Escenic Content Studio
Instead of pushing the limits for what can be done in browsers we have separated functionality according to target groups. The general website management that can easily be supported in a web browser is supported by Escenic Web Studio.
Escenic Content Studio supports the workflow of the digital age.
Benefits
The benefits of using a powerful Java application developed through several years of cooperating with demanding media customers is not easily summed up.
Some of Escenic Content Studio's main features include:
- The fastest and most efficient way of working with content
- Content completely separated from presentation
- Excellent support for multi-channel and/or multi-site content management
- Customizable, personalized workspace
- User interface adapts to the customers required article types, installed modules, etc
- Drag and drop images, videos, text, articles, etc.
- Work on several articles, images, videos, etc. at the same time
- Multiple users can work on different parts of the same article simultaneoulsy
- User interface available in several languages
- Integration with Tansa's advanced text-proofing tools
- Integrated image and video editing
- Automatic scaling and conversion of images to multiple sizes based on the presentation layer
- Workflow support and permission control through user groups and roles
- Extensible to meet specific customer needs
Features
Designed from the ground up to support the the demands of people using this application as their main workspace. Easy access to all stored content, customizable workspace, custom keyboard shortcuts and a powerful editor. The editor adapts itself to the article types specified for each installation, making the workspace reflect the content the user is working on.
Escenic Content Studio supports the workflow of the digital age. In a traditional publishing workflow, content is written, edited and published. This is not the case for online publishing. Content is acquired and collected in the same way as in a traditional workflow, but after being published, it is refined based on input and reactions from users. This is then fed back into the workflow, the content is updated, refined and published again. This cycle includes input from citizen journalism, reader tips and so on. Escenic Content Studio is designed for this way of working with content.
Content Studio is a feature-rich application and benefits from modern computers' processing power not limited by running inside a web browser. The speed in which Content Studio users can do their work ensures that their time is spent not waiting but producing and managing content.
Content Studio includes an image editor and a video editor, making it possible to do quick image manipulations and to set in and out points for live footage. Content is previewed directly in the editor.
Large organisations can use several editorial servers, each serving many Content Studio users. Sessions are managed across servers, and should one user accidentally disconnect the network cable, work can be resumed without data loss. Should Content Studio lose connection to an editorial server, work can still be done while disconnected. Content Studio automatically reconnects and notifies the user about this.
Content Studio features sophisticated locking: One user may work with the lead text of an article, having locked that for other users, while at the same time, another user can work with the body text of the same article, locking it for the lead text user. This ensures that no users are working with the exact same text at the same time while still allowing different users to work with different parts of a text simultaneously.
Specifications
Content Studio is a Java Swing application and it runs on any reasonable modern operating system with Java support: Windows, MacOs, Linux, etc. Escenic has always believed in building a feature-rich application founded on the Java platform, and not be limited by running inside a web browser. This approach enables us to create the fastest, most powerful and flexible environment for managing content.
As Content Studio is started using Java Web Start, the application is always kept up to date: When a new version is deployed on the server, all users automatically get the necessary updates the next time they start Content Studio. There is no need for upgrading, installing, etc. - Content Studio handles this every time the user clicks the icon on his/her desktop.
This also applies to modules: When a new module is installed on the server, the new functionality automatically appears in Content Studio without any need for manual work. For example: When the Escenic Statistics module is installed, all Content Studio users get access to the statistical data when they restart Content Studio.
Escenic Content Studio is currently avialable in English, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish and Danish, and supports content in any character set.
