Viz Media Engine 5.2

New Features

We are proud to release the latest version of the Vizrt Media Asset Management system - Viz Media Engine Video Production Package 5.2. This new release, contains several new features, most notably, integration with Vizrt Graphics and Avid NLEs.

Integration with Vizrt Graphics enables powerful workflows in either Viz Trio or Viz Content Pilot using media directly from the Viz Media Engine. Based on existing integrations, we now provide both a familiar and powerful workflow using Viz Media Engine and Vizrt Graphics.

Integration with Avid NLE and Avid Interplay allows assets to be sent to and from Avid NLEs. In particular, this allows starting out with a proxy-based rough-cut in one of our proxy tools, on almost any desktop, and seamlessly transferring that timeline to an Avid NLE, for continued editing. Once the final version is complete, the flattened content can be posted back to the Viz Media Engine. This integration supports interactions with both standalone NLEs as well as with larger Avid Interplay installations.

Additional High-level Features

Browser-based video playback and editing in the main user-interface of the Viz Media Engine - Viz Media Studio. This provides a very quick and light-weight preview and basic re-purposing workflow.

Camera Ingest allows media in compatible formats, available to a Windows-based PC, running our Camera Ingest Tool, to be imported from any media available to the PC, such as; attached cameras, camera cards, network attached storages (NAS) or local hard drives. Supports both Panasonic P2 and Sony XDCam HD cameras.

Integration with Omneon Video Servers allow tape or feed-ingest from a number of different Omneon Video Servers.

Support for Oracle Databases allow using Oracle Databases as the main database server. This support is in addition to the normally supported IBM DB2 databases.

Document attachment allows users to upload documents to an existing media asset in either PDF or Word formats. This is useful for production workflows where a users need to store scripts or any other common document files with an asset.

Supported File Formats

The following formats can be imported and are supported in Viz Media Engine 5.2:

HD

DV100 / DVCProHD

    wrapped in MXF-Op1a or DIF

    1080i50/59.94 and 720p50/59.94

VC3 (DNxHD)

    wrapped in MXF-Op1a

    1080i50/59.94 and 720p50/59.94

XDCamHD 50Mbps 4:2:2

    wrapped in MXF-Op1a

    1080i50/59.94

AVC-Intra

    wrapped in MXF-Op1a

    1080i50/59.94

SD - All formats support both PAL and NTSC

IMX50/30

    wrapped in MXF-Op1a

DVCam

    wrapped in MXF-Op1a or DIF

DVCPro 25

    wrapped in MXF-Op1a or DIF

DVCPro 50

    wrapped in MXF-Op1a or DIF

Foreign Clips - Clips which can be imported, searched, and played out, but not viewed or edited: 

    QT - Animation in MOV

    MPEG4224 (Matrox proprietary) in AVI

Installation Notes

Viz Media Engine is installed by trained Vizrt staff. For a quote, please contact Vizrt Sales.  

Documentation

For more information such as Viz Media Engine White Paper and Solution Overview for the Viz Media Engine Video Production Package, please contact Vizrt Sales.

For a tour of the Viz Media Studio, the search and management interface for Viz Media Engine, watch the video presenting main features on the Viz Media Engine product page.