Connect field, newsroom, control room, web

Doing more with less. It’s imperative. But without the right partners it’s easier said than done.

Avid provides a measurable level of increased productivity to your newsroom. With workflows that maximize your staff’s skills, tools that help you lower the cost of creating and distributing compelling web content and services to help you configure smart and save.

Make your journalists more productive

iNEWS gives journalists the power to produce more content, more accurately, in less time. iNEWS is a single accessible system that delivers total command and flexibility on a platform that’s familiar and comfortable for your entire team.

  • Streamline Your Newsroom:
    Journalists can quickly and accurately browse or edit footage to scripts, then send to editors – or direct to air. Producers can coordinate – or automate – scripts, graphics, rundowns, and archive.
  • Scale as You Grow:
    Customize your solution – reliable, redundant, and stable whether you’re a single small station, or a major network. Expand newsgathering reach to wherever your journalists are. Submit stories via smart phone, e-mail, FTP, and IP. Deliver the newsroom desktop to reporters in the field or across the globe. Collaborate and share content within station groups, sister stations, and affiliates.
  • Integrate Graphics Smoothly:
    Producers can select graphics, lower-thirds, and full-screen billboards without leaving the familiar iNews environment. Journalists can select and populate a graphic template, preview the finished graphic, drag a reference into the news story, and the final graphics are automatically triggered on playout, reducing errors and complexity.

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Get your entire operation on the same page

Realize the full potential of your talent and technology. Avid’s iNews newsroom computer system and Interplay production asset management tools help you accelerate tasks, coordinate projects, and make digital media assets instantly available.

  • Save Time:
    Get instant access to clips, graphics, scripts, archived files and other media. Automated tracking keeps all production elements current and synchronized, eliminating time lost sifting through irrelevant files or outdated revisions.
  • Manage Media:
    Store, track, and modify media, scripts, or other project-related files all in their native applications including multi-res video and audio, Adobe Photoshop and AfterEffects layered files, QuickTime files, TIFs, and more.
  • Choose Intelligently:
    Get the right resolution for each task. Select best available quality for editing; or low-res for logging, rough cuts, and review.

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Fine-tune your workflow for maximum efficiency

Our solutions get you to air with less running around, and more reliability. So you can advance your brand, and increase your competitive edge.

  • Create More On-Air Graphics, Easier Than Ever:
    WJLA in Washington, DC reinvigorated their 5pm newscast, using Avid automated graphics workflow to go from 50 to more than 135 on-air graphics during their one-hour broadcast. This workflow ensures on-air consistency and frees up art department resources to focus on keeping the brand fresh.
  • Ensure Media Access and Connectivity:
    Our Unity shared storage solutions make your media always available.
"Before moving to [Unity ISIS] shared storage, pulling the various pieces of a news story together was much harder. [Now] no one has to wait for one task to be completed to start another. Everything can happen simultaneously." – Steve Schroeder, News Operation Manager, KOTV
  • Tap into Configuration and Workflow Expertise:
    Irish broadcast leader RTE collaborated with our Professional Services Group to redesign their process and workflow in order to better meet current and future needs. RTE and Avid worked closely to define job roles; to develop a strategy for transitioning systems; and to bring staff up to speed with workflow improvements.

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Repurpose your assets and reach new audiences

Extend your newsroom online without extending your costs. Avid Active Content Manager helps you leverage existing systems and staff to get compelling news content to web and mobile channels with minimal effort and expense.

  • Make Your Journalists Multi-Media Publishers:
    Do more with fewer dedicated web resources. Existing staff can publish video, audio, and graphics to web or mobile devices with just a few clicks. Simultaneously publish a story for broadcast and web. Easily create different versions for different broadcasts, or channels.
  • Automate Content Publication:
    Transcoding, web page placement, and story order can be executed automatically according to templates. Users can track and manage all content. Eliminate copying and pasting scripts into e-mails or CMS systems.
  • Publish more and better video to the web
    Create more unique and more compelling content for your station’s website. Include clips and sequences beyond broadcast content. Create a single content package with drag-and-drop encoding and linking. Automatically add audience-generated content to your site.
  • Use Any Editor and Any Newsroom Computer System:
    Maximize flexibility – use your content management system (CMS) or ours.

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Because in the end, it’s simple: the more productive your workflow is, the more profitable your operation will be.

The Avid newsroom.
End-to-end value delivered.

The economies we've achieved leaving our aging, tape-based systems behind, combined with the more polished image we've been able to project, have been well worth our investment in Avid. – John Ray, president and general manager, WDRW