Tutorial: How to Use Avid NEXIS | PRO with axle Starter Media Management
By Jim Bask
How to Use Avid NEXIS | PRO with axle Starter Media Management
Art of the Cut author Steve Hullfish demos how to use axle Starter for media management and metadata-enhanced proxy screening with Avid NEXIS | PRO. While producing this tutorial, Steve was on location editing with Avid Media Composer and an Avid NEXIS | PRO set up in a trailer on the set or from his apartment near set with multiple Media Composer systems set up, which means he can be editing while the other systems are handling assistant editor work and things like ingest and transcoding.
David Colantuoni of Avid and Ryan Salazar of Broadcast Beat discuss the successful launch of Nexis at the SMPTE 2016 Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition
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