What’s new in Avid | Stream IO 2026.10

Edit while capture has long been one of Avid | Stream IO’s strengths: editors start cutting while the recording is still running. This release (2026.10) takes that further. Avid | Stream IO now connects directly to Avid Content Core through TAMS (Time-Addressable Media Store), an open specification for storing and accessing media by time, so live media can reach Content Core while it’s still recording. The release also gives you more choice in the servers, cloud, and scale your ingest runs on.

Straight into Content Core, while you’re still recording

Teams working in Content Core can now start editing live media before the recording ends, extending the edit while capture Avid | Stream IO already gives Media Composer editors.

As media arrives, Avid | Stream IO generates a proxy, writes it into TAMS, and registers it directly in Content Core while your high-resolution media stays on site. MediaCentral no longer has to sit in the middle to manage the ingest or the registration.

Because TAMS is an open specification, the proxy stored there isn’t tied to a single application. Any tool that supports TAMS can find and use it by time, which keeps your options open as your production evolves.

This is the first step in connecting Avid | Stream IO to Content Core, and it’s available now for proof of concept. We demonstrated it at IBC2026, and it will develop in future releases. Read about the direction we’re taking for TAMS workflows in this article. To explore a proof of concept, talk to your Avid account team.

More choice in where Avid | Stream IO runs

Rising memory prices are pushing up the cost of ingest servers, and 2026.10 gives you more ways to keep that cost down. Newly certified Dell and Supermicro platforms widen the range of price points you can choose from. New RAM configurations use fewer, higher-capacity memory modules to help offset those price rises. Because Avid | Stream IO is software on standard servers, you choose the hardware and replace it on your terms.

If you’re moving ingest to the cloud, new AWS instance profiles for 2, 4, and 8 channel deployments give you a tested starting point for running Avid | Stream IO on AWS.

Run more servers as one system

As you add servers, control stays in one place. Avid | Stream IO Control Suite, now in early access, gives you a single control plane for multiple Avid | Stream IO servers, starting with multi-iso recording across servers. More capabilities, including scheduled ingest, are coming. To help shape it, ask your account team about joining early access.

Take on new formats and file workflows

Work in drama and post-production formats. Ingest and play out DNxHR and XAVC-I at 23.976p in UHD, the frame rate that drama and post production typically work in. It runs on all previously certified platforms that support UHD, with standard UHD licenses (plus 3G for XAVC).

Upgrade Media Composer without disrupting ingest. As you upgrade Media Composer to newer versions, the media you ingest keeps working the way it does today. Avid | Stream IO now encodes with, and is certified for, Avid DNx 4.0, the newest version of the codec family recognized this year with an Engineering, Science & Technology Emmy® Award.

Hands-off file ingest. Drop files into a folder and Avid | Stream IO processes them automatically. Functional Folders replace the older Watchfolder workflows. Set up to 10 folders per server, each with its own rules for registration, overwrite with backup, unique TapeIDs, and user rights. They’re the foundation for file-based ingest.

More control over playlists. New settings decide what happens at the end of each playlist item, including holding on the last frame of the outgoing clip or the first frame of the next.

Built to protect your content

Problem media, set aside for review. Incoming media files that encounter a processing problem now move to a quarantine folder, where you can review it. DB Cleaner clears that folder too.

Problems spotted at a glance. The on-screen display adds larger timecode, input timecode, and signal status with a NO SIGNAL indicator, plus the option to hide audio meters.

A safety net for your database. Back-up and restore the internal database using SSH commands.

Already on FastServe?

FastServe Gen 1 reaches end of support on March 31, 2028, and Avid | Stream IO is the upgrade path. Every release adds to the case, and 2026.10 widens your hardware and cloud options for the move. You can upgrade on your own schedule while your existing platform stays supported to its dates. Running FastServe Gen 2? You can take that hardware with you: with its Avid video board swapped for a Blackmagic Design card, it runs Avid | Stream IO. Learn how to prepare Gen 2 hardware for Avid | Stream IO on our knowledgebase.

Avid | Stream IO: software-defined ingest and playout

Avid | Stream IO is Avid’s software-based ingest and playout platform: one engine that brings live and file-based media in and plays finished media back out. Ingest from anywhere, playout to everywhere, with SDI, SMPTE ST 2110, NDI, SRT, and RTMP in one product, so you run SDI now and bring in IP when you’re ready.

It runs on standard commodity hardware, so you own the servers and can replace aging hardware while keeping the platform. And it’s native to Avid. Ingest, NEXIS, MediaCentral, Media Composer, and playout connect as one first-party path, with no integration layer to buy, certify, or troubleshoot.

Proven in news and used across sports, entertainment, and post production, Avid | Stream IO lets you modernize ingest and playout at your own pace.

Existing customers can read the full release notes and download the latest installers on MyAvid. To explore a Content Core proof of concept, join Control Suite early access, or scope a move from FastServe, talk to your Avid account team.