PBS KVIE Selects New Avid Workflows to Transform its Production Infrastructure
February 17 2021 - 1:30PM
Avid® (Nasdaq: AVID) today announced that KVIE, a PBS member
television station and one of America’s leading producers of public
television programming, has selected Avid to help transform its key
workflows as part of a technology overhaul. Avid NEXIS® storage and
MediaCentral® | Asset Management will form the backbone of KVIE’s
new production infrastructure, providing increased efficiency and a
more cost-effective way of producing engaging content.
Based in Sacramento, KVIE is a locally producing PBS station
that curates educational programming and online content for almost
1.4 million households in California. It also produces content
that’s distributed nationwide, including series like America’s
Heartland, and produces programs and series for regional and local
distribution such as Inside California Education, KVIE Arts
Showcase, and ViewFinder. With a considerable amount of content
being created and broadcast every day, KVIE needed an end-to-end
solution that would streamline its production workflows, while also
meeting its reliability and cost-efficiency needs.
MediaCentral | Asset Management will make it easier for KVIE’s
team of editors to efficiently manage and keep track of content as
it goes through the editing process. Editors and producers will be
able to quickly and easily mark content for review, make edits and
give feedback. KVIE is also developing an email review system that
will work with MediaCentral | Asset Management to streamline
editing workflows even further, allowing producers and editors to
seamlessly collaborate, make edits and approve content. In
addition, MediaCentral’s deep Adobe® workflow integrations will
enable KVIE – which relies on Adobe® Premiere® Pro software across
its nine edit bays – to search for and access media, browse
Premiere Pro templates and create new projects from directly within
the platform.
This will be supplemented by Avid NEXIS storage, which will
provide KVIE with the reliability, performance and scalability
needed to accelerate productions and enable real-time collaboration
in a nearline environment. This will deliver more capacity for KVIE
to repackage popular shows as it transitions away from tape
storage, forming an end-to-end production system that will
significantly simplify management processes and enable KVIE to
easily expand its operations in the future.
“After identifying the need to upgrade our infrastructure, we
did a lot of research to ensure we would make the right decision
and Avid was the only one that ticked all the boxes,” said Todd
Cima, Assistant Chief Engineer at KVIE. “Our previous system was
pieced together from multiple vendors, so rolling out a
single-vendor solution will be huge for us in terms of the
management time and support costs. Having storage, asset management
and support all in one place through Avid will empower us to expand
our production capabilities and future-proof our operations, all
the while keeping costs under control.”
“PBS KVIE is an ambitious organization with a well-established
reputation as a producer of quality content, so we’re excited to be
able to help it take the next step on its journey,” said Ed Harper,
Director of Product Marketing at Avid. “The integration of
MediaCentral | Asset Management and NEXIS storage will give KVIE
the tools to drive productivity, distribute content faster and keep
pace with changing production requirements without having to worry
about unexpected downtime or spiraling support costs.”
For more information about Avid NEXIS and MediaCentral | Asset
Management, visit https://www.avid.com.
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™,
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