NEW YORK — Pronology (www.pronology.com) is showcasing its full range of digital asset management tools at this year’s IBC show in Amsterdam. The company’s suite simplifies the task of content creation and distribution for today’s tapeless workflows.
Pronology provides users the option of working in the cloud via an internal intranet or a secure Pronology-hosted network. By utilizing a standard Web-browser as its primary interface, Pronology allows a limitless number of users to perform multiple functions simultaneously and remotely.
Pronology’s custom-designed, hardware-agnostic ingest-control application can directly manage recording devices from industry manufacturers. In addition to giving users a single interface for starting and stopping multiple recordings, it also facilitates the entry of organizational metadata prior to and during ingest. This same information is used throughout the Pronology system, offering clear communication about a recording and its significance. This enables users to organize their content at the beginning of the process, minimizing human error. The system also includes a fully-integrated transcode engine.
As part of the browser-based interface, users have instant access to a live Web proxy of the video and audio feeds being captured by the production’s record operation. These feeds can be logged instantly and time-coded accurately by multiple users, regardless of their physical location. User comments and log entries are immediately visible to authorized users, and can be associated with just one recording, or all recordings within a group. The log entries can be imported into an NLE environment and associated to the recordings as “locators.”
Along with logging and sub-clipping, producers have the option to use the Web proxies to create a storyboard or “paper” cut of their projects. They can drag and drop the selected clips into a storyboard and send this as a sequence to their editor. Since these sequences can be associated to any resolution of a recording, the editor can load the Pronology storyboard into their NLE and link to the appropriate resolution for online or offline work. Pronology supports a range of NLE systems, including Avid, Adobe and Apple.
To manage project approval, Pronology enables post staff to email a link to one or a group of producers/clients seeking comments and editorial authorization for recorded and edited content. This link is completely encrypted, allowing for off-site viewing while maintaining content security.