Workflows for Logging

In MediaCentral UX, logging refers to the process of adding information to clips, subclips, and sequences. This information includes markers, restrictions, and text, which you can use for reference during story creation and media editing.

MediaCentral UX enables fast, flexible logging. A special layout for logging, called the Log layout, provides a Logging pane for viewing and editing markers. Keyboard shortcuts give you a quick way to work with markers while controlling media playback.

• Logging a video feed: A media logger logs content at the same time that the media is being ingested.The media logger can add markers to specify particular video or audio frames and add comments to the markers as required. A journalist can then open a specific clip or clips in MediaCentral UX, view the markers and comments, and copy text if necessary, even while the recording is in progress.

Working with content while it is being ingested is sometimes referred to as “edit while capture.” For more information, see Viewing and Editing a Clip During Ingest.

• Logging recorded video: A media logger browses for recorded clips and logs the content by adding markers and comments. For example, marker comments can include a transcription of an interview. A journalist can then use the transcription as a starting point for a story.

• Creating a shot list: A media logger can place markers on clips to identify specific shots, mark in and out points to create a series of subclips, and combine these subclips into a shot list. For example, a journalist or a logger might create a shot list with markers and subclips for a sequence, and another media editor can then match the shot list to a story text or use it to create a voice-over track. For more information, see Using the Sequence Pane.

• Adding markers to a sequence: You can add markers to a sequence you are creating, either by adding clips with markers to a sequence or by adding markers directly to a sequence. See Adding Markers to a Sequence.

Two or more media loggers can add markers to the same clip, while it is still being recorded or after it has already been recorded. Each media logger can refresh the Logging pane to display all saved markers, including those created by other loggers.

There is no locking mechanism if two loggers are editing the same marker text. If two loggers are editing the same marker text, either one can save the marker, and the clip in the Interplay Production database updates with the last saved version. To display the latest saved version, click the Refresh button or press F5.

Two or more media loggers can add markers to the same sequence. However, the loggers must limit their edits to the Logging pane and make sure no one else is editing the sequence. Any edits to the sequence (such as L cuts or trims) that are saved and checked in will overwrite the previously checked-in sequence, including markers not included in the edited sequence. Closing the Sequence pane can help avoid this problem.

Each media logger can refresh the Logging pane to display all saved markers, including those created by other loggers.

As with master clips, there is no locking mechanism if two loggers are editing the same marker text. If two loggers are editing the same marker text, either one can save the marker, and the clip in the Interplay Production database updates with the last saved version. To display the latest saved version, click the Refresh button or press F5.

You can accomplish many functions for logging and controlling playback using keyboard shortcuts, such as

• Ctrl plus a key on the numeric keypad to add a marker of a specific color. For example, press Ctrl+3 to create a marker with a red icon.

• Ctrl+Enter to save text.

• Up Arrow to move to previous marker, Down Arrow to move to next marker.

• Ctrl+J (back), Ctrl+K (stop), and Ctrl+L (forward) to control playback while entering markers and marker text.