New release brings private AI-powered search, intelligent media discovery, expanded archive workflows and workflow enhancements across FLOW and EFS
Boston, MA, 8 July 2026: EditShare®, the technology leader that enables storytellers to create and manage media, today announced the availability of EditShare 2026.2.0, a major software release. The update introduces FLOW AI, a new generation of search and discovery capabilities built directly into FLOW.
The release marks a significant step forward for teams managing growing volumes of media across storage, archive and active editorial environments, helping them find the right content faster without relying on manual tagging or external cloud-based AI services.
“Media teams do not need AI as a separate experiment. They need intelligence built into the tools they already use every day,” said Brad Turner, CEO of EditShare. “With FLOW AI in 2026.2.0, we are making every asset easier to understand, search and use, while keeping media and metadata under the customer’s control. This release reflects the direction of the EditShare platform: faster discovery, more open workflows and fewer manual steps between ingest, archive and edit.”
FLOW AI: media intelligence, built in
FLOW AI analyzes media to make dialogue, scenes, faces, logos, text in picture and metadata searchable from within FLOW, combining AI-powered semantic search with traditional keyword search in a single hybrid search experience.
Rather than searching one detection type at a time, users can query across all of them at once. Search results include detection counts, highlighted matches and direct navigation to relevant moments in the asset, allowing users to move quickly from discovery to review and editorial action.
New media intelligence views provide faster ways to explore and navigate content. The Media Highlights panel gives users a unified view of matching moments across different detection types, while dedicated Entities, Transcript and Scenes tabs make it easier to locate specific people, brands, dialogue or visual moments within an asset.
FLOW AI detection points also appear on the media player timeline, giving users a visual map of where relevant moments occur. For detected people and logos, bounding boxes show where the entity appears in frame, helping teams verify results quickly during search, logging and review.
Administrators can manage known people and logos through dedicated databases. Because FLOW AI indexes detections during processing, newly identified people or logos can be associated across the existing database without requiring media to be reprocessed.
Built for private, on-premises AI workflows
Processing runs on dedicated EditShare GPU-enabled infrastructure. Media, metadata and detection data remain within the customer’s own secure environment. Content is not sent to the cloud and is not used to train external AI models. FLOW AI also integrates with Scan, Upload, FLOW Control and FLOW Automation, allowing AI processing to be initiated during ingest, triggered manually or incorporated into automated workflows.
Workflow improvements in EditShare One
EditShare 2026.2.0 also introduces a series of improvements across EditShare One, helping users move faster through common media management tasks.
Users can now archive and restore entire media spaces or folders directly from EditShare One, making it easier to manage larger collections of media without handling assets individually. Direct asset URL sharing allows users to send colleagues a link to a specific asset, reducing time spent searching or navigating through media spaces.
The release also improves metadata editing, search result behavior, panel reopening, file browser navigation, media player zoom controls, marker handling and drag-and-drop workflows. Users can drag assets, subclips, markers, media highlights and scenes into projects, bins or sequences, reducing manual steps between discovery and editorial preparation.
Expanded archive and platform integrations
EditShare 2026.2.0 extends FLOW’s role as a central operational layer for media lifecycle management, connecting FLOW directly to enterprise archive platforms for teams managing content across active, nearline and archived storage.
The release adds integration with Telestream DIVA Archive and Spectra Logic Rio MediaEngine, allowing organizations using these enterprise archive platforms to initiate archive and restore workflows directly from within FLOW. This helps teams keep existing archive investments while giving users a more connected experience for managing active, nearline and archived media.
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About EditShare
EditShare is an Emmy Award-winning technology leader, supporting storytellers through collaborative media workflows across on-premise, cloud and hybrid architectures. It offers scalable storage and collaboration for media businesses and at every stage of the video production process from storyboarding to screening.
The software is inherently open, encouraging workflow collaboration, third-party integrations and content sharing across the entire production chain. Where required, the software is backed by high performance, high availability designed specifically for the demands of media storage, management and delivery. The comprehensive offering covers multi-level content storage for production and post, along with innovative asset and workflow management software, plus specialized and highly valued tools for content review and distribution, the creation of customized and branded pitch reels, and secure preview of high-value pre-release content.
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