How to Automate Media Management in Avid with Dynamic Media Folders

How to Automate Media Management in Avid with Dynamic Media Folders:
Although Media Composer’s AMA plug-in architecture allows virtually any file-based source media to be played in real time without first transcoding to Avid’s native DNxHD codec, many times editors will want to transcode anyway to take advantage of the maximum playback performance DNxHD offers. New in Media Composer 7 is the ability to process both transcoding and consolidation operations in the background, freeing you to continue editing both AMA and native Avid media without interruption.

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Adobe Anywhere for Video Now Available

Adobe Anywhere for Video Now Available | Creative Cloud User:
Adobe Anywhere is a powerful collaborative solution for broadcasters and large enterprises that enables users to work together using centralized media and assets across virtually any network. Anywhere allows teams to efficiently shoot, log, edit, share and finish video productions on standard systems without heavy file transfers and duplicate media. Adobe Anywhere supports the latest versions of Adobe Premiere Pro CC and Adobe Prelude CC, available as part of Adobe Creative Cloud. Adobe Anywhere support for Adobe After Effects is expected later in 2013.

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News: eyeon Production Pipeline (EPP) – Open Source Workflow Independence

News: eyeon Production Pipeline (EPP) – Open Source Workflow Independence:
A forerunner in tools that provide a very fast, responsive, and highly-productive experience, eyeon Software introduces EPP. EPP’s benefits can deliver cost savings as the paths now live on global space that is accessible to all products. In contrast to conventions, EPP’s approach is far less error prone, taking care of specifying the paths. Artists are no longer required to learn the internals of the filesystem and can work directly with the shots and assets managed by the pipeline.

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It's AVA, Advanced Video Assistant, the Spanish video ingestion tool

It's AVA, Advanced Video Assistant, the Spanish video ingestion tool - IT Enquirer: audio visual:
IT´S AVA, your Advanced Video Assistant. No, I mean: it’s “IT’S AVA”, the beta software that wants to be the better ingestion tool for Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Pro X and Premiere Pro users. The Spanish connection? It’s a team of Spanish developers who have started IT’S AVA a year or so ago. IT’S AVA — I keep wanting to just type “AVA” as in Ava Gardner — is a productivity tool for video editors and filmmakers. It looks a bit like a mixture of the now defunct Final Cut Server and BulletProof minus the colour capabilities and the transcoding, but IT’S AVA’s developers claim there’s a bit of intelligence thrown in the mix.

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Sony Ci Cloud Collaborative Post Production Tool

Sony Ci Cloud Collaborative Post Production Tool | Podcasts | About Us | Crews Control:
Sony Ci is a cloud software tool for Video Producers, Editors, and other video production professionals to store video, view, make notes, and share information about a project from anywhere in the world. This is a browser based tool so all you need is an internet connection and a username and password.

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The Adobe Prelude Workflow (Part Two): Ingest and Logging

The Adobe Prelude Workflow (Part Two): Ingest and Logging:
Here are some limitations:

Prelude doesn’t do stills/images or pure audio codecs.

There is no support for logging RAW formats on set, including CinemaDNG.

There is no OnLocation (but it supports opening OnLocation projects)!

There is no support for logging raw MTS streams.

Some of these limitations are quite serious, and in my opinion, undermine its utility. The positives:

Prelude can playback all formats supported by Premiere Pro*, so you’re not totally left in the dark.

Support for AVCHD and H.264.

Support for Canon XF (MXF) and XDCAM (MXF and MP4).

Support for P2 media.

Support for DPX, TIFF and JPEG.

Support for AVI and MOV wrappers.

Support for ingesting R3D only*.

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Shotgun Releases Complete UI Overhaul with Shotgun 5.0

Shotgun Releases Complete UI Overhaul with Shotgun 5.0 | Below the Line:
Shotgun Software has completely overhauled its Shotgun production management system with the release of version 5.0. Shotgun encompasses production tracking, scheduling, review and approval, helping visual effects and animation artists collaborate as efficiently as possible. Version 5.0 includes a new UI and toolset designed specifically for artists and supervisors. Shotgun 5.0 also adds new tools for task tracking, review and approval, collaboration and search.

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Southpaw Technology Launches TACTIC 4.0

News: Southpaw Technology Launches TACTIC 4.0:
TACTIC 4.0 adds more advanced data connection technology and greater configurability to help organizations design their own unique digital workflows.

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Understanding metadata in Digital Asset Management

Understanding metadata in Digital Asset Management - IT Enquirer: publishing:
Digital Asset Management or DAM for short is not as easy to understand as many people think it is. Understanding a DAM project starts with understanding the difference between asset and metadata. The assets are easily understood: a PDF, a video clip, an image. Those are assets. It's the metadata that makes people's eyes glaze.

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Joust Standardizes Digital Pipelines from Set to Post

Joust Standardizes Digital Pipelines from Set to Post | Production:
The application’s purpose is to standardize digital pipelines and save money in the usual budgeted items such as VFX pulls and conform. It also can automate and put digital media and metadata in the control of production. Joust acts as a repository for data during principal photography, including data wrangling, script and camera notes as well as pertinent color information for each shot. Associated metadata will persist through the entire lifespan of a shot to final delivery.

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Axle

Axle:
What is it? It’s is browser-based software for searching, managing and collaborating around media files. It costs $1,295 for each 5 users and runs on a Mac mini installed in the local network of a production facility. Version 1.0 is shipping now.

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Introducing Kollaborate - the cloud platform for media professionals

Introducing Kollaborate - the cloud platform for media professionals:
We're proud to announce our latest product - Kollaborate, the cloud workflow platform for media professionals. Launching today in public beta, Kollaborate provides storage space and collaboration capabilities for you and your team.

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ProMAX Unveils Platform Studio at NAB 2013 by PVC News Staff

ProMAX Unveils Platform Studio at NAB 2013 by PVC News Staff:
ProMAX, the innovative provider of turnkey editorial, shared storage, and asset management solutions, will debut Platform Studio at NAB 2013. The new ProMAX product brings high-end collaboration and data management at a price point that enables small creative workgroups with advanced workflows previously only seen in larger facilities. With the launch of Platform Studio, this fast growing segment of the professional film and video market will have access to enterprise-level shared storage, data management and data protection without having to invest in greater echelons of IT infrastructure.

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CatDV

CatDV:


CatDV by UK-based Square Box Systems, has become the darling of the asset management crowd. Why? Because when it comes to managing, accessing and protecting your media there’s nothing out there like it.
And the newly released ver 10 takes managing media to a whole new level. Highlights include:

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DiaQuest ProductionLink for Adobe Creative Suite Now Shipping

DiaQuest ProductionLink for Adobe Creative Suite Now Shipping:

DiaQuest Products, a software development firm with a focus on the video and film industries, today announced that ProductionLink for Adobe Creative Suite, a plug-in for Adobe® Creative Suite® that adds Avid® Interplay to its list of available render formats, is now shipping. Available for Windows and Mac systems, ProductionLink adds the file organization and metadata capabilities of the Interplay production asset management (PAM) system to established Adobe workflows automatically.

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IBC: storage, archiving, asset management

IBC: storage, archiving, asset management:
AMSTERDAM - Video capture, production, distribution and archiving require significant investments in equipment and software.  As a consequence significant media industry events include a lot of digital storage and stored content management booths on the exhibit floor and some sessions focusing on storage, archiving and asset management topics.  This piece looks at some of the many products and services on display at the 2013 IBC in Amsterdam.


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ASSIMILATE and DiaQuest Turbocharge SCRATCH Integration with Avid Interplay

ASSIMILATE and DiaQuest Turbocharge SCRATCH Integration with Avid Interplay: ProductionLink plug-in creates seamless, and user-friendly link between ASSIMILATE’s SCRATCH and Avid Interplay (Amsterdam IBC, Netherlands--September 8, 2012) ASSIMILATE, makers of the powerful, real-time SCRATCH® and SCRATCH Lab® digital intermediate and dailies workflow software for the production and post-production of feature film, episodic television, commercials and spots, and DiaQuest Products, the world's leading supplier of connectivity middleware for media production workflows, today announced the availability of ProductionLink™, a plug-in for connectivity between the recently announced ASSIMILATE SCRATCH v7 and SCRATCH Lab v7 and the Avid® Interplay™ production asset management (PAM) system.

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Using Adobe Prelude to Manage Media

Using Adobe Prelude to Manage Media:
Adobe Prelude CS6 offers a variety of new media management features. Rich Harrington will show you the best ways to import footage, set it to automatically copy to a new dimension, and powerful new transcoding options.

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DAM Survival Guide

DAM Survival Guide:
This week’s Tools Spotlight interview is with David Diamond, author of DAM Survival Guide – a digital asset management book that details DAM initiative planning. He also directs global marketing for DAM software vendor Picturepark. DAM Survival Guide can be purchased from Amazon. Visit DAMSurvivalGuide.com to learn more.

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Frame Accurate Comment Timecodes in ScreenLight | ScreenLight

Frame Accurate Comment Timecodes in ScreenLight | ScreenLight:
Time-coded commenting will help you and your collaborators reach consensus and ensure that there is a common understanding of what needs to get done in order to move the production to the next step. This will help you finish projects faster so that you can spend more time doing what you love instead of chasing down feedback.

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