Lowering costs across the board is important for any business.  If that business also includes video production of any kind, the cost of doing business increases quickly.  This is no secret, especially for the manufacturers of the various types of equipment to do video production.  Fortunately there are still some companies looking to push the products forward technologically but not at the expense of those customers.  Avid is one of those companies.  With their MediaCentral | Editorial Management, they have given the power for post-production to become a more collaborative environment.  Allowing anyone on the team to work on projects from anywhere on any workstation at any time.  This not only lowers cost in speeding up the process, but it eliminates the need to purchase power-house computers to accomplish next-level work.  However if a customer has the financial ability to incorporate an Avid NEXIS | PRO in their workflow, MediaCentral | Editorial Management can also improve your production which will also result in lowered costs.  To get the most out of Avid Media Composer | Ultimate across your post-production needs and accelerate your project’s workflow, Avid’s MediaCentral | Editorial Management is the last piece of the puzzle.

For Avid editors, it provides a completely integrated media panel within Media Composer | Ultimate, making it easy to search and access bins and clips across Avid NEXIS. And it makes it easy for PAs to create and organize projects and bins using a simple browser interface to support the editing team—without requiring Media Composer. Through Avid’s unique HyperBin architecture, it delivers enhanced collaborative capabilities, enabling teams to stay in sync, have greater control over their media, and turn around their best work faster than ever before.  Resulting in the ability to accelerate the editing process.

Another request we have received is about managing and controlling the costs associated with post production, as well as being able to leverage the role of the Assistant Editor.  With this release of MediaCentral | Editorial Management, there is no need to invest in expensive workstations to jumpstart new projects or facilitate the review process.  MediaCentral | Editorial Management enables anyone on the team to create, browse, search for, organize, and manage projects, bins, and media—as well as play sequences—using any computer.

MediaCentral | Editorial Management is easy to deploy and maintain, so you’ll be up and running in no time. It installs through a streamlined configuration wizard and leverages your existing Avid NEXIS user management and access control configurations automatically, so team members only see the workspaces to which they have access….[continue reading]

GET GREATER MEDIA PERFORMANCE AND PROTECTION

Trade up your storage now and get huge savings on Avid NEXIS

From broadcast, on demand, and OTT, to video streaming, social media, and mobile apps, media organizations are under pressure to create more content for these platforms to survive and thrive in today’s digital domain. That’s a whole lot of media! Avid NEXIS takes the stress and complexity out of even the most demanding production pipelines, enabling your team to share media and complete projects faster, together.

And now through December 17, 2018, you can get greater performance, protection, capacity, and savings when you trade in your old Avid ISIS or third-party storage system towards a more powerful and reliable Avid NEXIS shared storage or nearline solution.

Why trade up to Avid NEXIS?

• Accelerate team collaboration across all facets of production—from online and nearline, to high-speed finishing
• Protect prized media with the utmost security against up to five simultaneous disk failures
• Experience greater performance with access to more than 25 GB/s of bandwidth
• Scale capacity and bandwidth as needed, with more than 6 PB of total networked storage
• Get the flexibility to provision and repurpose your storage for your production needs
• Adapt workspace capacity, performance, and protection on the fly to the project and client
• Boost workflow efficiency across your entire MediaCentral production environment
• Get more reliable storage and significant savings when you take advantage of this offer

Get serious savings

GET GREATER MEDIA PERFORMANCE AND PROTECTION

Trade up your storage now and get huge savings on Avid NEXIS

From broadcast, on demand and OTT, to video streaming, social media and mobile apps, media organizations are under pressure to create more content for these platforms to survive and thrive in today’s digital domain.  That’s a whole lot of media!  Avid NEXIS takes the stress and complexity out of even the most demanding production pipelines, enabling your team to share media and complete projects faster, together. And now through December 17, 2018, you can get greater performance, protection, capacity and savings when you trade in you old Avid ISIS or third-party storage system towards a more powerful and reliable Avid NEXIS shared storage or nearline solution.

Why trade up to Avid NEXIS?

• Accelerate team collaboration across all facets of production- from online and nearline, to high-speed finishing
• Protect prized media with the utmost security against up to five simultaneous disk failures
• Experience greater performance with access to more than 25 GB/s of bandwidth
• Scale capacity and bandwidth as needed, with more than 6 PB of total networked storage
• Get the flexibility to provision and repurpose your storage for your production needs
• Adapt workspace capacity, performance and protection on the fly to the project and client
• Boost workflow efficiency across your entire MediaCentral production environment
• Get more reliable storage and significant savings when you take advantage of this offer

Get serious savings

Trade in…	Towards…	And save…
One Avid ISIS | 7500 engine (128 TB)	One Avid NEXIS | E4 (120 or 200 TB)	$12,000 USD
Up to four Avid ISIS | 7500 engines (128 TB)	One Avid NEXIS | E5 (480 or 800 TB)	$12,000 USD per engine—up to $48,000 USD with a four-engine trade-up
One Avid ISIS | 7500 engine (64 TB)	One Avid NEXIS | E4 (120 or 200 TB)	$8,000 USD
Up to four Avid ISIS | 7500 engines (64 TB)	One Avid NEXIS | E5 (480 or 800 TB)	$8,000 USD per engine—up to $32,000 USD with a four-engine trade-up
One Avid ISIS | 5000 engine (16 or 32 TB)	One Avid NEXIS | E4 (120 or 200 TB)	$4,000 USD
One Avid ISIS | 5500 engine (16, 32, or 64 TB)	One Avid NEXIS | E4 (120 or 200 TB)	$4,000 USD
One Avid ISIS | 2500 or 2000 engine (160 or 120 TB)	One Avid NEXIS | E5 NL (480 TB)	$8,000 USD
One Avid ISIS | 2500 or 2000 engine (320 or 240 TB)	One Avid NEXIS | E5 NL (960 TB)	$16,000 USD
One third-party* storage solution with a minimum 20 TB capacity and 16 HDDs	One Avid NEXIS | E4 (120 or 200 TB)	$4,000 USD

Put an end to production bottlenecks and your aging disk drive worries when you trade up to Avid NEXIS today.  Contact Avid Sales or your local reseller for details and take advantage now.

But hurry- this special offer expires December 17, 2018

*Eligible third-party systems include storage from EditShare, Facilis, ProMax, Quantum, and Studio Network Solutions with at least 16 hard disk drives, a minimum 20 TB capacity, and a maximum age of 6 years at the time of trade-in.

Opus isn’t just Israel’s largest post-production house. With three locations—two in Tel Aviv and another in Jerusalem—it just might rival the size and capabilities of any facility on the planet. Its stats are staggering. With 20 full-time staff and more than 200 editors coming through their doors at any given time, Opus’ workflow is powered by MediaCentral and boasts 100 Avid suites, including 20 Media Composer workstations, with Media Composer | Symphony Option providing color correction and mastering capabilities. Multiple Pro Tools suites enable the most sophisticated post-production sound design. Recently the facility added a range of Avid NEXIS software-defined storage solutions to better support the latest high-resolution workflows and collaborative post production.]

Many of the country’s hugely popular reality shows, including Master Chef, X Factor, Israel’s Got Talent, and the Israeli version of American Idol, are all completed at Opus. With demanding, time-dependent workflows, Opus needed to ensure its Avid suites had the necessary audio and video tools, easy access to media, and significantly, a collaborative environment.

The power of Avid NEXIS | PRO and Avid NEXIS | E4 storage engines enables uncompressed 4K coloring, a first for the facility. It also brings time savings and greater efficiency. “It’s the first time we started working in a shared environment in high-resolution workflows,” says Dori. “It’s a major step for us and for the entire industry in Israel.” Prior to the NEXIS upgrade, online work was conducted on local storage which caused bottlenecks for reality programming in particular. Junior editors would have to wait until lead editors were finished before the next stage could be completed. Now transcoding can begin while an online editor is working in the same suite. Media can be shared instantly and editing functions conducted simultaneously….[continue reading]

Today’s highly competitive, media-intensive production environments require collaborative workflows, high-speed transfer, and vast storage resources. Get all this and more with Avid NEXIS | PRO which is now available with more storage and expandability than ever before. The standard Avid NEXIS | PRO engine now includes 40TB of storage. That’s twice as much as the previous generation with the same great features and at the same great price. Plus, these larger storage volumes mean you can expand an Avid NEXIS | PRO system to a total of 160TB with 4 new 40TB engines… Read More

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“NHK, I think, is a precursor, especially with the Tokyo Olympics coming,” said Avid CEO Louis Hernandez in a conference call with investors yesterday. “All the broadcasters are going to have to get ready before then, at least the ones who have [Olympic] licensing rights, because it’s a requirement.”

Overall adoption of the MediaCentral platform continues to grow, Hernandez said, noting that the base has grown 27% over the last year to more than 50,000 licensed enterprise users. And he provided more details on a recently announced deal with Viacom that he said may help reverse a trend away from Avid gear by making more users aware that Adobe software can be used with the MediaCentral platform….[continue reading].

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AVID ARTIST | DNXIQ PROFESSIONAL VIDEO I/O INTERFACE

Edit massive 4K files with ease
Accelerate your HD, Ultra HD, 2K, and 4K workflow. With the Avid Artist | DNxIQ® video interface, you can take intelligent command of your media workflows in the most efficient and flexible ways. Capture, monitor, and output media quickly—in the highest quality possible. And accelerate editing with Avid DNxHR encoding and audio punch-ins to Media Composer. Whether you choose the standalone interface to use with your favorite Avid and third-party creative tools or bundle it with Media Composer, Avid Artist | DNxIQ simplifies your workflow, so you can complete projects faster.

Thunderbolt 3 and PCIe 3 support give you more speed, more pixels, and more playout options. You also get the flexibility to address ever-changing content demands—efficiently and easily—and deliver to a broader array of channels and devices.

You also get built-in encoding to Avid DNxHR so that you can edit massive 4K files with ease. And real-time format and frame-rate conversion on output and playback, thanks to accelerated Universal Mastering.

Universal Mastering offers no-fuss, real-time format and frame-rate conversion on output and playback, making it the perfect complement to the Media Composer | Symphony Option

Get Universal Mastering

To speed and ease playback and tape workflows, Avid Artist | DNxIQ offers real-time Universal Mastering, offering quick format cross-conversion on all baseband output SDI, HDMI, and analog connections.

Connect your entire studio

Easily connect cameras, video decks, audio interfaces, routers, switchers, mics, monitor displays, speakers, and other devices in your workflow. Avid Artist | DNxIQ offers a variety of high-quality analog and digital connections, including 12G SDI, optical, HDMI, XLR, component, composite, and more. Plus, only Avid Artist | DNxIQ enables you to perform audio punch-ins to Media Composer using the front-panel mic input.

Monitor and encode video

Conveniently monitor video ingest and output using the HD LCD display. And speed up editing with onboard hardware processing, which provides real-time or accelerated Avid DNxHR encoding, color conversion, and up/down/cross conversion.

Get Thunderbolt and PCIe speed

Get the bandwidth you need to handle the highest resolution video formats, whether you use a Mac or PC. Avid Artist | DNxIQ features both high-speed Thunderbolt 3 and PCIe 3.0-ready*(adapter sold separately) connectivity. Experience exceptional performance, highly accurate time sync, and ultra-low latency—even with the most demanding 4K RGB workflows.

Avid NEXIS | Pro

Get proven, real-time collaboration—for everyone

Get the performance and reliability of Avid NEXIS in a more affordable system designed for small video or audio production teams. Avid NEXIS | PRO offers real-time collaboration to accelerate your media workflow. Find and share media fast. Adapt workspace capacity, performance, and protection as requirements change. And get the same secure and reliable workflows trusted by an industry. Plus, get radically simple media management with a two-user license for axle Starter included at no additional charge.

Even better? If you want to play on par with the big Hollywood studios, but don’t have a blockbuster-size budget, Avid NEXIS | PRO is also available as part of three powerhouse post-production Avid Team bundles. Unite and arm your team with the same industry-leading video, storage, and audio tools used across the biggest studios—all for an indie price. Not only will these bundles save you hours of production time daily, you’ll save thousands of dollars over purchasing these award-winning tools individually.

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Just north of San Diego, in the seaside town of Carlsbad, Scratch Media has been producing award-winning video and live events for world-renown brands, nonprofits, and higher-education for over a decade. Like many creative agencies, to stay competitive, they need to deliver more and deliver it faster. To help meet demand, Scratch recently upgraded their entire infrastructure to handle 4K/UHD media.

Collaboration is an important part of the team’s workflow. At any given time, three or four editors will need simultaneous access to shared storage using Scratch Media’s five edit bays. For urgent projects, it’s not unusual to use all five bays. “We’re in a shared environment and we want to be able to collaborate and be able to hand off projects seamlessly. Avid NEXIS | PRO is game-changing technology and it allows us to work safer and smarter… our clients demand high quality video content faster than ever before,” says Post Production Manager, Kigh Sturdevan.

By design, the speed and flexibility that Avid NEXIS | PRO offers not only makes this possible, but also simple to implement. “We’re charging hard for a deadline. I might be working on the same project as editors in other rooms,” says editor, Dave Schweitzer. “Everybody is able to work on a portion of a sequence to meet that deadline and make the client happy.”

With such tight deadlines, any time that can be saved is a bonus—for example by being able to work on media while it is being uploaded. “I don’t have to wait until that’s all done. I can start looking through selects… I can even start editing before all the media is in,” adds Alice Lemon, editor at Scratch Media

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