Video Technics, Inc.

VT Craft Edit Browser

HD/SD interoperability with popular nonlinear editors like Apple Final Cut Pro, Adobe Creative Studio, and others.

This Java-based media browser from Video Technics provides seamless interoperability between video servers and nonlinear editors to facilitate a push & pull, drag & drop workflow between shared media storage, Apella video servers, and low-resolution proxy clients with frame-accurate timeline sequence exchange!

The VT Craft Edit Browser enables users of Final Cut Pro, Adobe Creative Suite, and other popular NLEs, to effectively mange creative media production workflow by browsing and exchanging assets with an Apella Media Server network. The software allows users to easily browse an Apella database and drag and drop proxy media timelines as XML sequences, with links to or downloads of the high resolution media, directly into the NLE's project bin.

The VT Craft Edit Browser's dialog provides a powerful search filter, sort features, thumbnails, and low-res proxy playback to easily locate and identify media. With the browser, users intuitively link Apella server media into their projects and edit content “in-place” on a shared NAS or SAN. The VT Proxy Editor software is used to create low-res, proxy timelines. When media content is dropped from the browser to the NLE's bin the entire EDL is translated from Apella as a sequence with links to multiple video and audio files on the server. Optionally, the media is downloaded to the NLE. This functionality transfers a complete sequence to continue production using the NLE's timeline as a craft 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 highly compatible with many non-linear editors. The Apella natively supports a mixed database of DV and MPEG-2 codecs in .MOV, MXF, and AVI file containers for seamless and 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 natively supports record and playback of QuickTime MOV, MXF, and AVI files for SD and HD. Nonlinear editors simply drag and drop media files into the networked VT HotFolder to push to the Apella. 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.

The VT MX Plug-In for NLEs creates interoperability with Adobe CS, Final Cut Pro, and other non-linear editors for faster media production to facilitate a collaborative editing environment and a streamlined production process.