Amazon Studios Teams up with Avid to Deliver Advanced Production Editorial in the AWS Cloud
By Jamie G
Avid has recently announced their three-year agreement to enable Amazon Studios’ use of Avid’s Media Composer editing tool, NEXIS storage and MediaCentral platform on Amazon Web Services (AWS). This gives creative teams the same experience and performance as on-premises editorial bay. Including collaborative workflows with shared storage and end-to-end media management.
Check out some highlights from Avid’s Press Release below.
Editors need to access massive sets of media files that have traditionally been stored in the same location as the editing team. In collaboration with Avid, Amazon Studios will untether their editorial process to allow creative work to happen from almost anywhere, and centralize the editorial and content workflows in the cloud. This collaboration will bring Avid’s Emmy-winning Media Composer software tool and Avid NEXIS media storage solution
Avidsto editors and other content contributors wherever they are, supporting creative teams that are spread across the globe.
“Amazon Studios is prolific in its sheer output of original series and features that achieve the highest standard of creativity and quality. By building their creative workflows around a complete set of Avid tools and platforms in the cloud, Amazon Studios is kicking off a new era of productivity and collaboration for their creative teams and contributors. Avid is delighted that our open technologies are being chosen by more customers who are innovating how content is produced in the cloud, on a global scale.”
Jeff Rosica, Chief Executive Officer & President of Avid
“We are on a journey to provide a best-in-class creative platform for our productions. Studio in the Cloud is our overarching vision for how we provide our creative teams with a cloud-based toolset that they can use wherever they are in the world. Avid is a central component of this vision, so we are thrilled to be starting this new partnership with them.”
Ben Stanbury, Worldwide Head of Technology for Amazon Studios
Check out the full Press Release here!
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