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Media organizations, broadcasters, TV and film post-production facilities and other content creators will achieve unsurpassed reliability, openness and cost-efficiency in their workflows with Avid® (Nasdaq: AVID) newest collaborative storage release, Avid NEXIS® 2020, a purpose-built solution for production teams of all sizes that need to keep working from anywhere to stay ahead of surging demand for new content. Workflow gains coming from Avid NEXIS 2020 include up to 40 percent more shared storage in the same footprint; optimized content mirroring to eliminate downtime and data loss; flexible storage tiering that combines on-premises and cloud resources; and broader support for third-party tools.

“Avid NEXIS 2020 introduces deployment flexibility and openness that enables media creators to work from anywhere to produce high-quality content during these uncertain times with total confidence their business is backed by the most reliable, open and cost-effective media storage available today,” said Dana Ruzicka, Chief Product Officer, Avid. “Avid NEXIS 2020 is a leap forward in helping to solve today’s rapidly evolving workflow requirements. With easily scalable resources on-premises, in the cloud or both, businesses can better deal with today’s demanding content creation needs including larger, more sophisticated projects—while always ensuring teams have seamless access to all the storage they need wherever they may need it.”

New Avid NEXIS 2020 features include “All-Mirror” high-availability engines to protect workflows against the widest range of conditions for failure, including network disruptions, disk loss or the loss of an entire engine. For time-sensitive broadcast news, enterprise post-production and live events, All-Mirror engines provide the highest level of redundancy at the lowest price point, ensuring teams will avoid workflow disruption and meet their deadlines.

Avid NEXIS 2020 also debuts with larger capacity drives that enable workflows to scale more substantially and cost-effectively. New 140 TB and 160 TB media packs provide higher density storage at a lower cost, raising the total storage capacity up to 40 percent per engine, while decreasing the dollars per terabyte to store, manage, and edit content. In addition to providing the industry’s first software-defined media storage, Avid NEXIS 2020 now offers even greater flexibility through storage tiering, which can secure media across a single pool of mixed resources, both on-premises and in the cloud, that can include flash, online, nearline and archive.

Since the introduction of Avid NEXIS four years ago, Avid’s focus on innovating purpose-built storage for media has made it the real-time collaborative open solution for thousands of post houses, broadcasters, studios and media creators. Tens of thousands of editors, producers, assistants, journalists and other end users source, build, share and store their stories across countless on-premises, cloud and hybrid workflows incorporating Avid NEXIS with a growing range of third-party creative tools and asset management tools including those from Adobe, Apple, Blackmagic Design and FilmLight, among many others. Within the release of Avid NEXIS 2020, Avid introduces support for Autodesk-certified finishing and visual effects workflows.

“Avid NEXIS is such a huge part of our success because its efficiencies, speed and flexibility—everything that this high-powered shared storage can give me—continue to be a competitive advantage for us,” Mark Satuloff, Founder of Scratch Media, an Emmy® Award-winning full-service video producer.

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Now more than ever, you need to quickly and continuously deliver compelling content to keep audiences engaged. Attract and retain more viewers with high-quality, relevant content they can access fast, anywhere they roam. But if you have gaps in your processes that throttle workflow efficiency, lagging behind the competition will mean missed chances for audience loyalty and growth.

When the Carolina Panthers saw an opportunity to increase viewership by creating powerfully immersive content, they knew it was time to update their production facilities with future-ready solutions and turned to Avid as a trusted partner to help solve their business challenges.  By integrating Avid MediaCentral and Avid NEXIS shared storage into their workflow, they gained the flexibility and scalability necessary to drive game-day enthusiasm while delivering the best content to their fans, quickly.

As the media production team behind the Carolina Panthers knows well, it’s all about engagement. MediaCentral is fully equipped to fill the cracks on your path to winning productions whether you’re a leading sports team looking to bolster brand loyalty, a dynamic crew of two editors crafting an influential story, or anything in between. The latest update to MediaCentral serves up fresh features and powerful enhancements that let you take your workflow to the next level so that you won’t miss a beat in the race to content delivery.

What sets MediaCentral apart?

This unified platform and web-based user experience offers a customizable suite of creative tools and media management, scaling with ease from a simple to sophisticated solution. That means news, sports, and post-production teams can collaborate and create from anywhere on any device through MediaCentral’s web-based user experience.

It’s robust enough to handle everything you need to tackle day to day, from media ingest, advanced searching, and logging, to collaborating, editing, and publishing to multiple platforms simultaneously. In short, you can create better content faster and deliver it directly to a variety of outlets and devices, maximizing the ROI for your media—and keeping your audiences happy and tuned in–or coming back for more.

We’ve upgraded MediaCentral to make it even more of a powerhouse solution for your needs. New features include:

• Collaboration across multiple sites
• More intuitive searching features for finding media faster
• Phonetic indexing to find media based on spoken words or phrases
• Logging capabilities that enhance media searchability
• High-volume media ingest
• Graphics workflow integration for quick-turnaround news and sports production

When used with Avid’s compatible solutions, MediaCentral provides everything creative teams and broadcasters need to produce captivating productions.

Remote team? No problem.

Uniting geographically dispersed teams is a breeze. Communicate and collaborate more effectively with full access to media available through a simple graphical web browser or mobile interface. Journalists, editors, producers, loggers, assistants, and other creative contributors can access tasks, projects, and media from anywhere, using any device, enabling the whole team to create better stories and complete projects quicker.

Find your media when it’s crunch time

Ideal for sports and post production, the new Log app provides a customizable interface for loggers that want to make detailed notes and mark in/out points quickly. This enables other team members to search large amounts of media and find the right clips faster, especially with MediaCentral’s improved intuitive search capabilities that help you get the right results faster. The Phonetic Index option lets you find all clips that contain the spoken words you seek in seconds, too, cutting down on valuable time wasted searching for content.

Manage content for ultimate efficiency

When rich media pours in, your team can’t slow down. MediaCentral makes ingesting high volumes of content simple. With the Ingest desktop app, you gain automated file ingest through a web browser or volume ingest with full AMA support. MediaCentral also supports Microsoft Azure Cognitive and Media Services, enabling AI, speech-to-text, and machine learning capabilities within your powerful workflow. Plus, with new support for media analytics, your team will gain deeper search capabilities across archived content so that finding media quickly is easier than before.

We get it: one size doesn’t fit all in the business world. When you’re ready to take the next step, we’re here to set you up with some time with an Avid specialist so that you can discuss your specific needs.

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• Simplify the Story Creation:
  • Editorial Management can create and manipulate Media Composer shared bins from an easy to use browser interface. This empowers Producers, PAs, Story Editors and others to find the right shot, create sub-clips, sequences and edit a shot list timeline and save this for immediate use in Media Composer | Ultimate.
• Expanded Collaboration
  • Editorial Management manages media on Avid NEXIS and Avid NEXIS | PRO. This enables non-editors to start prepping bins and projects and adding content from Avid NEXIS directly to Media Composer | Ultimate bins for the editor.
• Shot List Timeline Editing (New in 2019.5)
  • Ability for a Story Editor or Show Runner to create and refine a sequence on a timeline in the building or at a remote location. Sequences edited in Editorial Management are instantly available in Media Composer bins.
• Group Clip Creation (New in 2019.5)
  • Ability to create group clips / multi-cam groups.
•  MediaCentral Phonetic Index (New in 2019.5)
  • Option to use Phonetic Index to search for clips that contain certain spoken words or phrases. Phonetic Indexing automatically indexes all video and audio content across the whole Avid NEXIS.
    • Typing a word or phrase will locate every clip that contains the matching word or phrase
    • Dialog matches are displayed as color-coded indicators in clips
• MediaCentral | Editorial Management Services Now Deployed in Docker Containers (New in 2019.5)
  • Dockers allow faster more reliable installation and updates
• Sequence Creation
  • Ability to create a sequence from a selection of master clips or subclips in a bin in the Editorial Management Browse App. The resulting sequence is saved in the bin where the selected master clips and/or subclips reside.
• Sequence Playback
  • Playback rendered Media Composer sequences enabling review and feedback using Media Composer Markers. 
• Create & Play Subclips
  • Create and playback sub-clips for use in Media Composer bins and sequences
• Share projects and media with everyone
  • If you use Media Composer | Ultimate, you already know the benefits of sharing projects and bins. Editorial Management takes this a big step further. Leveraging Avid’s new HyperBin technology, you can access shared projects, bins, and media —on practically any desktop or laptop
• Find Files Fast
  • Editorial Management makes it easy to locate the assets you need. Its built-in search and browse capabilities enable you to locate, view, add markers and access video, audio, and images in a variety of ways across Avid NEXIS or Avid NEXIS | PRO storage. You can also play video and audio content, get a closer look at the asset details, and add Media Composer markers.
• Accelerate Editing
  • For Media Composer | Ultimate editors, Editorial Management makes it easy to create, manage, and search through shared Media Composer | Ultimate projects and bins—even if they’re not open—and add Avid NEXIS-stored media to their own bins. In addition, Media Composer | Ultimate editors can browse through non-Avid media and link source files to their bins.
• Integrate MediaCentral into your editing application
  • No need to leave the comforts of your Media Composer | Ultimate editing window to search for media in Avid NEXIS. Just add the MediaCentral | Panel for Media Composer and you can access all assets on your Avid NEXIS right inside your editing application.

What are the target audiences for Editorial Management?
Editorial Management is workflow management designed for small to mid-size post production and creative teams that use Media Composer | Ultimate with Avid NEXIS shared storage. Editors working on Media Composer can use the embedded MediaCentral | Panel to work with assets stored on an Avid NEXIS system, through shared projects and bins. Additionally, producers and others can use the MediaCentral | Cloud UX web client to work with these same assets without opening Media Composer.


First Time Installations: How do I setup / install Editorial Management?
Editorial Management is super easy to install and set up. Its configuration wizard walks you through all the steps needed to integrate Editorial Management services with your Avid NEXIS storage, and because its user management and permissions control piggyback onto your current Avid NEXIS user settings, it requires no additional configuration or maintenance. Each team member only sees the workspaces to which they have access to in Avid NEXIS.
*For step by step installation instructions please refer to: MediaCentral | Editorial Management Installation Guide


Do you have to be running on Avid NEXIS?
Yes. Avid Media Composer HyperBins enables collaboration between editors using shared bins and projects. Avid NEXIS is the only supported and tested shared storage compatible with HyperBins. When you sign in to an Editorial Management server (either through Media Composer or MediaCentral | Cloud UX), you use credentials that are managed in the associated Avid NEXIS shared-storage system. Your Avid NEXIS credentials determine what shared storage workspaces you can access and use.

What are the minimum server hardware requirements?
Editorial Management requires the following hardware components:
Minimum Hardware:
The Editorial Management server must meet the following minimum specifications:

• CPU: Intel Xeon class, 12 logical CPUs
• RAM: 48 GB
• Storage: 200 GB SSD (solid state drive) for operating system and applications
• Network adapters: One adapter minimum. The adapter must meet the requirements specified in the Avid NEXIS documentation.

What are the Software Requirements?
Editorial Management requires the following software components:

• Microsoft Windows Server 2016 – Standard Edition

What version of Avid NEXIS and Avid Media Composer does MediaCentral | Editorial Management require?
MediaCentral | Editorial Management supports connecting to the following Avid solutions:

• Avid NEXIS v2018.6 (server and client) or later. *Recommended version is NEXIS 2019.2 – NEXIS 2019.4.0 (Do not use NEXIS 2019.4.1, NEXIS 2019.4.2 and NEXIS 2019.5)
• Avid Media Composer v2018.9 or later

Looking for the latest information on Editorial Management, or have a tip to share or need assistance?
The Avid MediaCentral for Post Facebook group is for all users of Avid MediaCentral | Editorial Management. This group is for peer-to-peer discussions of Avid products from: How To’s to installing and upgrades, getting started, and troubleshooting for what gear to buy. See the following link to get started and get connected: Avid MediaCentral for Post


How does Locked Bins work?
Users of shared projects in Media Composer are most likely familiar with the concept of locked bins.
If you open a bin that is located on shared storage in Media Composer, you get exclusive write access to that bin. Any other user that attempts to access that same bin sees a lock icon to alert them to the fact that the bin is currently owned by another user. When the original user closes the bin, the lock is released and another user can obtain write access

Editorial Management users can lock a bin by right-clicking on the bin and selecting “Lock Bin”.  This prevents Media Composer users from changing the contents of that locked bin until the lock is removed.


How do you open and use MediaCentral | Panel?
Before you can open and work with the MediaCentral | Panel, you need to sign in to a MediaCentral | Cloud UX server that is configured for your Avid NEXIS shared-storage system. Your username and password are managed by the shared-storage system, and your access to particular workspaces is controlled by these credentials.
When opening Media Composer you can login to the MediaCentral | Editorial Management server directly from Media Composer | Ultimate.
When working in Media Composer, you can open a panel that lets you view the contents of your
Avid NEXIS shared-storage system. You can use the MediaCentral | Panel to browse and search folders on your shared-storage system. When you find new assets that you want to use, you can copy them from a shared-storage folder into a bin and use them to edit a sequence



How do Opened Bins Work in the MediaCentral | Panel?
When you double-click a bin asset in the MediaCentral | Panel or drag an asset to a monitor from the MediaCentral | Panel, the asset’s bin is automatically opened and displayed in Media Composer. In Editorial Management, you can put the first bin in a convenient location, and subsequent bins that open will be added as tabs to the first bin.


What criteria is needed to playback sequences in the Browse App?
Sequences must have the following criteria to be played:

• In order for the sequence to play, all effects must be rendered, including dissolve.
• The sequence can support up to sixteen audio tracks.
• AMA media is supported.
• Cross-rate sequences are not supported (i.e., the sequence is in a different edit rate than the master clips). However, cross-rate sequences can be played if they are rendered.
• Audio pan/vol is not supported.

How do I create sequences in the Editorial Management Browse App?
To create sequences in the Browse App

• Open a bin that has the master clips and/or subclips you want to use to create a sequence.
• Select the master clips and/or subclips that you want to use to create the sequence, right-click and select Create Sequence. The Create Sequence dialog box opens. The clips you selected will appear in the Clip order field (in the order you selected them).
• (Option) Rename the sequence by clicking on the “New sequence” name and typing a new name for the sequence in the Sequence name field. 
• (Option) The order of the master clips/subclips can be changed by selecting one and moving it up or down in the list.
• Click the Submit button. A new sequence will be created using the selected master clips and/or subclips.
• The sequence will be created in the bin where the selected master clips and/or subclips reside. A default name is supplied.
• The Editorial Management shot list edit Timeline can be used to edit the sequence including
  • Add clips
  • Remove clips
  • Trim
  • Add and edit markers
• The bin may need to be refreshed after a few seconds to see the new sequence in the Browse App.

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“The market’s overwhelming response … has been unlike anything we’ve experienced in quite some time here at Avid,” said CEO Jeff Rosica in his opening remarks. “It better positions Avid to increase our adoption of our video creation tools, which will help to accelerate subscription growth with every type of user.” Rosica went on to say the new Media Composer is expected to arrive late in the second quarter, suggesting a June ship date.

Rosica also teased new pro audio and music products to be announced at Summer NAMM in Nashville, TN, without offering details.

Avid’s net revenue in the first quarter was $103.3 million, a 5.5% increase over the same period in the previous year. A small decline in maintenance revenue — as more users opt for subscription plans — was more than offset by an increase in subscriptions and strong sales of the company’s integrated solutions.

Slow and Steady into the Cloud

Asked about the timeline for Avid to begin racking up sales of cloud services, including its new Nexis Cloudspaces cloud archive offering, Rosica tamped down expectations. “I don’t think it’s going to be explosive,” he said. “It’s going to take time for that revenue to grow because it is a gradual building.” But he did note that it points the way for Avid to increase its market share in storage by providing new nearline, archive and cold storage services in addition to the high-performance shared storage systems that have been its bread and butter.

Rosica said revenue from Cloudspaces specifically should begin showing up in the second half of this year, as customers make the decision to pay for the service after the built-in 90-day trial period. And he said larger-scale cloud migrations, where users begin moving to Avid’s Microsoft Azure-hosted implementation of its MediaCentral workflow, are happening slowly, as media companies move very carefully into the cloud.

“We’ve been working with a number of large media customers and film studios on doing strategic moves of some of their workflows to the cloud,” he said. “It’ll take time to migrate over which, to be honest, is a good thing because if they went too fast you could see too aggressive of a hit to the cash flows of the company. I think the industry will go hybrid, and will go gradually.”

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….Although Media Composer and NEXIS are the key parts to most professional post environments, NEXIS also fully supports Adobe Premiere, Final Cut Pro X, DaVinci Resolve, EDIUS, and of course our DAW, Pro Tools.  While none of those third-party solutions have the same level of bin sharing capabilities as Media Composer, you can easily have them be part of a hybrid workflow, as many people often do.  Supporting third-party solutions is obviously a good thing, because it gives the creative teams more flexibility on how they want to support different projects.  But, as I mentioned earlier, Avid’s true goal is to help teams get their best work done faster.  And that’s where the next revolution in post workflows comes in with our new MediaCentral | Editorial Management.

Technically you’d have to classify it as asset management, but it’s more like collaboration management, as it does some things that have never been possible before.  I mentioned that Avid’s bin model was a key part of how we made collaborative post easy and reliable.  But even that was limited to a world where you needed both a Media Composer system as well as someone trained to use it.  The game changing part of Editorial Management is the new HyperBin architecture.  Simply through an easy to use web UI called MediaCentral | Cloud UX, anyone can browse and search all of the media they have access to on NEXIS.  More importantly, the user can also create Media Composer bins and folders right from that same web UI.  So, an assistant could literally be moving dailies around and prepping bins for an editor from anywhere in the world, provided they can get to the network that the NEXIS is on….read more