VIA MAP
Media Asset Platform
Converge content management across production, media, and digital assets
your content operations
VIA MAP unifies production and content operations through fast, collaborative, cloud-enabled, AI-powered workflows. It connects operators, editors, and journalists in real time, enabling faster decisions, streamlined processes, and more efficient use of resources, for teams of any size. Built on an open architecture, the platform transversally bridges EVS solutions, and seamlessly integrates with third-party tools, converging media environments and end-to-end content workflows.
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Remote collaboration
VIA MAP’s web-based apps empower your production and editorial teams to seamlessly produce, manage, edit, distribute, and archive content from any device, in real-time, no matter where they are located.
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Workflow flexibility
Design, adapt, and scale workflows that evolve with your needs. VIA MAP’s powerful workflow designer gives you full control over complex, multi-step processes from automated import and content preparation to multi-platform publishing, conversion, delivery, and archiving.
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Fast content search, retrieval & monetization
Streamline your production, media, and digital asset journeys, while leveraging AI-enriched metadata, advanced logging, and seamless integration of third party data feeds, for faster content search and retrieval, and archive monetization.
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Cloud deployment versatility
Built as a fully virtualized, software-based platform powered by containerized microservices, VIA MAP can be deployed on-premises, in the cloud, or in hybrid environments. Its scalable design enables flexible production infrastructures, secured and orchestrated across highly available clusters.
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Extensive integration capabilities
Build a tailored ecosystem with seamless third-party integrations across the entire content lifecycle, from ingest and asset management to transformation, publishing, and playout, while keeping operations streamlined.
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Unparalleled editing power
From rough cut to craft edit, VIA MAP brings complete editing functionalities to editors and journalists, at the speed of live, enabling real-time remote collaboration. Unify multiple editors and workflows simultaneously in a single platform, with seamless media sharing between VIA MAP and Adobe Premiere Pro, Avid MediaComposer and DaVinci Resolve.
Application suite
- Cut Browse, search, and cut
- Create Advanced editing for fast turnaround
- VIA Ingest Control and schedule ingest
- VIA Import File-based ingest
- VIA Flow Design, automate, scale workflows
- VIA Share Content exchange, distribution & monetization
- VIA Record Multi-camera studio record
- VIA Log Content metadata enrichment
- VIA Melt Archiving preparation and initiation
- VIA Manage Comprehensive content management
- VIA Link Panel for craft editors
- VIA Play Smart playlist control, robust playout
- VIA Trace Complete visibility, total workflow monitoring
- VIA Pulse Real-time insight into system health
- VIA View Flexible multiview, total clarity
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.
Create
- 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.
VIA 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.
VIA Import
- 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.
VIA Flow
- 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.
VIA Share
- 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.
VIA 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.
VIA Log
- 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.
VIA Melt
- 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.
VIA Manage
- 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.
VIA Link
- 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.
VIA Play
- 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.
VIA Trace
- 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.
VIA Pulse
- 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.
VIA View
- 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.
Explore our on-demand demo sessions to see how VIA MAP streamlines end-to-end workflows with built-in editing tools to keep you moving from start to finish.