Work simply
With MediaCentral | Newsroom Management powering your workflow, journalists, producers, editors, and other contributors can access all the tools they need to do their jobs from a single interface. Whether searching for media, editing sequences, or publishing content, MediaCentral delivers the same intuitive user experience across all devices, reducing training needs and costs.
Integrate directly with NRCS
MediaCentral can be used with ENPS, Octopus, and OpenMedia Newsroom solutions, enabling you to work with the systems you already have while enabling remote collaboration to speed content production and delivery to broadcast and digital outlets. Add Avid NEXIS, Maestro, and FastServe solutions to take further advantage of the workflow acceleration and experience the most efficient end-to-end newsroom solution—without changing your NRCS.
Cover the story—wherever it happens
With the Collaborate app, journalists and producers can plan stories, view assignments, capture video, create and edit sequences, and deliver content from anywhere. Right from a web browser on their laptop or the on their iOS or iPadOS device. Add MediaCentral | Stream and you can capture remote IP streams and contribution directly into your news production environment. It’s a great way to leverage remote reporters in your news coverage.
Turn around breaking news fast
With tight integration to MediaCentral | Stream, FastServe video servers, and Avid NEXIS shared storage, teams can log and edit footage as it’s being ingested for near-real-time playout—even at UHD resolutions. As video from satellite and/or IP feeds, cameras, mobile devices, and other sources come in fast and furious, the footage is made available immediately to teams across your MediaCentral platform. You can even control ingest through MediaCentral | Acquire or archive content directly from FastServe | Playout.
Enable global collaboration

MediaCentral enables up to six newsroom and production sites to connect and share content as if you’re all working together in the same facility. Collaborate with sister stations and other affiliates to combine resources, and play media across multiple sites, create stories, and access rundowns and scripts—no matter where teams and assets are located—empowering better storytelling.
Shorten your time to air and archive
With the Rundown app, you can view and edit queues, edit and archive stories, and make other changes to rundowns—even during the live broadcast—for more agile show production. Add MediaCentral | Shared Library and you can archive and restore stories to and from the library in multiple resolutions. You can even trigger the archive of a story, including all associated media and sequences, from the Rundown app.
Publish stories first across digital
Boost your brand, beat the competition, and expand your monetization opportunities by being the first to publish breaking news across multiple digital platforms. With MediaCentral | Publisher, powered by Wildmoka, you can create platform-tailored content quickly and publish it with a click. All transcoding, content staging, and publishing is automated, so teams can focus on creating content that drives traffic and revenue.
Connect editors to your media
MediaCentral directly integrates with Media Composer, , enabling content creators to collaborate, browse, and access your MediaCentral-managed content—all without leaving their application window.
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Expedite news and viewpoint gathering
Integrate MediaCentral with x.news and you can round up and integrate content from Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and other social media channels, newswires, and news aggregators to jumpstart story creation and present different viewpoints. Monitor and prioritize incoming feeds, insert user-generated content, and filter out the noise, so you can get to the real story of what’s trending. You can also capture and leverage IP contribution from anywhere with MediaCentral | Stream.
Enhance stories with real-time graphics

MediaCentral integrates directly with Maestro graphics solutions, speeding up the story creation process. Easily search for and access content and templates from Maestro | Designer, Maestro | News, and Maestro | Live right from within MediaCentral. Integrate WorldMapper sequences into stories. Drag and drop assets directly into story segments. And quickly publish content to social media and other digital outlets with support for embedded (burned-in) graphics.
Get the utmost performance and reliability
MediaCentral provides the system security and robustness you need for round-the-clock operation. Even if a server becomes unavailable, it delivers uninterrupted operation, as all system data is mirrored between multiple servers for the highest level of reliability. And get easy media and metadata backup with MediaCentral | Sync, providing an effective solution for business continuity and disaster recovery.
Preserve your data when you upgrade

Got an older Interplay or iNEWS system? Migrate to MediaCentral and not only will you enjoy the greater workflow efficiency, collaboration, and operational ease it brings, all of your media and metadata can be carried over to the new platform, so your team’s entire volume of hard work won’t go to waste.
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