Evolutions To Install Avid Interplay System

Evolutions, the largest independently owned post production facility in Soho, has announced that it will be the first facility in the UK to install the Avid Interplay system.
Launched at NAB 2006, Avid Interplay is the world’s first nonlinear workflow engine that fuses integrated asset management, workflow automation, and security control into a single system. As part of a £250,000 investment Evolutions has added an Avid Unity ISIS (16TB Unity) with additional storage and will be refurbishing Evolutions’ Soho Square and Oxford House sites.
Evolutions will use the Interplay system across its wide range of reality, documentary and entertainment clients and chose it to provide clients and staff with more control over its media.
Simon Kanjee, Managing Director of Evolutions said: “We continue to search for the latest in technology to provide our clients with the best service and the best pictures possible. In today’s world we need flexibility and the ability to manage media effectively – clients want to log metadata and enable the work flow to be more efficient and cheaper and Avid Interplay facilitates that. The system, with its single point of ingest and intelligent management of media is the future for facilities of our size.”
The Avid Interplay system is a client-server engine capable of connecting teams to shared-data, managing the flow of projects, and eliminating time-consuming production tasks. With a broad range of tools for searching, archiving, viewing, logging, automatic transcoding, dual-resolution encoding, and intelligent tracking of multi-resolution proxy files, Avid Interplay is open to any media production environment – accommodating more than 100 different media and non-media file types – and can link to production tools from virtually any other company.
Evolutions is one of the UK’s largest and most successful independent television groups.
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