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Avid MediaCentral 2020 Empowers Broadcast News Organizations to Create and Deliver More Content in Shorter Timeframes

Today , we announced the immediate availability of MediaCentral® 2020, the comprehensive media workflow platform for TV news, sports and post production operations. Innovative new features in MediaCentral 2020 deliver on the needs of modern newsrooms, providing journalists with increased efficiency, faster search options and improved editing as well as an enhanced broadcast viewing experience for audiences.  

MediaCentral 2020 accelerates production with a complete and scalable end-to-end media workflow platform, providing news teams with media access, workflow integration and remote collaboration to deliver breaking news as its happens. MediaCentral 2020 empowers global collaboration ​to connect disperse teams to share media and create better stories together, while leveraging broadcast content and incoming feeds to break news fast on digital channels. 

 From information gathering that leverages powerful search capabilities to story creation, graphics integration and social media distribution, MediaCentral 2020 empowers teams with the tools and the workflow speed they need to break news first. Key new capabilities include: 

 

• Viewing and Editing Time-based Metadata More Easily–Increased efficiency with a storyboard view to see metadata together with the thumbnails in one single view.

 

• Finding Media Faster to Improve Collaboration–Includes more control and options to find the right media assets quickly, improve collaboration, ensure up-to-date results and improve the overall usability of the system.

 

• Enhancing Storytelling with Maestro Graphic–Allows the use of full mix-down of graphics and video into a single file ready for publishing in MediaCentral and Media Composer or for publishing to social media and other digital outlets.

 

• More Creative Editing with Advanced Capabilities–New advanced capabilities address even the most complex news production teams’ editing needs, delivering compelling stories with increased video and audio tracks.  

  

These new functions enhance and extend the industry-standard platform's modular, scalable design and full suite of apps, services and connectors that accelerate every part of the media creation and publishing workflow. For more information on MediaCentral 2020 visit www.avid.com/products/mediacentral.

Avid is pleased to announce a new version of MediaCentral (2020.4) which offers many new capabilities such as.....

Edit remotely and more creatively with advanced capabilities

-Cut together more compelling stories with up to four (4) video and eight (8) audio tracks

-Put edits together quicker by dragging and dropping multiple clips to the timeline

-Fine-tune audio levels with per-segment audio gain

-Extract and lift segments easily from sequences

-Gain more control over audio and video dissolves

And more!

Editorial graphics 

Journalists can now embed high-end graphics into their edited stories from within MediaCentral. The graphic templates are stored in MediaCentral so that journalists can search, retrieve, populate with content and preview the graphics while editing their stories in MediaCentral. Once ready, the edited story —including the graphics —will be pushed for both linear playback based on Maestro | News, FastServe or third-party playout systems, as well as social media publishing based on MediaCentral | Publisher.

Find media faster 

With more control and options for search (including new Boolean operators, public saved searches, live searches and more), and expanded filtering (including by metadata, dates, and favorites), users can get the right results faster and improve collaboration.

View and edit time-based metadata more easily 

The new Storyboard view enables users to see time-based metadata together with clip thumbnails in a unified screen. Now users can view, edit and delete Production Management asset markers and restrictions, view the strata and segmentation of Asset Management assets, and hide the metadata or thumbnails to see just one view.

Boost production efficiency

New support for Python scripting for further customization—and transcoding assets, to multi-platform distribution and archiving content (including files from FastServe | Playout). 

Manage platform remotely with ease 

The new version of MediaCentral enables administrators to see who is logged in, from where, and terminate a session remotely, providing better security.

Documentation can be found here: 

 https://avid.secure.force.com/pkb/articles/en_US/ReadMe/MediaCentral-Asset-Management-v2020-4-Documentation  

Questions, let us know

Raff and Marianna

When using Interplay Access to pull a sequence into my bin, is there a way for it to only bring in a copy of the sequence?

Like how it works when holding down the Ctrl key when using the Production Management Window.

Hi,

is there any procedure to retrieve a list of users from Media Central UX?

thanks

Dario

Built for post-production teams that need to find footage fast, collaborate easily, and create stories quickly

Last chance to register to discover how to collaborate easily and remotely with MediaCentral | Editorial Management™. Completely integrated with Avid NEXIS® storage and Media Composer®, EM enables teams to search for media, log clips, edit video, pull selects, create stringouts, and review projects from anywhere, using just a web browser. Join us on this Webinar and learn how to: Collaborate efficiently and remotely Scale production while cutting costs Fully compatible with Avid NEXIS® Search for clips quickly and easily with Phonetic Index Simplify the review process by playing media and sequences from anywhere

Thursday May 21, 2020 Zoom Webinar Download your version of Zoom here • Session 1: 1:00 PM ET    - Time in your city • Session 2: 4:00 PM ET    - Time in your city     Register Here

Presented by Kent Petersen, Senior Solution Specialist for Avid Technology with over 20 years of experience in the Post Production industry.

Adobe is planning to end-of-life the Flash Player at the end of 2020

The below notification was sent to all MediaCentral | Asset Management (Desktop and Cataloger) and MediaCentral | UX product owners.

**   MediaCentral | Asset Management (Desktop and Cataloger) and MediaCentral | UX product owners - it is critical that you begin now to develop a plan to upgrade your Avid products to avoid being affected by the Adobe Flash Player end of life. With support and security updates no longer being provided by Adobe and the major browser providers, you could potentially be leaving yourself vulnerable to operational issues and security breaches.**

If you have any questions, please contact your account manager or send an email to AVIDFLASH@avid.com 

Thanks everyone.....

Marianna

Great News!!!!!!!    We are happy to report that Avid’s Editorial Management version 2020.4 is now available as of April 23, 2020.  

This release introduces the ability to install alternative languages for Phonetic Search and the ability to install Media Composer | Distributed Processing Engine. 

Documentation:  For details please check the MediaCentral | Editorial Management v2020 documentation page for the following:

Avid MediaCentral | Editorial Management ReadMe v2020.4  

Avid MediaCentral | Editorial Management Installation Guide v2020.4 

Avid MediaCentral | Editorial Management User's Guide v2020.4

FAQ:  A list of frequently asked questions can be found here:

This version is recommended for all currently installed Editorial Management systems”.

Questions, let me know.......

Marianna

 

Hello! I want to use some npm modules, such as request (https://www.npmjs.com/package/request), soap (https://www.npmjs.com/package/soap), and some other. But I have got compilation error. Can I use npm modules in plugin environment?

Hello! I want to create request to IPWS API, from plugin environment, but I have got CORS policy error. Any ideas how I can fix it? Please see screen in attachment

Hello! I want to add action to Browse App. How I can do it? There are ‘places’ and ‘filter’ properties (in action binding config). For 'places' I take ‘contextMenu’ and ‘viewMenu’. But what I should use for ‘filter ‘? If I use plugin id, action displayed only plugin window.

 

http://developer.avid.com/mcux_ui_plugin/clux-api/actions-api.html#Action-Binding-Config