Video Technics, Inc.

VT Media Exchange Plug-In for Final Cut Pro® 7.0

NEW! Apella Media Servers now offer HD/SD interoperability with Apple Final Cut Pro v7.0!

VT plug-in technology provides seamless 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 EDL Timeline exchange!

Video Technics’ MX 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 MX Plug-In for FCP allows users to explore the Apella database and drag and drop media timelines as XML files, with links to the high resolution media, directly into the FCP project bin.

The VT MX 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. When media content is dropped from the Browser to the FCP bin the entire EDL is translated from Apella with links to multiple video and audio files on the server. Optionally, the media is downloaded to the Mac. This functionality transfers a complete sequence to continue production using the FCP 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 now fully compatible with Final Cut Pro non-linear editors. The Apella natively supports a mixed database of DV, DVCPro 100, and MPEG-2 in QuickTime, MXF, and OpenDML 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 Apple's Final Cut Pro QuickTime movie files for SD and HD. Final Cut Pro editors simply drag and drop QuickTime movie files into the browser window to send 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 FCP creates interoperability with Final Cut Pro non-linear editors for faster media production to facilitate a collabrative editing environment and a streamlined production process.