Avid Media Central Enables Raycom to Digitize Sports History

Check out this article from thebroadcastbridge.com about how Raycom Sports was able to digitize their sports history with the help of Avid Media Central. Raycom had a library of over 25,000 tape in all dieffent formats that they had to digitize. If you want to find out how Avid Media Central helped them acomplish this keep reading.

From thebroadcastbridge.com

Founded in 1979, Raycom Sports has produced and distributed football and basketball games from the ACC and the NCAA as well as distributing games from the Southeastern, Big Eight, and Big Ten conferences.

Having already standardized their production throughput on Avid’s MediaCentral workflow management platform, Farmartino’s research soon revealed that it would be far cheaper to keep the digitizing workload in-house rather than farm it to an outside vendor.

“This facility has been an Avid-based house ever since I started here in 2004,” Farmartino told me. Raycom uses it's Express edit systems and MediaCentral Production Management now to maintain the benefits of metadata indexing...read more