Avid Technology has acquired Munich-based NXN Software, an asset and
production management systems provider.
The acquisition expands Avid's presence in digital asset management
by enabling the company's film and video postproduction, broadcast, and
3D animation customers to leverage the workflow capabilities of NXN's
alienbrain product line.
Gregor vom Scheidt, founder and CEO of NXN, will stay on as a
managing director for Avid.
NXN's products, the NXN alienbrain VFX, NXN alienbrain Studio, and
NXN alienbrain Engineer - extend Avid's current media asset management
offerings with capabilities that include infrastructure, configuration,
project, workflow management, and complete version control. Designed to
work with any file format associated with 3D models, textures, video,
audio, source code and office documents, NXN systems enable users to
manage assets throughout all phases of a digital project. A wide range
of 3D, graphics, source code, and administrative applications support
the alienbrain product family directly in the application menu.
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