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VIA Ingest
Control and schedule ingest
- Schedule and control live video ingest across multiple sources with frame-accurate recording, post-event capture from record trains, and integrated control of EVS servers and external routing and resource systems.
- Ensure reliable, high-density ingest and fast turnaround, while offering flexible deployment and seamless integration into existing broadcast and post-production workflows.
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VIA Record
Multi-camera studio record
- On-Demand “Crash record” for multi-camera productions with frame-accurate capture, server selection, structured metadata, and automatic grouping for NLE integration.
- Deliver reliable, organized multi-camera recordings for both live and post-production, ensuring consistent results and efficient handling of complex studio workflows.
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VIA Import
File-based ingest
- Browse, preview, and import media, ENG camera cards (e.g., P2, XDCAM, etc.), with options for rough-cut, metadata mapping, and automated imports via watch folders.
- Simplify file-based ingest by enabling fast, reliable media acquisition and preparation, supporting both manual and automated workflows while keeping content organized and ready for editing.
Log & Manage
VIA Log
Content metadata enrichment
- Add time-based metadata and locators to single or multi-camera assets, live or in playback, with support for predefined tags, free text, and third-party data imports such as Stats Perform from Opta.
- Accelerate content discovery and storytelling by structuring assets with precise, searchable metadata, enabling faster highlight creation, editing, and content repurposing.
Log & Manage
VIA Manage
Comprehensive content management
- Bring full visibility and control over all assets and their media components powered by AI, enabling usage tracking (including sub-clips, sequences and Adobe Premiere Pro projects and sequences), archive management, purge operations, and comprehensive audit logging.
- Empowers media managers and librarians to optimize storage, maintain system integrity, and make informed content lifecycle decisions while ensuring uninterrupted access to proxy media for ongoing production workflows.
Select & Edit
Cut
Browse, search, and cut
- Browse, search, and sub-clip media to quickly create rough cuts and export content using an easy-to-navigate interface with drag-and-drop functions and basic transitions.
- Enables producers and editors to perform fast shot selection and prepare content for delivery or post-production with an intuitive and efficient experience.
Select & Edit
Create
Advanced editing for fast turnaround
- Perform web-based multi-track editing with live preview, built-in effects, AI tools, and flexible features tailored to different user profiles, with the ability to render to a single clip or export as EDL for further refinement using your NLE of choice.
- Empower editors, journalists, and production teams to quickly craft polished content for fast turnaround environments, while maintaining seamless handover to craft NLE’s when further finishing is required.
Select & Edit
VIA Link
Panel for craft editors
- VIA MAP panels directly in Adobe Premiere Pro, Avid MediaComposer and DaVinci Resolve, enabling search, browse, edit-in-place (proxy or high-res), near-live editing-while-ingest, managed sequence handling, and seamless export to play-to-air or file-based workflows. In Adobe environments, seamless control of your AME rendering farm.
- Enhance collaborative editing efficiency by eliminating media duplication, enabling smart version control and proxy workflows, and allowing teams to keep editing while rendering, streamlining production from ingest to delivery within the VIA MAP environment.
Deliver & Archive
VIA Play
Smart playlist control, robust playout
- Manage and control EVS server playlists directly from shared storage, enabling back-to-back playout of closed or growing files for fast turnaround, fully operated from the VIA MAP web interface. Designed to be used as a primary playout application or a valuable companion to automation systems for manual override and disaster recovery.
- Simplify news and studio playout by centralizing playlist control within VIA MAP, enabling efficient delivery, reducing operational complexity, and supporting resilient operations with disaster recovery capabilities.
Deliver & Archive
VIA Share
Content exchange, distribution & monetization
- Content hub for media exchange with internal and external stakeholders. Make available a selection of assets for distribution to the relevant teams (e.g. social media, rights-holders).
- Enables teams to quickly access and distribute selected content through a simple, intuitive interface. Empowers efficient content value capture and fast monetization.
Deliver & Archive
VIA Melt
Archiving preparation and initiation
- Prepare and initiate archive “melt” workflows by consolidating selected clips into structured archive packages while preserving associated metadata and log entries.
- Optimize storage and long-term asset management by archiving curated, high-value content from productions, ensuring essential media is preserved with full context while reducing unnecessary archive load.
Monitor & Automate
VIA Trace
Complete visibility, total workflow monitoring
- Monitor and manage multi-app, multi-user workflows with full visibility over tasks, advanced search and filtering capabilities, and the ability to pause, cancel, or retry individual jobs or entire workflows.
- Enhance operational control by helping teams quickly identify task status, bottlenecks, proactively resolve issues, and maintain smooth, predictable production workflows across the VIA MAP.
Monitor & Automate
VIA Pulse
Real-time insight into system health
- Monitor overall system and infrastructure health through a centralized dashboard, providing metrics, log collection, and API access (Prometheus/Victoria) for integration with tools like Grafana or Kibana.
- Enables proactive maintenance and faster troubleshooting by giving operations and support teams clear, real-time visibility into system performance, helping ensure stability and continuous availability.
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VIA View
Flexible multiview, total clarity
- Provide flexible multiview monitoring, enabling display of multiple sources on a single screen with customizable layouts, on-screen displays, borders, up to 16 PiPs, and audio VU meters per PiP.
- Enhance operational awareness by giving production teams a clear, configurable multiview overview of video signals, supporting confident monitoring in live and studio environments.
Monitor & Automate
VIA Flow
Design, orchestrate & automate multi-step workflows
- Provide a graphical workflow viewer and designer that enables users to easily create, manage, and execute multi-step workflows, such as import, conversion, publishing, delivery, and archiving, through an integrated workflow engine.
- Streamline complex production processes by designing custom workflows, automating repetitive tasks, increasing workflow efficiency, and allowing organizations to easily adapt and scale as requirements evolve.