Simplify workflows with Avid's streamlined, single video ingest and playout solution that meets the requirements of the most demanding SDI and IP-based productions. Avid | Stream IO delivers two, four, or eight channels of ingest and playout for the most commonly-used production formats, and offers new capabilities that enhance multi-camera workflows, streamline media export, and improve operational control. Avid | Stream IO easily addressing news, sports, live entertainment, and media production environments.
Key Features
SDI and IP together as one
Avid | Stream IO is the ideal choice for today’s SDI infrastructure and tomorrow’s IP infrastructure. Gain flexibility with a solution that offers both SDI Video over IP and compressed IP (SRT, RTMP, NDI).
Read moreSupports any ingest and playout combination
Use the super responsive user interface to easily choose from two, four, and eight ingest and playout channel configurations to meet production requirements. Gain flexibility in channels and formats supported for input/output, now ranging from Proxy to UHD.
Read moreCustomize your use
Increase ingest and playout efficiency with options tailored to meet your specific production needs in one solution. With playlist capabilities, closed caption support, and with the new customizable shortcuts, Avid | Stream IO is ideal for news, sports, live entertainment, and multi-camera productions.
Ensure fast turnaround
Easily introduce Avid | Stream IO to the overall production environment. Maximize news, sports, and live entertainment workflows with tight integration into the familiar ecosystem with Avid NEXIS and MediaCentral | Production Management and Avid Production Management, including loop recording, enhanced media export and proxy workflows.
Read moreStay within budget
A software-only subscription solution running on Linux (Ubuntu), Avid | Stream IO delivers regular updates with the flexibility to purchase your own off-the-shelf hardware from multiple vendors.
Lightweight media editing
Accelerate fast‑turnaround workflows with lightweight editing and trimming in Avid | Stream IO. Create sub‑clips, export instantly, and add media directly to playlists for immediate playback. Reduce storage use with shared sub‑clips or deliver trimmed files seamlessly to other applications.
Latest features and updates
What's new in Avid | Stream IO 2026.6
Dual Ingest keeps a second copy of every feed, automatically—so your most critical content survives any failure, from a single drive to a whole site. And with Review Channels, operators cut breaking stories to air faster with subclip editing during ingest—without tying up a playout channel.
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What’s New in Avid | Stream IO 2026.6
Stream IO 2026.6 protects every feed with Dual Ingest, speeds breaking stories with Review Channels, and modernizes your ingest in software, on standard hardware.
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Modernizing news and post production without disruption
See how Avid helps to layer AI and cloud tools onto your existing gear to work smarter, not harder.
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What’s New in Avid | Stream IO 2025.6
Avid | Stream IO 2025.6 offers recording, automatic pass-through, low resolution proxy format and tight security.
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Navigating the evolving newsroom
Staying competitive in today’s fast-changing media environment is a challenge newsrooms everywhere face.
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What's New in Avid | Stream IO 2025.2
Aivd | Stream IO offers updated features with a refreshed user experience for even better, more efficient performance.
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Essential Insights
Key capabilities and value of Avid | Stream IO to the overall creative process for news, sports, and live production.
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Integrated Ingest and Playout
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What's new in Avid | Stream IO 2024.10
Avid | Stream IO now offers compressed and uncompressed IP streams, support for super micro, plus other features.
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Help Me Choose Which Avid Video Server Is Best For Me
Avid helps you choose which ingest and playout solution best meets your needs.
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Avid | Stream IO Visualization
Flexible ingest and playout solution to meet your needs today and in the future.
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Customers Choose Avid | Stream IO
See why broadcasters prefer Avid | Stream IO for ingest and playout.
Broadcaster Improves Production Workflow
RÚV upgrades ingest and playout capabilities with Avid | Stream IO, a software-based solution for news, sports, live entertainment, and other TV content.
Next-gen newsroom solutions
Break news first with integrated planning, ingest, edit, and playout.
