VERFAHREN UND GERÄT ZUM ERSTELLEN VON DIGITALEN ARCHIVEN

摘要

In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, an analog to digital conversion system suitably includes an encoder producing one or more streams of digital data, each stream optionally including a digital timecode that corresponds to the timecode on the original analog tape. In accordance with one aspect of the invention, a high-resolution digital stream is maintained in a first digital medium for archival purposes. A second, low-resolution video stream is optionally provided to a search engine that includes a database of content information. The database is configured to allow users to search the low-resolution stream for a particular video segment and to view the segment from either the high or low-resolution video streams based upon their common, synchronized digital timecodes.