Within the Distributed Video Production project (European Union ACTS A089), the goal of the Distributed Video Editing, Archival and Retrieval (DVER) application is to provide broadcasters with a complete solution for distributed video post-production. This system should combine together archival, retrieval, and editing functionalities in order to increase the accessibility and reuse of archive material. Moreover, the system should be geographically distributed, guarantee a high degree of portability to different platforms, and employ digital video using standard compression formats. All these objectives have been achieved, and a complete prototype has been integrated and put in operation by our end user (MegaChannel TV) for news post-production.