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F Series Benefits

• Better Media Pack Performance (increase of 80 MB/sec in Scale Out and 100 MB/sec for High Performance
• File capacity increased from 28 million files to 160 million files
• Upgraded network connections on Nexis Pro Plus, F2 and F5 NL. (F2 gets a 25 GB connection)
• Available as Perpetual or Subscription

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Prepetual Media Composer owners may Crossgrade to an Avid Subscription

Instead of renewing your upgrade rights and support each year you may choose to crossgrade now to a new Subscription license. These Ultimate subscriptions include Symphony, PhraseFind, ScriptSync and more at a great price.

Avid Media Composer Perpetual CROSSGRADE to Media Composer | Ultimate 1-Year Subscription

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Avid NEXIS | PRO+ 40TB Engine with annual Support Add-on

For independent professionals, small post-production, audio, house of worship, government, corporate, and media education environments, this professional-class standalone storage system can be used alongside other Avid NEXIS storage engines, but not physically mixed with them

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$11,650.00 MAP

In a recent blog post, Avid details the new Avid NEXIS | F2 SSD storage engine enables media production teams to scale and collaborate on editorial finishing, VFX, animation, color grading and DI workflows. With the new Avid NEXIS | F2 Solid State Drive (SSD) flash storage engine, Avid® showcased the following generation of its shared solutions.

The NEXIS | F2 SSD, which is currently available for purchase, greatly speeds up media workflows, enabling post-production teams to produce and deliver final video of greater quality more quickly than ever. The finishing of 4K, 8K, and HDR footage, as well as color grading, VFX, and animation, are some of the most difficult media workflows that Avid NEXIS | F2 SSD storage can handle.

Building on the proven and trusted Avid NEXIS storage platform used by thousands of media organizations, the Avid NEXIS | F2 SSD perfectly fits the performance requirements of today’s most demanding high-resolution workflows.

Ed Harper, Director of Product Management, Creative Product, Clouds and Storage at Avid

The new Avid NEXIS | F2 Solid State Drive (SSD) flash storage engine was introduced by Avid to complement the Avid NEXIS® range of media production storage solutions. The NEXIS | F2 SSD, which is currently available for purchase, greatly speeds up media workflows, enabling post-production teams to produce and deliver final video of greater quality more quickly than ever.

Outstanding performance and media protection

The finishing of 4K, 8K, and HDR footage, as well as color grading, VFX, and animation, are some of the most difficult media workflows that Avid NEXIS | F2 SSD storage can handle. With capacity to scale from 38.4TB to 307.2TB per engine, users benefit from additional space and improved performance while also minimizing total cost of ownership. The Avid NEXIS media packs on the NEXIS | F2 SSD can now deliver more than six gigabytes per second. A redundant storage controller and hot spare SSDs are used to deliver exceptional media protection and high availability.

Heightened focus on delivering higher-quality content faster

Post-production teams may work with greater collaborative performance and finish projects faster thanks to the increased speed offered by NEXIS | F2 SSD. Comprehensive media creation tool testing and support, including Avid Media Composer, Avid Pro Tools, and top third-party creative apps, give creative teams more options for producing more premium content more quickly.

Scale cost-effectively to match business needs

A flexible storage option that enables businesses to scale as their capacity and performance requirements grow is the NEXIS | F2 SSD. The highest-performance network connectivity is provided via dual redundant 100 Gbps Ethernet connections for each storage controller. Businesses may ensure they only pay for the configurations they need by having the option to right-size them. NEXIS | F2 SSD gives post-production teams the adaptability they need to access greater performance, durability, and continuity that keeps them competitive and up to date by allowing flexible modifications to capacity, processes, and configuration.

“Production teams continue to see growing demand for high-resolution original content amid increasing pressure to deliver projects faster and sharpen their competitive edge. Building on the proven and trusted Avid NEXIS storage platform used by thousands of media organizations, the Avid NEXIS | F2 SSD perfectly fits the performance requirements of today’s most demanding high-resolution workflows.”

Ed Harper, Director of Product Management, Creative Product, Clouds and Storage at Avid

All current Avid NEXIS systems are compatible with Avid NEXIS | F2 SSD. Avid NEXIS | F2 SSD administrators can instantly switch a workspace between performance tiers while retaining read and write access when utilized with Avid NEXIS online or nearline storage. Teams now have even more options for the right tiered storage solution to meet any of their production processes thanks to the addition of Avid NEXIS | F2 SSD to the Avid NEXIS family.

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Avid NEXIS | PRO+ 40TB Engine with Annual Support Add-on

For independent professionals, small post-production, audio, house of worship, government, corporate, and media education environments, this professional-class standalone storage system can be used alongside other Avid NEXIS storage engines, but not physically mixed with them

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$15,995.00 MSRP

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Features

• Avid NEXIS | VFS file system (enables you to access, scale, customize, reconfigure, manage, protect, and secure your system)
• 40 TB of storage capacity with a single Media Pack per engine (offering up to 480MB/s scale out and 700 MB/s high-performance storage group)
• Scalable from 40–160 TB by combining one to four
• Avid NEXIS | PRO+ engines together (cannot be mixed with F/E-series engines)
• Field-replaceable storage engine controller
• Two hot-swappable SSDs for system configuration and metadata management
• 10/25 Gigabit Ethernet (SFP28)
• Redundant power and cooling
• 2U rack-mountable chassis

Avid Media Composer
Ultimate 1-Year Subscription

Whether you are an aspiring video editor or independent professional bringing your next story to life—this is for you! The new Media Composer. Completely reimagined for what you need today and tomorrow, while maintaining everything you know and love about the Emmy®, Oscar®, and ACE Eddie award-winning tool that started it all. Experience all the new capabilities the minute they’re ready.

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Click HERE to watch our Liquid Lunch Webinar to learn more about Avid Nexis Edge

Avid Nexis Edge Features:

• New Avid solution for post-production workflows​
• Allows team collaboration while working from anywhere​
• Built to improve and replace Avid Editorial Management ​
• Uses familiar Media Composer and Avid NEXIS that editors know and love​
• Extends on-prem Avid NEXIS to remote team members ​
• Integrates with Adobe Premiere Pro ​

Broadfield is your source for Avid! Click here for Broadfield’s Guide to finding the right Media Composer license for your customers or give your Broadfield sales rep a call at 800-634-5178. We can help you determin the right Media Composer support plan, subscription, renewal or even floating license that’s best for your end-user.

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For professional editors and filmmakers who work independently and need advanced editing tools, this subscription version of Media Composer provides a complete feature set, with up to 24 video tracks, 64 audio tracks, and unlimited bins.

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Need to work together as a team in a post-production, news, or other media environment? Media Composer | Ultimate provides all the same editing tools as Media Composer, plus extended workflows for real-time collaboration.

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Do you have an Avid Media Composer Pertual License with active support plan? If so, this Support Plan Renewal gives you another year of updates and standard support for your Avid Media Composer Perpetual. 

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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.

Learn more about Avid HERE.

Check out some highlights from this article below.

The MediaCentral | Panel for Adobe Premiere Pro makes it easy to access clips and sequences across MediaCentral and Adobe databases for editing. Seamlessly import and export master clips in a Premiere Pro-supported format and edit on the spot. Simplify the media asset management process and enable the entire video production team to be more effective.

EXPERIENCE THE ADOBE-AVID INTEGRATION

The integration of Adobe Premiere Pro with Avid NEXIS and MediaCentral removes the barriers to collaboration and productivity on video production teams. Editors and video contributors can now orchestrate their video production workflow as they wish.

Check out the full article from Avid HERE.

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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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The answer is cloud-based storage. Our newest addition to the multi-award winning Avid NEXIS family is just the solution.

Avid NEXIS | Cloudspaces is designed for small- to medium-size news, sports, and post-production organizations that need to back up or free up their Avid NEXIS storage space. As an add-on service, it enables your team to store onsite projects and media offsite and scale storage space as needed on demand, in the cloud. Unlike other solutions, it doesn’t require additional software components or complex configuration to set up and maintain. That means lower costs, less risk, and fewer administrative errors.

Making Life Easier for Editors, Assistant Editors, Journalists, and Producers

Say you’re an editor, assistant editor, journalist, or producer in a post-production environment using Avid NEXIS storage. You need a way to park finished projects and media not currently in production so you can easily find and retrieve them in the future.

If your Avid NEXIS storage is full, you need to manually shuttle media to external NAS/DAS storage devices, making it hard to find the clips you need. Avid NEXIS | Cloudspaces makes it super easy to offload media, finished content, and suspended projects from your Avid NEXIS system to the cloud. And because Avid NEXIS workspaces and cloudspaces are both managed through the Avid NEXIS Management Console, it’s easy to organize,  find, retrieve, and restore what you need fast. With Cloudspaces, you no longer waste time searching for and wrangling media. That means more time to create projects and faster turnaround!

You also want to back up media and project files offsite while making sure your latest changes are protected. But backing up media offsite takes time and can be complicated. Avid NEXIS | Cloudspaces works like an extension of your on-premises Avid NEXIS workspaces, enabling you to safely back up media and project files to offsite cloudspaces. It eliminates complex processes and management while safeguarding your projects from loss.

Designed to Support Business Owners, CTOs, Engineers, IT Managers and System Architects

If you’re on the technical side of the house, you want a simple and safe way to back up media and projects offsite. But setting up and maintaining an offsite system is time-consuming and complex. That’s because it often involves additional hardware, multiple software components and labor intensive processes. That’s not the case with Avid NEXIS | Cloudspaces.

Avid NEXIS | Cloudspaces’ fully integrated offsite storage solution is incredibly simple to enable, set up, and maintain—with zero learning curve. You can activate and configure it quickly from the Avid NEXIS Management Console while leveraging your Avid NEXIS user access controls for built-in end-to-end security. And it uses the same familiar Avid NEXIS workspace semantics, making management easy.

Plus, with Avid NEXIS | Cloudspaces, it’s super easy for editors to offload media, finished content, and suspended projects from Avid NEXIS to the cloud. That means no more time-consuming manual processes and additional hardware for you to maintain.

Wouldn’t it be nice if you had a simple way to integrate a secure and effective backup solution that won’t disrupt production? As you know, integrating new systems can impact production if it involves any changes to the workflow or training. The good news is that teams can safely back up and park media to Avid NEXIS | Cloudspaces without having to learn new processes or change their workflow. Workspaces can be synced to your cloudspaces, without requiring any editor involvement. And media can be parked in the cloud to free up Avid NEXIS storage space, so production keeps moving.

You Too Can Try Backing Up and Parking Projects in the Cloud – For Free!!!

Avid NEXIS | Cloudspaces offers a fully integrated offsite storage solution—without requiring any additional hardware or software. Simply upgrade your Avid NEXIS Enterprise or Avid NEXIS | PRO storage systems to the latest release of the Avid NEXIS | FS file system software (2019.4 or later).  Then choose from a variety of subscription plans in your Avid Account and get 3 months of free Cloudspaces storage.

Stop investing money in NAS or DAS storage drives that add complexity and risk to production workflows every time you need extra storage. With Avid NEXIS | Cloudspaces, you can match your storage expense to your business needs, easily scale up your capacity as needed, and safely park and back up media while leveraging Avid NEXIS to manage your on-premises workspaces and cloudspaces together for greater workflow efficiency.

Remember, all Avid NEXIS systems come with 2 TB of cloud storage  so you can start storing media in the cloud immediately. What are you waiting for?

Check out the full article HERE

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Editorial Management streamlines post production by providing the complete spectrum of workflow capabilities, seamlessly integrated into one simple solution. Editorial Management workflow allows editors who know and love Media Composer to edit the way they want to edit, while removing the distractions of some of the “worker bee” tasks that are still essential to the editorial process. The teammates that are integral to post production – producers, story editors, post-production supervisors, and production assistants – can now more easily and quickly take care of their part of the project pipeline. Editorial Management allows producers, story editors and others to access the project remotely to prep media and review the cut.

Editorial Management is an affordable solution that easily scales to accommodate small creative teams of two or up to 25. It effectively extends a team’s asset and project management capabilities beyond the confines of any video editing system, enabling producers, assistants, interns, and other non-editors to handle time-consuming media tasks as production ramps up. All of this can be done from anywhere you can access your VPN.

Media Composer interface with Editorial Management panel (bottom left)

The screenshot above shows the Media Composer interface with an embedded panel for Editorial Management in the lower left. This is a search and browse window that allows Media Composer users to search across the entire Avid NEXIS storage environment.

Serving the Entire Post Production Team

As most post professionals will agree, the industry’s adoption of file-based workflows has been a double-edged sword. No doubt, file-based workflows are more flexible and often faster than film or tape-based methods. But these workflows also introduce new complexities to the process, and in some cases, the non-tactile nature of files makes our jobs harder. It truly requires a team effort to get through post production in a timely manner. Thankfully, new tools are at last emerging to smooth out some of the wrinkles that file-based workflows introduced.

During my tenure in post production, our facility featured over 150 editing rooms available to our clientele. Though each room had an Avid Media Composer system, very few rooms were used for actual creative, “craft” editorial. Most of the edit rooms, bullpen spaces and teammates crouched over laptops were dedicated to managerial, preparatory and organizational tasks.  Recognizing this, Avid has brought many of these managerial, preparatory and organizational tools into in a lightweight and easily accessible tool, all while providing access to the same media without the constraints of being in the building.

The latest – and planned – enhancements to the Editorial Management workflow are a testament to Avid’s understanding of the landscape. It’s also proof of Avid’s commitment to building a platform serving all these vital roles within post production.

Benefits by Role

Simply put, Media Composer is a multipurpose tool with a vast array of capabilities that can serve the needs of many, which is now customizable for specific roles with the newly announced Media Composer Enterprise. And with Editorial Management, producers, story editors, post-production supervisors, and production assistants can easily focus on – and efficiently take care of – their tasks. Here’s how it benefits each person involved:

• Production assistant – Can quickly and easily prepare and organize media.
• Story editor – Can more effectively and quickly search for content and begin to build their narrative.
• Post-production supervisor – Can easily keep their finger on the pulse of a project’s media, content, and organization.
• Producer: Can find content with an easy-to-use tool and review edits in progress from any location, and to review cuts as the cut evolves.

Conducting a phonetic search within MediaCentral | Editorial Management

The screenshot above shows the web-based view used by the extended post production team to find media within Editorial Management. The terms that the user enters via phonetic search are at the top in the colored bubbles [film] [editor] [think] [doc]. Editorial Management analyzes the spoken words and finds any instances those words appear in any of the video stored on Avid NEXIS. This is a unique and powerful capability.

Creating a sequence with MediaCentral | Editorial Management

The screenshot above shows the view a producer would see when creating a sequence. In this view, the producer has selected four clips within the browser, and creates a simple string-out by right clicking and selecting ‘create sequence’.

Latest Features and More

In a nutshell, the latest release of Editorial Management makes it possible to:

• Quickly prep and edit simple sequences in the new web browser timeline to create shot lists or string-outs
• Easily assemble and create group clips to prep multicam shots for Media Composer editors
• Find the right clips using the new Phonetic Index option, enabling dialogue search across all authorized Avid NEXIS workspaces

Should you be new to Editorial Management, I can assure you that this list barely scratches the surface of what post production teams can do with it. To review, Editorial Management enables teams to:

• Collaborate efficiently. Editorial Management enables creative teams to work together more effectively —from finding clips and prepping sequences and projects, to reviewing and approving a final cut. Editors can easily browse, search, and access bins and clips on Avid NEXIS directly from their Media Composer | Ultimate or Enterprise interface. Production assistants can create and organize projects and bins using a simple web browser interface to support the editing team.
• Get organized while cutting costs. No need to invest in expensive workstations or additional seats of Media Composer to jump-start new projects or handle reviews from anywhere. As a web-based solution, 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 or mobile device. Its core indexing engine keeps track of all stored projects and media, so everyone on the team can view what’s available in real time.
• Streamline project prep and review. With Editorial Management, production assistants can create and save subclips and simple sequences to Media Composer bins right from their browser to organize material into more manageable chunks for editors. It’s also possible to play subclips and rendered sequences created in Media Composer right in the browser, making it easy for non-editors to review and approve sequences from anywher

There’s a lot more to come. At NAB we are showing a technology preview specifically designed for multi-camera studio productions, enabling group clips to be easily captured from Avid FastServe on to Avid NEXIS, ready to use in Media Composer. This workflow will have unique appeal to studio-based shows, and even allows capturing in 1080p 23.98.

Editorial Management is new – and still emerging – technology that supports Avid’s post production clientele from both a technology and workflow standpoint. Editors will be able to focus on editing, while the extended team can more easily and quickly handle their parts of the project.

I hope you’re as excited as I am about the way Editorial Management is making life easier for everyone on the post production team. The best way to appreciate its power is seeing it in action.

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