Pictron Postproduction Media Manager is designed specifically to interface with Apple Final Cut Pro and Avid nonlinear video editing systems to automatically generate proxy video directly from Final Cut Pro Quicktime, Avid OMF, or industry standard MXF media files reside on individual video editing workstations, Avid Unity, or Xsan.

Working in conjunction with Pictron Media Gateway Suite products, the Postproduction Media Manager automatically indexes video using automatic scene change detection, speech recognition, and face recognition to generate visual storyboard keyframes, text transcript, and face ID during the proxy video generation process. It also extracts project information and metadata from media assets. With Pictron Media Archive Manager, high resolution postproduction media is automatically archived on near-line storage device such as robotic tape library based on business rules and policies.

Postproduction Media Manager has direct interface with Final Cut Pro and Avid video editing systems and monitors media storage for new production media ingested through video editing systems. If there is any new media ingested and meets the processing conditions specified, Pictron Postproduction Media Manager will generate proxy video and index the video automatically. The encoded proxy video, text transcript, storyboard keyframes, and metadata are automatically published to the Media Gateway Server. Users with account access privilege can now search postproduction media on the Pictron Media Gateway Server with a standard Web browser interface and playback proxy video with synchronized storyboard keyframes and text transcript anywhere, anytime. With the Pictron Broadcast Media Manager, video production staff can seamlessly integrate production and broadcast media assets and streamline the production workflow.

Using the Media Gateway Server application Web browser interface, users can search video clips and build playlists and export playlists to Avid and Final Cut Pro EDL Formats. Video editor can drop the exported EDL file to Avid or Final Cut Pro and it becomes a Bin in the project for immediate video editing session.