Avid transforms audiovisual production with central interplay

Web -based interface, for mobile devices and with distinction of central interplay roles 1.3 It facilitates professionals in the audiovisual sector to actively participate in the production process

Avid He has announced the availability of Central Interplay 1.3, a market user interface that extends the audiovisual production environment to mobile and web -based devices. Created to simplify audiovisual production, installation and maintenance, the latest version of Central Interplay provides spectacularly improved accessibility so that professionals can create, edit, distribute and manage the contents easily.

Whether to create new packages, catalog reality material or edit and send video for review and approval, users save several steps thanks to a unified view based on a browser. Depending on the size of the system of the organization and the time between updates, Central Interplay can significantly reduce the time and cost of implementation.

Interplay Central 1.3 It is suitable for many users within an audiovisual organization, such as producers (you can search and examine content, create lists of plans and notes, review and write down editions), intake operators and catalogers: selection and rapid classification of content creating markers and subclips for a simple search and a faster edition, directors and news producers (with an option to use an iPad to examine escoot and review video), journalists (with the creation of stories from with video, audio and scripts on the land itself with its iPad, iPhone, BlackBerry or PC, as well as the replacement of printed scripts with the presenter mode for iPad), address and operations (reduced costs with a unique, light user interface, of little maintenance, which works on several platforms, improves workflow productivity).

Dany Harrison, General Director of Production, French services for CBC/Radio-channel, says with respect to Interplay Central, that “we need access to tools that allow us Dedicated, because Interplay Central 1.3 uses a standard browser, which reduces the risk of conflicts with other programs installed on the journalist's computer. ”

New tools

On the other hand, Interplay Central 1.3 Now supports Interplay Production Content Management Systems and new tools to carry out a wide variety of sports and entertainment production tasks. It also has greater capabilities for news and staff writing journalists connected to INEWS. Central Interplay can be used with Interplay Production and INEWS, together or separately.

These are some of the specific characteristics:

New sequence panel with a horizontal editing timeline to create plans or basic sequences lists.
Expanded collaboration tools to search, examine and transfer audiovisual content between several working groups, and share links to provide direct access to the contents.
Functions to create, visualize, export and remove text markers and video subclips or live signals, which facilitate the search for relevant content.
DNXHD 85/100 format support for sports workflows.
Unique search in INEWS stories and interplay content, including search criteria for date and time.
Improved capabilities for journalists on the field with native applications for iOS devices that allow reporters to create, examine and edit inews and review interplay video sequences from the place where they are working.

"The creation and consumption of audiovisual material demands more mobility every day, and our informative customers need to have easy access to the contents, as well as finish the stories more quickly, wherever they are," said Dana Ruzicka, vice president of marketing of segments and products of Avid. "Interplay Central 1.3 establishes a new productivity standard, with a set of fresh and designed tools thinking about the way the Broadcasters want to work. This type of open, collaborative and mobile workflow helps improve their productivity, agility and operational efficiency."