Publish to Sundance (P2S) is a new feature available within Avid editing systems.  It enables the seamless migration of finished content directly to the broadcast facility's play-to-air server, complete with its metadata.

In addition to a Sundance Digital Titan™ or FastBreak® NXT automation™ system, Publish to Sundance incorporates functions of Avid Interplay™ and its Media Services Engine, as well as Avid ProEncode™ using the Telestream or Agility Anystream transcode engines.

The P2S application consists of two components:

• A plug-in to Avid Interplay allows the editor to assign the piece for transfer.
• A Sundance application to manage the metadata attachment and execute the transfers.
  

Workflow
Publish to Sundance efficiently replaces the tedious and time-consuming process of rendering finished edits out to videotape, then manually dubbing those tapes to the transmission server:

• The editor completes work on a piece of content.
• The editor assigns a broadcast house ID and/or provides a brief description of the piece in the edit data fields.
• The editor selects Publish to Sundance (P2S) from the Interplay Media Services menu, then selects the Default profile.
• P2S creates an intermediate rendering of the piece and places the metadata into the Interplay Media Services Engine.
• The Sundance application detects the presence of new content and tries to match the house number to a placeholder in the play-to-air database.
• If Sundance finds a match, it executes the transcode via the ProEncode service to the transmission server.
• If Sundance does not find a match, it lists the piece and description for a Master Control Operator to manually match the piece and begin the transcode.
  

The benefit of this workflow is the elimination of manual processes, increased video quality, and a significant reduction in the time required to go from idea to air.

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