Upgraded Version of Front Porch Digital DIVAdirector Web-based Interface

Front Porch Digital announced an upgraded version of its DIVAdirector Web-based interface, which makes it more powerful, versatile, and functional. DIVAdirector V4.0 adds multiple features to facilitate and enhance the users’ ability to define, locate, collaborate, retrieve, and repurpose file-based assets through an easy-to-use Web interface.

Important new DIVAdirector features include key frame and thumbnail support, enabling the addition of visual markers in query results and to better identify segments in shot lists; collaborative shot list support, enabling many users to share viewing and editing of shot lists; and virtual asset support, enabling an asset and its metadata to be added to the system in anticipation of the clip’s later arrival in the archive — an extremely valuable tool to assist in the migration off video tape. More new features include Apple Final Cut Pro shot list support, full-text metadata search, a redesigned database that supports additional metadata types, as well as unlimited field definitions and jog/shuttle wheel support for editing speed and ease of use.

Available as an option to Front Porch Digital’s flagship DIVArchive CSM system, DIVAdirector is a fully Web-based and distributed system that allows users such as journalists, editors, and producers to securely search, browse, and retrieve stored video content according to the asset metadata and to manipulate and repurpose this valuable content easily.

"The enhanced search and manipulation capabilities offered by DIVAdirector V4.0 have the potential to yield critical improvements both to facility efficiency and to production quality," said Brian Campanotti, chief technology officer of Front Porch Digital. "By providing more control and a richer interface for the desktop user, more powerful tools for collaboration, and more storage flexibility, the latest version of DIVAdirector demonstrates Front Porch Digital’s commitment to responsive partnership with its customers and its leadership role in the industry."

The latest DIVAdirector version is available as an option for new DIVArchive customers or as an easy, cost-effective, and fully transparent upgrade for existing DIVAdirector customers.