Store It Forward Technology™ (SIFT) is an industry-changing digital asset management platform.

It enables organizations to streamline their use and management of digital assets—including videos, audio files, still photos, and documents.

This enables clients to reduce capital expenditures, reduce ongoing operating expenses, improve productivity, and potentially add new revenue streams by monetizing digital assets. Read more about the market and GP SIFT solutions

GP SIFT Asset Management Software serves as a bridge between legacy systems and the modern world of digital formats.

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Use for: capture, metadata creation, editing, file conversion, distributing, securing and backup, and publishing.

Affordable

For users who cannot, or do not wish to replace all of their existing systems to create a Digital Asset Manager, GP SIFT is an easy answer starting at about $2,000 for a seat.

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Unique Advantages of GP SIFT

  • Open platform handles virtually any digital content
  • Does not require an expensive server or networking
  • Does not alter the digital asset unless new formats are required
  • Creates and converts files to multiple industry standard formats
  • Proxy editing and HD ready video distribution without a server
  • No single point of failure with real-time automated backup
  • The most affordable archive system in the software industry

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GP SIFT Affordable Asset Management

GP SIFT is a totally modular, out-of-the-box software solution that lets you capture, categorize, distribute, modify, archive and search all of your digital assets.

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GP SIFT is the most fully-featured, cost-effective solution available for Digital Asset Management (DAM). It is a software-based asset management solution for video, audio, Images, documents, and other files. GP SIFT is a complete toolkit configurable for any industry's data patterns. There is no major hardware purchase required.

Content packages (called SIFT-Paks) are delivered instead of streaming from central servers. Manage and deliver content but remain compatible with the native software applications that created the source.

The transition from physical media such as tapes, disks and paper to all digital systems creates an explosion of digital files that are difficult to search, organize and manage. GP SIFT links video, audio, images and documents with data to SIFT Your Digital World.

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The SIFT Software Asset Management Suite:

Ingest

Quickly and easily scrape data from all types of files

File Ingest: Batch import entire collections of digital files and capture live or import media from multiple industry sources via the built in editor. The editor creates proxy video in MPEG4 from import or live capture of video sources. Supported files list

Video Ingest: Index, organize, attach data, and create video proxies.

  • Supports most digital media files and data
  • Stores files in original formats
  • Creates high quality video proxies
Attach Data

Attach data from files, projects or logging

3 Forms of data are created in GP SIFT™

  • Environmental Data is “scraped” from the files
  • Project Metadata from the import process
  • User Custom Metadata created by the built-in logging software.
SIFT

Automatically distribute content

Automated distribution software stores the video and digital files “forward” to the correct destination literally as the content is captured or ingested. By moving the media immediately there is no delay for the remote users for downloading.

Search

Query, find and recall anything

Search via the GP SIFT™ Search Engine provides a global query for broad searching and also the most powerful filtering tool in the industry to “SIFT” through all available files on ANY storage or server location on the network. Search is also available via VPN for remote locations on the network.

Create

Create and save files and data

Packages of files and the associated 3 forms of metadata (File Environmental, Import Project and User Custom) are automatically created and can be saved which contain all of the various files and data. These packages are called SIFT-Paks.

Publish

SIFT-PAKs allow easy distribution

Create packages (SIFT-Paks) of content including all files from the GP SIFT Search Engine and create new formats like FLV, WMV, AVC HD, BlackBerry video or iPod output to end users.

Or pass to third party applications like Adobe, Apple, Sony Vegas, Photoshop, or just the general Microsoft environment.