Overview

Automated Web and IP publishing for broadcast news

Avid Active ContentManager lets you manage and publish video, audio, graphics, and text to web, wireless, ITV, and other IP-based distribution points. Get news content to your Web site quickly and cost-effectively-at the same time that it's produced for the newscast-without adding resources, and using standard Web authoring tools.

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In addition to seamless integration with the Avid Broadcast workflow, Avid Active ContentManager collects content from multiple sources, including promotions, advertising, and weather, into a consistent and compelling online presence.

Key features:

• Broadcast facility-wide management
  Unprecedented ease of control and management of all digital assets in the facility
• Easy to use
  Simple, Web-based user interface packaged specifically for broadcast news
• Story Ranking
  Create rules for "top stories" or breaking news and how these stories appear within a Web page; also create schedules for ranking stories, and for their expiration
• Event-driven content
  Define conditions to determine how content will be served to, or accessed by users depending upon their profiles, interactions, or content rules-such as targeting weather content to zip codes
• Story Management
  Flexible assignment of news story components to fields including Headline, Abstract, Body, Categories, Related Assets, Links, Sources, Authors, Approval
• Category Management
  Create, modify, rank, delete, and manage categories (and the stories applied to them) such as Breaking News, Top Stories, Weather, Sports, Features, and so on
• Spell-check
  Auto spell-check of all text entry fields
• Instant Multi-version Preview
  Apply any template to a story before it's made public to determine which template supports its topic and elements most appropriately
• Template Management
  Render Stories, along with their Categories, Assets, Links, Sources, Authors, design and layout into a single, selectable, publishable Web page designed in any common Web authoring program
• Asset Management
  Search, modify, create and delete image and video assets linked to a story and available to all users
• User Management
  Define User roles and access privileges; create, modify, assign, and delete users per project

Total Integration

Integration with Avid's tools allows for a seamless extension of content delivery from creation through delivery. No longer do broadcasters need to stitch together disparate applications, interfaces and platforms in an effort to maximize their content creation efforts. Avid provides those tools, along with open, industry standards-based interfaces to ensure maximum returns while minimizing vendor lock-in.

Available SDK

Extending the Avid Active ContentManager family into studios, production houses, and other media facilities, Avid Active ContentManager SDK Enterprise Edition is the developer version. Rich-media organizations can extend their creative digital assets into new outlets internally and externally, find new audiences, and create new revenue opportunities, without modifying their core, revenue-generating production processes.

Note: Product specifications are subject to change without notice.