Corbis Motion select Optibase for digital stock footage system

Optibase, a leading provider of streaming media solutions, have announced that their MPEG MovieMaker 200S encoding platforms have been incorporated into a digital footage system owned by Corbis Motion, a leading stock footage company.
Corbis Motion provides professionals with online access to a comprehensive resource of high-quality rights managed and royalty free footage. Footage includes thousands of hours of contemporary and archival imagery from the Hot Shots, Actions Sports Adventure and Film Bank collections. These collections feature content from high-profile providers such as Paramount Pictures, ESPN, Hearst Entertainment, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc, CNN and MGM Studios.
The Corbis system utilises an Asset Management System provided by VideoBank, a software development company. Using the Asset Management system, Corbis Motion and their customers have the ability to search the footage library, made up of various digital tape formats, view the streaming proxy video, build collections, and deliver high quality clips in a variety of professional broadcast formats. Upon selection of the desired footage, users may purchase it delivered in either Digital or Analog formats. The Corbis Motion footage library is digitally encoded into broadcast quality using the Optibase MPEG MovieMaker 200S encoders, under the control of the VideoBank Encode/Logger application. The material is logged with attributes assigned to each shot. The VideoBank application automates the transcoding of the MPEG-2 asset into various frame-accurate streaming formats, such as MPEG-1 and Windows Media format.
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