About

Media Room is the premier content management platform for
production, distribution and entertainment and gives you room
to move, room to create and room to manage.

Perspective

Media Room (MR) was developed by Silver Trak Digital to not only meet the demands of content aggregation, usage and delivery, but also positioned to take advantage of the economies of scale. MR provides a very affordable alternative to content producing businesses faced with the “buy or build” decision for a secure, feature driven content management system.

Having proved its worth since 2012 as a user friendly, robust and stable platform for content storage and delivery Media Room is proud to have re-invented itself in its third iteration. Media Room Three (MR3) provides true satisfaction by not only capturing the creative content, but by providing high end technical capability to find, review, display and present content in the most desirable form to reach audiences on any device, in any place, at any time.

MR3 combines traditional value features such as user upload, proxy creation, transcode on demand and Aspera expedited delivery with cutting edge new technology attributes like project organisation, enhanced search capabilities including project collateral links, fully customized tagging, Aspera on Cloud, clipping and collaboration and more, providing a completely rethought and enhanced content management service.

Along with many other features listed below the “road map” for MR3 continues the journey with exploration and design utilizing Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence offering core competencies such as facial/logo recognition and voice to text, making the content management experience far more intuitive than ever before.

Since 2012 Media Room has been providing the most innovative Media Asset Management system in Australia. Via a no drama, user friendly portal, clients can upload, secure, search, display, manage and deliver media content from within their content dedicated Rooms to anyone, anywhere in Australia or around the world.

In 2020 Media Room has been re-released as Media Room 3 with even more tech capability, security and innovative feature sets.

MR3 brings forth the reliability and usability of the original and combines a completely new, project based managed profile; capturing more content and collateral, providing more cross location and search capabilities and fusing greater features and benefits into this highly regarded SaaS product.

Features to Meet the Needs

The Silver Trak technical team have been guided by both technical innovation and by valuable client feedback and re-designed the Platform to provide the best technical capability and the most sought after features in the new MR3 release. And though released, the work doesn’t stop there but rather has a seemingly infinite number of proposed features on the drawing board all geared to provide content producers more facilities from which the content will continue to add value over and over again.

In addition to the current features that have been providing clients with managed value – MR3 enables the following features to fulfil even more demand:

Playback SMPTE t/code accurate
Aspera on Cloud
Timeline thumbnail preview
Caption detection and extraction
Audio track selection
Sub clip creation and export
Tiered Cloud Storage – AWS S3 & Glacier

DRM Environment
Live Ingest
Content Sales Portal
Custom Workflows
Catalogue Portal
Markers and annotations track per permitted user
Canvas overlay

Collaboration
Marker and annotation summary report
Project based File Organisation
User configurable ML Metadata extraction
User configurable custom metadata fields
Watermarking on Demand

The future road map is incredibly exciting; with projects currently underway for more Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning capabilities combining with technical advances like multi-camera live ingest and multi format transcode at point of capture. Silver Trak Digital has started the journey, but we need you along with us to experience the success.

Our Awesome Team

We have highly trained and extremely motivated staff in all areas of our business. This level of
expertise has allowed Silver Trak Digital to become a market leader within our range of services.
Our staff is the heart, soul and intellect of our business.

Tim Creswell
Chief Executive Officer
Christian Christiansen
Chief Operating Officer
Rod Capon
Technical Manager
Steven Marcus
Head of Tech Development
Matt Christie
Customer Service Manager
Stefan Settels
Media Tech (Graphics)
James Dartnell
Digital Ops Mgr
Rob Gallimore
Business Manager
Raquela Lombardo
Traffic Mgr (DMZ)

Tim Creswell

Chief Executive Officer

Tim has worked in the Film and Television Industry for over 18 years. Tim started his career working for major Motion Picture studios and Video Distribution companies. During this time he managed DVD & Bluray authoring businesses and tape duplication facilities. With a Bachelor of Business degree, Tim has experienced all aspects of the industry and understands working to tight deadlines and the necessity of getting things right the first time, from both client and supplier perspectives.

With this in mind, Tim set up Buff Dubs in 2005 and has seen the business grow into a substantial business with the ability to compete on any level across many services. The business has a focus on offering the best service and personal attention.

Christian Christiansen

Chief Operating Officer

Christian has 20 years of senior sales and management experience and has held senior positions in companies such as Sony Australia (Sales Manager), Comcopy (GM), Sydney Multimedia Company (Director), Video 8 Media (Head of Sales) and others. Besides a solid knowledge of the Film & Television industry and the challenges facing the industry, Christian has a wealth of experience in selling media solutions to companies ranging from corporate/government to production/post production, in Australia as well as overseas.

In January 2012, Christian acquired Silver Trak Digital from Video 8 Media in a Management Buy Out. On March 1, 2013, Silver Trak Pty Ltd and Buff Dubs Pty Ltd merged to become Buff Dubs Pty Ltd trading as Silver Trak Digital. The merger took place due to the success from the broadcast services joint venture the two companies entered into in 2012 and was seen as a natural expansion for both companies. It has been warmly welcomed by the market place.

Rod Capon

Technical Manager

Rod completed his television operations techniques certificate in 1984 at North Sydney TAFE and subsequently commenced his career at Video 8 Media where he gained his diverse base in television, film, video, production, distribution and broadcast.

In 1990 Rod branched out to establish TVD Broadcast, a significant supplier of broadcast services in the Sydney Market. As GM of TVD Broadcast, Rod oversaw the quality control, domestic and international program duplication and distribution for companies such as Opera Australia, Grundy Television, Southern Star, Hi-5, Paramount Pictures, Universal Pictures and others.

During his 20 years at TVD Broadcast, Rod developed many skills in archival processes, managing many large Archive and Restoration Projects for clients such as Malcolm Douglas Films, Opera Australia and Grundy Television’s archival projects of Neighbours, Young Doctors, Prisoner and Son’s & Daughters.

The skills acquired dealing with many old and troubled tape masters as well as developing clean archiving and restoration processes are second to none. Rod developed many new techniques to allow the transfer of old 8mm, 16mm 35mm film, 2″ quad, 1″C, U-matic, 1/4″ and D2 into digital formats. Many of these processes are utilised as standard archiving practices today around the world.

In 2010 Rod returned to Video 8 Media. He assisted in the development of the Video 8 Media cloud based MAM solution, which helped Video 8 Media establish itself as a market leader in broadcast file based content delivery systems.

Rods 28 years in the media industries, his ability to adapt in an ever evolving media market as well as having a great knowledge of legacy formats, has held him in high esteem in the Broadcast, Archival and Distribution markets, locally as well as overseas.

Steven Marcus

Head of Tech Development

Steven joined Silver Trak Digital in 2013. Steven has a B.A in Mathematics and Computer Science from Santa Clara University, California, He has over 20 year experience as a senior software developer, having worked all over the world writing software for broadcast, finance and other industries. Steven has been instrumental in the development of Media Room and will be a key player for Silver Trak Digital in our further transition into cloud based service offerings.

Matt Christie

Customer Service Manager

Matt has close to 10 years’ experience servicing the broadcast industry. Matt joined Beyond Distribution in 2004 first as Servicing Coordinator looking after clients such as Discovery Channel and National Geographic. Later Matt took on the role as Post Production Manager. During his 5 years with Beyond Distribution, he gained knowledge in Post Production as well as local and international Program Distribution. In 2010 Matt joined Video 8 Media and soon gained the respect of customers as well as colleagues.

Matt has a deep knowledge of distribution and broadcast requirements and has made many clients friends over the years.

Stefan Settels

Media Tech (Graphics)

Stefan joined Silver Trak Digital’s design team in November 2015.
Stefan grew up in Holland where he studied Graphic Design. After university he started working in DVD authoring, encoding and design.
He later moved to London where he worked at Deluxe doing technical assessment on DVD and blu-ray.
Stefan moved to Australia in 2007 and worked mainly in graphic design; short films, intros/outros and lower thirds, info-graphic presentations, newspaper and magazine ads, promotional video graphics for flat panels and youtube.

James Dartnell

Digital Ops Mgr

James has over 17 years of experience across Post Production, Broadcast, Digital Cinema and Content Distribution.

Commencing his career at Technicolor London in 2001, he started out coordinating and scheduling the facility operations across Audio, QC, Edit and MCR. After stepping into the role of Head of Production, he successfully embedded the emerging technologies that would become the Digital Media department into the facilities already busy production landscape.

After 11 years, James made the move to Sydney to look after operations for Technicolor Australia’s growing Digital Media Services department, working on content aggregation, content distribution, improving day to day operational efficiency as well as being instrumental in on-boarding new clients and workflows.

Most recently James was Head of Digital Operations at Deluxe Australia responsible for the day to day operations across Digital Cinema, Media Services and Localisation.
James has a desire to ensure clients needs are met, on time, on budget, first time, every time.

Rob Gallimore

Business Manager

Rob Gallimore has 20 years senior management experience having run multinational business units both from within Australia and overseas. With a Bachelor of Business, Rob has extended his business education with certifications in Quality Management and Environmental Processes.

Coming from a service industry background, successfully managing multi-million dollar contracts for government, utility and commercial, Rob brought his business and operational experience to the media industry in 2012.

Joining Preferred Media as General Manager six years ago Rob took on the task to upgrade the well-established media archive facility to a digital asset management platform. Having successfully fulfilled his primary mandate to establish the business in the digital world and give them a new market direction, Rob joined Silver Trak Digital in 2018 as an experienced media format and content management specialist with substantial knowledge in content handling and digital asset management technology.

Rob brings his experience and knowledge into a Business Development Management role for Silver Trak Digital, strengthening the team with his vast operational, sales and marketing background.

Raquela Lombardo

Traffic Mgr (DMZ)

Raquela joined Silver Trak Digital in February 2016 after completing her four year degree in Media and Communications. While studying at the University of Sydney, Raquela interned for Spectrum Films at Fox Studios and worked as a Production Assistant on the television show “Fashion Bloggers”. Hence, Raquela is no stranger to client services. As Silver trak Digital’s DMZ Manager, Raquela helps to manage the distribution of our clients’ creative content both internally and externally, becoming a key player in the daily Silver Trak life.

Building Client Trust

Media Room is already used by key industry players who have found advantage in concentrating their time in their business and letting Media Room manage the content.