Avid MetaSync gives editors the tools to synchronize metadata with traditional video and audio content. With MetaSync, you can insert pointers to metadata directly into the Avid editing system Timeline and easily modify the timing and duration of the enhanced material. The metadata, in turn, points to additional content, such as files from a scriptwriting program, HTML files, database records, or remote commands. This additional content can then be processed by other applications for final production and distribution.

MetaSync streamlines a variety of existing processes such as closed captioning and subtitle insertion, and lets facilities address new opportunities for content creation in the emerging areas of ITV (interactive television), DVD, broadband, and converging media.

Any processes that you can control through code, you can control through the Avid editing system Timeline. For example, you can synchronize signals for GPI (general-purpose-interface) devices with a video or audio sequence. Another example is the synchronization of commands with video produced for motion rides — MetaSync lets you add directions for when and how to turn the viewers' seats.

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