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Spokesman-Review selects Merlin's Innovative Video Asset Management System

Quincy, MA, June 1, 2008 - Searching for video will be as easy as searching words in a story for The Spokesman-Review editors after they install the new Merlin video module. Editors at The Spokesman-Review will be able to search on any word spoken in a video to find just the right one and it will take only seconds!

The Spokesman-Review of Spokane, WA, has ordered the Merlin video asset management module for its Merlin Digital Asset Management System that lets users actually search for words spoken in the audio tracks. With this powerful technology, The Spokesman-Review staff can find digital video files that contain specific words or phrases. The search results generated from the Merlin video asset management system are automatically cued to the spot where the search term is spoken: this saves tremendous time that would have been lost to locating, mounting, viewing or jogging video clips.

"The Spokesman-Review has been a superb Merlin user and partner and we are very excited they decided to add the new Merlin video asset management module. We are looking forward to terrific feedback," comments Rande Simpson, MerlinOne Archive Business Manager. Merlin's powerful video asset management system provides not only advanced searching, but gives editors the ability to monitor the status of the video through production stages as well as tag in and out points that get transferred to popular non-linear editors. Merlin works like a video picture desk, making most recent versions available immediately for editing in video programs.

The Spokesman-Review staff will be able to find all their published material-print and web, in one search. With Merlin, users select to search on PDF pages, stories, photos, graphics, and now video or audio files or any combination of files. They get the entire package with one click.

Merlin's new web interface is optimized for video playback. Users who need to view content can use this tool to easily locate and play videos as well as view all print content. Projects, viewing linked content and saved searches are all available for even casual users.

The Merlin video asset management system integrates with popular transcoders for a quick, powerful and scalable way to convert media between virtually any video/audio format and automate workflow. Transcoder integration gives users the flexibility to normalize formats on ingest to Merlin or store videos in their original format and transcode when selecting destination newsroom systems.

About The Spokesman-Review - Produced by family-owned Cowles Publishing Co. of Spokane, The Spokesman-Review serves Eastern Washington and North Idaho and has a circulation of 97,000 daily and 123,000 Sunday.

About MerlinOne - MerlinOne, Inc. is a leading provider of digital asset management systems and electronic document discovery platforms. E-Sheets® is the foremost electronic tearsheets service. The Merlin picture desk / digital asset management solution has over 140 major installations including The White House, Pfizer, Harvard Business School, NPR, The Employment Law Group®, Posternak Blankstein & Lund, Studeo Legal, The Humane Society, The New York Times and USA Today. MerlinOne technology helps companies manage photos, text, graphics, PDFs, multimedia and e-discovery material. MerlinOne's largest system contains 22 terabytes of data, supports 30,000 users and delivers searches in a second. MerlinOne is an EDRM participating organization.

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