Remote Picture Labs (RPL) today introduced the company's RPL Platform, a modular offering of cloud-based post-production solutions that bring unprecedented flexibility, uncompromising performance, and unparalleled efficiency to workflows from pre-production through delivery. The RPL Platform seamlessly shifts decentralized post-production teams to more agile remote workflows, enabling them to use the same tools and software products on existing media and projects.

The Farm Group, with support from Jigsaw24 Media, has launched a new training scheme designed to provide rapid upskilling for entry-level post-production technical operators. The Post Operators Skills Training (P.O.S.T) scheme is an intensive, two-week course which fast-tracks the progression of new starters at The Farm and develops future TV talent.

SMPTE®, the home of media professionals, technologists, and engineers, today announced that David Grindle will serve as the Society's next executive director. He will formally join SMPTE in July after concluding a 12-year tenure as executive director of the United States Institute for Theatre Technology, an association dedicated to performing arts and entertainment professionals.

Digital Nirvana, a provider of leading-edge media monitoring and metadata generation services, today announced an upgrade to MetadataIQ, its SaaS-based tool that automatically generates speech-to-text and video intelligence metadata, increasing the efficiency of production, preproduction, and live content creation services for Avid PAM/MAM users. The new version, which the company will preview at the 2022 NAB Show, makes beta-tested video intelligence capabilities commercially available and integrates directly with Avid MediaCentral.

Tedial has today unveiled its new – Tedial Plugin for MediaCentral | Cloud UX for seamless content exchange between Avid MediaCentral and Tedial’s Platforms. The Tedial Plugin for MediaCentral | Cloud UX is fully integrated with the latest version of Tedial Evolution. Using simple drag and drop functionality users can easily archive content from the Avid production environment or retrieve content from Tedial’s Platform using MediaCentral, a single application that views Tedial as an additional content source or destination.

Avid’s cloud hosted technology solutions optimize edit, storage and collaboration scaling for Paramount Global production teams globally to create TV shows and other content on the open Avid MediaCentral® production platform, Avid Media Composer and Adobe Premiere video editing software and Avid NEXIS® media storage.

Following reported revenue of over £155 million and 19% growth in the 20/21 financial year, leading B2B technology solution provider, Jigsaw24, has revealed plans to redefine its media business in 2022.  The new strategy sees the division specialising in post-production and shifting from a product focus to a service-led approach as Jigsaw24 Media. It also includes the reorganisation of the senior leadership team as well as a number of new hires.   

NBC Sports has selected Avid to provide media creation and storage solutions for its production of the XXIV Olympic Winter Games, from Beijing, China, February 2–20. The announcement was made today by Darryl Jefferson, VP of Post Operations and Digital Workflow, NBC Sports & Olympics, and Jeff Rosica, CEO and President, Avid.

Avid® (Nasdaq: AVID) today extended the power of its collaborative post production solutions with the introduction of Avid NEXIS | EDGE™. This innovative new software option enables post production teams to work from any location, delivering secure, remote access to media and metadata. Avid NEXIS | EDGE enables team members to access the same proven collaborative workflows relied on by thousands of post production facilities worldwide, without requiring collaborators to be co-located. Avid NEXIS | EDGE will be previewed at the HPA Tech Retreat in Rancho Mirage, California, starting on February 21, 2022.

From architecture to editing, the latest Dalet Flex updates elevate performance and user experience, powering remote workflows and new business opportunities

Hedge, the creator of modern, intelligent software for video professionals, today officially released Postlab full support for Media Composer, a cloud-native solution to enable collaborative remote editing workflows for Avid editors. Postlab serves as an extension to an on-premise Nexis or other Avid-compatible NAS/SAN storage. Eliminating cumbersome access gateways and high latency associated with cloud-media workflows, Postlab for Media Composer provides a great user experience, regardless of available bandwidth. A flexible pricing model lets post facilities and media businesses use the Postlab platform without upfront commitment, and scale and shrink team sizes when needed.

Leading B2B technology solutions provider Jigsaw24 has strengthened its cloud and remote offering with the appointment of Jason Cowan as Business Director, Media and Entertainment.

Digital Nirvana, a provider of leading-edge media monitoring and metadata generation services, today announced MetadataIQ, a new metadata automation tool for content producers using the Avid media platform. A secure and scalable software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution, MetadataIQ offers off-the-shelf integration with Avid Interplay™ to automate the end-to-end process of generating speech-to-text and video intelligence metadata for Avid-based assets while automatically submitting media for transcription, captioning, and translations from within the existing workflow.

Tracab, a Chyron brand, today announced the promotions of David Eccles and Martin Brogren to co-general managers of Tracab. Brogren, who has been dedicated to the development of tracking technology and has led many of the company's innovations over the past decade, will now manage research, engineering, and product strategy. Eccles, who led commercial and business development activities for sports video and data analysis, will now manage Tracab's business development, marketing, and sales functions.

Leading post production technology and services innovator Mad Old Nut Productions, Inc. has unveiled a revolutionary new offering, Apart But Together (ABT), a lagless remote editing solution for editors that delivers 99% of the office experience, 100% of the time. 

Built to work seamlessly with AVID, the traditional experience is unchanged for editors. ABT uses enterprise level hardware and proprietary software to emulate the NEXIS shared environment editors would normally have in the office, recreating that office experience with none of the delays of remote desktop workflows.