![]() ![]() What does the MediaCentral give you? MediaCentral is the gateway for remote users to access your Avid Production and News environments. I'm lucky (?) enough to have worked on a number of MediaCentral systems and so thought I'd try and give short a overview, using what little knowledge I have, combined with Avid documentation and hopefully highlight the most salient points. A straight forward Google of "how does Avid MediaCentral work?" sadly doesn't return all that much. T o find simple information to introduce you to MediaCentral and gain a basic understanding of the system functions and how works, is a little more tricky. The only guide that serves as an introduction to MediaCentral is the MCS Concepts and Clustering Guide Chapter 2, but even this can be hard going for new users. There are a number of guides under the MediaCentral Documentation page, but a good starting point, on any Avid product, is to look at the Release Notes and then dive into the supporting documentation from there.Īvid Knowledge Base is always a good place to start. ![]() All the release notes and configuration guides can be found on their KB. Research and Manuals The devil is in the detail, so finding the detail this is where I personally like to start.Īvid has pretty good documentation when it comes to low down technical resources. This isn't a complete guide to MediaCentral and it isn't a 'how to' guide for building a system or maintain it, its just an overview of the 'Platform' and the very basics of how it works.īy the way, i f you want to officially learn about building and maintaining a system then it's the WG453 ACSR Avid MediaCentral Platform course you should be attending. If you know very little about MediaCentral then perhaps read my earlier post but I have put some background content here too. We appreciate your support and attention to this matter.Following on from an earlier post about the fundamentals of MediaCentral I wanted to write a similar short Engineering post about the configuration and workings of the platform. If you have any questions, please contact your Amber Technology Account Manager or send an email to for assistance. With support and security updates no longer being provided by Adobe and the major browser providers, you could potentially be leaving yourself vulnerable to operational issues and security breaches. However, it is critical that you begin now to develop a plan to upgrade your Avid products to avoid being affected by the Adobe Flash Player end of life. MediaCentral | Asset Management Migration PathsĪvid will be working with selected customers for targeted testing to ensure that the solution works well in a cross-section of environments. The chart below describes the migration paths from various versions. There will be no patch support for Interplay MAM 5.8 or earlierĬustomers on MediaCentral | Asset Management versions 2017.1 (build version 6.0) thru 2020.4 (7.4) must upgrade to the major release 2020.7 (7.5) + Q3 2020 patch It is important to understand that those of you using older versions of MediaCentral | Asset Management will be required to upgrade to a newer version that is compatible with the patch. It will not be backward compatible to prior versions, and it will not support file-based playback. The MediaCentral | UX 2.10.x upgrade will be a light upgrade patch. The patch will provide what is necessary to migrate to HTML5. We will provide the required software updates via a patch release during Q3 2020. Cataloger will also move from Flash Player to HTML5. Internet Explorer 11 on Windows, and Safari on Mac OS systems will no longer be supported. The products that are affected are MediaCentral | Asset Management (Desktop and Cataloger) and MediaCentral | UX.įor MAM Desktop users, the migration path will be to HTML5 with Chrome on both Windows and MacOS. We have determined that a solution based on HTML5 is the best path forward. They’ve recommended that content creators migrate existing Flash content to new open formats.Īvid has been considering how this will impact our customers and how we can continue to provide best- in-class capabilities in our products where the Adobe Flash Player had been deployed. Given this progress, and in collaboration with several technology partners – including Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla –Adobe is planning to end-of-life the Flash Player at the end of 2020. Open standards like HTML5 have matured over the past several years and provide many of the capabilities that the Adobe Flash Player has provided. As you know, software products reach the end of their life cycle for any number of reasons, including market demands, technology innovation, and replacement by functionally richer solutions. ![]()
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