At NAB, Focus Enhancements, Inc. announced the latest addition to the ProxSys family of Media Asset Management (MAM) solutions.  The PX-1 is the industry's first entry-level, turnkey MAM system that fully integrates both hardware and software into an easy-to-setup, easy-to-use digital media asset solution. The PX-1 overlaps in functionality with Apple's new Final Cut Server software, although with hardware included so the price alone should not be used as a comparison guide.

Designed to service small- to medium-sized organizations, the PX-1 gives digital media professionals the ability to assign timecode-based metadata to their HD or SD video content which, when combined with its proxy preview, enables lightning fast search and retrieval.  Through the PX-1's intuitive web browser interface, users can create projects and containers from which content can be copied, transferred, shared, or deleted.

The PX-1 can simultaneously manage up to 10 concurrent users connected anywhere in the world.  It supports nearly all SD and HD video formats, popular graphic and audio formats, as well as many data formats, including PowerPoint and Word documents.

Also included with the PX-1 is the Focus Enhancements Capture Suite and Media Import software.  With this client-based software, users can capture live video, import existing digital media folders and files, or seamlessly import video content from Focus digital disk recorders and/or Panasonic P2 MXF format while preserving all native metadata.

Additional PX-1 features include:

• MPEG-1 System and Elementary support
• MPEG-2 Program, Transport, Elementary, and all 18 ATSC format support
• DV (AVI Type 1 and 2, Raw)
• DVCPro, DVCPro50, DVCProHD
• BMP, PNG, JPEG, GIF
• User Rights Assignments
• Ability to create and define unlimited numbers of metadata fields
• Search routines including exact match, fuzzy, and wildcard
• IBM Xeon-based Server
• 1TB of internal RAID storage
• Dual 1000/100/10 LAN
• SuSe Linux O/S
• Ultra320 SCSI Controller for storage expansion

PX-1 is expected to be available the end of April 2007 for a US MSRP of $19,950 through Focus Enhancements' worldwide dealer and distributor network. The ProxSys family will be on display in the Focus Enhancements' booth, SL2605, at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) show in the Las Vegas Convention Center, April 16-19, 2007.