Video Technics, Inc.

VT News Edit Plug-In for Final Cut Pro® 6.0

NEW! Apella Media Servers now offer seamless interoperability with Apple Final Cut Pro v6.0!

VT plug-in technology provides cost effective full integration between ingest/playout servers and networked non-linear editors to facilitate simple drag and drop connectivity to Shared Media Storage, Apella Ingest Servers, Apella Playout Servers, and VT Proxy Editor low-resolution PC editor clients with XML/AAF EDL Timeline exchange!

With the new software introduction of Video Technics’ News Edit Plug-In for Final Cut Pro, users gain valuable time for creative media production by utilizing embedded functionality between Final Cut Pro and Apella Media Server content and database. The VT News Edit Plug-In for FCP allows users to explore the Apella database and drag and drop media timelines as XML files with network links to the high resolution media directly into the FCP project bin.

The VT News Edit Plug-In for FCP browser dialog provides a search filter, sort features, thumbnails and low-res proxy viewing to easily locate and identify media. With the VT FCP Plug-in, users intuitively link Apella server media into their projects and edit content “in-place” on a NAS or SAN. The VT Proxy Editor Windows product is used to create low-res, offline timelines. Every time content is dropped from the VT FCP Browser to the FCP bin the entire EDL is translated from Apella with links to multiple video and audio files on the server. This functionality transfers a complete sequence to continue production using the FCP timeline as a News Editor.

NewsFlow™ is an all-digital end-to-end shared production solution built around the Video Technics’ Apella Media Server Family of scalable and robust multi-channel ingest/playout servers. The proven, IT-centric Apella Media Server Family provides a complete solution from media ingest, edit to playout and archive and is now fully compatible with Final Cut Pro non-linear editors. The Apella natively supports OpenDML AVI and QuickTime file formats for seamless media ingests with efficient collaborative editing.

For simple low-res proxy editing, producers and editors utilize the PC-based VT Proxy Editor for browsing the database and creating timelines that are saved to the centralized SQL database. This low-res editing application contains a multi-track timeline for independent editing of video and audio tracks. With standard Ethernet connections, multiple networked workstations simultaneously participate in the collaborative low-res editing process.

Video Technics supports Apple Final Cut Pro QuickTime movie files with DV data transferred directly into the Apella storage and database. Final Cut Pro operators simply drag and drop QuickTime movie files into the network VT Hot Folder. Without transcoding, the newly gained media, low resolution proxy, and all associated metadata is quickly transferred to centralized NAS/SAN storage for remote VT Proxy Editor manipulation or immediate playout to air from any Apella Media Server. Once a FCP package is completed, the user drops the QuickTime file into the Apella centralized database faster than real-time for playout to air from any Apella server.

The VT News Edit Plug-In creates interoperability with the Final Cut Pro non-linear editor for faster media production on a completely shared editing environment and streamlines the entire process for a better on-air look.