Remote Picture Labs Partners with Avid to Transform Post Production Editing
June 02 2021 - 9:00AM
Avid® (Nasdaq: AVID) today announced a multi-year partnership with
Remote Picture Labs (RPL), a leading provider of remote editing
solutions for the Hollywood film and television industry. This
agreement enables RPL to offer a virtual film and
television post production solution that allows editors, assistant
editors and producers to collaborate from anywhere using
Avid’s Media Composer® software and Avid NEXIS® storage
products offered as a service to its customers. RPL has
shifted its business model to address the changing landscape as
media companies gravitate toward “as-a-service” offerings to
support an increasingly distributed workforce, moving from
perpetual licenses to subscription with Avid.
Originally developed so that edit teams could work during the
COVID-19 pandemic, the RPL solution provides all the system
performance and functionality of traditional Avid workstations.
Each virtualized client runs on RPL’s high-performance private
cloud in a robust, secure environment that possesses the same
picture and audio quality and throughput found in on-premises edit
bays. This continuity enables the seamless transition to a remote,
collaborative environment, with content security assured through
multi-factor authentication and AES-256 encryption.
“A primary consideration from the outset was to let edit teams
use their existing media and projects,” said Erik Beauchamp, Chief
Technical Officer at Remote Picture Labs. “Our goal was to provide
an experience identical to that of a traditional edit bay so that
workflows can function just as they always have. Partnering with
Avid made it possible, with additional benefits including editorial
cost savings of up to 20 percent and the ability to hire editors
wherever they might be located, since they no longer need to be in
the East or West Coast talent pools. Though it was born of
necessity during the COVID-19 pandemic, our solution has proven to
be a game-changer for all film and television post production
moving forward.”
Built around Avid’s award-winning Media Composer video editing
software and Avid NEXIS media storage, RPL’s virtual workstations
can be used as part of either a completely remote or a hybrid
solution with some people working on premises and others remotely.
The software-based platform gives editing teams access to the
latest Media Composer features as soon as they’re available and
provides a common experience whether the editor is working in a
post facility or studio or from home. Multiple workstations can be
integrated on the same project, making the RPL solution ideal for
remote collaborative editing of premium live sports, studio shows,
episodic television and feature films.
“As the rental market has evolved and media companies had to
immediately pivot to work-from-anywhere models, the days of
delivering rental equipment in person changed overnight,” said
Raymond Thompson, Senior Director Partner and Industry Marketing at
Avid. “RPL responded by developing its own hosted remote editing
solution featuring Avid Media Composer and Avid NEXIS and has
helped its clients’ productions continue during the pandemic.
Through our long-term technology partnership, we can continue to
extend remote capabilities to the post production community in the
post-pandemic future.”
For more information about Avid Media Composer and Avid NEXIS,
visit https://www.avid.com/media-composer and
https://www.avid.com/products/avid-nexis.
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™, FastServe®, and
Maestro™. For more information about Avid solutions and services,
visit www.avid.com, connect with Avid
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About Remote Picture LabsBased in Burbank,
Calif., Remote Picture Labs was launched in March 2020 as a joint
venture by Creative Mobile Solutions, the Emmy Award-winning
developer of tapeless environments for live events and studio
shows, and J/KAM Digital, a provider of innovative editing and
shared storage solutions for more than 25 years. RPL is focused on
providing media companies and tier-one sports organizations with
high-performance remote collaborative editing solutions over
private cloud infrastructure. The company’s solution offers a
number of advantages over traditional, on-premises editing
environments, including fixed pricing and workflow scalability,
flexibility and portability. Many producers of nationally broadcast
television shows and sporting events, including “Jimmy Kimmel
Live!” and Fox Sports, have now discovered the RPL difference.
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Product features, specifications, system requirements and
availability are subject to change without notice.
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