Avid Obtains Nexidia Technologies
By Jim Bask
By Jose Antunes
AVID ACQUIRES NEXIDIA TECHNOLOGIES
Wish you had simple tools that will find every clip that contains certain words in seconds? Or in an automated manner ensure that your captions, languages, and video descriptions are of a higher quality? Now you can, with Avid. And that’s just the beginning.
The addition of dialog and audio analysis product and technologies from Nexidia to the MediaCentral platform gives media and entertainment professionals new levels of creativity and efficiency for content creation and distribution workflows, says Avid.
Avid acquired the exclusive licensing the rights to develop and commercialize Emmy Award-winning media and entertainment technologies and solutions from Nexidia. The addition of Nexidia solutions will complement the MediaCentral platform, and allow Avid to further deliver on its commitment to give media and entertainment professionals more content creation and distribution workflows with greater choice, flexibility, and operational efficiency, a key tenet of Avid Everywhere.
Avid will integrate Nexidia’s media and entertainment products, like Dialogue Search and Illuminate with Comply, QC, and Align modules into the MediaCentral Platform, infusing MediaCentral with new and unique content discovery capabilities, and expanded quality assurance, reporting and content repair capabilities. Media and entertainment professionals worldwide rely on these products to help automate content creation and distribution workflows, giving them more time for creative freedom.
Avid can now license Nexidia’s unique phonetic indexing technology, Search Grid, to other developers of professional media applications, and will continue to support the integration of Nexidia products and technologies with third-party solutions, underscoring Avid’s commitment to openness. [Continue Reading…]