A default group used for MediaCentral UX user management that contains users with administrative privileges.

In a group clip, the camera angle selected for single-angle view and the angle displayed when you add the clip to a sequence.

A sequence you create in MediaCentral UX that includes a timeline with one video track and user-specified audio tracks. By default, these tracks are named NAT, SOT, and VO for use with iNEWS stories. However, you can rename these and use the sequence independently from an iNEWS story

In a group clip, one of the individual clips, each of which has a different camera angle.

A section of the MediaCentral UX Web application. You can customize the application to reduce or expand the number of areas. Also referred to as a pane area.

An object that you can use to create stories and sequences. There are different types of assets, such as video media, audio media, graphics, images, and text. Asset usually refers to objects or also lists of objects, such as rundowns, that are stored in an asset management database.

If you click the Asset button in the Media pane, you can view media for the currently loaded asset and use controls that apply specifically to assets, such as controls for setting In and Out points. Compare with the definition of Output mode.

A pane in the client application that displays assets. These assets can result from a search or from browsing. Assets are displayed in a folder hierarchy, if applicable to the assets displayed.

A pane in the client application that allows you to manage all aspects of your news story or production task and send your output to the Web, on-air broadcasts, social media, or mobile devices.

Relations between assets that help structure your Interplay MAM assets. Associations also allow easy and quick navigation (without searching) between assets. The associations available are determined by the underlying Interplay MAM data model.

A pane in the client application that shows all assets that are associated with the selected Interplay MAM asset. You can review, change, and delete the displayed associations and navigate and browse the associated assets.

An audio setting that allows the audio mapping for a track in a group clip to automatically “follow” any active angle change and use the audio from the new active angle.

A server that checks the credentials (user name and password) of a user and allows access. A MediaCentral UX administrator designates an authentication provider for imported users, such as a Windows Domain server.

A sequence you create in MediaCentral UX that includes a timeline with one video track and one audio track. This single audio track represents all source audio tracks. Typically you use it to create a simple sequence (sometimes referred to as a cut list, a shotlist, or an EDL).

In Interplay MAM, a physical medium that stores essence files. Carriers can be disks, tapes, or even entire tape archive systems. The scope of a carrier depends on the granularity that is required to access an essence.

A pane that displays closed captions for the Interplay Production asset loaded in the Media pane. The Closed Captioning pane lists timecode and text for the closed captions and includes controls for importing, exporting, editing, and positioning.

In the Message bar, a list of iNEWS users from which you can select a recipient of a message.

The area in the Script Editor in which the journalist adds or edits production cues and machine control events, such as those for a character generator (CG).

A pane in the Users layout and the System Settings layout that displays information and settings for a selected item.

A pane that lets you view proxies of PDF documents stored as Interplay MAM assets. If you have the appropriate user privileges, you can also download the document to your computer.

The part of an area into which you can move a pane. Each area has five drop zones: center, top, bottom, left, and right.

Basic sequence created in Interplay MAM Desktop. See basic sequence.

See Frame Chase editing.

In Interplay MAM, “essence” describes the pure media data of an asset without any descriptive metadata, for example, a video file. Essences are organized in essence packages. You can display essences and edit their properties in the File Info pane.

In Interplay MAM, an essence package is a group of essences classified semantically. Each essence package contains a class of essences that represent the same content and share the same general purpose. One essence package is defined as the representative essence package of the asset. The representative essence package contains the essences that represent the purpose of the asset.You can display essence packages and edit their properties in the File Info pane.

A subtopic of an iNEWS project that provides additional granularity. Any stories associated to a facet are automatically associated to that facet’s parent project. See also project.

A search that uses the search capabilities of the MediaCentral Platform to provide the full search functionality that individual databases provide.

Playback mode where media is downloaded to your workstation for playback. File-based playback provides good quality in low-bandwidth situations.

A pane in the client application that provides information about video, audio, image, and text files. In Interplay MAM, such files are described as essences. The File Info pane shows in detail how the essence files that belong to the asset open in the pane are organized.

Playback mode where media is streamed directly from the server for playback. Frame-based playback provides high quality but requires a higher bandwidth than file-based playback.

A feature that lets you view and edit media while it is being captured from a line feed or ingest device. Also known as edit while capture (EWC).

A master clip created in Media Composer or another Avid editing application by syncing a group of clips based on common source timecode, auxiliary timecode, or marks placed in the footage.

A search that queries a central index synced with multiple databases and finds anything stored in the index. It does not directly search Interplay Production databases. See also Media | Index

The J-K-L keys on the keyboard allow you to play and shuttle through media at varying speeds. This feature is also referred to as three-button play or variable-speed play.

A pane in the client application from which you navigate to various locations. This pane displays remote file systems, local files systems, and other locations for assets.

A collection of panes designed for a specific purpose, such as a layout for journalists or a layout for administrators.

A list from which you select the layout that you want to work in.

A split edit between two clips in which the video transition and the audio transition do not occur simultaneously. The audio transition can occur before the video transition or the video transition can occur before the audio transition.

See marker.

A layout that a media logger or journalist uses to view and create markers.

A pane that provides a media logger or journalist with an arrangement of controls defined for use in logging Interplay Production assets or Interplay MAM assets. The layout of the Logging pane adapts automatically depending on the asset open.

An indicator added to a selected frame to mark a particular location in a clip, subclip, or sequence. Markers can be different colors and can be associated with user-defined text. Markers are displayed in the Media Timeline and marker text is displayed as an overlay in the Media viewer. Formerly called locator.

A media object that contains pointers to media files in which the actual digital video and audio data is stored.

A feature that lets you load a source clip, a portion of which is contained in a sequence.

An Interplay Production service that coordinates jobs with Interplay Production Services for send to playback.

The software infrastructure that supports MediaCentral products and services

One of the MediaCentral Platform services. It provides the ability to create and manage users and groups and authenticate users across multiple systems.

A MediaCentral zone consists of the following configuration:

By default, a MediaCentral system is configured as a single zone. Large organizations can combine two or more single-zone systems into a multi-zone environment.

A layout that displays different options for publishing to multiple platforms. The layout includes the Social Message, Web Story, and Packages panes used for publishing media packages.

In the Media pane, controls that let you play and move through an asset and edit an asset for use in creating a sequence. Which controls are displayed depends on the selected asset.

A search engine that allows users to search a central index for multiple Interplay Production databases over multiple zones. See also indexed search.

A pane in the client application in which you can view and edit media assets, using the Media controls.

The section of the Media pane used to view an asset.

In the Media pane, a graphical representation of the length and time spans of an asset or sequence.

In the Media pane, a control located below the Media Timeline that lets you enlarge a section of the Media Timeline so you can work more easily with long clips. See also Sequence zoom bar.

A section of the client application in which you can send and receive messages. The Message bar consists of the To field, the Message field, and the Send button.

A section of the client application from which you can select various menu options.

In the Message bar, arrow buttons are provided to let you read recent messages. A numerical indicator appears when multiple unread messages exist.

A pane in the client application that displays a message box for sending both text messages and media asset links to other MediaCentral UX users. It also lists all received messages.

Data that describes an asset. Metadata includes properties, reservations, restrictions, and other information.

A pane that displays properties that are associated with a selected asset in an Interplay MAM or Interplay Production database, such as Start Timecode or Comments.

A process in which multiple video tracks, multiple audio tracks, and effects are combined into a new master clip with one video track and a reduced number of audio tracks.

Audio recorded at the same time as the video, often by a microphone built in to a camera. Compare with the definition of SOT (sound on tape).

If you click the Output button in the Media pane, you can view media for the currently loaded sequence and use controls that apply specifically to sequences, such as voice-over controls. Compare with the definition of Asset mode.

Access for users that are assigned a non-MAM Base license (Interplay Production, iNEWS) to Interplay MAM orchestration features (process creation and monitoring, user task editing).

In Media Distribute, a collection of text (messages or stories), images, video, and audio, all associated with a common iNEWS story and Interplay Production master clip or sequence.

A pane in the client application that displays a history of packages ready for publication and already published. The pane also allows you to review and approve packages submitted for publication.

A system setting the specifies the maximum number of items listed in the Queue/Story pane or the Project/Story pane.

A section of the MediaCentral UX Web application. An area contains one or more panes. Multiple panes can be layered within an area, with the names of each pane appearing on tabs that the user can select to view.

A menu of commands that are available for each pane. To access the menu, click the Pane Menu button.

In Interplay MAM, a device or part of a device that holds one or more carriers. See carrier.

A vertical bar in the Media Timeline that indicates the location of the frame displayed in the Media viewer. The Sequence Timeline also includes a position indicator, which can be vertical or horizontal, depending on the orientation of the Sequence pane. You can drag the position indicator to scrub through a clip or sequence.

A feature of the MediaCentral UX tablet application lets users view a show’s scripts in a page-by-page layout, similar to printed scripts used by news presenters.

An object in an iNEWS story that provides important information to technical staff as well as machine control commands for devices, such as character generators.

In Interplay MAM, a defined set of automated workflows and manual activities to achieve a specific goal; it defines the states, tasks, and the control flow that are used to achieve the goal.

A pane used to monitor Interplay MAM processes for a defined context. You can define and edit the context for the dashboard and save the dashboard to the Launch pane.

A pane in the client application that displays the progress and status of MediaCentral UX processes such as sequence mixdown and send to playback.

A pane in the client application that displays the contents of a project, its facets, and any associated stories.

An iNEWS term for a group of stories categorized by topic so that news teams working on a particular topic can find everything related to it in a single place. See also facet.

A pane in the client application that displays the contents of a queue with the contents of the story, including the story form.

A subfolder in an iNEWS database that contains stories.

You can play the sequence but you cannot edit or save it. See also uneditable sequence.

A set of two markers that indicate clips whose use is limited in some way, such as through intellectual property rights management or content compliance.

A set of features, privileges, and layouts that are assigned to a user by a MediaCentral UX administrator. An administrator can create MediaCentral UX roles based on roles within an organization.

A lineup or timed list of scripts indicating the order in which they will be aired during a news program.

A layout that a journalist uses to edit and create stories.

The text that is read on air. Also the content for organizing a feature.

A section of the Queue/Story pane in which a journalist creates and organizes the elements of a story. There are four sub-sections of the Script Editor: Story Form, Cue List, Story, and Sequence Timeline.

A sequence (see sequence) that is associated with an iNEWS story in MediaCentral UX. Script sequences are saved in the Interplay Production database and can be sent to a playback device.

A section of the client application in which you can conduct a search for assets that match specific criteria.

In the Message bar, the button you click to send a message.

The process of transferring a sequence to a playback device or playout server for broadcast.

Video, images and audio clips, or any combination, arranged in a series. See also basic sequence and advanced sequence.

A pane in which you can work with video and audio clips to create or edit a sequence. You can associate the sequence with a new story as a script sequence or store it as an independent asset in an Interplay Production database.

The area of the Sequence pane that hold the video and audio clips. The Sequence Timeline includes a video track, one or three audio tracks, and a timing track.

The Sequence zoom bar is located below the Sequence Timeline for horizontal orientation or to the right of the timeline for vertical orientation. You can use the zoom bar to enlarge a section of the Sequence Timeline so that you can work more easily with long sequences or make precise edit decisions. See also Media zoom bar.

A pane in the System Settings layout from which you can select a group of settings to view or edit.

To view media at speeds slower or faster than real time. In MediaCentral UX you can use the J, K, and L keys to shuttle through a clip or sequence.

A feature of the MediaCentral UX mobile application from which you can navigate various systems integrated with MediaCentral UX, such as an iNEWS newsroom computer system

See basic sequence.

A pane in the client application that allows you to create packages for publication to social media sites, such as Facebook or Twitter.

Audio recorded at the same time as the video, often by a microphone separate from the one built in to a camera. Compare with the definition of NAT (natural sound).

A video clip or audio clip that is used as part of a sequence.

A compilation of elements that includes the script that is sent to the teleprompter and read on air, any video and audio that is broadcast with the script, as well as production cues and machine control instructions associated with the queue. A story can also be created as a feature that uses the script to organize the feature.

A section of the Script Editor that provides story information in fields that are predetermined by the iNEWS system administrator for each queue in the database.

A layout that a journalist uses to edit and create stories that include video and audio.

The process of transferring a sequence to a playback device or playout server for broadcast.

Annotation layers that build the basis for logging Interplay MAM assets. Each stratum allows you to view information about an asset from a specific perspective.

A clip created by marking IN and OUT points in a master clip and saving the frames between the points. The subclip does not contain pointers to media files. The subclip references the master clip, which contains pointers to the media files.

A layout that a MediaCentral UX administrator uses to specify various configuration settings.

An elementary step within a process that is carried out either automatically (based on workflow scripts) or by a user action.

A pane in which a user can view and edit user tasks of Interplay MAM processes created by him or user tasks that have been assigned to him by other users.

A pane that displays small images of an asset that is loaded in the Asset mode of the Media pane. Images are displayed by timecode, marker, or both.

In the Media pane, displays that provide timecode information for the loaded asset or sequence.

In Interplay MAM, the timecode master is the essence within an essence package that is used to determine timecodes, This essence has been video-analyzed, or will be video-analyzed when the video analysis is triggered. Requests for or calculations of timecodes are answered by the timecodes of the timecode master essence. You can display and set the timecode master in the File Info pane.

A section of a script sequence that corresponds in duration to the read rate of a story segment. A timing block serves as a container for editing actions.

In the Audio pane, a drop-down menu that lets you map an audio track of a group clip to the corresponding audio track of any other angle in the group clip.

In the Sequence Timeline, a mark that appears at the beginning or end of a clip in the video column or audio column when hovering over that area with the mouse pointer. You can trim video and audio together, or you can trim them separately to create an L-cut.

A default group used for MediaCentral UX user management that includes users that were removed from a group but are not members of any other groups.

A sequence created on Media Composer or another Avid editing application that cannot be edited in MediaCentral UX, such as a sequence that includes rendered effects. Uneditable sequences are colored dark red in the Sequence Timeline. See also read-only sequence.

See MediaCentral User Management Service (UMS).

A task that requires a user action and is completed by a user action. See task.

A pane in the Users layout that displays groups and users in a hierarchical layout.

A layout for MediaCentral UX user management that a MediaCentral UX administrator uses to import, create, and manage users and group.

Controls that let you record a voice-over and adjust its volume.

A pane in the client application that allows you to create packages for publication to Web Content Management Systems.

The primary user interface element of the application.

See Media zoom bar and Sequence zoom bar.