Amazon’s new three-year deal will enable Amazon Studios’ use of Avid’s Media Composer, NEXIS storage and MediaCentral platform. This agreement will bring cloud-based editorial to Amazon Studios’, including collaborative workflows with shared storage and end-to-end media management.
The collaboration will bring the Emmy-winning Media Composer software and Avid NEXIS Media storage solutions to editors everywhere.
“Amazon Studios is prolific in its sheer output of original series and features that achieve the highest standard of creativity and quality. By building their creative workflows around a complete set of Avid tools and platforms in the cloud, Amazon Studios is kicking off a new era of productivity and collaboration for their creative teams and contributors. Avid is delighted that our open technologies are being chosen by more customers who are innovating how content is produced in the cloud, on a global scale.”
Jeff Rosica, CEO and President of Avid
“We are on a journey to provide a best-in-class creative platform for our productions. Studio in the Cloud is our overarching vision for how we provide our creative teams with a cloud-based toolset that they can use wherever they are in the world. Avid is a central component of this vision, so we are thrilled to be starting this new partnership with them. This collaboration is an important step forward for Amazon Studios’ vision of a globally scalable studio-in-the-cloud platform, which will eventually include Avid’s MediaCentral production platform.. (and that) by leveraging AWS and its global infrastructure, Amazon Studios will further centralize production assets in the cloud, creating a smoother, more unified production workflow.”
Ben Stanbury, Worldwide Head of Technology for Amazon Studios.
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