Configure Your Platform

MediaCentral can be flexibly configured and scaled to meet your media workflow needs today and tomorrow. Whether you need newsroom management, production management, and/or asset management—accessible through a web client and apps for smartphones and tablets—here are the capabilities your platform can provide for you and your teams.

Choose one or more workflow modules

• Asset Management—Browse and retrieve media across multiple tiers of storage from anywhere
• Newsroom Management—Create stories and manage rundowns locally and remotely for fast turnaround news production
• Production Management—Browse, search, share, and collaborate on media and projects with local and remote teams

Choose your mode(s) of access to MediaCentral

• Cloud UX—Access projects, media, and more through a web browser on a computer or mobile device
• Cloud UX for Android—Access projects, media, and more using a native app for Android-based phones and tablets
• Cloud UX for iOS—Access projects, media, and more using a native app for Apple iPhones and iPads

Add apps and services

• Archive Production—Automatically archive and retrieve content to and from storage
• Browse—View and get insight into all media assets, with hoverscrub preview and playback
• Collaborate —Keep teams connected and up to date about stories, assignments, tasks, and resources
• Deliver—Transfer media, sequences, and shotlists between workgroups
• Document—Display PDF documents within MediaCentral
• Ingest —Orchestrate media ingest into production and nearline storage to jumpstart editing
• Log—Log video in customizable panes to provide more meaningful data and better search
• Orchestrate—Create structured, repeatable workflows that automate processes
• Process—Monitor the process of all background processes and media service activity
• Publisher—Create and monetize tailored content for digital platforms and publish with a click
• Reporter—Create, capture, edit, and deliver video and finished stories from the field
• Research—See what’s trending across newswires and social media, with filter capabilities
• Rundown—Plan, manage, and update rundowns to shape your live newscast
• Search —Find media fast across multiple local and remote MediaCentral-managed systems
  • Phonetic Index option—Find specific clips quickly based on the dialogue they contain
• Stream—Ingest remote IP stream contribution into Avid production environments
• Shared Library—Automate media archive and restore workflows with a single unified archive
• Tasks—View all tasks assigned to you or your team for easier tracking and completion
• Transcode—Automatically encode stored material into the resolutions you need
• Transfer—Exchange high-res media with other workgroups, remote locations, and systems

Add companion applications and integrate editing teams

• Capture—Schedule and automate media recording of up to five simultaneous live feeds
  • Router Connector option—Control broadcast routers
• Command—Manage news playout with automated device control and rundown linking
  • Maestro Connector option—Control Maestro graphics solutions
  • Playout Connector option—Control FastServe video servers
  • Third-Party Graphics Connector option—Control non-Avid graphics devices
  • Third-Party Playout VDCP Connector option—Control non-Avid playout devices
• Panel for Media Composer—Access content, Shared Library, and more in your interface
• Panel for Premiere Pro—Access MediaCentral content directly in your Adobe interface

Connect third-party solutions

• Archive—Connectors available for BlackPearl, Generic FS, Oracle DIVArchive, Quantum StorNext, and SGL/Masstech
• Quality control—Connectors available for BATON and Minnetonka
• Transcode—Connectors available for Generic Transcoder, root6, and Telestream Vantage
• WAN acceleration—Connectors available for Aspera, FileCatalyst, and Signiant
• Web, social media, and CMS—Connectors available for Brightcove, Facebook, Generic CMS, Twitter, WordPress WCMS, and YouTube

Certified Alliance Partners

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* Please note that our partner integrations are subject to change without notice.