Avid packages Axle Starter with NEXIS|Pro
August 17, 2016

Avid packages Axle Starter with NEXIS|Pro

BOSTON — Axle Video (www.axlevideo.com), which develops software to manage video and still image media, has announced that its Axle Starter entry-level media management software is now included with all configurations of Avid’s NEXIS|Pro storage platform. Customers receive a two-user license for Axle Starter software with each NEXIS|Pro purchase.

Starter carries a retail value of $495 and can be upgraded to full two-user or five-user license blocks of Axle Video’s 2016.2 media management software. Avid NEXIS|Pro media storage supports all the top media creation applications, including Avid Media Composer, Adobe Premiere Pro and Apple Final Cut Pro X.

“With the prevalence of high-resolution video, production teams of all sizes need affordable high-capacity, high-performance media storage,” says David Colantuoni, senior director of product management, Avid. “Avid NEXIS|Pro offers the ability to effortlessly store hundreds to tens of thousands of hours of high res video and support 4K production teams. With axle Starter media management now included with Avid NEXIS|Pro, media professionals can more efficiently find, share, use/reuse and review media stored on Avid NEXIS|Pro.” 

“Axle Starter provides the simple yet powerful capabilities customers need to take full advantage of the value delivered by their Avid NEXIS|Pro storage,” says Sam Bogoch, CEO of Axle Video. “With its browser-based access to every video, audio, and still image file from any laptop, tablet, or smartphone, Axle Starter software complements and adds a new dimension to the excellent value proposition of Avid NEXIS|Pro storage.”