Understanding the Fast Bar

The Fast Bar at the top of the screen provides easy access to available apps. If you reduce the size of your browser window to a point at which all apps cannot be displayed, the Fast Bar responsively scales by hiding apps from right to left. You can access hidden apps by clicking the app overflow button, illustrated below.

The following table provides a list of the most common MediaCentral Cloud UX apps. Your system might include more apps or fewer apps than those detailed below.

Button	Title	Description
	Acquire	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. For more information, see Working with the Acquire App.
	Associations	The Associations app is used to show, add, edit, and delete associations between Asset Management assets. You can also view the relatives of Production Management assets. For more information, see Using the Associations App.
	Bookmark	The Bookmark app allows you to organize and view web links directly from within the MediaCentral Cloud UX user interface. Administrators can create and share links with all users. For more information, see Using the Bookmark App.
	Browse	The Browse app provides easy content navigation and viewing with a familiar web search approach; analysis and details of any asset type such as videos, audio clips, and graphics; and quick forward and backward scrubbing through any clip. This app is opened by default when you sign into MediaCentral Cloud UX. For more information, see Using the Browse App.
	Clip Mover	The Clip Mover app provides organizations with a method of transferring an incoming, growing recording to playout without having to set an outpoint first. For more information, see Using the Clip Mover App .
	Ingest	The Ingest app allows you to import field footage shot in various formats into MediaCentral Cloud UX. The imported clips can be quickly processed against pre-defined profiles that orchestrate copy, naming and transcode processes via a powerful rules system. For more information, refer to the Avid MediaCentral \| Ingest User's Guide.
	Inspector	The Inspector app allows you to view information about an asset's properties or metadata, similar to the functionality of the Object Inspector window in the Avid Production Management Access client application. For more information, see Using the Inspector App.
	Log	The Log app lets you create a layout especially for live event logging, such as a particular sporting event, reality show episode, or other production. You can design the layout to include data that is specific to that production and then use the template in the Log app to quickly create logs for the production, using the data specified. For more information, see Working with the Log App.
	Process	The Process app lets you monitor all processes you created, such as Send To Playback jobs, draft sequence creation, and others. For more information, see Working with the Process App.
	Publisher	The Publisher app is a SaaS (Software as a Service) offering in which all transcoding, content staging, and publishing is handled automatically, enabling you to spend more time creating high-value content that drives traffic and revenue. The app also provides the ability to customize your content with preroll, graphic and text overlays, subtitles, and more. For more information, see Using the Publisher App.
	Rundown	In MediaCentral Cloud UX, you can create Newsroom Management stories, edit them in the Rundown app, and save them on a Newsroom Management server. The Rundown app includes an area for a Newsroom Management queue and story, as well as components of the Asset Editor. For more information, see Working with the Rundown App.
	Search	The Search app provides a powerful global search and filtering tool that enables you to locate video, audio, graphics, and document content — based on searches that use keywords, metadata, and other specified criteria For more information, see Using the Search App.
	Tasks (personal app)	The Tasks app shows you all tasks that allow you to complete an action. These tasks can be part of processes that you created or have been created by other users and delegated or assigned to you. For more information, see Working with the Tasks App (Asset Management).
	Wolftech	The Wolftech app provides access to an integrated Wolftech News story-centric workflow management system. For additional information, see Working with the Wolftech App, and the Wolftech News documentation.
	More Options	Allows you to personalize the MediaCentral Cloud UX user interface.
	Notifications (personal app)	Alerts you to system events. For more information, see The Notifications App.
	My Collection	Allows you to gather assets in a virtual clipboard for later use. For more information, see Using the My Collection Tool.
	User Profile	The User Profile menu includes the following entries: About: Opens a screen with information about the product such as the version number and System ID. The About window also displays the name of the currently signed in user and the type of User License currently consumed by the user. User Settings: Opens the User Settings dialog box with configuration options available for modification to non-administrative users. For more information, see User Settings. Help: Opens the MediaCentral Cloud UX Help system. For more information, see Using the Help & Learn System. Sign Out: Leaves the application and returns to the sign-in screen.

Your access to these and other apps depends on the following factors:

Is the app installed?
Is your system properly licensed for the app?
Has your system administrator enabled the app’s entitlement for your user account (user group)?

Entitlements can be assigned by administrators through the MediaCentral Cloud UX User Settings app. If your user account does not include an entitlement for an app, it does not appear in the user interface.

Managing the Fast Bar

The Fast Bar displays all apps that you have access to by default. The apps are also displayed in a default order. However, you can customize the Fast Bar to display a sub-set of those apps, and / or change the default order. This workflow applies to Core apps only.

If you hide an app (for example Rundown) and you use the Open In option in the context menu for an asset (for example a rundown), the app opens but the associated icon remains hidden in the Fast Bar.

Changes to the Fast Bar are not saved with Layouts and they are not persistent. If you sign out of MediaCentral Cloud UX and then back in again, the apps revert to their default order and they are all displayed.

To show or hide apps in the Fast Bar:

Click the More Options button and select Manage Fast Bar.

The Fast Bar goes into edit mode and the apps "wiggle" as a visual indicator of this mode.
Hover your cursor over the app that you want to hide.

As illustrated below, a show/hide icon appears below the app.
Click the show/hide button to hide or display the app.

When you hide an app, the app dims to 50% opacity to indicate that it is hidden. Additionally, the show/hide icon changes to an open eye. You can click the eye to show the app in the Fast Bar.

The Browse app is excluded from this workflow. You cannot hide the Browse app.
When you have finished customizing the Fast Bar, click the Done button to confirm your changes.

To reorder the apps in the Fast Bar:

Click the More Options button and select Manage Fast Bar.

The Fast Bar goes into edit mode and the apps "wiggle" as a visual indicator of this mode.
Drag and drop an app to a new position.

When you drag an app, a blue frame appears around the app. The following illustration shows a user dragging the Process app to the left of the Search app.
Release the mouse button to drop the app into position.
When you have finished customizing the Fast Bar, click the Done button to confirm your changes.