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.

AV digitising and archiving specialist, NOA GmbH, has announced a technology partnership with UK-based Marquis Broadcast. Together, the two companies have crafted the Medway-mediARC connector, designed to facilitate bidirectional integration with AVID Interplay.

During these changing times, it’s more important than ever to ensure your company’s disaster recovery and business continuity tools are fit for purpose. Whether upgrading systems for remote working, streamlining workflows across a multi-site enterprise or enabling production sharing, each company has differing requirements and will often need complex integration solutions. With a complete portfolio of off-the-shelf apps and technology, plus an ‘interoperability lab’, where a library of third-party professional APIs and plug-ins is maintained, Marquis Broadcast has a unique ability to develop and deliver high quality and complex software integrations.

Many of Marquis Broadcast’s products have been recently upgraded. The latest versions of Project Parking and Workspace Tools systems provide native support and full functionality with the new Avid OP1A workflows. They also integrate with Avid NEXIS | Cloudspaces, letting you free up Avid NEXIS storage space and safely backup or park projects in the cloud. Medway allows the export of Avid sequences from all Avid platforms without requiring them to be flattened or conformed in Avid. This allows generation of genealogy information on a sequence, describing the content used in a sequence before exporting and flattening to a single output file. And Postflux, for Adobe^® Premiere^® Pro, improves the archiving, versioning, integrity, security, performance and sharing of Adobe Premiere projects in extended workflows, and has been updated to support additional project types, including Premiere Productions.

Object Matrix today announces that M6 (RTL Group - Bertelsmann), the commercial French national broadcaster, has chosen MatrixStore from Object Matrix to be an integral part of their file based workflows.

M6 Group has recently renewed its internal infrastructure for its post-production entities C-Productions and Studio 89. M6 was particularly attracted to an Object Matrix solution based on the need to implement a secure and performant storage platform: "As part of the overall reorganisation of our post-production units, we wanted to update our storage platform and processes. M6 previously faced problems managing the growing volume of files, laboriously backing up content to tape or performing manual backups to unsecure hard drives. Taking the advice of our systems integrator, we modestly increased our Avid Unity ISIS production storage and focused on implementing a storage tier that could alleviate the burden on the production storage by providing a secure parking repository " stated Mathias Bejanin, Director Engineering and Maintenance M6.

Object Matrix, developer of integrated nearline storage solutions will be present at the International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) Amsterdam from 7th to 11th of September to launch its new product MatrixStore Quattro and to demonstrate enhancements to MatrixStore Server and MatrixStore hardware.

Avid today announced the debut of Avid Interplay Sphere, a real-time access solution enabling broadcast news professionals to acquire, access, edit and finish stories anytime, from anywhere. Leveraging a cloud-based architecture, Interplay Sphere-enabled applications give contributors the freedom to work in a completely distributed environment that spans multiple locations and time zones. Dramatically enhancing production effectiveness, Interplay Sphere gives journalists the ability to craft powerful, in-depth stories wherever theyre actually happening and speed them to air while still maintaining full connectivity with the newsroom operation.

At Sportel Monaco, from 10-13 October 2011, Avid will present its range of industry-leading solutions that enable sports organisations and broadcasters to create, manage, distribute and monetise compelling sports content across multiple devices - and ultimately deliver a more engaging experience to sports fans.

Avid  today announced that Kanal 75, Swedens leading horse-racing production company and a wholly owned company of ATG, has invested in an Avid® Interplay® Media Asset Management (MAM) system to efficiently store, manage and monetise the thousands of hours of footage that the production company captures and distributes each year. Kanal 75 is the first Avid customer in Sweden to adopt the Interplay MAM solution.