SAT AI Direct
Featuring Sony's XDCAM Proxy Workflow

SAT AI Direct Transcoder

AutoIngest Direct now offers an optional transcoder service. This transcoder module allows clips to have multiple resolutions available to edit with. The editor simply chooses the working resolution using Avid's dynamic relink controls. [Read more] Multiple output formats maybe created at one time by the AI Direct Transcoder. For example if the Sony XDCAM EX 35mbps format was ingested, the transcoder can be set to create the Sony XDCAM Proxy and the Interplay WAN proxy simultaneously using the XDCAM 35 source. As each frame is decoded multiple encoding streams are created optimizing this process. All video formats are integrated into one Interplay clip with a common metadata set.

The Direct Transcoder can create Sony XDCAM 50, Avid DNxHD 145, Sony XDCAM Proxy, Interplay H.263 or H.264 WAN proxy. If the orginal high resolution media is transcoded to another format (ie DNxHD) then the originally ingested source can be optionally deleted from the clip to save space. Customers who already have AutoIngest Direct can add the transcoder module.

Edit Sony proxy with uncompressed audio, then use Avid's Batch Import

Are you using a Sony XDCAM camera today? Now try AutoIngest Direct Version 2.5 to bring together the power of low bit rate proxy editing with the clarity of uncompressed audio. AutoIngest brings XDCAM Proxy clips directly into shared storage and Avid's Interplay Workgroup. AutoIngest automatically replaces the proxy quality audio with uncompressed audio. [Read more]The power of this workflow is the ability to allow quality editing with large amounts of footage, without large amounts of expensive shared storage. After the editing decisions are made, use your Avid to batch import just the high quality video you need to finish the project.

XDCAM customers can now use an entirely file based workflow beginning with proxy video and uncompressed audio through project completion.

Use AutoIngest with the Editor only or Avid's Interplay Workgroup

SAT AI Direct Version 2.0 now supports Avid Interplay. Use Direct to check content into Interplay's Catalog or Project folder.  Don't have Interplay... [Read more] No problem!! AutoIngest Direct can be used with the Avid Editor by using the drag and drop method. Clips move quickly from Direct's user interface to the editor's bin. Using Direct, simply select the clips and drag and drop the clip icons into the editor's bin. All metadata and clip names refined by AutoIngest are fully supported by the editor. Its that easy!

Copy digital content from optical, flash or disk

The industry's first software for fast and efficient transfer of MXF media, with metadata, directly to the editors local or shared storage. This powerful media ingest tool takes clips recorded on your Panasonic P2 card, Ikegami GFPAK/FieldPak, Sony XDCAM optical or XDCAM-EX media; transfering the clips to your editing computer's local or shared storage folders, providing an easy and straight forward way to bring clips into the editing environment. [Read more]SAT AI Direct enhances your tapeless ingest by providing a more powerful tool to ingest camera based metadata and provides a simple means of attaching additional metadata to your ingested clips.

SAT AI Direct automates time-consuming media transfer using faster than realtime file ingest. Direct runs in parallel with the editor enabling the editing workstation to continue uninterrupted as clips are ingested.

Manage Assets

Rename clips... change the camera's computer named clip "C0012" to a more meaningful story name. Rename hundreds of clips at once with Batch Rename. Group related clips into an Avid Sequence for use by the Newsroom Director using Assist or the news editor. Add to, or modify metadata before or after you ingest with this powerful tool. Once transferred, receive a text message or a printed report confirming the media transfer.