Avid Seeing Strong Demand for Avid NEXIS from Customers Globally
October 07 2016 - 09:00AM
Avid® (Nasdaq:AVID) today announced significant global adoption of
Avid NEXIS™, the first and only software-defined storage platform
specifically designed for storing and managing media. Since its
introduction at NAB 2016, substantial numbers of production and
post-production facilities have implemented Avid NEXIS. Powered by
the MediaCentral® Platform, Avid NEXIS delivers dynamic
virtualization and media-savvy collaboration, enabling customers to
accelerate production and increase efficiency.
Stop-motion animation studio LAIKA has invested in Avid NEXIS |
E4 for its current and future animated feature films. “At LAIKA, we
have an uptime environment—meaning we cannot have downtime—with
editorial at the heart of production and multiple projects running
at the same time,” said Trevor Cable, Lead Media Engineer and
Editorial Manager at LAIKA. “Avid NEXIS provides us with great
media management, unrivaled reliability, and high bandwidth at a
competitive price. It was very easy to deploy and it’s simple to
create users, groups and workspaces. I have complete confidence in
Avid NEXIS | E4 and plan on purchasing another for failover
redundancy.”
Creative post-production house Gorilla Post uses cutting-edge
Avid workflows to accelerate production and dramatically enhance
collaboration at every step of the creative process — from ingest
and editing, to sound design and mixing, to color correction and
finishing. The Dublin-based facility recently expanded its workflow
to include Avid NEXIS | E2.
“With all of our Avid-centric workflows at Gorilla, Avid NEXIS
was an easy choice,” said Barry Reid, Managing Director and Owner
at Gorilla Post Production. “Our decision was based on the
continued reliability we’ve always experienced with Avid products.
The bandwidth is so fast that any edit suite in the facility—be it
offline, grade, mix or finishing suite—can access the large
dailies/transcodes from our ingest station with minimal downtime.
It’s hugely beneficial.”
Using Avid NEXIS in a provided-facilities environment for an
outside broadcast production, Video Europe deployed Avid NEXIS | E4
at UK music festival, Latitude. “We required a reliable shared
storage environment to handle the demands of a fast-turnaround,
multi-camera live production,” said Ollie Stratton, Engineer at
Video Europe. “Working with mixed formats meant the workflow needed
to be resilient to handle whatever was thrown at it. The
combination of Media Composer® and the Avid NEXIS storage
environment was a perfect match for this on-site deployment.”
Other companies that have invested in Avid NEXIS include major
US television broadcast networks; US basketball team The Miami
Heat; Canadian broadcaster CBC; The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints; UK independent TV production company Spun Gold;
UK full-service post-production house The Edit; Belfast-based
production company Paper Owl Films; French television network La
Chaine Parlementaire; French sports news channel Infosport+; German
broadcaster CBC; Germany’s Federal Ministry of Defense; Italian
digital satellite television platform Sky Italia; Arabian
television channel Discovery Networks MENA; and Doha-based
state-funded broadcaster Al Jazeera.
“Avid NEXIS addresses the unprecedented explosion of content and
the need for more robust storage infrastructure, reliability and
collaboration,” said Jeff Rosica, senior vice president and chief
sales & marketing officer at Avid. “With strong adoption across
the globe, post-production organizations and broadcasters are
reaping the benefits of the industry’s first and only
software-defined storage platform by accelerating production and
increasing efficiency.”
Avid NEXIS enables fully virtualized storage so media
organizations can adjust storage capacity mid-project, without
disrupting workflows. Customers can select components that meet
their current needs, and easily grow as their needs change. Avid
NEXIS is the only scale-out storage solution that enables customers
to dynamically tune the system to ensure that high-priority
workflows always have the capacity, performance and data protection
levels they require. Customers can give critical projects maximum
performance, while throttling back on less critical workflows. 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.
About AvidThrough 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 Pro Tools®, Media Composer®, Avid NEXIS™,
Interplay®, ProSet and RealSet, Maestro, PlayMaker, and Sibelius®.
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