BURLINGTON, MASS. – Avid, a leading global media technology provider for the creation, distribution and monetization of media assets for global media organizations announced that Quincy Media has adopted Avid’s end-to-end story-centric workflow.
The new workflow facilitates remote collaboration for journalists and news teams across multiple Quincy television stations, enabling them creating content in the field, share material and break stories faster in broadcast and across digital platforms.
Family-owned Quincy Media, headquartered in Quincy, Illinois, operates television stations and digital platforms in 14 U.S. markets. To accelerate content collaboration among its properties, Quincy Media upgraded its news production infrastructure, turning to Avid to optimize news workflow for enterprise-wide collaboration, choosing tools and workflow solutions to create, distribute and optimize news content.
Quincy is unlocking new levels of real-time collaboration with MediaCentral-based story-centric workflows incorporating newsroom management, production, and multiplatform content creation available to all team members from an easy to use web-based experience. All Quincy stations are connected via a centralized server giving journalists, editors and producers universal access to all available content on a single newsroom management system to build their stories.
Six of Quincy’s stations also pool content on an on-going basis to produce a shared weekly newscast called Wake up Wisconsin. One station produces the newscast and redistributes the content to the other six stations located across Wisconsin.
Quincy Media equipped each of its journalists with a laptop, camera, and access to MediaCentral—which provides a common user interface and gives everyone across the station group access to the same creation and management tools. Each laptop includesAvid Media Composer | Cloud Remote, to enable remote video production. With the openness of MediaCentral, the field teams quickly upload their videos back to their station with the integrated IBM Aspera FASP high-speed file transfer software.
Quincy Media’s workflow also comprises Avid NEXIS
The new workflow facilitates remote collaboration for journalists and news teams across multiple Quincy television stations, enabling them creating content in the field, share material and break stories faster in broadcast and across digital platforms.
, MediaCentral | Panel for Adobe Premiere Pro CC, Avid AirSpeed, and MediaCentral | Command. With Avid NEXIS, the media industry’s first software-defined storage platform, Quincy Media expanded its storage capacity for HD files and enabled multiple stations to easily access content stored on the system, quickly transfer media, and broadcast programs from multiple control rooms using Avid AirSpeed servers for playout.
Avid will be showcasing its latest tools, solutions, and workflow innovations at the annual National Associations of Broadcasters (NAB) Conference in Las Vegas from April 9-12 in booth #SU801.