Christoffer Pettersen, partner and producer at Lucky View Production explained how the new Avid NEXIS® storage will enhance their workflows, which already feature an armory of Avid studio production tools and solutions to create, distribute and optimize their media
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
BURLINGTON, MA — Just six months after its introduction, Avid’s (www.avid.com) NEXIS software-defined storage platform is seeing strong demand.
axle Video, developer of “radically simple” software to manage video and still image media, announced that axle Starter, a new entry-level version of its flagship media management software, is now included with all configurations of the industry-leading Avid NEXIS™|PRO software-defined storage platform from Avid®. Customers receive a 2-user license for axle Starter software with each Avid NEXIS|PRO purchase, including powerful search and browser-based display, browse, shot selection, annotation, review and approval capability for up to 300,000 assets, along with their purchase of Avid NEXIS | PRO storage.
Watch Avid’s Challenge to cut, edit, assemble, control and access massive amounts of performance capture footage and dialogue for the latest iteration of the Star Citizen video game series. Also, see how they came up with the solution.
Video games with Hollywood style visuals are fast becoming the norm, and like blockbuster films, can now command top acting talent for voiceover and performance capture work. One of the biggest such endeavours is Star Citizen from Cloud Imperium Games (CIG) and Foundry 42, created by legendary game developer and film producer, Chris Roberts.
Dutch production company The Media Brothers is a creative hub for a collection of producers, directors, journalists and composers that produces a wide variety of television programs, from dramas and documentaries to children’s series and sports shows. Founded by managing director/producer/composer Luc Schinkel, who works alongside his brother, director/producer Robert Schinkel, the firm has premises in Amsterdam that incorporate an in-house facility that was recently upgraded through the installation of an Avid NEXIS | PRO server.
If you missed our live dealer webinar this week, you can watch it now. Coming in under 11minutes, Gary Bettan covers Avid NEXIS | Pro as a shared storage solution and our special all-in-one Post Production Bundles that feature NEXIS Pro at the core.
Broadfield New Product Set-Up Alert: Avid NEXIS
Avid NEXIS is the world’s first and only software-defined storage platform—composed of an intelligent file system and pre-integrated hardware—that enables true storage virtualization for any media application. Scalable to support the smallest production teams to the largest broadcast enterprises, Avid NEXIS offers unmatched flexibility, scalability, control, and extensibility to Avid MediaCentral Platform applications and services. The Avid NEXIS product line is part of the Avid Storage Suite and is a successor to the ISIS storage family, with one exception—ISIS | 1000 remains, but is renamed Avid NEXIS | PRO.
