Avid NEXIS Alternative for Broadcast & Post Production

Planning your next move beyond Avid NEXIS E-series?

EditShare helps broadcasters and post-production teams move beyond storage environments designed around increasingly rigid workflows, fragmented tooling, and single-vendor production ecosystems.

Modern Production Workflows Demand More Flexibility

Avid’s transition from NEXIS E-series is prompting many facilities to reassess the long-term cost, flexibility, and scalability of their media infrastructure.

For some teams, this is a storage refresh. For others, it is an opportunity to move beyond production environments designed around a single editing ecosystem and modernize broader workflows across storage, media management, remote collaboration, automation, and AI-assisted search.

Modern workflows rarely revolve around one NLE

Modern facilities increasingly need to support Media Composer alongside Adobe Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, remote contributors, producers, and reviewers within the same production environment.

Mixed workflow support

Lower total cost of ownership by 10 to 50% over five years

Many facilities are looking to reduce rising storage, licensing, and workflow overhead tied to increasingly fragmented production environments. EditShare gives teams a more flexible and cost-efficient path forward

Lower infrastructure and workflow overhead

Legacy workflow platforms can limit growth

Remote collaboration, AI-powered media discovery, workflow automation, and integrated MAM have become essential parts of modern production. Many facilities are reassessing whether traditional storage-centric platforms can keep pace with evolving production requirements.

Modern workflow requirements

EditShare combines rock solid, high-performance shared storage, media management, workflow automation, and AI-powered search in a platform designed specifically for modern media production.

WHAT YOU GET WITH EDITSHARE

Beyond Shared Storage

If you’re planning a NEXIS refresh, EditShare gives you the opportunity to move beyond a storage-only decision and modernize the wider production workflow

EFS Storage

Performance designed for media

EFS delivers scalable bandwidth and reliability for collaborative editorial, finishing, ingest, and delivery workloads.

Built for multi-editor production

Open workflows

Choice across creative tools

Support Media Composer alongside Premiere Pro, Resolve, Final Cut Pro, and other creative tools.

Mixed-NLE workflow support

FLOW MAM

Media management built in

FLOW adds production asset management, proxy workflows, searchable metadata, automation, and editorial integrations.

Storage and MAM together

Protection

Efficient resiliency options

Distributed protection helps maximize usable storage while maintaining resilience.

Efficient protection at scale

Management

One storage pool

Editors see one unified storage environment instead of fragmented drives and volumes.

Single namespace simplicity

Remote

Remote workflows for teams

SwiftLink supports secure remote access for Mac and Windows editors.

Built for distributed teams

FLOW AI

Search at the moment level

FLOW AI analyzes speech, faces, logos, scenes, and on-screen text to help teams find media faster.

Search less, edit more

Avid workflows

Media Composer supported

Keep established Media Composer workflows, including bin locking, while expanding production flexibility.

Familiar workflows, more flexibility

THE PROBLEM

Nexis Was Built for Avid-Only Workflows. Your Team Isn’t Avid-Only Anymore.

When the facility was 100% Media Composer, Nexis was often the obvious choice. Now editors work across multiple creative applications, teams collaborate from anywhere, and organizations need media management, automation, AI-powered search, and remote access built into everyday operations. Many facilities are questioning whether another storage refresh is enough, particularly as remote workflows and future platform investments become increasingly tied to subscription models.

THE CURRENT WAY

Increasing complexity, rising costs, and workflow lock-in

Built primarily around Media Composer workflows.

Separate systems for storage and media management.

Remote workflows increasingly tied to subscription models.

Performance designed for traditional editorial workflows.

Rising storage, workflow, and operational overhead.

WITH EDITSHARE

Faster, more flexible infrastructure and no lock-in

Built for modern mixed-NLE production environments.

Shared storage and integrated media management.

Flexible remote workflows without changing your infrastructure strategy.

Faster throughput storage built for modern 4K, 6K, and 8K production.

Lower long-term cost of ownership.

HOW IT WORKS

What Changes When You Move From Nexis to EFS

EFS delivers everything Avid editors need from Nexis, plus everything the rest of the team needs that Nexis can’t provide.

Full Avid Support

Bin locking, project sharing, and real-time multi-editor access. EFS supports Avid workflows natively. No compromises.

NLE-Agnostic

Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro, and Avid Media Composer on the same storage at the same time. Providing creative flexibility for your teams.

Node-Based Scaling

Add capacity and throughput by adding nodes. No forklift upgrades. No data migration. No downtime.

No Per-Seat Licensing

Storage pricing based on capacity, not the number of editors connected. Add team members without adding license costs.

XOR Redundancy

More efficient than Nexis RAID. A full node fails and nobody stops editing. 40% more usable space than mirroring.

Built-In Remote Access

Remote editors mount EFS as local storage. No separate remote product. No Nexis Edge required.

BUILT FOR OPEN WORKFLOWS, NOT ECOSYSTEM LOCK IN

Support Media Composer alongside Premiere Pro, Resolve, remote teams, production MAM, AI-powered search, and hybrid workflows without forcing every part of production into a single vendor stack.

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Put simply, the EditShare solution easily met all of our requirements and we are yet to even maximise how we use EditShare FLOW.

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Working with EditShare, we were able to demonstrate that not only was the new in-house system superior in functionality, it was so reliable and easy to use that the video staff at De Telegraaf would not need continuing support.

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We looked at all the likely players, but EditShare gave us more than simple storage, it allowed us to make the business more unified.

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100s

Avid migrations supported

Decades of experience helping broadcast and post facilities transition from legacy shared storage environments.

One

Integrated platform

Shared storage, production MAM, workflow automation, and AI-assisted search designed to work together.

Workflow flexibility

Support for mixed NLE teams, remote production, hybrid deployments, and growing media libraries.

SEE FOR YOURSELF

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Planning your next move beyond Avid NEXIS E-series?

Modern Production Workflows Demand More Flexibility

Modern workflows rarely revolve around one NLE

Lower total cost of ownership by 10 to 50% over five years

Legacy workflow platforms can limit growth