EditShare Acquires Geevs and Lightworks Technology

Friday, September 11, 2009

EditShare today announced at IBC 2009 the acquisition of Geevs broadcast video servers and the Lightworks nonlinear editing platform. These solutions complement EditShare's Complete Collaboration product line which includes multi-channel ingest, shared production storage, and archiving solutions. The acquisition of Geevs and Lightworks technology will provide EditShare customers with expanded options for building fully-integrated, tapeless workflows.

Scoring record sales for Q1 and Q2 of 2009, Geevs servers offer broadcasters, post-production facilities, and content producers a wide range of capabilities including HD/SD multi-channel ingest, playout automation, and file server management for large-scale deployments. Lightworks is one of the original nonlinear digital editing systems and is widely used today by feature film editors including the multi-Oscar winner Thelma Schoonmaker.

Stay tuned for more information.

Labels: EditShare, Geevs, Lightworks

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