IPD-VIA
Access, manage, edit and share all your live production assets from anywhere

As the asset management component of EVS' VIA ecosystem, IPD-VIA represents a technology evolution that allows your teams to manage, edit and coordinate all your production assets from anywhere and with more efficiency. The platform takes advantage of containerized microservices to support more flexible media production workflows. With each IPD-VIA application representing a different functionality, you can easily allocate resources according to your changing business requirements, at any time. Users benefit from IPD-VIA’s set of intuitive web app interfaces that empowers them to work remotely and collaboratively for faster turnaround of content, delivered to multiple platforms.
Key benefits
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Remote collaboration
Thanks to IPD-VIA’s web-based HTML 5 apps, production crews can conveniently manage, collaborate and produce from any device, wherever they are located.
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Customized workflows
The integrated VIA Flow workflow engine lets you easily and quickly create the workflows you desire (import, multi-platform publishing, conversion, archiving etc.) to meet your most complex production requirements and extend your capabilities as you grow.
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Advanced asset management
Enrich your assets with powerful data feed import, advanced search, and user rights capabilities to help your production crews quickly find the right content for editing, publishing or playback operations.
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A future-ready architecture
As a fully virtualized software solution based on containerized microservices, the IPD-VIA platform provides effortless deployment, scaling and management of all EVS’ VIA core components across highly available clusters.
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Strong integration capabilities
VIA Opengate offers a complete REST APIs catalogue that enables third-party technologies to leverage the complete IPD-VIA toolset (ingest, asset and metadata management, media transformation, publishing and playout).
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Enrich your IPDirector workflows
Customers using our IPDirector live PAM suite can also benefit from IPD-VIA services (such as Web-based Ingest UIs and VIA Flow), bringing more efficiency into their workflows.
IPD-VIA applications
IPD-VIA consists of several applications, each with its own functionality. They are all accessible via the same HTML5 web interface.
- IPD-VIA Launch IPD-VIA home page
- IPD-VIA Ingest Linear ingest application
- IPD-VIA Import File based ingest app
- IPD-VIA Record A Multi-camera studio record application
- IPD-VIA Log Application to manage content metadata
- IPD-VIA Browse Browsing, seraching and exporting content
- IPD-VIA Create Web-based editing application
- IPD-VIA Melt Prepare and initiate archiving workflows
- IPD-VIA Manage Content manager application
- IPD-VIA Link (Adobe) Plug-in for Adobe Premiere Pro
IPD-VIA Launch
This is the IPD-VIA homepage, from where you can access all apps and productions
IPD-VIA Ingest
With this app you can schedule or start crash record any of the input channels of an EVS production server
IPD-VIA Import
IPD-VIO Import supports all codecs/formats supported by VIA Xsquare. With it you can Browse and import local media and cameras including ENG formats (P2, XDCAM) including preview and rough-cut options. You can even automate imports based on watch folders using VIA Flow.
IPD-VIA Record
The Record application allows you to ingest multi-camera scenarios into IPD-VIA.
IPD-VIA Log
This application allows you to easily add tags and logging to your media files.
IPD-VIA Browse
With its intuitive thumbnail and grid views, IPD-VIA Browse allows users to search the right content, using full text search queries based on elastic search, and filter the search results on metadata fields, such as date and rating. From here you can send assets to workflow targets, incl VIA-Xsquare.
IPD-VIA Create
IPD-VIA Create is a cloud-ready application, designed for efficient editing operations performed at the speed of live production.
IPD-VIA Melt
This application is used by media managers to prepare and initiate archive melt workflows, for instance sending files coming from OB to archive, preserving metadata & logs
IPD-VIA Manage
IPD-VIA Manage is used by librarians and media managers to manage the all content (Archive/Restore/Purge)
IPD-VIA Link (Adobe)
This Plug-in for Adobe adds IPD-VIA panels to the Premiere Pro interface. The Import panels show the entire IPD-VIA database. The export panels allow exporting the Adobe Sequence to specific IPD-VIA targets/workflows.
Get the most out of your EVS equipment
At EVS, we understand how important it is for our customers to gain an edge in the live production environment. That’s why we’re empowering operators and technical engineers to become advanced users of our technology – leading to better production values, streamlined workflows and better ROI from your EVS investment.