Avid – MediaCentral 2019.6 is Now Available – Find out what is NEW

Avid is pleased to announce the latest version of MediaCentral, Avid’s next-generation media production suite. MediaCentral 2019.6 introduces myriad enhancements toward feature equivalency with legacy products across the Platform, including:

• Timeline Enhancements
  • Static image support
  • Timed Maestro graphics (non-burn-in)
• New MediaCentral | Log app
  • Introducing the new Log app
  • Import of legacy MC|UX Customizable Logger database
  • Log assets from Production and Asset Mgmt modules
  • Store logging data in a separate database
  • Event-oriented logging workflow
  • Customizable button values and layouts
  • Accelerate manual metadata entry visible in log entry list
  • Mark in points and out points
  • Log details like player names, actions, and ratings
• Multi-site (Phase 1)
  • New Multi-site infrastructure
  • Search and browse multisite
  • Remote asset playback
  • Deliver to me
  • Single sign-on of users across sites
  • Search Index replication across sites
  • Replication instead of federation to provide more stability and performance
  • Local Administration
  • Access control rules per site
    • Administrators can choose which systems are visible/searchable
    • Adding only required systems avoids user confusion and reduces load
  • Phase 1 limited to 6 sites connected
• Search
  • New Search UI
  • Many features and usability improvements over the previous UI
  • Simple query builder
  • Search against specific metadata, phonetic, or dates
  • Search using thesaurus and legal list
  • Switch between AND, OR operators
  • Filtering with multi-select and single select
  • Search favorites
  • Build a search form and save it
  • Public searches
  • Multi-instance Search app
• Shared Library
  • Support for multiple Production Mgmt systems connected to one SL
  • Support for media analytics (Microsoft Azure cognitive services)
  • Multi-bucket support
  • Support for Enterprise Editing
  • Archive multiple newsroom stories
  • Pick tool for video label resolutions
• Mobile Apps Enhancements
  • Navigation of folder trees and access to master clips, sub-clips, and sequences
  • Playback of master clips, sub-clips, and sequences
  • Viewing, creating, editing and deleting marker of master clips, sub-clips, and sequences
• Newsroom Management Enhancements
  • Improved story renumbering in iNEWS Workstation with page names using configurable separators and group schema (number or letters)
  • Improvements to Production Cue, Machine Control editing using MOS HTML5 plugin in the Newsroom Mgmt Client
  • Story versioning
• Ingest App
  • File and volume ingest with full AMA support
  • Support for MXF OP-1a/b sources
  • Ability to create EWC media
  • Upload and processing enhancements for Cloud use cases
  • Zero-install browser-only mode and full-featured ‘OS-native’ mode via lightweight installable utility
  • Ingest admin app to complement classic MC|UX profile builder
  • New Cloud UX-only features such as explicit selection of target raster and bit rate
• Multi-instance Browse App