Avid Maestro Graphics Enables Content Creators to Bring High Impact Content to Air Faster Than Ever
January 03 2018 - 8:00AM
Avid® (Nasdaq:AVID), a leading global media technology provider for
the creation, distribution and monetization of media assets for
global media organizations, enterprise users and individual
creative professionals, has released the latest versions of its
Maestro™ | Designer and Maestro | News solutions. The new versions
enable content creators to create superior, high resolution
graphics more efficiently than ever before.
Avid’s award winning Maestro | Designer graphics authoring
software has been enriched with even greater rendering power to
create higher quality graphics and enhance visual identity and
production value exponentially. Graphic designers can now create
and view their content in 4K resolution without having to adjust
the resolution of their graphics. Improved workflow efficiencies
have also been added to Maestro | Designer to increase productivity
and enable the turnaround of content even faster, including font
handling, animation editing, and mask editing.
Avid has also enhanced its Maestro | News on air graphic suite
with significant workflow efficiencies for both news and production
environments. With the latest version of Maestro | News, users can
quickly and easily reuse content and even mirror data between
different production systems. Its simplified workflow now
facilitates faster page creation and the ability to manage complex
content more efficiently through its new rundown filtering
capability.
“To maximize engagement, today’s broadcasters must create
outstanding content that’s tuned for any consumer device,” said
Alan Hoff, VP of Market Solutions, Avid. “The latest
enhancements available in Maestro l Designer and Maestro l News
help broadcasters deliver video and 3D graphics in new and
compelling ways to audiences everywhere.”
Maestro | Designer features include:
- Better content fasterThe latest Maestro |
Designer offers numerous enhancements and improvements including
improved categorization and handling to ease workflow and boost
productivity. Users can now set specific animation start and end
points for more precise playback, and work with and edit object
masks more easily with the new Show Masks function. A new Scissor
mask allows users to add a whole layer for more creative
flexibility, and gain resolution independence with Scalable Vector
Graphics.
- More powerful performanceUsers can gain more
powerful Avid RenderEngine performance with numerous under-the-hood
improvements—using existing hardware. Without changing any other
components, Maestro | Designer enables creative professionals to
create higher quality graphics and augment visual identity and
production value exponentially.
- Higher resolution viewingWith support for
high-resolution monitors, Maestro | Designer can now scale its
application display to the required resolution, making it easier to
prep, create, view, and refine content in up to 4K resolution.
Maestro | News features include:
- Greater efficiencyMaestro | News provides new
support for the Array control and exposers capability introduced in
Maestro | Designer and RenderEngine. With Array control, users can
set the timing of exported elements directly in the Maestro |
Designer animation timeline while creating content, which will then
trigger data being sent to a Maestro | News property. Maestro |
News pages can also now retrieve data values directly from a
RenderEngine-loaded scene and send them to a completely different
scene, providing a fast and easy way to reuse information or mirror
data between different production systems.
- A more simplified workflowNew extended
timeline scripting capabilities greatly accelerate the Maestro |
News page creation process. This feature extends page script
functionality further, enabling scripts to send exports and control
animation, reducing the number of tracks needed in the
timeline.
- Faster location of storiesWith new rundown
filtering capabilities, users can manage the content of complex
stories and large rundowns more easily than ever by using different
search keywords or phrases to apply a filter in the rundown to
locate stories. Additionally, the new filter applies to the content
inside any item, making it easier to find the exact story
needed.
- Expanded capabilitiesMaestro | News now offers
a new Auto Still Cue settings option for the video playback module,
enabling a clip to display relevant metadata in its first frame or
in point when the video item is cued, facilitating better
information sharing with production teams. Video items can be added
from the MediaCentral | Maestro News app directly to a MediaCentral
| Newsroom Management rundown. This enables access to media
storage, quick creation of media In and Out points, and the ability
to preview media and add it to the Maestro | News rundown,
improving graphics and video workflows in news and production
environments.
Learn more about Maestro | Designer at
http://www.avid.com/products/maestro-designer and Maestro | News at
http://www.avid.com/products/maestro-news.
About AvidThrough Avid Everywhere®, Avid
delivers the most open and efficient media platform, connecting
content creation with collaboration, asset protection,
distribution, and consumption. Avid’s preeminent customer community
uses Avid’s comprehensive tools and workflow solutions to create,
distribute and monetize the most watched, loved and listened to
media in the world—from prestigious and award-winning feature films
to popular television shows, news programs and televised sporting
events, and celebrated music recordings and live concerts. With the
most flexible deployment and pricing options, Avid’s
industry-leading solutions include Media Composer®, Pro Tools®,
Avid NEXIS®, MediaCentral®, iNEWS®, AirSpeed®, Sibelius®, Avid
VENUE™, Avid FastServe™, Maestro™, and PlayMaker™. For more
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