RAPID Editor
RAPID Editor is an easy to use Web-based authoring tool of RAPID Browser, designed for convergent Newsrooms. RAPID Editor allows journalists to multi-publish individual items or news packages to paper, Web, mobile and TV & Radio. The packaged items can be text, photo, audio and video, or even a playlist of items and packages.
The ability to create custom editorial items opens a whole new dimension for RAPID Browser to be used for editing different media story and content types.
RAPID Editor can be used throughout the editorial production cycle, or interface to platform-specific editors such as Adobe InCopy for paper, Vlog-It or FinalCut for video, ENPS for TV production, or Drupal for Web, as well as saved to RAPID Archive.
Main Features
- Uniquely allows custom-designed editorial item types for multi-publishing.
- Multiple editor windows: print, mobile, TV, RADIO, SMS or others.
- Easily classify and modify story metadata, such as section, page number, publication date, etc.
- Works well with Adobe InCopy and InDesign, exchanging stories and associated metadata.
- Support localization for multiple languages.
- Ability to map item fields from one platform to the other (i.e. Web item to SMS, etc...)
- Auto-save and word count.
- Database managed editorial tracking, and resilience ensuring that no editorial data is lost with server or network failure.
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Easy single server installation and management, no need for repeat client machine installations.
KnowledgeView’s solutions provide the environment for multi-publishing by media groups wanting to extend their reach, increase circulation and consolidate their editorial.
RAPID Browser, and its various modules, starting with RAPID Editor, provides the foundations for an easy to use editorial planning system for multi-publishing. Being built from the ground up on open-system Web foundations, it allows for distributed editorial work across several editorial centers and for editorial sharing across different production systems.
RAPID Browser can integrate with editorial productions systems for paper, Web, mobile or TV and Radio, or perform many of the functions directly.
- Web-based editor. Only needs a standard Internet Browser. No need for client’s machine installation.
- Supports UNICODE character encoding, working equally well on Mac OSX, Windows or LINUX client machines.
- Supports user interfaces in English, Arabic and French.
- Two-way exchange of stories components with Adobe InCopy and InDesign.
- Facilities for system managers to define stories components and production metadata lists.
