Configure Your Media Workflow with MediaCentral

Custom work platform configuration of MediaCentral with file search toolbar, system properties frame and video preview window

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 iOS, iPadOS, and Android—here are the capabilities your platform can provide for you and your teams.

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
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