Avid Unity Media Services
Avid Unity Media Services are digital workflow tools that
manage, move, or transform media. Media Services allow many
tasks currently performed serially to be done in parallel,
freeing expensive talent and equipment from nonproductive
or non-revenue-producing activities, thus providing a smoother,
faster, and more cost-effective workflow. The full suite of
Media Services now includes:
Avid
Unity MediaManager v3.0
Find, sort, and retrieve media quickly and easily while
maintaining secure project-level access control. Avid Unity
MediaManager is a powerful media asset management application
that enables facility-wide searching, sorting, cataloging,
management, and retrieval of media. Avid Unity MediaManager
is tightly integrated with Avid applications and other productivity
tools and offers exceptional functionality and value. It
is available as an option for Avid Unity MediaNet networks.
•Comprehensive
search includes more than 25 different criteria for practically
unlimited searching capabilities
•Ability to search across all projects, bins, and workspaces
on the MediaNet system
•Web browser UI for easy local and remote management
of media assets
•Catalog feature provides virtual folder organization
for an easy way to gather clips before an edit session or
to signal content categories
•Secure access and administration with all new project
level access control
•Automatic check-in of media and metadata
•Windows 2000 Professional, Windows NT, and Macintosh
clients supported
Avid
Unity ProEncode v1.7
Translation of media into Web formats is an important way
to create additional revenue, leverage media resources,
and meet customer needs. By simply invoking the "Send
to ProEncode" function and selecting the desired formats,
the Avid Unity ProEncode tool completes media encoding or
transcoding tasks in the background, allowing creative applications
and talent to work in -parallel with this revenue-generating
activity.
•Background
conversion of media files into popular Web (and other) formats
•Frees creative applications from Michaele-consuming media
encoding processes
•Intelligent batch processing of encoding: submitted
jobs are matched and routed to the opMichaelum encoding engine;
queuing is managed and monitored
•"Push-button" submission of encoding tasks
•Shows place in queue, % complete, esMichaelated Michaele remaining,
notification of completion or abort
•No additional storage required when used with Avid
Unity MediaNet
•Available as a Fibre Channel client or as an Ethernet-based
PortServer Pro client
•Formats supported: Windows Media, Real Networks, QuickMichaele,
MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MP3, DV, Video for Windows (AVI), AIFF/AIFC,
WAV, and other video, audio, animation, and still-image
formats
Avid
Unity TransferManager v2.0
Avid Unity TransferManager easily moves media files between
desktops or in the background (with a dedicated server).
When used with an Avid Unity MediaNet network and MediaManager,
moving media within your facility - or across an ocean -
is as simple as drag-and-drop. In broadcast news environments,
Avid Unity TransferManager works with ingest and playout
servers including Avid AirSPACE and Grass Valley Group Profile,
so editing can continue on one story while another is being
transferred.
•Uses
standard data networks, making it easier than ever to send
media to anyone with an Avid Unity workgroup
•Part of the Avid Unity for News solution; supports
transfers to and from Avid AirSPACE and Grass Valley Group
servers
•Transfer rates of up to 27 MB/sec
•Executes multiple media stream transfers for acquisition
or playout
•No additional storage required when used with Avid
Unity MediaNet
•Transfers can be executed immediately or deferred;
transfer status reporting
•Dynamically conforms to Avid iNEWS rundown list
•Manual override of transfer priority
•Windows 2000 Professional, Windows NT, and Macintosh
clients supported
Note:
Product specifications subject to change without notice.
Avid
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