The Adam Systems Group of Advanced Software Resources has announced that its Adam E-Series digital entertainment asset management solution is installed and fully operational at Ascent Media Group's Digital Media Management (DMM) Center in Burbank, California.

An official release informs that Ascent Media's DMM Center is the first major Hollywood facility to offer the entertainment industry a fully functional end-to-end service center for digital encoding, processing, archiving, retrieval and distribution of all forms of media for the advertising, film and television industries.

With the activation of the ADAM Systems E-Series at the DMM Center, post-production powerhouse Ascent Media has launched an enterprise-level digital asset management system offering an array of individual value-added services that span the content life cycle from ingest to distribution, with the added benefit of a secure long term archive repository.

Here, production and post-production work can be performed on commercials, promos, artwork and marketing materials, as well as full-length television and theatrical features. Multiple digital video formats can be processed for the management of digital dailies, internet streaming media, broadcast programming, VOD distribution, high bit-rate MPEG-2 programmes. It also allows the repurposing and production quality recording to VTR, DVD, CD, or DLT the release states.

Ascent Media states that it can now offer clients a multitude of services that significantly reduce the logistical complexities associated with production and distribution. The bottom-line benefits to its client base are reduced time-to-market, increased post-production efficiencies and simplified yet secure asset storage and retrieval.