Avid Unveils Latest Wave of Innovations for Media Creation, Management and Distribution
April 07 2018 - 12:38PM
AVID CONNECT – Avid® (Nasdaq:AVID), the platform
for media and entertainment, today unveiled a wave of innovative
tools, apps, services, and solutions at Avid Connect 2018, the
annual gathering of the Avid Customer Association (ACA). Extending
the benefits of MediaCentral®, Avid has expanded its comprehensive
product offerings with groundbreaking advancements for creative and
aspiring professionals, production teams and media enterprises
across news, sports, live production and post production. These
products and services will be demonstrated during the NAB Show at
Avid’s booth #SU801, April 9-12.
In addition, Avid customers and leadership will share their
insights and expertise in several NAB 2018 conference sessions, the
most extensive Avid Main Stage roster ever and, new this year, the
Avid Cloud Platform Theater, where visitors will explore emerging
technologies for media creation, production and delivery.
“The massive changes in media and entertainment, while
challenging, open up new doors for our customers and users to
improve the way they work and secure better results for their
businesses,” said Avid CEO and President, Jeff Rosica. “We’re
excited to help them unlock their full potential by further
accelerating our delivery of connected, open platforms of tools,
apps, services and solutions that ensure it’s easier than ever
before to create the most compelling content. We’re exceedingly
grateful for the advantage that the Avid Customer Association
provides by influencing Avid’s roadmap.”
Giving voice to thousands of members of the media industry’s
preeminent customer and user community, the Avid Customer
Association’s ACA Vote helps prioritize Avid’s product and
innovation roadmap, as well as exclusively gather crucial insights
and viewpoints of the industry at large. Results from the
second annual ACA Vote will be revealed in front of the ACA
membership this weekend.
Today’s announcements include:
- Avid | On Demand – Avid unveiled Avid | On Demand, a SaaS cloud
services and solutions platform that provides media production
capabilities on demand. Avid | On Demand lets media organizations
conveniently deploy the capabilities they need on a per-project
basis with optimal elasticity—and without a drawn-out deployment
phase or large capital outlay. Avid | On Demand services include
Avid | AI, a new suite of Avid and third-party capabilities that
automate content indexing, such as closed captioning verification,
language detection, facial recognition, scene detection, and
speech-to-text conversion. Avid | AI services introduced at Avid
Connect include Avid Phonetic Search, Avid | Illuminate On Demand,
Microsoft Cognitive Services, and Avid | Transformation. Avid | On
Demand cloud solutions include Avid | Shared Library On Demand and
Avid | Editorial On Demand.
- Avid NEXIS® | E5 NL – Avid introduced Avid NEXIS | E5 NL
nearline storage solution. With the addition of this high-density
on-premises solution to the Avid NEXIS family—the world’s first
software-defined storage platform for media—Avid customers can
seamlessly and efficiently manage media across all of their online,
nearline, and archive storage resources.
- Avid VENUE™ | S6L Unified Platform – Avid announced a
massive expansion to its award-winning Avid VENUE | S6L family of
live sound systems, with three new control surfaces, a new engine,
and two new I/O racks – all on a unified platform. Offering
unmatched modularity, scalability and flexibility to meet any size
production, space, or budget requirement, VENUE | S6L is the
industry’s only live sound platform with 100% software, hardware,
and show file compatibility across all system components.
- Creative Tools Family and Avid Connect App – Avid unveiled an
unprecedented expansion of its Creative Tools Family, providing
access to Avid’s iconic Pro Tools®, Media Composer® and Sibelius®
software for creative individuals at any stage of their career and
teams of any size. To help users deliver their best work, Avid also
introduced the Avid Connect App, which will be available to all of
Avid’s 1.4 million account holders this summer, delivering a
centralized “one-stop” experience for artists to find, connect and
collaborate with each other on any laptop, iOS or Android device.
- Pro Tools | First, Pro Tools, and Pro Tools | Ultimate provide
the tools to create music or sound for film or TV while connecting
users with a premier network of artists, producers and mixers
around the world.
- Media Composer | First, Media Composer and Media Composer |
Ultimate give editors at all stages in their careers access to the
industry-standard editing software used by top film, TV and
broadcast editors.
- Sibelius | First, Sibelius and Sibelius | Ultimate allow
composers to create captivating scores more quickly than ever
before.
- The Avid Connect App is an artist’s personalized connection
into the most talented and diverse Artist Community and Marketplace
from wherever they are—from their computers, mobile devices, and
within their Avid creative tools (Pro Tools, Media Composer and
Sibelius). The app provides immediate access to everything an
artist needs such as their profile, connections, projects and
products.
- Maestro™ | PowerWall – Avid introduced the next-generation
Maestro | PowerWall display control and management solution that
puts the power of UHD-quality graphics into the hands of any
television broadcaster. Avid developed Maestro | PowerWall to bring
greater value to its customers by simplifying production and
eliminating prohibitive costs for creating and presenting 3D
graphics and video content on multiple displays regardless of size,
dimension, or resolution. The successor to Maestro I TD Control™
provides powerful video wall capabilities, a high-performance video
processing engine, and real-time, data-driven graphics to more
easily and rapidly infuse news, sports, and entertainment
broadcasts with greater excitement to captivate viewers.
- News workflow innovations – Avid announced apps, services and
solutions to accelerate news workflows with the cloud. These
innovations optimize collaboration, accessibility and distribution
required to capture the significant opportunity of engaging news
viewers on any device. Avid is empowering news organizations to
create, manage and deliver breaking news to television, social
media and other outlets faster than ever before. Avid’s news
workflow innovations integrate Avid’s industry-leading products
including Avid | On Demand and new MediaCentral apps like
MediaCentral | Publish, MediaCentral | Rundown, MediaCentral |
Research, Maestro News, and x.news, as well as Avid NEXIS | E5 NL,
FastServe™ | Playout, Avid | Shared Library On Demand, Avid | AI
and Avid | Transformation.
- Post production workflow innovations – Avid announced the
immediate availability of its new generation of video post
production workflow innovations delivering greater integration,
speed, and collaboration for everyone from small editorial teams to
global media enterprises. The new post workflow tools and solutions
integrate MediaCentral | Editorial Management for collaborative
asset management with Media Composer video editing software, the
new Avid Artist™ | DNxID video I/O hardware, and Avid NEXIS
software-defined storage.
- Sports workflow innovations – Avid announced the immediate
availability of workflow innovations for enabling sports
broadcasters to streamline creation and airing of live ultra-high
definition (UHD) programs. Avid’s end-to-end sports workflow
integrates Avid FastServe™, MediaCentral | Editorial Management,
the MediaCentral | Log app, the YEPCO Sports Data Feed Connector,
MediaCentral, Avid NEXIS software-defined storage, including the
new Avid NEXIS | E5 NL, the Maestro™ graphics suite, including
Maestro | Designer, Maestro | Live and Maestro | Telestrator, and
Maestro studio solutions, including Maestro | AR, Maestro | Virtual
Set, and the new Maestro l PowerWall.
Rich Agenda of Education and Insights from Avid
Customers and Leadership
- Multiplatform Distribution: The Challenges and
Opportunities11.00-11.30 a.m. on Monday, April 9 at Destination NXT
(SU11416DN)Avid CEO & President Jeff Rosica will moderate a
panel session discussing how media organizations are embracing
multiplatform distribution, featuring Avid customers:
- Gordon Castle, Senior Vice President of Technology,
Eurosport
- Jason Justman, Senior Principle Architect, SinclairDigital
- Larry Oaks, VP Technology, Meredith Corporation
- Optimizing Creative Impact Without Increasing Production
Costs1:50- 2:10 p.m. on Tuesday, April 10 at the Broadcast
Engineering and Information Technology Conference (N255)Tim Claman,
Vice President, Platform & Solutions at Avid, will present best
practices for native immersive audio production, from sound design
to mixing to distribution.
- Virtualized Content Production: The Cloud Effect2:10-2:30 p.m.
on Wednesday, April 11 at the Broadcast Engineering and Information
Technology Conference (N256)Tim Claman will also present how the
cloud is changing the game for content creators, providing insights
from the hundreds of thousands of artists who are using Avid’s
innovative cloud services platform, and learnings from large-scale
cloud projects by the world’s leading content producers.
- Open to all NAB attendees, the Avid Main Stage at NAB 2018
(booth #SU802) will feature exciting live presentations from an
all-star line-up of the industry’s most talented creative
professionals behind award-winning movies and TV shows like Black
Panther, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, War for the Planet of the Apes,
Game of Thrones, Stranger Things, and Westworld.
- In the Avid Cloud Platform Theater, starting at the bottom
of every hour, any attendee can step inside to explore the
possibilities of the cloud and emerging technologies including
machine learning, artificial intelligence, and cognitive services
enabled by Avid’s open MediaCentral platform.
For more information about Avid’s 2018 Avid Connect
announcements and Avid’s main stage schedule at NAB 2018, please
visit www.avidblogs.com/NAB.
About AvidAvid delivers the most open and
efficient media platform, connecting content creation with
collaboration, asset protection, distribution, and consumption.
Avid’s preeminent customer community uses Avid’s comprehensive
tools and workflow solutions to create, distribute and monetize the
most watched, loved and listened to media in the world—from
prestigious and award-winning feature films to popular television
shows, news programs and televised sporting events, and celebrated
music recordings and live concerts. With the most flexible
deployment and pricing options, Avid’s industry-leading solutions
include Media Composer®, Pro Tools®, Avid NEXIS®, MediaCentral®,
iNEWS®, AirSpeed®, Sibelius®, Avid VENUE™, Avid FastServe™,
Maestro™, and PlayMaker™. For more information about Avid solutions
and services, visit www.avid.com, connect with Avid
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VENUE, and Sibelius are trademarks or registered trademarks of Avid
Technology, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States and/or
other countries. 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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