First off, the Acquire app is a scheduler for Avid’s ingest servers (MediaCentral |Stream and FastServe Ingest) that enables automated recordings allowing you to schedule and monitor recordings. Acquire stores its schedule and other metadata in the Avid MediaCentral Cloud UX database, which allows for easy access to the captured material within the MediaCentral platform environment.

The Acquire App, is a web-based software, which offers instant secure access for IP stream and SDI ingest. It supports multiple ingest servers (MediaCentral | Stream and FastServe Ingest (FSI)), and it utilizes an ingest template concept allowing for instant workflows when working with these servers. As it is a part of the MediaCentral | Cloud UX platform, Acquire natively supports the Edit While Capture workflow.

Acquire does not have its own routing services. When working with MediaCentral | Stream, it relies on MediaCentral | Stream internal routing. When working with FastServe | Ingest (FSI), it either uses external routers, or works without routers with direct connection to the FastServe | Ingest. Sources are routed to particular destinations, which may be devices configured to be controlled by Acquire, such as MediaCentral | Stream. Acquire can also work with stand alone router devices that can be configured with FastServe Ingest (FSI).

You use the Browse app to navigate through the contents of your shared-storage system. You can browse for both Avid assets (master clips, subclips, and sequences) and non-Avid assets (QuickTime files, still images, documents).

For more information about browsing in MediaCentral Cloud UX, see Browsing for Assets.