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Design Gallery : Avid MediaManager Select and Digital Dailies

Avid® MediaManager™ Select, incorporating Digital Dailies, integrates MediaManager (an SQL-based asset management system expressly designed for digital media production), Unity (a scalable storage solution for uncompressed digital media storage and access), MediaNetwork (a flexible fibre-channel, Ethernet, and TCP/IP transport system for Unity), and Avid's video and film editing Media Composer systems on Mac & PC.

MediaManager Select provides a way for studios and broadcast news sites to allow non-editors to view Avid media on a user's standard desktop machine. Media may be individual clips, work in progress (sequences), or finished pieces ready for distribution.

mm select - select list creation mm select - review application

My role on this project:

  • Evaluated client requirements and workflow needs for an all-digital film dailies review solution
  • Met with clients, both at Avid and at the company site to refine the client requirements
  • Evaluated user's tasks and workflow, at the company site
  • Met with clients, both at Avid and at the company site to define and design the user experience
  • Worked with both Product Management and the customer to deal with conflicting design issues.
  • Designed the user interface for both application and Web components of a film, digital dailies solution
  • Created the user interface specification as part of a product functional specification
    • Drew user interface designs
    • Drew workflow diagrams
    • Drew network configuration diagrams
  • Worked with senior programmers to plan the architecture to enable management and review of digital media assets from a central location
  • Developed the engineering development schedule in MS Project based on marketing and customer requirements, and technical and budgetary constraints
  • Led the engineering development effort, including
    • managing programmers
    • personnel evaluation
    • interfacing with SQA to ensure testing schedules and coverage matched development schedules
  • Worked with SQA to help test the product
  • Worked with Project Management to ensure thrid-party deliverables were available on time and manufacturing schedules were met