Amazon MGM Studios: production in the cloud with Avid and AWS

Avid Media Composer and the Nexis storage solution will be deployed in the cloud environments of Amazon Web Services (AWS) to allow Amazon MGM Studios Transform your production and post-production workflows.

Amazon MGM Studios y Avid Three years ago, they began a strategic alliance with the aim of bringing “global, agile and efficient” creative tools to the cloud that can be used anywhere and at any time. Those efforts are materialized today in the effective application of Media Composer y Connections in the day-to-day life of Amazon studios, which allows “accelerating delivery times” and “reducing complexity.”

Collaboration reinforces agility and efficiency through cloud automation in AWS, allowing you to launch new publishing environments globally in a matter of minutes. This workflow was recently applied in a report that was shot in India, with dailies in Bombay and publishing in London and Spain. This flexibility allowed editorial changes to be made without interruptions during production, while encouraging “creative flexibility and international collaboration.”

Raf Soltanovich, vice president of technology at Prime Video and Amazon MGM Studios, highly values the company's progress in the field cloud: "Amazon MGM Studios' continued relationship with Avid underscores our confidence in the role Avid NEXIS and Avid Media Composer play in the future of cloud post-production. Today, through the studio's own offering with AWS, we can deploy Avid NEXIS to our productions around the world in a matter of minutes, helping us ensure we have best-in-class tools to support our productions."

From Avid's perspective, Wellford Dillard, CEO, notes: "We are meeting pent-up demand from enterprise customers for a secure, scalable, high-performance post-production solution on AWS. Amazon MGM Studios' integration of Avid Media Composer and Avid NEXIS not only showcases the critical role our technology continues to play in media production workflows, but also demonstrates that cloud-native post-production is empowering successful creators everywhere, today."