Avid, Aspera Renew as SVG Sponsors

The Sports Video Group is pleased to announce that Avid and Aspera have renewed as premier sponsors. Avid specializes in video and audio production technology, including digital non-linear editing systems, and management and distribution services. Aspera develops software transfer technologies to achieve performance and cost savings using existing network infrastructure.

Avid deployed a comprehensive workflow to support NBC Olympics’ coverage of the 2012 Games in London. NBC’s broadcast facility, which was responsible for delivering 17 consecutive days of Olympic content, featured the Avid Interplay media-asset-management (MAM) system at its core. Interplay was used to create two simultaneous feeds for use in London and at NBC Olympics headquartered in New York City. Avid’s products are used across the industry. Some of Avid’s most influential solutions include Media Composer, Pro Tools, Interplay, ISIS, VENUE, Sibelius, System 5, and Avid Studio.

For more information about Avid solutions and services, visit www.avid.com.

Aspera’s fasp transport platform enables global, file-based workflows to power the media and entertainment supply chain. A universal and open core transport technology , the newly released fasp 3 extends the performance an flexibility of the Aspera software environment to support all data, infrastructure, and storage types, regardless of location, with maximum speed. Last year, UEFA integrated the Aspera platform with the LIVEX On-Demand digital-video service used to deliver more than 3,000 near-live in-match and post-match video clips amounting to nearly 27 terabytes of HD content throughout the EURO 2012 tournament.

To learn more, visit the company’s website at www.asperasoft.com.