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Quantel shows Final Cut Pro embedded into the Quantel workflow (23/9/2008)

Third party editor integrates into industry-leading server-based broadcast environment

At IBC 2008 Quantel announced a major new development which fully integrates Apple's Final Cut Pro into the Quantel Enterprise sQ server-based production environment. This development will have wide-ranging appeal to broadcasters as it brings them exactly the same workflow advantages with Final Cut Pro workstations as they have with Quantel's native editors.

With this development, Final Cut Pro editors will have full access to both rushes and metadata as well as to edited sequences generated on Quantel desktop and craft editing workstations. Final Cut Pro participates fully in the Quantel workflow, is able to create stories, finish those started on Quantel workstations and publish directly to the Quantel server for playout.

The Final Cut Pro editor is working directly with media held on the Quantel server; there is no requirement first to import the media, and output can happen the moment the edit is completed. Similarly, Quantel editors can access stories started on Final Cut Pro. In both cases, edits remain live throughout the system right up to playout. In summary, the key benefits for Final Cut Pro users are:

* Instant playout of a published edit - edits are instantly published as AAFs back to the sQ server, and the server then puts the rush clips into the edited order on-the-fly at playout.
* Browse workflow - edits started on Quantel workstations using lo-res media are instantly available in broadcast media for finishing on Final Cut Pro - and vice versa, giving Final Cut Pro users full participation in the best broadcast and browse workflow in the business.
* Publish to NRCS placeholder - Final Cut Pro users can now publish direct to the Newsroom Computer System rundown, just as Quantel editors can, speeding stories to air.

"This development will be widely welcomed by broadcasters who can now take advantage of the large pool of trained Final Cut Pro operators alongside Quantel's sQ Cut - the best desktop/journalist editor in the business - and all without compromising on the unrivalled ingest-to-delivery speed of the Quantel workflow," said Trevor Francis, Quantel Worldwide Broadcast Marketing Manager.

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