Iron Mountain Media & Archive Services is the one-stop shop for all of your archiving and digitisation needs. We can migrate, master, reformat, clean, enhance, and edit just about any legacy media format ever made, into a file format that helps you stay ahead of hardware and software obsolescence, and will continue to meet your distribution and monetisation program needs.
We know it’s hard to keep up with the ever-changing digital landscape. Should you digitise now or wait until the next new technology? From a small number of photos to thousands of tapes, we have the passion, expertise and technology to digitise all of your content. We will be your partners in assessing what to digitise and how to minimise the risk of asset deterioration. We’ll also maintain your newly digitised content in up-to-date formats, so you can maximise the revenue from your assets.
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Media Remediation Services
At Iron Mountain Media & Archive Services, we have both the equipment and the expertise to provide complete archive management services for your video assets. From white glove transport and logistics to digitisation and transcoding to secure, accessible digital storage, we are always thinking about the details of preservation, so YOU can think about monetisation.
Our Services
Catalogue
Intake, inspection and sorting, including chain of custody. Metadata collection from visible data on physical asset, as well as photographic scans.
Remediate
Perform QC and verification that asset is playable. Repair, correct, reverse or halt damage to an asset from various causes, including natural degradation, neglect or environmental damage. Utilize unique, patent-pending techniques and equipment to recover assets previously thought unrecoverable.
Digitise
Migrate physical video assets to digital files that comply with customer requirements for long-term storage or re-purposing for digital use, such as streaming on YouTube, Netflix, etc. These physical assets are often at high risk of loss due to inherent instability of the recording media and obsolescence of the playback technologies.
Transcode
Convert digital video files of one type to another, often because the target device that will be used to display the content requires a smaller file size, such as streaming for viewing on tablets or smartphones. Our experts and technology are capable of transcoding from any file format to any file format, to meet all customer specifications.
Deliver
Delivery specifications and technologies are customised to customer needs. We regularly work with our own Smart Vault, HDDs, LTOs, FTP sites, and Aspera, but can deliver in any way required by the client.
Why choose Iron Mountain Media & Archive Services to digitise your video assets?
- Chain of custody that’s second to none.
- Credentialed team with over 30 years’ experience in video production and archiving.
- Digital studios in major entertainment hubs across the USA and Europe, equipped to handle almost any format ever in use. We’ve never come across an asset we couldn’t recover.
- Internationally acclaimed Media Recovery Technology program.
- Custom-built workflows and database solutions based on YOUR specifications and metadata requirements.
- Continual innovation in archive management technology.
We pride ourselves on our ability to work on obsolete formats and equipment - we have never worked on an asset we could not recover. If you do not see your format listed here, just ask!
Download the full list of formats we regularly service.
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Media Digitization Services
At Iron Mountain Media & Archive Services, we have both the equipment and the expertise to provide complete archive management services for your audio assets. From white glove transport and logistics to digitisation and transcoding to secure, accessible digital storage, we are always thinking about the details of preservation, so YOU can think about monetisation.
Our Services
Catalogue
Intake, inspection and sorting, including chain of custody. Metadata collection from audio data on physical assets.
Remediate
Perform QC and verification that the asset is playable. Repair, correct, reverse or halt damage to an asset from various causes, including natural degradation, neglect or environmental damage. Utilise unique, patent-pending techniques and equipment to recover assets previously thought unrecoverable.
Digitise
Migrate physical audio assets to digital files to comply with requirements for long-term storage or re-purposing for digital use, such as with streaming. These assets are often considered high-risk due to inherent instability of the recording media and obsolescence of the playback technologies.
Transcode
Convert digital audio files of one type to another, often because the target device to be used to display content requires a smaller file size, such as streaming for listening on tablets or smartphones. We can transcode to/from any file format, to meet all customer specifications.
Deliver
Delivery specifications and technologies are customized to customer needs. We regularly work with our own Smart Vault, HDDs, LTOs, FTP sites, and Aspera, but will deliver in any way required by the client.
Why choose Iron Mountain Media & Archive Services to digitise your audio assets?
- Chain of custody that’s second to none.
- Credentialed team with over 30 years’ experience in video production and archiving.
- Digital studios in major entertainment hubs across the USA and Europe, equipped to handle almost any format ever in use. We’ve never come across an asset we couldn’t recover.
- Internationally acclaimed Media Recovery Technology program.
- Custom-built workflows and database solutions based on YOUR specifications and metadata requirements.
- Continual innovation in archive management technology.
We pride ourselves on our ability to work on obsolete formats and equipment - we have never worked on an asset we could not recover. If you do not see your format listed here, just ask!
Download the full list of formats we regularly service.
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Data Restoration Services
Digital files are often at high risk of loss due to inherent obsolescence of the ability to read the media that store them (i.e., hardware and software). Data restoration is a service to retrieve digital files from legacy physical assets (e.g., LTO, data tapes, HDDs, CD/DVDs, etc) and migrate them to a current standard long-term storage medium or seed them to the Cloud.
Our Services
Catalogue
Initial intake/inspection and sorting of all material, to include creation of tracking document, and any barcoding/non-invasive labeling as needed to properly track. Metadata collection which includes metadata capture from physical asset as well as asset photographic scans. (IE: hard drive, LTO, data disc, data tape)
Remediate
Media Remediation is the process of repairing, correcting, reversing or stopping damage to an asset from various causes. Remediation is often needed due to natural degradation, neglect or environmental damage.
Restore
Digital files are often at high risk of loss due to inherent obsolescence of the ability to read the media that store them (e.g., hardware and software).
Data restoration is a service to retrieve digital files from legacy physical assets (e.g., LTO, data tapes, HDDs, CD/DVDs, etc) and migrate them to a current standard long-term storage medium.
Process
Conversion & Processing covers:
a) Conversion of the files to a new format (i.e., document to a pdf) or current version (i.e updated LTO tape format)
b) Processing is the act of enriching/enhancing the asset with OCR, AI/ML enriched metadata, manual embedded metadata, etc.
c) File and folder organisation (e.g., renaming, reorg, etc)
Deliver
Method of how client is to receive digital files after completion or Iron Mountain Media & Archive Services posting/pushing the files to an end destination (e.g., Cloud or Smart Vault)
Why choose Iron Mountain Media & Archive Services to restore your assets?
- Chain of custody that’s second to none.
- Credentialed team with over 30 years’ experience in video production and archiving.
- Digital studios in major entertainment hubs across the USA and Europe, equipped to handle almost any format ever in use. We’ve never come across an asset we couldn’t recover.
- Internationally acclaimed Media Recovery Technology program.
- Custom-built workflows and database solutions based on YOUR specifications and metadata requirements.
- Continual innovation in archive management technology.
We pride ourselves on our ability to work on obsolete formats and equipment - we have never worked on an asset we could not recover. If you do not see your format listed here, just ask!
Download the full list of formats we regularly service.
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Imaging Solutions
Imaging is so much more than simple digitisation of physical objects. It can be the solution that helps you activate your archive.
Our imaging solutions can help you
Digitise
Create museum-quality digital files of your physical assets that can be reproduced for monetisation - think NFTs, or licensing opportunities
Preview
View preview images of your assets remotely, from wherever you are, so that you know exactly what you have and can find it at a moment’s notice
Automate
Automate the creation of metadata for those assets, and enrich the metadata remotely, making your assets more easily searchable and findable when the opportunity strikes
Our imaging capabilities in Boyers, Moonachie, and Hollywood include…
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3D Scanning
3D Scanning with wireless handheld high-resolution laser Artec Leo, the only wireless and fully standalone professional 3D scanner
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Media Asset Image Capture
High-speed media asset box image capture system that simultaneously captures all 6 sides, creates automated metadata and creates a PDF output – taking only 10 seconds or less per asset to complete
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2D Scanning
High-resolution 2D image capture to FADGI standards with the DT Atom, a table-top digitization platform that can adapt to nearly any material type.
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…and as always, expert archivist guidance and Premium Archival Services are available on demand to consult on the best way to preserve your collection.
