What’s New in Avid | Stream IO 2025.6

What’s new in Avid | Stream IO 2025.6 means you’ll never miss a moment like this ever again. The camera is trained on the door. The live shot has been running for hours with no movement, beaming the video back to base. Then it happens, the big moment. The big shot. And then you realize that earlier, after hours of nothingness, you stopped recording to save space on your video server! Cue scramble to get the shots uploaded to the team, costing vital minutes when news is breaking, and audiences are hungry for updates.

Loop recording: always on, always ready 

Loop recording, one of the major new features in the update of Avid | Stream IO solves this problem, ensuring a more efficient recording process overall. With loop recording, you can set a channel to record for as long as you like, with the ability to define the length and number of loops you retain.

Users already had the option to create simple single recording or segment a recording into smaller files. The new loop option also adds a feature where users can automatically create a playlist of the recordings, so in one simple view the ingest operator can easily see and playback any of the media.

Clips can be recorded in both OP-Atom and OP1a formats depending on the desired workflow, and multi-resolution recordings are supported. Clips can be transferred directly to shared storage such as Avid NEXIS, with metadata registered in MediaCentral | Production Management for enterprise workflows.

Loop recording is just one of several new timesaving and workflow empowering features added to Avid | Stream IO, which is a software based ingest and playout solution. Available as a subscription and running on standard, off the shelf hardware, Avid | Stream IO comes in a variety of models with options for two, four or eight fully flexible, configurable ingest and playout channels. It supports both traditional SDI and also a variety IP-based formats, such as SMPTE 2110, SRT, RTMP and NDI.

Automatic Pass-Through

Automatic pass-through is enabled in this release, meaning any input signal can be automatically assigned to a playout channel, ensuring that black does not show on the output channel at any time. The feature can be enabled through the administration option in Avid | Stream IO.

Low-Resolution Proxy Format

Much of the industry remains in transition from SDO to IP, and support for some legacy formats remains important to maintain backwards compatibility for existing workflows. To that end, this release adds a new low-resolution proxy format in use by some MediaCentral | Production Management customers. This is in addition to the high-quality proxy format already available with existing versions of Avid | Stream IO.

Also included with the 2025.6 release, with the high-quality DNxHR HQX and XAVC I 300 codecs, is support for media in both 25p and 29.97 frame rates, popular in particular with some studio-based shows.

Security and Stability

As with all Avid | Stream IO releases, and Avid releases more generally, security is an ongoing factor, so the 2025.6 version contains new updates on that front too. There are specific enhancements around the OCIP API, used when 3rd party controllers communicate with Avid | Stream IO. When applications are initiating communication using this API, they must be authenticated an authorized, and communication between applications are encrypted.

The release is the second of 2025, maintaining the regular cadence of releases which has been a hallmark of Avid | Stream IO since it was launched in 2023, consistently delivering more value, features and functionality.