The quick and easy video editing tool

Viz PreCut makes the journalists' work easier and more efficient. It allows them to open low-resolution versions of video files and roughly cut them in a way that suits their story best

Viz PreCut is a quick cut editing tool originally designed for newsroom media management operations where there is no need for professional non linear editor (NLE) systems for composing and creating new material. It is a low-resolution and basic video editing tool that is simple, reliable, effective and fast.

2010-05-11 03:23 CEST

 

Newsroom tool combined with complex features

Even though Viz PreCut is a tool for the newsroom, it has many features that can normally only be found in more complex applications:

 

  • Users can browse files while they are being ingested without having to reload the entire clip.
  • No need to send files across the network or to try to explain the video editor how and where to cut a certain clip.

Similarly, Viz PreCut users can

also easily open different video files, create clips, and add them to an Edit Decision List (EDL). This way the journalist can concentrate on defining the correct edit points while a professional video editor implements the changes with a more powerful non-linear video editing application.

Since Viz PreCut is a part of all of Vizrt's MAM systems, it integrates seamlessly into the digital asset management workflow. By adding meta data to their newly created clips the journalists make sure that the latest video files are instantly searchable and accessible from both Viz Video Hub and Viz Ardome.

Integrated with Vizrt's online publishing system

Viz PreCut integrates with Escenic Content Studio, the desktop tool for managing text, images, video, graphics, maps, tags, time-controlled content, etc. on your websites and mobile sites.

With Viz PreCut a journalist can open the familar video editing tool, similar to what you work with in a newsroom system, browse and search for videoes, do simple video editing on the fly, and save this down to the online news article.

 

Fill the gap between Viz PreCut and a full blown NLE

Sometimes, doing quick edits on a video is not enough. Enter Viz EasyCut™, a timeline based editing tool that enables journalists to use the most important functions of professional video editing tools in one user friendly package.

In a sense, Viz EasyCut fills the gap between Viz PreCut and full blown third-party NLE systems like Apple's FinalCut Pro. It provides NLE functions such as rubber band, clip and track level audio adjustments, back-to-back audio crossfades, waveform plots, video dissolves, timeline transfers, voice over tools and aspect ratio conversions.

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