Avid CTMS API

Name: Avid CTMS API API
Brand: Avid CTMS API
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✓ Official Vendor SpecMediaVideo Processingbearer, oauth212 EndpointsREST

For Agents

Browse, search, and export video and audio assets across Avid MediaCentral systems through a unified HAL+JSON interface for media operations workflows.

Quickstart

Get started with Avid CTMS API in minutes using your preferred integration method.

# Add to your MCP client config (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf)
{
  "jentic": {
    "url": "https://api.jentic.com/mcp",
    "auth": "oauth"
  }
}

# Then ask your agent:
"search Avid media assets across systems"

# → Jentic returns the GET /events tool with parameter schema, agent executes.

Capabilities

What an agent can do with Avid CTMS API API.

Discover available MediaCentral service roots and system types via /avid.ctms.registry endpoints

Issue an OAuth 2.0 bearer token for CTMS access through /auth/v0/token

Browse the location hierarchy of media items, folders, and root items inside a CTMS realm

Search media assets across MAM, Production, and UX systems with shared filter semantics

GET STARTED

Start building with Avid CTMS API API

Explore with Jentic

View OpenAPI Document

The Avid CTMS (Common Type and Method System) API is a HAL-based REST interface for querying and managing media assets — video, audio, metadata, and folder structures — inside Avid MediaCentral environments. It exposes a unified object model across MediaCentral system types (Interplay MAM, Interplay Production, MediaCentral UX) so integrators can browse locations, search assets, run exports, and resolve service roots without writing per-system clients. Authentication uses OAuth 2.0 client-credentials issuing bearer tokens via /auth/v0/token.

Use Cases

Patterns agents use Avid CTMS API API for, with concrete tasks.

★ Cross-System Media Search

Broadcasters and post-production houses operate multiple Avid systems (MAM, Production, UX) and use the CTMS search endpoint to query them with a shared filter syntax. The /search endpoint returns HAL-linked results across realms, replacing custom UIs that previously had to be written per-system.

Call /{serviceType};version=0;realm={realm}/search with a filter for clips tagged 'sports-highlights' created in the last 7 days, then return the asset IDs and locations

Service-Root Discovery

Integrations bootstrap by hitting /avid.ctms.registry;version=0/serviceroots to discover which Avid systems are available, what type each one is, and which CTMS service contracts they expose. This avoids hard-coding system URLs and lets workflows adapt as new MediaCentral instances come online.

Call GET /avid.ctms.registry;version=0/serviceroots, list each service root's systemType, and return the service URLs the agent can call against

Location Browsing and Export

Operators browse the folder/location hierarchy of a realm using /locations endpoints, select items, and trigger export jobs through the Export tag. CTMS keeps the browse-then-export pattern consistent across MAM and Production so the same agent code works against either backend.

Browse /{serviceType};version=0;realm={realm}/locations/items to find items under the 'Daily Rushes' folder, then submit an export request for the selected item IDs

Agent-Driven Newsroom Workflows via Jentic

AI agents in newsroom and content-supply workflows call CTMS through Jentic to find and prepare media on producer cues. Jentic exposes the 12 CTMS operations as discoverable tools so the agent can resolve service roots, search assets, and queue exports from a single conversational request.

Given producer cue 'pull all Champions League final clips from yesterday', search Jentic for 'search Avid CTMS', call the search endpoint with the appropriate filter, and queue an export of the matching assets

Key Endpoints

12 endpoints — the avid ctms (common type and method system) api is a hal-based rest interface for querying and managing media assets — video, audio, metadata, and folder structures — inside avid mediacentral environments.

METHOD

PATH

DESCRIPTION

POST

/auth/v0/token

Issue an OAuth 2.0 bearer token

GET

/avid.ctms.registry;version=0/serviceroots

List available service roots

GET

/avid.ctms.registry;version=0/serviceroots/{systemType}

List service roots for a specific system type

GET

/{serviceType};version={version};realm={realm}/locations/items

Browse location items

GET

/{serviceType};version={version};realm={realm}/search

Search assets in a realm

GET

/{serviceType};version={version};realm={realm}/search/filters

List available search filters

POST

/auth/v0/token

Issue an OAuth 2.0 bearer token

GET

/avid.ctms.registry;version=0/serviceroots

List available service roots

GET

/avid.ctms.registry;version=0/serviceroots/{systemType}

List service roots for a specific system type

GET

/{serviceType};version={version};realm={realm}/locations/items

Browse location items

GET

/{serviceType};version={version};realm={realm}/search

Search assets in a realm

Why though Jentic?

Three things that make agents converge on Jentic-routed access.

Credential isolation

Avid CTMS OAuth client credentials are stored encrypted in the Jentic vault. Jentic exchanges them for short-lived bearer tokens at /auth/v0/token on the agent's behalf — raw credentials never enter the agent's context.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search by intent (e.g., 'search media assets') and Jentic returns the matching CTMS operation from the 12 available, with the HAL templated path parameters (serviceType, version, realm) populated from the registry response.

Time to first call

Direct CTMS integration: 1-2 weeks for OAuth, registry discovery, HAL link traversal, and per-realm search wiring. Through Jentic: under 1 hour — search, load schema, execute.

Related APIs

Alternatives and complements available in the Jentic catalogue.

Complementary

Vimeo

Pair Avid CTMS asset management with Vimeo for downstream distribution and viewer playback.

Use Vimeo when the workflow needs to publish or stream finished video; use Avid CTMS for the production-side asset management.

Complementary

Cloudinary

Cloudinary handles transformations and delivery of media that Avid CTMS produced internally.

Use Cloudinary for resizing, transcoding, and CDN delivery; use Avid CTMS for the upstream MediaCentral asset workflow.

Complementary

Mux

Mux handles streaming-quality video delivery and analytics downstream of an Avid post-production pipeline.

Use Mux when the workflow ends in OTT delivery or live streaming; use Avid CTMS for production asset management.

FAQs

Specific to using Avid CTMS API API through Jentic.

What authentication does the Avid CTMS API use?

Avid CTMS uses OAuth 2.0 client-credentials. POST to /auth/v0/token with your client credentials to receive a bearer token, then send it on subsequent requests. Through Jentic, your CTMS client credentials live in the Jentic vault and tokens are issued and refreshed automatically.

Can I search across multiple MediaCentral systems with the Avid CTMS API?

Yes. The CTMS contract is shared across MAM, Production, and UX, so the same /search endpoint works against any realm exposed in /avid.ctms.registry serviceroots. Filter semantics are shared so cross-system queries do not need per-system code paths.

What are the rate limits for the Avid CTMS API?

Rate limits depend on the deployed Avid environment rather than a global Avid policy — CTMS is typically run on customer-controlled MediaCentral installations. Coordinate with the system administrator on call rates and back off on HTTP 429 if returned.

How do I run an asset search through Jentic?

Search Jentic for 'search Avid media assets', load the schema for GET /{serviceType};version={version};realm={realm}/search, and execute with the realm and filter arguments. Jentic returns the matching CTMS operation directly so the agent skips browsing the HAL contracts.

How do I discover which Avid systems are available?

Call GET /avid.ctms.registry;version=0/serviceroots to list the available service roots and their system types (MAM, Production, UX). Use GET /avid.ctms.registry;version=0/serviceroots/{systemType} to filter to one system type when you already know which kind you need.

Is the Avid CTMS API free to use?

CTMS is part of the Avid MediaCentral platform and is licensed alongside the underlying MediaCentral installation. There is no separate per-call fee — costs are governed by your Avid contract and deployment scale.