Workflow Management

 

The MANTRICS Workflow Manager relies on an advanced use of XML based standards and, using a Web Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), controls a suite of proprietary and third party applications running on different hardware platforms. MANTRICS provides a single interface through which those applications can perform complex production procedures involving different departments (e.g. production, administration and field engineering). Desktop search and browse, through the internet or the company's intranet, bring content and metadata closer to each user.

 

At the very heart of the MANTRICS Workflow Manager, the workflow creation and management page represents different workflows through a powerful yet intuitive and easy-to-use node diagram. MANTRICS users can design and implement their workflows, and all the assigned paths for different media files; monitoring each scheduled or running process

 

All the operations under the control of the MANTRICS Workflow Manager are subject to a powerful and versatile user management system, which allows the system administrator to establish access rights to resources & automate tasks. The operational tasks are organized in the workflow page, where node-based diagram represents a blueprint for the activities yet to be performed. Each node is an activity to be performed. Once it is executed, its completion activates the next note/activity of the workflow. All the actions to be performed by each user are reported in the convenient "To Do" page, which supports the segmentation and the delocalization of the production process, making various different skills available at the right time - without time or space constraints; boosting productivity and ensuring best practice.

 

MANTRICS allows the management and control of workflow, providing users with a comprehensive suite of tools for different stages of the production process:

  • Ingest in any format, either controlling a VCR, or broadcast feed or through watch-folders;
  • Quality Check on media files as well as on video and audio signals;
  • Metadata creation: Automatic as well as Assisted thanks to time-saving customizable templates;
  • Contents search using the MANTRICS Catalog;
  • Playback in any format;
  • Creation of new contents (cut only) by means of the internal video/audio editor and generation of the corresponding EDL in several different formats, based on industry standards;
  • Conversion to every format, aspect ratio, up, down, cross and standard conversions.

 

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