MediaCentral UX provides users with a messaging service that delivers messages to other users, including those connected to MediaCentral UX and using iNEWS or an Avid editing application such as Avid Media Composer. This allows you to share Interplay Production or Interplay MAM assets with a wide range of MediaCentral UX users. You can send text messages to another Interplay Production, Interplay MAM, or iNEWS user or to multiple users, and your messages can carry links to Internet sites using Universal Resource Locators (URLs) as well as links to Interplay Production assets or Interplay MAM folders and assets. These links, which function as deep links when clicked, can open specific assets in the MediaCentral UX media viewer, in an Avid editing application monitor, in a browser, or in the MediaCentral UX Mobile app for iOS devices.

You can also configure e-mail forwarding so that you can receive MediaCentral UX messages when you are not logged in to the system.

You can drag assets from the Asset pane or the Media viewer to the Messages pane, or you can search MediaCentral UX and then drag an asset from the Search pane to the Messages pane. The message displays a head frame of the video asset, the asset name and metadata, as well as a text message added by the sender. If you added a link to an Interplay MAM folder, the message displays a folder icon, the folder name, and metadata, as well as a text message added by the sender.

If you have desktop notifications enabled in your browser, a notification is displayed when you receive a message. You can click on the notification to display the message in the Messages pane. For more information, see Showing Desktop Notifications from Panes.