and preserve every video, audio, caption, subtitle, image and frame sequence format ever invented*.”, said Mal Chandler Techtel CEO. “We are proud to provide technology which enables to archive and most importantly preserve centuries of Australia’s audiovisual data, that could be accessed and enjoyed by further generations worldwide”.