Avid will release roadmap to promote collaboration, creativity and interoperability at IBC 2024

The visitors of IBC 2024 (Amsterdam, September 13-16) will be able to discover enhancements across Avid's portfolio of solutions designed to transform premium content production for television, film and news in terms of creativity, collaboration and interoperability.

Given the increasing pressure on the creative storytelling, caused by the high demand for content, templates distributed around the world and “strong budgetary restrictions”, have motivated Avid to present in IBC 2024 innovations that streamline the flows of production work and maintain the low costs, thus allowing “to produce more content with fewer resources”, as highlighted Tim Clace, CPO of Avid. To meet this ambitious goal, the company will present improvements throughout its product line, which will be marked by concepts such as artificial intelligence (AI) o interoperability.

Avid will premiere at IBC 2024 the latest version of Stream IO, Avid's next-generation ingest and playout video server software solution. The system is updated to support “customers' ability” to choose between infrastructure existing offered by the standards SMPTE 2110.

On the other hand, the company will show three applications unique voice to text with Avid Ada, Avid's framework for leveraging a AI technology Designed to enable artists and businesses to drive creativity and accelerate delivery by automating the mundane. This proposal is made up of PhraseFind, a system that speeds up the editing process by displaying automated transcripts of source clips that the editor can cut directly into the timeline; new AI services for MediaCentral | CloudUX, which allow users to generate transcripts automatically or manually, identify speakers and take advantage of ultra-fast search functions to find what they need in the text quickly, and AI services for Pro Tools, which by leveraging AI will be able to quickly stage any audio file and search for voice data through a dedicated transcription window. The Ada applications in MediaCentral and Pro Tools will arrive, yes, in the form of a technical preview.

New opportunities for collaboration

Avid, aware that a fluid collaboration is essential for teams to satisfy the high demand for high-quality content, will present in IBC 2024 proposals for transform post-production workflows between two of its most popular applications. In this way, the company will show the possibility of automating volume and pan information in Media Composer, allowing “seamless transfer” of editing and mixing metadata between image and sound with Pro Tools.

By way of previews techniques, Avid will advance the Nexis smart caching, a feature that will improve the real-time collaboration experience between remote teams, and new updates to MediaCentral as a powerful rules engine to drive automated workflows, rich composing features and new editing capabilities.

Expanding integrations ecosystem

Avid will also focus on its associations with third parties, which offer customers optimized access to their preferred tools. The company's stand at IBC 2024 will allow you to learn about workflows for creating transcriptions and subtitles based on AI, with translations from Traco and Digital Nirvana; the integration of 'Lens to first edit' with Marquis for proxy workflows; High resolution file transfers Sony y LiveU to local Media Composer and MediaCentral environments, and Edit On Demand in the cloud; Back up and archive assets to any level of local or cloud storage from the dashboard RioBroker of Spectra Logic for Media Composer; Greater efficiency for any user performing VFX work in Media Composer with the tool Doom Solutions VFX; Quick, AI-powered access to digital assets anywhere with the Digital Asset Management dashboard ioMoVo in Media Composer, or fast and effective feedback in Pro Tools and Media Composer thanks to the integration of Dropbox Replay.

Besides, Avid is expanding workflows WE BUY with new partner integrations, highlighting features BODY 2 introduced in Pro Tools 2024.6, including iZotope RX Spectral Editor and Synchro Arts. The company will also offer a technical preview of upcoming integrations with Steinberg SpectraLayers, WaveLab o Acon Digital Acoustica, among other companies.