The Las Vegas Institute for Advanced Dental Studies (LVI) has partnered with Teresis Media Management Inc., for its in-house video production facilities. Known as Teresis Online, the digital video workflow solution will help LVI to streamline and more efficiently manage its video production processes.
As a leader in post-graduate dental education, LVI provides dentists with clinical and practice management continuing education. It is also a resource for dentists who want to learn more about products and seminars to improve their clinical skills, enhance their businesses and ensure that they provide the best oral health care for their patients. The use of rich media is imperative to the learning process, and the institute strives to produce the highest quality in educational videos for dentistry.
LVI's instructors produce and edit their own instructional videos. In the past, these dentists were required to make tedious, and inaccurate pen and paper edit decision lists. The LVI faculty needed a way to easily edit their own video footage without access to an editing bay and without being tied down to editing at a specific location.
In order to improve its editing and production processes, LVI subscribed to Teresis Online, considered to be the first completely internet-based video production asset management solution. Although it is mostly used by the entertainment and broadcast industries, Teresis recently announced it has expanded its offering to provide a "corporate production facility" class of service. Teresis Online has a user-friendly interface that helps even non-technical staff to log, transcribe, edit, repurpose, distribute and archive video content all in-house on a MAC or PC.
"Teresis worked closely with us to develop a customized solution that fits our budget and allows us to create our own unique offline clips, using a software solution instead of the normally integrated hardware compression," said LVI's Director of IT and Multimedia, Jonathan Haggard. "We are now able to easily transfer and edit video electronically, creating a tapeless workflow that is fast and efficient."
Teresis Online enables editors to use different editing platforms, including Avid and Final Cut Pro, with the same online content and without re-capturing media. LVI educators can make their edits faster and get a preview of what the final cuts might look like. Streamlining the production processes, Teresis gives LVI faculty the flexibility of working on multiple projects simultaneously from their own desktops, while the online editing station is used to finalize those projects on a content prioritized timeline.
According to the LVI team, one of the greatest benefits of using Teresis Online is that they can work on their projects from anywhere at any time. The offline video editing feature gives the instructors the ability to edit from any comfortable environment of their choosing, whether they are waiting for a flight, sitting in a coffee shop or relaxing at home.
"I think the class of service that Teresis can provide to corporate level video production facilities could be invaluable," added Haggard. "The scene editor is quite simple to use and is easy for a non-technical user who has never edited video before to learn with minimal effort. Essentially, it can turn any corporate employee that is involved with the concept of a project into the chief editor for their vision."
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