Video post professionals are facing unprecedented challenges. As projects continue to increase in scope, size, and complexity, it’s becoming more difficult to manage the sheer volume of media required. Especially in today’s shorter turnaround times. And audiences are demanding higher quality content than ever. We offer a variety of solutions to help you boost your efficiency and streamline workflows, so you can meet any deadline and deliver your best work possible.
Whether your post-production work involves movies, TV shows, or commercials, we offer a variety of integrated solutions to meet your unique needs and budget.
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These days, most large-scale media organizations continue to use specialized technologies, such as coaxial cabling and SDI signals, to transport the large amount of professional audio and video data in real time. In recent years however, rapid technological advancements have made it possible to pass professional audio and video signals over standard IP networks, easing the migration to emerging image formats like UHD and HDR.
Today, we’re excited to announce our plan to accelerate the media industry’s transition to IP by supporting real time IP signals in the Avid MediaCentral Platform, delivering a unified environment for converged file-based and live signal-based media workflows.
By IP-enabling our products and extending the MediaCentral Platform to support IP stream-based workflows, we are creating a path to the operational agility and efficiency our customers require. The technology demonstrations we are presenting at NAB this year illustrate the first steps in this exciting transition.
Avid will also enhance existing solutions that have previously offered SDI signal interfaces (e.g. ingest, playout, editing, graphics) by adding IP interfaces in future versions, providing customers with the freedom to choose their pace of transition without disrupting their current operations.
At NAB 2016, we will demonstrate native IP-based workflows as well as hybrid SDI/IP workflows that enable media companies to leverage standard IT infrastructure, while managing the transition to IP at their own pace.
Visit the Avid booth (#SU902) at NAB and check out our IP technology presentation, where we will be:
Don’t miss a second of the excitement—our blog articles will cover VIP guest presenters, product launch announcements, and general commentary on what’s new.
(San Jose, California–April 12, 2016) Quantum Corp. today announced that Avid® has developed a connector for the company’s Interplay® | MAM system and Quantum’s StorNext Storage Manager™ that enables seamless integration of Quantum archive storage systems into Avid environments.
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Tight Integration Enhances Long-Term Storage Options
The Avid connector for StorNext Storage Manager gives users the ability to access and control StorNext® archive and restore functions through Interplay | MAM, including automated movement of content across different archive storage tiers: Quantum’s Lattus® object storage, tape libraries and Q-Cloud® services. Integrated into various business processes within Interplay | MAM, this solution provides more intelligent, long-term content management, faster access to a nearline archive tier via standard network protocols and better protection of Avid projects with an archive strategy.
Collaboration Provides Greater Value to Customers
In addition to developing a solution that enables tight integration of Avid Interplay | MAM with Quantum archive solutions, Avid also has joined the Quantum Advantage Program™. This program provides a platform for partners to test and qualify their technology with Quantum offerings and provide integrated, best-in-class solutions that deliver enhanced value to customers’ workflows.
Quantum will be showcasing the new Avid archive solutions at Avid Connect 2016, April 16-17, in Las Vegas, and in the Quantum booth (SL8416) at the 2016 NAB Show, April 18-21, in Las Vegas.
Supporting Quotes Ed Caracappa, Senior Director of Global Alliances, Avid
“We are excited to be a part of the Quantum Advantage Program, which will help ensure mutual customers achieve the best possible solution when linking Quantum offerings to the Avid MediaCentral Platform.”
Geoff Stedman, Senior Vice President, Marketing and Scale-out Storage Solutions, Quantum
“Through initiatives ranging from solution development to closer alignment of sales and support activities, Quantum is working closely with Avid to help Avid customers better manage their content over the long term. Together our technologies empower users to optimize their media storage and access to content on a broad range of archive platforms, providing significant time and cost savings that make it easier to achieve their creative and business goals.”
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Additional Resources
• For more information on StorNext: www.stornext.com
• Learn more about Lattus: www.quantum.com/products/scale-out-storage/stornext-extended-online-storage/index.aspx
• Read about the Quantum Advantage Program: www.quantum.com/partners/techpartner/
About Quantum
Quantum is a leading expert in scale-out storage, archive and data protection. The company’s StorNext 5 platform powers modern high-performance workflows, enabling seamless, real-time collaboration and keeping content readily accessible for future use and re-monetization. More than 100,000 customers have trusted Quantum to address their most demanding content workflow needs, including large government agencies, broadcasters, research institutions and commercial enterprises. With Quantum, customers have the end-to-end storage platform they need to manage assets from ingest through finishing and into delivery and long-term preservation. See how at www.quantum.com/customerstories-mediaent.
Quantum, the Quantum logo, Lattus, Q-Cloud, Quantum Advantage Program, StorNext, and StorNext Storage Manager are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Quantum Corporation and its affiliates in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Avid, the Avid logo and Interplay are trademarks or registered trademarks of Avid Technology, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States and/or other countries. The Interplay name is used with the permission of the Interplay Entertainment Corp. which bears no responsibility for Avid products. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Product features, specifications, system requirements and availability are subject to change without notice.
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LAS VEGAS—Avid is rolling out new software-defined storage, advanced graphics capability, and an end-to-end production workflow for the Panasonic Ultra LongG format at this year’s NAB Show.
STORAGE Powered by the Avid MediaCentral Platform, Avid Nexis delivers media storage for Avid-based and third-party workflows. Nexis enables customers to dynamically tune the system to ensure that high-priority workflows always have the capacity, performance and data protection levels they require. This ability lets teams react quickly to changes, adjusting performance and protection levels to match the needs of a project at any stage in the workflow. The modularity Nexis enables teams to mix and match storage engines and elastically scale capacity from as little as 20 TB to over 1.4 PB in a single system, without interruption, Avid said. The Nexis family includes the E4 high-density integrated storage engine, the E2 small-footprint integrated storage engine, the System Director Appliance, the Media Pack of 10 drives with 20 TB or 60 TB of storage, the Redundant Controller and the PRO professional-class integrated storage engine (successor to ISIS 1000 and providing an upgrade path for ISIS1000 customers). Avid’s LongG splicing capability allows for changes to be made to existing sequences without requiring a full re-encode upon playout or consolidation. Through integration with the Avid MediaCentral, users can replace old camera inventory and invest in this new camera platform without risking interruption of operational practices. GRAPHICS The 4Designer graphics authoring tool is a complete toolset for creating 2D and 3D motion graphics in a wide range of resolutions. The latest version of Maestro provides a way to manage and play out on-air 3D graphics, and supports video ingest and playout. Maestro is tightly integrated with the MediaCentral Platform. The Avid Spark telestration tool enables on-air commentators to draw and add graphics to a video in real time, giving audiences better visual insight into key plays, game flow, and analysis. IP SUPPORT Future updates will enable Avid users to orchestrate automated content flows that span all facets of media content creation and distribution, incorporating Avid tools and infrastructure as well as partner solutions from its growing ecosystem. AVAILABILITY RIO The NBC Olympics production compound within the International Broadcast Center in Rio will be outfitted with Avid Media Composer editing systems connected to an Avid ISIS 7500 shared storage system with 512TB of total raw capacity. The Olympic Venues are each equipped with a 128TB ISIS 7500, AirSpeed 5500, and Interplay Production systems with connectivity back to the IBC.
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Technology in our industry continues evolving at a blinding pace, but for shared storage it’s about more than just size and speed. Manually copying media between separate storage silos and hurdles in sharing media throughout the processes slows creativity. It’s now all about intelligent workflow and connectivity. It can be difficult to figure out the best integrated storage system and solution for your organization or creative team. Let’s start with the obvious big challenges you’re facing:
At Avid, we believe the future is a fully virtualized collaborative system that connects people around an integrated shared storage platform. (Yes, we literally invented storage virtualization two decades ago with the Avid Unity MediaNetwork). Everyone told us that generic off-the-shelf storage options just don’t cut it for professionals and facilities, so we started working on an innovative new storage platform. And now, it’s here.
Avid NEXIS is the world’s first and only software-defined storage platform, enabling fully virtualized storage for all media environments. What does that translate to for you? The NEXIS intelligent software system does some incredibly powerful things like offer a real-time scalable set of definable/resizable workspaces and a solid protection scheme that can cover you for up to 5 drive failures. Intelligent also means it is a media aware next-generation file system with pre-integrated hardware – which means it’s purpose built and tested to work as a cohesive system, (unlike generic storage and third party software). The bottom line is that NEXIS delivers unrivaled flexibility, scalability, control, and extensibility not only to the Avid MediaCentral™ Platform but also key workflow enabling third-party media applications like Adobe Premiere and Final Cut Pro X, so you can meet any production challenge. From the smallest production teams to the largest media enterprises, NEXIS is the only storage platform that has the flexibility to easily scale and grow with you at every stage of your business.
With NEXIS, we partnered with our customers to reimagine the possibilities of what shared storage could and should be for both media production and media professionals. The result truly is Next-generation (Intelligent and) Integrated Storage.
Now if you already own an Avid ISIS system, don’t worry—your system is not obsolete. You can add NEXIS storage right alongside your existing ISIS and seamlessly access both systems from the updated NEXIS client. Avid ISIS is fully supported and tested to work with the new NEXIS intelligent software system, so you can keep your Avid ISIS system and continue to expand its capabilities.
The NEXIS family is about providing media organizations and creative teams with massive benefits over generic storage and hodge-podge solutions. Compared to off-the-shelf storage, NEXIS is a more cost-effective, powerful, and flexible system that is designed and optimized specifically for the rigors of professional media production. Compared to Avid ISIS, NEXIS has some key advantages like the ability to mix and match engines (as we mentioned above – you can add a NEXIS to your existing ISIS | 5500 environment, for instance, where previously you could only expand by adding more of the same type of engine). NEXIS also has the advantage of offering these additional options over ISIS | 5500/7500:
Because NEXIS is workflow-connected storage that’s purpose-built for the open Avid MediaCentral Platform, you can and will streamline and accelerate media production in any size broadcast, post-production, government, corporate, house of worship, live event, or media education environment. The hardware and software components are tuned for optimal performance of digital media delivery so that you have extremely predictable, reliable results.
Avid NEXIS will enable your creative team to collaborate in real-time, regardless of what type of media software you use. Thanks to the openness of Avid Everywhere, NEXIS works with all top media creation applications, including Media Composer, Pro Tools, Apple Final Cut Pro X, Adobe Premiere Pro, Grass Valley EDIUS, and many more. All NEXIS systems are powered by the Avid NEXIS | FS file system, so you’ll experience the same consistent performance, reliability, and protection—regardless of the size of your network. It’s also the only scale-out storage solution lets you configure the system to give high priority projects more power. You can give critical projects maximum performance and throttling back on less critical workflows.
The NEXIS family includes several new storage engine options, so you can pick the system that’s the best fit for your organization.
The Avid NEXIS | PRO introduces an even more accessible price point and capabilities for professionals and small teams. Existing ISIS | 1000 customers can benefit from NEXIS | PRO capabilities with a software update.
The Avid NEXIS family will be available starting in Q2 2016.
Get ready to take your storage to the next level. Be among the first to hear when this game-changing, intelligent storage platform for real-time media production is available.
LAS VEGAS, April 16, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — NAB (Booth #SU902) Avid® (NASDAQ:AVID) today introduced powerful new graphics production toolsets that deliver rich video and graphics capabilities, integrated 4K workflows, and powerful broadcast enhancements for news and sports production. The newly updated Avid graphics toolset provides a complete and integrated workflow for live and studio productions with real-time broadcast graphics. These releases continue the rapid momentum Avid Everywhere™ has generated throughout the industry, and demonstrate the progress Avid has made in integrating the industry-leading production solutions acquired from Orad into the Avid MediaCentral™ Platform.
The new 4Designer graphics authoring tool is a complete toolset for creating captivating 2D and 3D motion graphics for broadcast productions, in a wide range of resolutions. The Avid graphics toolset also includes the latest version of Maestro, which gives broadcasters the fastest and easiest way to manage and play out high-quality on-air 3D graphics, and supports video ingest and playout. Maestro is tightly integrated with the MediaCentral Platform, offering the most extensive graphics production workflows in the industry. Also new is the Avid Spark telestrator, a fast turnaround sports enhancement tool which streamlines production, enabling users to quickly add captivating visual enhancements.
“Broadcasters around the world have asked for more advanced solutions to streamline and enhance their video and graphics workflows,” said Dana Ruzicka, vice president and chief product officer at Avid. “The new Avid graphics production solutions provide news and sports broadcasters with the advanced workflows they need to create stunning 4K graphics content with greater speed and efficiency.”
Introducing Avid 4Designer—State-of-the-art Graphics Authoring for Broadcast News and More
The new 4Designer graphics authoring software offers a complete solution for creating captivating 2D and 3D motion graphics in a wide range of resolutions. This feature-rich toolset provides broadcasters with the tools they need to create stunning real-time visual content for news, elections, sports events, weather segments, business reports, and more. As the successor to the award-winning 3Designer, 4Designer offers more power, speed, and new features in a more modern interface, yet maintains the same workflows and compatibility with existing 3Designer templates.
4Designer is part of the newly updated Avid graphics toolset, which provides a complete and integrated workflow for incorporating real-time graphics into live and studio news productions. Thanks to its modular architecture, the graphics toolset can be customized for a wide variety of media environments, and integrates seamlessly with solutions across the Avid MediaCentral Platform, as well as third-party news and editing applications.
The Avid graphics toolset also includes a new version of Maestro, a complete on-air graphics solution that enables broadcasters to easily compose and play out stunning, high-resolution graphics and animation. New features include the Maestro Media Engine which supports video ingest and playout, native user rights management, rich graphics templates, and efficient repurposing of graphic content – all from an intuitive user interface. Thanks to its modular architecture, Maestro can be customized for a wide variety of environments and integrates seamlessly with iNEWS® and iNEWS | Command for playlist creation and execution, Media Composer® for post-production graphics editing, and MediaCentral | UX, a cloud-based, web front-end to the Avid MediaCentral Platform.
Introducing Avid Spark—Accelerated Graphics Production for Sports
The new Avid Spark live sports enhancement telestration tool enables on-air commentators to draw and add graphics to a video in real time, giving audiences better visual insight into key plays, game flow, and analysis. Designed for fast operation, Avid Spark provides feature-rich capabilities to accelerate and simplify graphics production. An easy-to-use touchscreen interface eliminates the need for a dedicated operator. Unlike traditional telestrators, Avid Spark allows users to draw graphics in both onscreen and in-field perspectives, ensuring a realistic viewing experience. Ideal for small to mid-size operations, Avid Spark helps broadcasters produce better game visuals, attract a wider audience, and deliver more compelling content that stands apart from the competition.
Avid Spark is designed to help sports broadcasters deliver compelling graphics content, streamline production workflows, and ultimately boost fan engagement and ratings. Avid’s sports solutions provide a comprehensive end-to-end solution from ingest to distribution, by offering real-time editing with PlayMaker HD and 4K sports replay server, data driven graphics with 3DPlay, on-air graphics with Maestro and sports enhancements with MVP and Avid Spark. Customers can elevate their studio look with TD Control and display multiple high-resolution studio displays simultaneously from a single touch interface.
Availability
Avid Spark is expected to be available in Q2 2016.
4Designer is expected to be available in Q2 2016.
Maestro is expected to be available in Q2 2016.
About Avid
Through Avid Everywhere™, Avid delivers the industry’s most open, innovative and comprehensive media platform connecting content creation with collaboration, asset protection, distribution and consumption. Media organizations and creative professionals use Avid solutions to create the most listened to, most watched and most loved media in the world—from the most prestigious and award-winning feature films, to the most popular television shows, news programs and televised sporting events, as well as a majority of today’s most celebrated music recordings and live concerts. Industry leading solutions include Avid NEXIS™ Pro Tools®, Media Composer®, ISIS®, Interplay®, ProSet and RealSet, Maestro, PlayMaker, and Sibelius®. For more information about Avid solutions and services, visit www.avid.com, connect with Avid on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, or subscribe to Avid Blogs.
© 2016 Avid Technology, Inc. All rights reserved. Avid, the Avid logo, Avid Everywhere, Avid NEXIS, iNEWS, Interplay, ISIS, AirSpeed, MediaCentral, Media Composer, Pro Tools, and Sibelius are trademarks or registered trademarks of Avid Technology, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States and/or other countries. The Interplay name is used with the permission of the Interplay Entertainment Corp. which bears no responsibility for Avid products. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Product features, specifications, system requirements and availability are subject to change without notice.
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Marquis Broadcast will demonstrate new developments for its disaster recovery solution for Avid edit storage, Workspace Parking, at NAB this year. Workspace Parking Server which offers all the benefits of Workspace Parking through remote access, plus Workspace Parking Sync which takes an exact copy of all content on one workspace and copies it to another keeping the destination workspace in sync with the source, will both be on show on booth SL8730 for the first time.
“Simple equipment malfunction, like the failure of a disk drive, or even human error itself, are by far the most common causes of data loss,” confirms Chris Steele, managing director, Marquis Broadcast. “Having a robust disaster recovery plan in place is an essential business process in today’s digitally driven world, however, it is also important to understand how data will be retrieved in a timely manner in the event of more mundane issues too. Workspace Parking is our ‘set & forget’ disaster recovery solution designed to get editors back up and running in minutes.
“The new functionality on show at NAB will include Workspace Parking Server which is a server based version of the solution which enables access and monitoring via easy to navigate web pages, providing both ease of use and improved system resilience.
“Workspace Parking Sync is a back-up solution which syncs material to another workspace by taking and maintaining an exact copy of all the content, enabling users to switch to the second workspace in the event of a system failure. Production companies can also sync between two geographically remote sites, enabling distributed and collaborative working with a pair of ISIS systems.” Workspace Parking uses a standard, open folder structure to store the back-up of entire workspaces. Individual projects or bins of older versions of projects can then be easily identified, and restored to an ISIS or laptop immediately.
Workspace Parking ensures a complete backup of every project by analysing and identifying all information and media on a workspace and any projects associated with that media, in addition to content outside that workspace referenced by those projects. Because the analysis system runs regularly, every time new and associated media comes online this is included in the backup. Incremental analysis of the changes to the workspace and each project means automated nightly back-ups can be completed in a fraction of the time of a full backup. Email status updates are provided as required.
“Marquis is focused on helping editors to manage projects and media on their edit storage,” explains Steele. “With Workspace Parking Server and Workspace Parking Sync, Avid users can now back-up entire workspaces, providing a complete, automated disaster recovery system.”
Piston Media Group 