Download Free Silverlight Rough Cut Editor

A new Silverlight-based tool from Microsoft is designed to streamline the publishing of audio and video content to the web, while also simplifying additional source-to-distribution-platform delivery scenarios. But the Microsoft Silverlight Rough Cut Editor does not only help content providers cut down on the time it takes for new offerings to be put forth to end users, but also comes with comprehensive collaboration and dynamic metadata management capabilities, which will boost the quality of experiences offered to the public.

The promise from the Redmond company is that the Silverlight Rough Cut Editor (RCE) makes content delivery nearly instantaneous. And NBC Sports can vouch to this, as RCE was the tool used for video and audio content shot at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games in February, in the race to provide users with real-time coverage of the event.

“Two critical goals for coverage of the Vancouver Olympics were speed of delivery and cost,” Perkins Miller, senior vice president of Digital Media, NBC Sports, explained. “The Silverlight Rough Cut Editor helped us achieve those goals by enabling editors to cut short-form highlights from long-form live coverage through a Web-based editor and have them published to the site within seconds — even while the event was still in progress. This dramatically reduced our costs and made it easier and faster to deliver video.”

NBC took advantage of the real-time, browser-based video editing and publishing tool from Microsoft, which the Redmond company is now offering for download, free of charge. Via the Microsoft Silverlight Rough Cut Editor, customers can grab not only the RCE, but also additional content set up to simplify deployment and usage of the tool.

“RCE provides media organizations with a lightweight, Web-based tool that editors anywhere can use to assemble and edit video, audio, images, and XAML overlays with time code accurate control. Powered by Microsoft Silverlight, the RCE provides a rich, stutter-free, full-screen editing experience. The RCE has an open and extensible architecture, and it can be integrated into any digital asset management (DAM) and any encoding/ transcoding system that an organization is already using,” an excerpt of the tool’s description reads.

Customers looking to leverage RCE will also need to have IIS 6.0 or higher with ASP.NET enabled deployed in their infrastructure. Internet Information Services are key to hosting the Silverlight Rough Cut Editor.