Swedish National Broadcaster SVT Chooses Avid Software Subscription for TV News and Programming Production Workflows

Rhea-AI Summary

Avid has announced an expansion of its technology partnership with Sveriges Television (SVT), Sweden's largest broadcaster, enhancing its MediaCentral platform through an enterprise-wide subscription model. This transition from perpetual licenses to subscription aims to maximize production flexibility and cost efficiency. SVT will utilize over 600 seats of Media Composer and 20 Pro Tools systems, significantly improving its media production workflows. The new model allows integration with third-party tools and adds features like Multisite and enhanced search capabilities, addressing SVT's growing production demands.

Positive

• SVT expands investment in Avid, enhancing production workflows.
• Transition to MediaCentral subscription model improves cost efficiency.
• SVT will use over 600 seats of Media Composer for editing.
• New integrations with third-party tools like Adobe Premiere Pro are enabled.
• Enhanced search capabilities and Cloud UX editing features are included.

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• None.

Enterprise-wide subscription for MediaCentral platform and creative tools adds flexibility and capabilities for large and distributed production teams

BURLINGTON, Mass., Aug. 23, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Avid^® (Nasdaq: AVID) today announced that Sveriges Television (SVT), Sweden’s largest television broadcaster, has expanded its investment in Avid technology to further enhance its end-to-end media production workflows, marking a new chapter in the two companies’ longstanding relationship. After almost three decades as an Avid customer, SVT has updated and future-proofed its production operations with the innovative MediaCentral^® subscription model.

SVT is one of many media companies turning to “as-a-service” offerings, moving from perpetual licenses to subscriptions with Avid to benefit from a more cost-efficient opex model. Due to the wide-ranging nature of its programming—including news, documentaries, drama, entertainment, and more—the flexibility of a MediaCentral subscription enables the broadcaster to scale resources and capabilities to meet changing production requirements.

Adde Granberg, CTO at SVT, commented, “SVT produces more than 24,000 hours of programming including HD, 2K and 4K in a year across a very large and widely distributed production team. Avid’s new subscription model allowed us to improve our MediaCentral foundation already in place with a host of capabilities, openness and scalability to better suit our elastic need for content management resources.”

SVT’s production operation is located across four main production centers in Stockholm, Gothenburg, Malmo and Umea, in addition to 34 regional news facilities throughout Sweden. This includes five Avid MediaCentral | Production Management systems accessing 3.2 petabytes of Avid NEXIS^® shared storage with MediaCentral | Cloud UX, enabling teams to share files and projects across the entire network. SVT’s production resources includes an enterprise subscription for more than 600 seats of Avid Media Composer^® editing software in addition to 20 Pro Tools^® systems for audio editing.

The openness of MediaCentral is a key part of the workflow, providing native integration to Avid’s Media Composer and enabling SVT to integrate the platform with third-party tools such as Adobe Premiere Pro. With the subscription model now in place, SVT will be able to leverage additional integrations as they become available and adapt its workflow to meet its future needs.

Jeff Rosica, Avid CEO, commented, “Like SVT, many broadcasters are increasingly prioritizing ease of collaboration and flexibility in the tools they use and MediaCentral excels in this regard, particularly with our new subscription model. As well as giving SVT access to a wider range of functionality, this approach simplifies the process of upgrading specific capabilities while enabling new operational cost efficiency.”

Adde Granberg concluded, “The MediaCentral subscription model enables our teams to benefit from range of new tools, including Multisite, which provides seamless integration between our sites, more advanced search capabilities with phonetic search and other possible future AI-assisted workflows, along with enhanced Cloud UX web-based editing capabilities.” 

Learn more about the enterprise subscription advantages for Avid MediaCentral at https://www.avid.com/products/mediacentral/mediacentral-subscriptions.

About Avid
Avid 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 on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, or subscribe to Avid Blogs.

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FAQ

What is the recent partnership between Avid and Sveriges Television (SVT)?

Avid and SVT have strengthened their long-standing relationship with SVT expanding its investment in Avid technology for media production.

How many seats of Media Composer will SVT use?

SVT will utilize over 600 seats of Avid Media Composer editing software.

What benefits does the MediaCentral subscription model offer SVT?

The subscription model provides SVT with increased flexibility, cost efficiency, and the ability to integrate additional tools and features.

What new features will SVT benefit from with the MediaCentral subscription?

SVT will gain features such as Multisite integration, advanced phonetic search, and enhanced Cloud UX editing capabilities.

When was this partnership between Avid and SVT announced?

The partnership was announced on August 23, 2021.