Multimedia Source Management for Remote and Local Edition Environments

This paper aims to detail an innovative multimedia edition system. A special functionality provides this solution with different ways of managing audiovisual sources. It has been specially designed for media centralized environments dealing with large files and groups of users that access contents simultaneously for editing and composing. Mass media headquarters or user communities can take advantage of the two working modes, which allow online and offline workflows. The application provides a user edition interface, audiovisual processing and encoding based on GPL tools, communication via SOAP between client and server, independent and portable edition capabilities and easy adaptable source handling system for different technologies.